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9 Sep

What TikTok’s confessional GRWM videos say about our culture

by Beauty Tips
Beauty, Featured
From sharing stories about fentanyl addictions while applying concealer to make-up routines for funerals, ‘Get Ready With Me’ videos have gotten deeply personal “Prepare with me and let’s discuss my fentanyl use,” begins a TikTok posted by model Mae Van Der Weide last month. The video, which has since been watched 4.5 million times, sees her candidly discuss her addiction, eating disorder and depression while dabbing spots of concealer on her face.  Sharing deeply personal experiences like this has change into commonplace on TikTok. Whether it’s concealing tear-stained cheeks for a funeral, applying soft glam for a reunion with an ex and even touching up eyebrows before going to prison, creators are turning their...
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26 Jul

These confessional images explore nudity, vulnerability and shame

by Beauty Tips
Beauty, Featured
For photographer Milly Cope, taking pictures is an act of affection in addition to a type of revelation. “I believe we spend an excessive amount of time hiding ourselves,” explains the 23-year-old, reflecting on why she is drawn to the naked body, “not only through clothing but in addition by concealing our innermost thoughts.” Approaching photography as a way of honouring vulnerability – each physical and emotional – her perception of nakedness as “facing yourself from the within out” is the tenet of the imagery in her upcoming book, Body Ceremony.Attempting to explore the feeling of corporeal detachment so lots of us acquire over time as a consequence of learnt shame, the book explores what it means to be naked...
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