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19 Mar

Study Finds That Black People Who Discover As Mixed-Race

Portra Images A recent peer-review study found that black individuals who discover as mixed-race are considered more attractive.  Published within the June 2016 issue of Review of Black Political Economy, the study’s findings are based entirely off of perception and didn't take conventional variables like hair texture and skin tone under consideration. “The straightforward perception of exoticism sways people to see multicultural blacks as better-looking,” said study creator Robert L. Reece, an African American doctoral candidate in sociology at Duke University. The identical held true even when the person was not actually of mixed race, so long as they identified as such. In a series of controlled interviews, Reece attempted to check and measure the ability of perception. 3,200 black subjects were asked questions on their racial...
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5 May

Can cosmetic surgery ever be considered art?

Can cosmetic surgery ever be considered art?
Philippa Snow looks on the long-standing relationship between cosmetic surgery, body modification and the performance art world, asking just how deep the parallels lie This week marks five years for the reason that launch of Dazed Beauty! Over the subsequent five days we will likely be celebrating this anniversary by bringing you big celebrity interviews, cultural deep dives into the bizarre trends of today, and going back through the archives to resurface a few of our favourite pieces. To cite our co-founder Bunny Kinney in his original editor’s letter, Dazed Beauty is: “an area for us to document, deconstruct and experiment with beauty in all its forms, in every dimension, and tell the...
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