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13 Dec

This culture of dissecting other people’s looks needs to

Picking apart celebrity faces may seem to be harmless entertainment, but we aren’t consuming it consequence-free My teenage years coincided, relatively unfortunately, with the peak of Heat magazine. Week after week, I might examine the very best celebrity tummies, the worst summer bodies, the highest 20 celebrity “flaws” – Uma Thurman’s big hands, Emma Bunton’s large brow – the cellulite, the sweat patches, the tanning disasters. All of them dissected and analysed in excruciating detail.  Uma Thurman and Emma Bunton may or may not have seen the zoomed in paparazzi pictures of their so-called flaws splashed across the covers, but every young girl and boy with a “large brow” or “big hands” reading at...
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13 Oct

Emma Dabiri: ‘Beauty culture is a mirrored image of

Ahead of the discharge of her recent book Disobedient Bodies, we spoke to the creator about finding joy in spirituality and capitalism’s impact on women’s self-image How do our surroundings determine our relationship with our body image? Growing up Irish and Nigerian, creator and broadcaster Emma Dabiri’s concept of beauty has long been defined by Eurocentric standards and what was deemed most desirable on the time (big boobs and a thigh gap). But on a journey of self-reclamation, she has learnt that beauty isn’t a physical entity, but a way of being. In her latest book, Disobedient Bodies, the creator of Don’t Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next unpacks age-old...
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4 Oct

Emma Dabiri: ‘Beauty culture is a mirrored image of

Ahead of the discharge of her recent book Disobedient Bodies, we spoke to the creator about finding joy in spirituality and capitalism’s impact on women’s self-image How do our surroundings determine our relationship with our body image? Growing up Irish and Nigerian, creator and broadcaster Emma Dabiri’s concept of beauty has long been defined by Eurocentric standards and what was deemed most desirable on the time (big boobs and a thigh gap). But on a journey of self-reclamation, she has learnt that beauty isn’t a physical entity, but a way of being. In her latest book, Disobedient Bodies, the creator of Don’t Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next unpacks age-old...
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30 Sep

Olaplex Fights Back Against Dupe Culture With Latest Campaign

Olaplex is setting the record straight with its latest campaign. The campaign, which kicked off this week with the coordinated unboxing of its No. 3 bond-building treatment rebranded as “Oladupé,” means to catch the eyes of TikTok viewers. The purpose is that given Olaplex‘s myriad patents — north of 150 — the one brand that may effectively dupe Olaplex’s technology, is Olaplex. That time is made when the faux labels on Oladupé products are peeled off to disclose legitimate product. Consumers haven’t yet caught on. The TikTok hashtag #olaplexdupe has greater than 30 million views on the platform, for instance. “We're amongst essentially the most duped hair care brands,” said Olaplex chief executive officer JuE Wong. “We felt this was an opportune time...
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