“I even have a theory, in like ten years, being a bit ugly and a bit wrinkly goes to be in fashion,” says Ash Powers in a TikTok video. In the following ten to fifteen years, she explains, when everyone has succumbed to smoothing and tweaking their faces, “we're going to take a look at someone who has never had any work done and say, ‘Oh my god her crows feet… she just looks so… expressive. It’s so beautiful.’” With over 2.8 million views and 490,000 likes at time of writing, this video has kickstarted a conversation about our fascination with rarity, the longer term of beauty, and the role we play...
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