Botox, fillers and cosmetic surgery have gotten increasingly needed to live as much as contemporary beauty standards, making a beauty tax that's pricing many people out
In our latest Class Ceiling series, we unpack how class actually affects young people today – from our jobs, to the best way we now have sex, to our general experience of the world.
Beauty and wealth have at all times been bedfellows. Throughout history, the sweetness standard of any given period has served the ideological interests of the ruling class. Through the Renaissance, plump, pale skin was a prized signifier of high social status, while sun-darkened skin became synonymous with lower classes labouring outside. Today, nevertheless, that very...
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