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16 Oct

Dead gorgeous: How cadavers are fuelling the beauty revolution

Dead gorgeous: How cadavers are fuelling the beauty revolution
There’s a meme that circulates every once in a while, in a tweet or on a t-shirt. It reads: “Women are always thinking about skincare or death.” It’s funny because the jump feels ludicrous; these two far-flung obsessions united in the same sentence. And yet, the beauty industry’s best-kept secret isn’t a peptide or a secret surgeon – it’s the often invisible reliance on dead bodies. From the cadaver heads that fill hotel ballrooms at pre-conference ‘filler labs’ to the decellularised fat now injected into celebrity cheeks, human remains underpin almost every 2025 aesthetics trend. Yet donors – and consumers – rarely realise it. At the British Society of Facial Plastic Surgery’s course in Nottingham this October, or in a convention centre...
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11 Aug

Grimes’ ‘alien scars’ are fuelling the post-human tattoo trend

Grimes’ ‘alien scars’ are fuelling the post-human tattoo trend
Grimes is the queen of post-human aesthetics, from her experiments in bio-hacking to her (as yet unrealised) plans to get matching brain chips with Lil Uzi Vert. Her futuristic beauty looks have inspired a whole generation of terminally online alt-girls and emo faeries, who fuse tech and fantasy elements of their quest to higher resemble video-game characters.  Earlier this yr, the Canadian auteur took the subsequent step in her “long slow effort to have a full alien body” with a second white ink tattoo. The primary, a sprawling backpiece from 2021, was a collaboration between tattoo artist Tweakt and artist Nusi Quero. Described as “beautiful alien scars”, each tattoos resemble tribal tattoos from a martian technocracy; their white lines giving the...
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