The Beauty Backslide: Inside the return to conservative, skinny

18 Aug

You’re scrolling your ‘For You’ page at 2am: A clean girl on her hot girl walk rattles off her latest restriction techniques, chanting Liv Schmidt’s mantra, “It’s not a sin to want to be thin.” A carousel of runway clips celebrates the return of cinched waists. A stream of sun-drenched #Tradwife reels show soft-voiced women folding gingham napkins to hymns about submission. An influencer preaches over her bone broth about divine feminine energy. In between, your favourite former body-positive popstar recites a sponsored script thanking her surgeon for her free breast augmentation, encouraging you to book too. Scroll again, and you find a girl in her early 20s with a discount code for black-market Ozempic dupes. Again, and you see an...

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6 Jun

Bushes, Botox and body ideals: The 6 most read

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Bushes, Botox and body ideals: The 6 most read

In 2024, Dazed Beauty readers gravitated towards stories that explore the intricacies and nuances of self-image in a world obsessed with unattainable perfection. Whether that was the rise of Ozempic, Botox bed-death or the growing trend of “bald regret” after laser hair removal, this year’s most viewed pieces centered on conversations around body ideals, beauty standards, and understanding the permanence that comes with transforming ourselves. Here are six of the most viewed articles from this year. Courtesy Westend61 / Getty Images From fasting trends embraced by Silicon Valley elites to the popularity of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, the rich now signal their privilege by abstaining from food rather than indulging in it. As they swap out banquets for supplements, this piece examines...

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27 Sep

Documenting the sweetness ideals of Cali, Colombia’s cosmetic surgery

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Documenting the sweetness ideals of Cali, Colombia’s cosmetic surgery

Kurt Hollander takes to the streets of Cali to capture town’s cosmetic architecture and the physical manifestations of the influence of cosmetic surgery on the culture Cali, the state capital of Valle del Cauca, Colombia, is home to a whole bunch of plastic surgeons. More people travel to Colombia for operations than anywhere else on this planet, the vast majority of them heading to Cali, and with annual profits of hundreds of thousands of dollars town has grow to be generally known as Colombia’s ‘Silicone’ Valley. And it’s not only the foreigners keeping the industry going. Colombia ranks third in the world for probably the most variety of surgeries per capita, and the...

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9 Aug

Squishy artist Daisy Collingridge desires to eradicate boring body

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Squishy artist Daisy Collingridge desires to eradicate boring body

Take a have a look at Daisy Collingridge’s oddly shaped, barely off-kilter forms blowing a kiss to the camera or striking a pose, hands on hip and you simply might wonder what exactly you’re gazing at. Collingridge’s costumes show different parts of the body, resembling boobs, big stomachs or muscular systems, through quilted textiles. At first, chances are you'll not even ensure that there’s an actual person under all those layers, but that’s what makes her pieces all of the more surreal. Unconventional and thought-provoking , the London-based textile artist specialises in squishy, wearable costumes, done up in unusual pastel colors, with bulbous overlapped forms and shapes. Each bit is a novel vision and a press release on the complex aesthetics...

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