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22 Mar

Rihanna opens up about her skin insecurities

Over the previous few years, celebrities have begun opening up concerning the skin struggles they face. From Adwoa Aboah sharing about her pimples and the best way she used to obsessively scrutinise her skin to Pete Davidson getting real about Accutane, it’s a refreshing and much-needed reminder that breakouts and bad-skin days occur to everyone. Now Rihanna has joined the conversation, discussing her own skincare journey during a virtual press conference yesterday for the launch of her skincare brand Fenty Skin. “Whether it's starting with pimples after I was a youngster, after which the pimples treatments that led me to essentially blotchy skin and stripped my skin of all the good things that I already had in it, it was a tricky...
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9 Nov

The contagiousness of insecurities: is sharing online actually caring?

Are we ‘normalising insecurities’ or simply giving young people recent ones? There was a time when opening up about insecurities on the web was widely praised, when people lauded it as starting necessary conversations, making celebrities more ‘human’ and helping the remainder of us feel higher about ourselves. But while breaking down physical stigmas and societal beauty standards can have been the initial goal of this sort of content, it’s taken a bizarre turn – now, it appears like we just discuss other people’s insecurities to feel higher about our own.  Last month, TikTok creator Bert sent out an open call on TikTok to “keep physical trait insecurities to yourself or to a specialised...
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