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22 Jul

Rituals under fire for cultural appropriation

Rituals under fire for cultural appropriation
Dutch spa and body care brand, Rituals, is under fire today for its recent campaigns, through which different white models are seen in various cultural and traditional Asian dress and settings. Fashion blogger Bryanboy called out the brand on his Instagram earlier today when he got here across the campaigns while on the airport. “Dear @RitualsCosmetics,” he writes on the post, “will you please tell your marketing department in addition to your corporate executives to look up what ‘cultural appropriation’ means? Are y’all so detached from today’s political climate? It’s 2018.” Bryanboy goes on to write down: “When you think your executives within the Netherlands may get away with putting a blue-eyed white girl in an Asian lewk, you’re improper. That is...
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3 Jun

Becoming Mystique: exploring the sweetness rituals of a cosplayer

Becoming Mystique: exploring the sweetness rituals of a cosplayer
22-year-old British cosplayer and aspiring model Roxanne Manuel shares with us her personal beauty routine as she prepares to embody X-Men’s villainous mutant, Mystique Rituals is a monthly column that appears on the obscure beauty routines and sacred acts of self care that different professionals practice as they prepare for a typical event. Born on the South Coast, West Sussex, 22-year-old aspiring model Roxanne Manuel has been cosplaying seriously for 3 years now. From applying her look – which may involve painting her entire body and applying rather a lot of prosthetic glue – to how she chooses her characters, here she shares her experiences.  Growing up, I used to be very much into video games and the...
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4 May

Exploring the sweetness rituals of a bodybuilder

Exploring the sweetness rituals of a bodybuilder
Photographed by Hazel Gaskin, British bodybuilder Dawn Shillingford shares with us her competition beauty routine This week marks five years because the launch of Dazed Beauty! Over the subsequent five days we will probably be celebrating this anniversary by bringing you big celebrity interviews, cultural deep dives into the bizarre trends of today, and going back through the archives to resurface a few of our favourite pieces. To cite our co-founder Bunny Kinney in his original editor’s letter, Dazed Beauty is: “an area for us to document, deconstruct and experiment with beauty in all its forms, in every dimension, and tell the stories of the lived experience each certainly one of us has in...
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26 Apr

Ritual’s Katerina Schneider on Women’s Health, Clinical Trials, Sales

Ritual’s Katerina Schneider on Women’s Health, Clinical Trials, Sales
Pregnant and struggling to search out an efficient and clean prenatal vitamin, Katerina Schneider got down to create her complement brand Ritual. On the time investors told her she couldn’t have a business and children. Now, eight years later, the founder and chief executive officer has three daughters and a growing company expected to exceed $200 million in sales this 12 months. With this, sources have told WWD the brand, which has raised greater than $65 million up to now, could possibly be prime for acquisition. “We were born out of the web and Instagram in a way. We were essentially the most Instagrammable vitamin and now what we’re becoming known for, which I’m happy with is, this company that’s setting...
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