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7 May

Toxic Beauty is the film showing how beauty products

Toxic Beauty is the film showing how beauty products
Director Phyllis Ellis and researcher Sarah Jay give us the lowdown on the documentary and the increasingly deadly, yet unregulated, issue “The doctor put in a needle all through the skin under my abdomen (and a) greenish liquid poured out of me into six one-litre bottles,” says Shaeda Farooqi. “What did I do mistaken?” voices one other woman. Each women are speaking about their experiences affected by symptoms of ovarian cancer – an epidemic that’s been increasingly linked to the usage of talc, an ingredient present in talcum powder (think Johnson & Johnson’s famous baby powder) and other beauty products.  These stories are two of many shared in a latest documentary called Toxic Beauty,...
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23 Apr

Cyshimi is the artist showing nail art could be

Cyshimi is the artist showing nail art could be
Interdisciplinary artist Cyshimi’s work challenges normative beauty ideals, and celebrates the plurality of bodies and identity The Dazed Beauty Community is our ever-expanding encyclopaedia of creatives and emerging talent from internationally who're redefining the best way we take into consideration beauty. From supermodels to digital artists to make-up prodigies transforming themselves of their bedrooms, these are the sweetness influencers of tomorrow who embody all the things Dazed Beauty is about. Discover them here. Cyshimi’s first beauty memory is the unusually long little fingernail of their Chinese grandfather – a practice amongst Chinese men that harks back to the country’s dynastic days. “It’s funny to see where I'm now”, says Cyshimi. What seemed strange to...
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13 Apr

Talking Screens, April 14-20, 2023: Zemeckis Retrospective | Kelly

Talking Screens, April 14-20, 2023: Zemeckis Retrospective | Kelly
“Who Framed Roger Rabbit” in Robert Zemeckis retrospectiveTalking Screens, A Week In Chicago Film, April 14-20, 2023 A highly selective view of one other tumultuous week of Chicago film programming, highlighted by an outstanding recent film by an American great. Such easy, shivering surfaces: “Showing Up,” Kelly Reichardt’s beautiful and slyly wicked comedy, her ninth feature, explores, with minimalist remark, a single figure’s tribulations and ministrations across a confined time period. Opens Friday, April 14 at River East and Landmark Century.Most notable of revival and repertory attractions: the Music Box’s Robert Zemeckis retrospective fills out the approaching week, details below and here.“How To Blow Up A Pipeline” is director Daniel Goldhaber’s meta-adaptation of Andreas Malm’s philosophical manifesto that’s not a how-to-book...
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