Are beauty tutorials liberating of their lifting the lid on the time, money and work that goes into making a look or are they only one other way of reinforcing culturally sanctioned ideals? Clementine Prendergast examines
In his famous work, The Art of Love, the traditional Roman poet Ovid issues a stark warning to women about how they need to go about applying their make-up. “With wax whiten your skin, and with carmine to present yourself the rosy hue which Nature has denied you […] But not at all let your lover find you with a number of ‘aids to beauty’ boxes about you. The art that adorns you ought to...
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