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18 Aug

The Beauty Backslide: Inside the return to conservative, skinny

The Beauty Backslide: Inside the return to conservative, skinny
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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1 Feb

Being called fat shouldn’t be any different than calling

Being called fat shouldn’t be any different than calling
Icelandic model and body image activist Isold Halldorudotti desires to reclaim the word ‘fat’ as a positive word Born in Iceland, at a time well before people were willing to #effyourbeautystandards, Isold Halldorudottir never felt like she slot in. “A giant a part of that was because I used to be fat,” she says. As a child, the model and activist was at all times taught that being fat was something to be ashamed of. “In the event you weren’t skinny you were screwed. It’s at all times been something that individuals have been afraid of. We'd do anything to not be fat, and until only recently, perhaps two or three years ago...
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4 Dec

Exploring Korea’s skinny obsession and the plus-size models fighting

Exploring Korea’s skinny obsession and the plus-size models fighting
In a fat-shaming, skinny-obsessed society with a high eating disorder rate, listed below are the trailblazers fighting for acceptance “If a lady weighs over 50 kg, she should be nuts” - this line told by a male protagonist of a Korean online drama Dam Naneun Jib to his girlfriend’s girlfriend went viral after being aired last yr since it touched upon a dark side of K-beauty - the obsession with skinny body types. The “50 kg myth” is a perfect created by Korean mainstream media by glorifying celebrities who openly discuss their weight being 40-something. K-pop idols often share their extreme food plan regimes with a view to achieve the under-50 ideal weight,...
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8 Oct

Paris Fashion Week confirmed that skinny brows are back

Paris Fashion Week confirmed that skinny brows are back
There was also body mod piercings at Balenciaga, major Recent Romantic vibes at Junya Watanabe and candy-floss hair at Kiko Kostadinov The last stop of the SS23 fashion week tour is after all Paris, which pulls every season to an in depth. With big names on the schedule, this season we were treated to a feast of beauty, each on and off the catwalk. On the front row Doja Cat stole the show wherever she went with wildly creative looks by make-up artist Laurel Charleston. Starting from being covered entirely in metallic gold to rocking a No Face-esque painted look, Doja and Charleston were fearless in pushing the boundaries of celebrity frow make-up. Meanwhile,...
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