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On November 10, just five days after US election day, Latest York design director and content creator Elysia Berman told her followers that the embedded “Trumpism” in the sweetness industry must have tipped us off for what the election results could be. “The aesthetics of the face have been changing, and I feel they were predictive of a Trump win,” she said in the now-viral video. The shift Berman refers to includes the rise of no-make-up make-up, tattoo removal videos, Utah curls, latte hair colors, extreme thinness, and a push towards dissolving filler in favour of more subtle, less noticeable cosmetic surgery trends. With people referencing quiet luxury hairstyles and Ozempic use as “obvious indicators” that Trump would win in...
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The web is a sea of hot people. Conventionally attractive influencers monopolise social media via algorithmic bias toward young, symmetrical faces; we’re served constant behind-the-scenes content of lovely celebrities; and porn and AI favour the de-facto toned, young hot person. Even those near us are rendered preternaturally flawless via filters, Facetune, and the artful mastering of lighting and angles.
It’s been well established that the digital ubiquity of “unrealistic beauty standards” is whittling away at our self-esteem and mental health. What has been unpacked less exhaustively, nonetheless, is the impact it’s having on our dating lives. Online, men are calling Sydney Sweeney and Margot Robbie “mid”, rating the latter a seven out of ten on the universal scale of hotness, and...
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The Dazed Beauty Community is our ever-expanding encyclopaedia of creatives and emerging talent from the world over who're redefining the best way we take into consideration beauty. From supermodels to digital artists to makeup prodigies transforming themselves of their bedrooms, these are the sweetness influencers of tomorrow who embody every thing Dazed Beauty is about. Discover them here.
“After I’m shoving a needle through someone’s skin, I make a reference to them,” explains Coral Johnson-McDaniel. “It’s fairly sentimental, a pure stranger is giving over their trust in me to change their personal canvas.” An expert body modification artist, freelance model, artist and muse, Coral’s relationship to needles could be traced back to watching her godmother perform piercings and etching vibrant ink...
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