Teeth – Beautifaire

7 Sep

A temporary history of how teeth have been represented

Welcome to Beauty School, the corner of Dazed Beauty dedicated to learning. From guides to histories, that is where we make clear past subcultural movements and educate our readers on current trends and various goings-on. We’ve come a great distance since those sexist toothpaste ads from the 1950s. Or have we? While the blatant sexism may need gone, you’ll still see ads with impossibly unattainable beauty standards. Picture a model with chiselled movie star looks and a set of blindingly white teeth as symmetrical as a butterfly. Ah, that Colgate smile! The dominant image of perfect pearly whites hasn’t modified all that much in 70 years. Yet while you peer behind that façade you’ll observe an entire recent beauty landscape. Dental...

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25 Jun

Bottom teeth talkers and TikTok’s acceleration of beauty trends

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Beauty, Featured

Bottom teeth talkers and TikTok’s acceleration of beauty trends

Following the newest body part discourse – whether showing your top or bottom teeth while speaking makes you superior – Chloe Laws writes that TikTok is running out of random body parts to scrutinise I even have beauty standards vertigo. It’s a horrible condition, filled with self-doubt, confusion and crippling insecurity. This is just not a legitimate medical diagnosis (yet), but something I even have coined on the abject whiplash I get from TikTok on a weekly, if not day by day, basis. One week I’m meant to be getting Botox in my trapezius muscles to offer me a Barbie-like shoulder slope, the following I’m rearranging my mouth after I speak in order...

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26 Mar

Why I had my teeth filed into fangs

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We seek advice from London-based filmmaker Tessa Edwards about big canines and obscure beauty trends You would possibly have already come across London-based filmmaker, Tessa Edwards. Possibly at one among her early fashion shows, like that one she staged in a forbidden forest, where models clad in gold and crystals walked against an otherworldly video backdrop. Or possibly you got here across her candid StyleLikeYou video, where she talks in regards to the pressures of the style industry, having left all of it behind her. If not, you have to have seen her at Tinaween, where she hands down all the time has the most effective looks. The truth is, she all the...

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5 Jan