Does having bad morals really make you ugly?

11 Feb

Over the last few months, it’s become increasingly clear that Timothée Chalamet, the golden boy of Hollywood, has fallen out of favour among young people. Many believed the day would never come, as Chalamet, with his floppy brown hair and “intense” green eyes, played gut-wrenchingly sensitive characters in Call Me By Your Name (2017), Beautiful Boy (2018) and Little Women (2019). While we watched him desperately pine over Oliver (Armie Hammer) and Jo (Saoirse Ronan), he appealed so perfectly to the desires many young people have about men: that they can be beautiful, kind and sensitive. The vulnerability he displayed in those roles, coupled with his slender frame, meant that he was seen as the antithesis of “toxic masculinity”, and...

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30 Jan

2024 was the yr aesthetic pseudoscience made an unsightly

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2024 was the yr aesthetic pseudoscience made an unsightly

Are you boy pretty or girl pretty? Are you a deer, bunny, jellyfish, cat or dog? Have you ever got high or low visual weight? Do you've gotten a dramatic, natural, classic, gamine, or romantic body type? Are you a bug, fish or alien? What about your canthal tilt–positive or negative? How’s your facial harmony? Do you've gotten high or low visual contrast? Perhaps you’ve come across among the above circulating on TikTok, Reddit and Instagram over the past yr or so. They’re all ways to dissect the color, shape, size and prominence of features. High visual weight, for instance, means you've gotten large facial expression that stand out. A high contrast face has a dramatic difference between the color of...

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17 Jan

Manny MUA: ‘The wonder world tends to be an

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Manny MUA: ‘The wonder world tends to be an

The YouTuber and sweetness icon discusses lockdown, Lunar Beauty’s newest launch, and life after make-up Back in February, YouTuber and sweetness icon Manny MUA visited the Dazed offices while in London for VidCon. We hugged (how novel!), gossiped about one of the best gay clubs, and I (terribly) applied make-up on Instagram Live while asking Manny questions sourced from our followers. Fast forward to now and the world is in a really different place. The past few months of the pandemic has seen the world ground to a halt. Quarantining at home, we’ve felt equal parts anxious and daring, but additionally creative and inspired. For Manny, this is available in the shape of Lunar Beauty’s...

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21 Aug

Bonnie Bakeneko’s fetish face and mouth jewellery find beauty

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Bonnie Bakeneko’s fetish face and mouth jewellery find beauty

Like many creatives who're othered for being ‘different’, Bonnie Bakeneko is all about difficult conventional beauty standards – something they do through their handmade bespoke fetish pieces for the face and mouth. Drawing on their struggles with mental health, the non-binary artist’s designs reflect the dark desires that underpin your deepest fantasies. Offering custom pieces to cater your personal aesthetic taste, Bakeneko’s extravagant designs vary from bejewelled cheek retractors – formerly confined to the dentist chair and something which Bakeneko’s own fears and anxieties have long been certain up in – to headpieces adorned with beetle wings and taxidermy. Growing up in rural Norwich, Bonnie finds solace within the quiet, seclusion of the countryside. With plans to relocate just outside...

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