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28 Mar

I keep having weird anxiety dreams about my skin

Thick scaly scabs, oozing pus, and extreme ageing – author Viola Levy investigates what the subconscious is attempting to tell us The opposite night I dreamt my skin was encrusted in thick scaly scabs. Not the conventional kind, more just like the ‘greyscale’ that plagued Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones. Within the dream, I picked away at them and dark pigmentation marks appeared underneath, everlasting. “No amount of SkinCeuticals Retinol 1.0% was going to shift that lot,” my dream-self thought (which made me realise I’ve been writing about beauty for far too long). In real life, I’ve recently broken out in mild rosacea since hitting my 30s and while I’ve been looking into...
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8 Dec

Unpacking the weird alt-right propaganda behind the raw meat

The radicalised weight loss plan plan of the alt-right associates pork with alpha males and soy with emasculated cucks Heidi Montag is papped snacking on a raw bison heart in the midst of LA. She claims that it can boost her fertility. A person chugs 100 raw eggs on livestream. It has over three million views. Joe Rogan thinks that cooking meat over an open fire will unlock ancient genetic memories (disclaimer: it can not). In every single place you look, carnivorous urges are infiltrating the mainstream. With roots in esoteric fitness circles and man-o-sphere blogs, health enthusiasts are swapping out smoothies for steaks in a bid to enhance their wellness. “Billions of individuals...
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13 Oct

Enter Collina Strada’s weird, wild world of beauty

There have been freaky animal prosthetics, muddy XXL braids and vegetable contour – but one thing you won't ever see at a Collina Strada show is a red lip. We spoke to designer Hillary Taymour about having essentially the most unconventional beauty at NYFW Epically long fairytale braids, freaky animal prosthetics and fresh vegatables and fruits worn as contour, blush and powder: welcome to the weird, wild world of Collina Strada’s beauty. Consistently, for the reason that label began having runway shows at Recent York Fashion Week, there’s been an undeniably unconventional aesthetic. Provided that runways are all too often dominated by subtle cat-eye flicks and natural make-up, Collina Strada has uniquely propelled...
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