beauty

Beauty Marked: “Made-Up” Explores the Addictive Power of Artifice

Photograph of the book cover for Made Up by Daphné B., featuring the silhouette of a femme body in pink
by Sophia Stewart
October 20, 2021 at 8:40am
“Sometimes, to feel at peace, all you need is for someone to tell you what to buy,” writes author Daphné B.
Khloé Kardashian, a tall white woman, poses on Instagram in a sweat suit and a thong

Beyond Skin Deep: Khloé Kardashian, Madison Beer, and Social Media’s Unwinnable Beauty Game

by Lexi McMenamin
April 19, 2021 at 11:41am
We’re all body positive so long as that positivity includes warping ourselves beyond recognition. Read more »
Kim Kardashian, a light-skinned Armenian woman, poses for two photos in 2006 and 2017, one in which she has long black hair and one in which she has platinum blond hair

Personal Capital: What Can We Do About Before and After Instagram Accounts?

by Sophia Stewart
March 10, 2021 at 2:17pm
“You’re not ugly, just poor” communicates that beauty is often not naturally occurring. Read more »
two Asian women, one with yellow eyeshadow and the other with red eyeshadow, look at each other

Face Value: How K-Beauty Repackaged Skincare as Self-Care

by Hannah Amaris Roh
September 16, 2020 at 1:06pm
K-Beauty ritualizes self-discipline, rather than effortlessness, as a moral value. Read more »
a Balinese woman with long, black hair, stands in profile with her eyes closed, facing toward a fence

White Lies: Unilever and L’Oréal Can’t Rebrand Their Way Out of Colorism

by Hannah Amaris Roh
August 5, 2020 at 12:54pm
The sales pitch of whitening products isn’t just a paler complexion, but also the promise of hygiene and health. Read more »
Portrait illustration of Lucy Parsons with a partially erased face and a fragmented shadow in the background

Lip Service: Lucy Parsons’s Revolution Was Beautified

by Kim Kelly
March 6, 2020 at 9:00am
Desirability politics, social capital, and lookism remain present in even the most conscious radical spaces. Read more »
Zaira Gonzalez, a brownskinned Mexican model, poses with the word no written in red lipstick across her cheeks

Popaganda: How to Lipstick It to the Man

by Carmen Rios
February 27, 2020 at 1:06pm
Lipstick Lobby burst onto the scene in 2017 with a unique mission: to manufacture lipsticks that looked good and do good, too. Read more »