What’s Beyond the Surface of Our Skin Care Obsession?
I thought I was obsessed with skin care. I really wanted another chance at a lost year
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Will Beauty Change When the World Comes Back?
Prepandemic, there was always pressure to dress a certain way. But, after months of isolation, looking good may have new meanings
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Beauty Standards Are a Rigged Game
If I couldn’t be seen as both disabled and beautiful, I decided I’d win by becoming “the smart one”
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The Year I Went Bald
First, cancer took my work identity. Then it took my hair
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The Impossible Beauty Standards for Transgender Women
I face a lot of pressure to be ultrafeminine—and I’m tired of it
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Why I Shared My Nude Photos on the Internet
I used to hate looking at my body. Then I decided to post my naked pictures on Instagram
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The Price of Being Pretty
Growing up, my friends and I thought being beautiful would make our lives easier. But beauty only made things more difficult
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David Byrne turns the deadly sins on their head to say something new about the world
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