The phrase “white women aesthetic” recently emerged as a buzzword on the Xiaohongshu social media platform, accompanied by the slogan – “Question white women, understand white women, become white women” which is gaining currency online. The lifestyle switch is characterised by Lululemon yoga pants, Stanley thermos and “white people’s food” […]
Standards
Moyo Studio / Getty Images Beauty standards are engraved into girls from a young age. Our Barbies and dolls come perfectly packaged with their hair, makeup, and nails already done. Most of us played with those toys as we watched our mothers get dolled up for the day. Beauty seems […]
Racism kills, and a new study on the potentially harmful effects of chemical hair straighteners has shown the paradox many nonwhite people face when forced to conform to white beauty standards. Late last week, the National Institutes of Health released findings from a study that suggested women who use chemical […]
We live in the era of dating apps where swiping left or right on someone is largely determined by their looks. Even before technology became an essential part of our love stories, an inordinate amount of attention was often paid to what one looks like, as if it is some […]
Representation matters. From seeing others from similar backgrounds on TV and film and inside the pages of our favorite magazines, the feelings we have about ourselves can be shaped by how the outside world sees us—even more so when they don’t. According to a new “Forces of Beauty” report by […]
Culture By Preeti Singh | July 25, 2022 You know, we love people who unapologetically break the rigid and unrealistic beauty standards created by society. Many female celebrities, including Tillotama Shome, Radhika Apte, Huma Qureshi, Taapsee Pannu, and others openly talk about not following any of these beauty standards and we absolutely love […]
For decades, social media influencers, feminist scholars and cosmetics companies alike have asked, “How can we facilitate a person’s confidence in their body?” In response, I ask, “What value is there in physical confidence, and what reason is there to strive for it at all?” In a Teen Takes survey, responders nearly […]
Sydney Clark isn’t a dark-skinned Black woman, but her complexion isn’t as light as her mother or sister either. This distinction, however slight, is why she says she believes she was treated differently from the rest of her family. While strangers would compliment her mother or sister, they wouldn’t speak […]
Doina Ciobanu posts “social-media versus reality” videos on TikTok. Doina Ciobanu Doina Ciobanu has been posting side-by-side edited and unedited videos on TikTok. The posts expose how social-media videos can be altered to make people look completely different. She said she hopes her posts show people that what they see […]
We live in a society that is ruled by how one looks. As much as we laud the importance of inner beauty, personality, accomplishment, and the like, too often what we are first judged by are our looks. In the United States, a white aesthetic has historically been the standard […]
If there’s one thing that some of today’s most celebrated women athletes have in common, it’s their growing desire to use beauty as a means of expression when competing. Christina Clemons breezed past her competition at the Tokyo Olympics in everything from bold makeup to butterfly clip-adorned double buns. Other […]
