pageantry to punk, how beauty became both my mask and my mirror
also: my favorite beauty releases and products from 2024
Content note: mentions of body image.
My relationship with beauty has always been a paradox. It is both an invitation and a gatekeeper, a way to connect and a way to exclude. Growing up in the shadow of Los Angeles’s glossy billboards, impossibly lit storefronts, and omnipresence of the entertainment industry (and its entanglement with the plastic surge…
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