Reaching high standards of beauty is a consistent crisis for men and women around the world. Young women in Japan are no exception. A 1999 study compared the Japanese version of Seventeen Magazine to the American one and found that the models featured on the cover of the Japanese version were portrayed as sweet and […]
Women destroy makeup as part of backlash against culture of laborious skincare regimes and pressure to look perfect In the wake of the #MeToo movement, which has spread rapidly following the Weinstein scandal, with millions of women around the world sharing their own stories of sexual assault and harassment in the workplace, a growing number […]
As far as makeup tutorials go, there are plenty of ways Asian people share their makeup skills and techniques online. One in particular caught my eye because videos from the site are often reshared on other platforms. On the Chinese video sharing app TikTok, users can make short 3-15 second videos or longer 3-60 second […]
[Un]ideal Beauty Standards 