The Aging&Beauty content I consumed for Salon
Junes' Sad Rich Girl Salon dove into aging&beauty:
We talked about "fox eye" makeup and Frownies, and Clavicular and a plastic surgery procedure I had never heard of where they liposuction a 6-pack onto your stomach (insane). So much of our convo dealt with how one "learns" beauty standards and how to self-police that I made a game-time decision on the breakout question: What media diet would you want your daughter to have?
Suggested reading and media:
55 Brides on What They Spent to Look Their Best on the Big Day
What Should a 30-Something Look Like? in The Cut
Nora Ephron's I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Actors OBSESSION With Aging Is KILLING Cinema… (12 min video)
"Examining 'iPhone face' and the Art of Timeless Beauty" by Sophia Butsch (essay)
Reddit For women choosing to age naturally—how do you resist comparing yourself to other women when cosmetic enhancements have become so normalized?
Gen Z soldiers' plastic surgeries strain Korea's military readiness in The Korea Times
Feeling Old: 44 Is the First Big Aging Cliff for Millennials in The Cut
Frownies (a product that I kept getting served ads for once I started looking at anti-aging content)
self-congratulatory "i'm not having work done" (parody) reel
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