Defying Beauty Standards: The Perspective Of A Pageant Girl With 7 Surgery Scars
No matter what your body looks like, you deserve to wear your (real or invisible) crown.
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Let’s Talk About the Hourglass Figure
A few months ago, a trend called “No Nuance November” was popular on TikTok in which creators would give their controversial opinions on a...
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What Elastigirl’s Booty Reveals About Female Body Standards
Yes, I went there. Helen Parr is dummy thicc, and we all know it. Guys, gals, and non-binary pals alike have been dreaming about Pixar’s...
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Why Is It So Hard to Love Our Bodies?
Since we were children, we have been continuously exposed in different ways to the ideas and standards of what perfection and beauty should...
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Unmasking the Beauty Within
“Perfect is boring, human is beautiful.” ~Tyra Banks It’s been roughly one year since all sense of normalcy swiftly vanished. Weeks have...
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The New Era of Body Image: COVID-19
How COVID-19 has affected how women view themselves.
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Learning Self-Love One Eyebrow at a Time
“Your eyebrows look just like your father’s,” is a comment that no teenage girl wants to hear during her waxing appointment. While well-...
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Bad Hair: Comedic Horror Film Explores the Killer Beauty Standards Black Women Face
Let me start by prefacing I am in no way a horror movie fanatic. I have seen a minimal amount of scary movies, and even those have only been in the presence of others in order to curb squeamish feelings that perhaps a pagan demon has taken over my body or my friend is actually a serial killer. On the other hand, I am a sucker for black comedy and spoof movies. So despite the horror aspect of the film, I had to check out Hulu’s “Bad Hair.”
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Social Media vs Reality
We are bombarded with the “perfect” image of a woman on social media every day and it can take a toll on our self-esteem. What people don’t...
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My Acne Journey
Acne. It’s something that nearly every 20-something has a struggle with — be it those embarrassing zits on the tip of your nose in 7th...
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Unrealistic East Asian Beauty Standards
Beauty standards for women in Asia have converged onto a narrow ideal: white skin, large eyes, and faces that taper at the chin. Many women...
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To Shave or Not To Shave
Shaving your body hair is a complete and utter scam and here's why...
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The Problematic Normalisation of FaceTune
They say beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, but what happens when the beholder itself is our worst critic? A reflection of ourselves...
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Breaking the mirrors of dysmorphia in 2021
The new year comes with so much joy, the idea of having a fresh start to rectify the mistakes of last year, writing down new goals and...
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Breaking Male Beauty Standards
I hate to say it, but I think we all know — the world can be a cruel place. People’s displeased glances and swift eye rolls can say much...
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Your Side Profile is Fine
Scrolling through Tik Tok, I came across a “Side Profile Challenge” in which users would use a filter to determine whether or not they had a “perfect” side profile which includes: a eurocentric straight nose, pouty lips, and a razor sharp jawline. I don’t think you need to have a perfect side profile to be beautiful, and I’m here to convince you why I’m right.
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Beauty Standards are BS
The evolution of beauty standards for women have been rigid and narrow. I dare you to not let that define you.
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What Does Being Beautiful Mean to You?
Edited by Olivia Spahn-Vieira There is no concrete definition of beauty. And that statement is a fact. Everyone perceives beauty as...
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How Aesthetic Pressure Grows From The Trivialization Of Plastic Surgeries
From the performance of social networks and media products, the female body is submitted to another set of body patterns.
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Why The Body Positivity Movement is Inherently Flawed
The concept of "all women are beautiful" is, at its core, flawed, because it conflates self-worth with beauty. It's time to leave it behind.
