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This week I invited beauty critic Jessica DeFino on the pod to talk about beauty culture. This is a followup to my Sunday newsletter about beauty anxiety. We discuss everything from Botox and the problem with “clean beauty,” to the source of beauty standards and the costs and benefits of divesting from them.

Some links to things we mention + Jessica’s work:

-My own quitting makeup story-Thick by Tracie McMillan Cottom-Adweek’s feature on Dove’s “campaign for real beauty”-Contrapoints’s YouTube essay on beauty-Jessica for Fashionista: “People Are Now Getting Botox & Fillers As Forms of Self-Care”-Jessica for Teen Vogue: “How White Supremacy & Capitalism Influence Beauty Standards”-Jessica for HelloGiggles: “Clean Beauty May Be Non-Toxic, But It Still Sells Toxic Beauty Standards”

You can also check out Jessica’s newsletter, The Unpublishable, where she writes about this stuff every week, or follow her on Instagram.

Thanks for listening!Haley

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