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social standards

20/01/2015

Saving Face: Girls Girls Girls (and everyone else)

The first question I asked last week when I started the Saving Face project was about gender inequality in the skin care industry. Things might be a bit different for children and preteens now, but here is a brief summary of how I understood things in primary school: Girls wore products and makeup as a rite of Continue reading

Complaints, DISCUSS., Indifferent Ignorance, Internet, January 2015, Saving Face Series, Videos

consumers, cosmetics industry, gender inequality, Indifferent Ignorance, make up, peer pressure, race inequality, racism, Rookie Mag, Saving Face, sexism, social standards, Tumblr, Verizon
06/01/2015

Saving Face?

6th January feels like a good time to get back into the serious business of Indifferent Ignorance, and do some research into indifferent ignorance. Specifically something that, now I think about it, I should have looked into years ago. Skin care. But Francesca, you’re so hardcore and naturally beautiful, I thought you just got out of Continue reading

Complaints, DISCUSS., Indifferent Ignorance, Internet, January 2015, Saving Face Series

beauty regimes, beauty standards, bribing with MCR merchandise always works, cosmetics industry, face washing, Indifferent Ignorance, investigating beauty standards, media, Nivea, skin care, social standards