We’ve all tried some beauty hacks or tips thinking they’d make us prettier or give us glowing skin, and most times they ...

In a world obsessed with beauty ideals, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by constantly changing standards. From social media filters to celebrity influences, what society deems attractive can often seem ...

Layers of heavy contouring or dramatic makeup can appear unnatural or overly artificial, which some men perceive as distancing, preferring a more natural beauty. When makeup becomes the main focus ...

Lip fillers, breast implants, penis extensions – the pressure to look our best is growing. Psychoanalyst Ada Borkenhagen explains what an ‘Instagram face’ is and why Botox is no bad thing. Boring ...

Senior Lecturer in Neurosciences and Neurorehabilitation, Course Leader in the College of Health and Life Sciences, London South Bank University Beauty standards have always evolved, but in today’s ...

“Look younger. Get smaller. Erase the lines. Tighten, tone, conceal.” We’re told these things so often we mistake them for truth. We live in a culture saturated with beauty standards that are not just ...

Social media provides a steady stream of beauty images, inviting us to judge how we look. When we compare ourselves to the often unrealistic beauty standards portrayed on social media, it can take a ...

Beauty influencer Judy D explores seventeenth-century beauty standards through makeup and style.

The beauty industry's anti-aging message has always rung loud and clear, promoting the youthful ideal of supple, wrinkle-free skin with no gray hairs in sight. For decades, this rhetoric has not only ...

Orry defends Janhvi Kapoor against Dhruv Rathee’s video, sparking wider debate on cosmetic procedures in Bollywood.