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3. Bygone Days of the Beauty Sample
Beauty samples are magical, common little things. Concentrated bottles full of years of formula perfection and a thousand design choices – their founders’ labors of love. Samples are opportunities to experience en masse the wide range of brands in this large, saturated beauty market; to be immersed in flagship, cult products; and to discover smaller…
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2. An ode to my estheticians
The independent esthetician is a force to be admired – the kind of person, often a woman, who ventures through licensing exams and training under chaotic management to decide that the risk (and how great the risk is) will be worth the reward of small business ownership. Each represents a more tactile version of female…
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1. A False Affordability: Beauty Meets Interest-Free Financing
Tightened budgets and uncertain futures have proven incompatible with our beauty status quo. This pandemic, our work and social lives disintegrated, as did our reasons for wearing makeup. Instead, we found ourselves only with empty, feminist questions. Like what’s the point of getting made up if there’s nobody to see or impress? Or whether it’s…
Tiffany Cao 