One of the facets of the beauty industries insidiousness is the targeting of certain psychological vulnerabilities which are promulgated through optics and influencers about not aging and having a line free, pouty, doll faced appearance, this can only be achieved for most of us with Botox, fillers, dermabrasion, vampire facials and all the other usual suspects of fad diets and extortionate skin products…we are raising generations of aesthetically traumatised women and young girls and something has to give, if we’re pouring our fear of the uncertainty of our times into the beauty industries obsession with never aging as an extrinsic place holder for this fear and exacerbating it as a perseverative obsession that we’ll never conquer then we need to counter it with something more powerful, ED are at unprecedented levels, cosmetic surgery too, non invasive procedures and within this is toxic dissociation, body and image dysmorphia….is this coincidental or is the beauty industry supporting using our feelings of lack of agency in an increasingly turbulent world as a means to redirect us further into narcissism and pointkess depersonalisation as we pursue a standardised beauty ideal that robs us of any individuality…? I’m an ND person and I just don’t understand why our social currency is still based on such a reductive paradigm.
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One of the facets of the beauty industries insidiousness is the targeting of certain psychological vulnerabilities which are promulgated through optics and influencers about not aging and having a line free, pouty, doll faced appearance, this can only be achieved for most of us with Botox, fillers, dermabrasion, vampire facials and all the other usual suspects of fad diets and extortionate skin products…we are raising generations of aesthetically traumatised women and young girls and something has to give, if we’re pouring our fear of the uncertainty of our times into the beauty industries obsession with never aging as an extrinsic place holder for this fear and exacerbating it as a perseverative obsession that we’ll never conquer then we need to counter it with something more powerful, ED are at unprecedented levels, cosmetic surgery too, non invasive procedures and within this is toxic dissociation, body and image dysmorphia….is this coincidental or is the beauty industry supporting using our feelings of lack of agency in an increasingly turbulent world as a means to redirect us further into narcissism and pointkess depersonalisation as we pursue a standardised beauty ideal that robs us of any individuality…? I’m an ND person and I just don’t understand why our social currency is still based on such a reductive paradigm.