Vogue Italia July 2022 - Zendaya by Elizaveta Porodina
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How much do you spend on personal grooming? How much money do you spend on buying make-up? What share of your pay-check goes into shaving supplies? How many times a month do you take out bills or a card to pay for some miracle cream or gel which will save your face from the effects of time? How many times a day do you scrutinise your face in the mirror? When was the last time you just looked, factually, at your face in the mirror, and didn’t scrutinise it, for that matter? Do you carefully consider the shape of your eyebrows? How long do you spend putting make-up on? How many steps does your ‘beauty routine’ have? Do you enjoy the feeling of make-up on your face? Does it feel good to remove your hairs? Does your face twitch when you tweeze your eyebrows, or are you so used to the discomfort that you don’t flinch anymore? If you were the last woman on earth, would you still bother with it? If everyone else on the planet turned blind tomorrow, would you still do it? If no one was ever to see you, to touch you, to perceive you, would you still do it? How often do you ponder being perceived? Do you feel like people stare at you on the street? Do you ever dream to turn invisible? Who are you performing for?
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"Women are spending more time on the management and discipline of our bodies than we have in a long, long time. In a decade marked by a reopening of the public arena to women, the intensification of such regimens appears diversionary and subverting. Through the pursuit of an ever changing, homogenizing, elusive ideal of femininity—a pursuit without a terminus, requiring that women constantly attend to minute and often whimsical changes in fashion—female bodies become docile bodies—bodies whose forces and energies are habituated to external regulation, subjection, transformation, "improvement."
Through the exacting and normalizing disciplines of diet, makeup, and dress—central organizing principles of time and space in the day of many women—we are rendered less socially oriented and more centripetally focused on self-modification. Through these disciplines, we continue to memorize on our bodies the feel and conviction of lack, of insufficiency, of never being good enough. At the farthest extremes, the practices of femininity may lead us to utter demoralization, debilitation, and death.
Viewed historically, the discipline of the female body has to be acknowledged as an amazingly durable and flexible strategy of social control. In our own era, it is difficult to avoid the recognition that the contemporary preoccupation with appearance, which still affects women far more powerfully than men, even in our narcissistic and visually oriented culture, may function as a backlash phenomenon, reasserting existing gender configurations against any attempts to shift or transform power relations. Surely we are in the throes of this backlash today."
- Unbearable Weight, Susan Bordo
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Genuine question out of pure curiosity, to all radfems or just feminists against make-up: What are your thoughts on make-up as an art form?
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Adut Akech @ Versace Spr/Sum 2022
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after a year of doing pretty much exactly the same simple makeup every day i am finally trying to teach myself new skills!! nothing dramatic!! just skill-building and attempts of varying quality!!
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