In today’s social media generation, the terms “skincare” and “beauty” may be used interchangeably today, but they actually mean two different concepts. While one is rooted in health, the other is rooted in aesthetics. However, there has been a recent blurring of the two on social media, making it confusing as marketing keeps on dressing up cosmetic products in the language of science and wellness. Where does the confusion come from? Skincare brands have adopted methods like g

Gone are the days when women in movies merely existed as either damsels in distress or as the supportive mother-figures. Today’s women characters are rarely neutral on screen– they are written, cast, lit, and edited to carry meaning as three-dimensional characters with nuance and subjectivity. However, this is not to say that movies don’t reflect existing societal attitudes toward women; they actively teach audiences how to read female behavior, ambition, beauty, and worth. F

“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” This is the most famous statement from Kate Moss, from a 2009 interview, which still has an iron grip on millennial women. It has given rise to many eating disorders within the then demographic of teenage girls. Society is obsessed with women’s bodies, thus they try to control how we feel about ourselves. From skinny supermodels to unrealistic looking actresses on our screens, we’ve constantly been fed the narrative that we must starv