This is why Lucy Mountain really, really wants you to delete that retouching app
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- Megan Murray
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Plus-size model Felicity Hayward on why you should love your stretch marks
“They are your tiger stripes, baby”
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- Anna Brech
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Life
Instagram hides like count in groundbreaking self-esteem trial
Platform hopes to "remove the pressure" on young people's posts
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- Anna Brech
- Published
Life
The best advice on how to love your body and fight against beauty standards, by Reddit users
Well, we needed to hear that
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- Megan Murray
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Beauty
The new beauty rules we should actually follow
There are no do's and don'ts
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- Dove
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- Lauren Geall
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This is the empowering reason why Tyra Banks is changing her name
The iconic supermodel is back – but not as we know her
Fashion
"Tiny" designer sample dresses cause women to starve themselves: Jameela Jamil
The activist and presenter is calling for greater sizing diversity
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- Anna Brech
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Life
Society expects women to do EVERYTHING – as this genius Twitter thread shows
Burden of gender expectation laid bare in brilliant viral chat
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- Anna Brech
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Beauty
Virgin Atlantic crew no longer have to wear make-up – but it's hardly a victory for feminism
Airline's change in grooming policy prompts questions over gender discrimination
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- Anna Brech
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People
Jodie Whittaker was once told to get fillers
“I wouldn't change my forehead for the world,” she said
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- Emily Baker
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Life
“Empowering? The #10yearchallenge is fuelling our obsession with beauty ideals“
It sends out the wrong message in a surface-level world
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- Anna Brech
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People
Airbrushing is a crime against women and should be banned, says Jameela Jamil
Actor says practice is anti-feminist and fat-phobic
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- Anna Brech
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- Anna Brech
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Why Carey Mulligan said no to Botox (aged just 23)
The actor faced off against Hollywood ideals
Beauty
“Why MAC’s recent Instagram post is a triumph for hairy women like me”
The refreshing post challenges the warped perception of beauty we usually see on social media.
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- Hanna Ibraheem
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People
Jameela Jamil says she’s been airbrushed to “look white” on magazine covers
"People change my nose to make it look like a little Caucasian nose"
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- Megan Murray
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Beauty
“These big-nosed women helped me love the way I look”
"There is a huge power in seeing larger-nosed women say they think they’re beautiful just the way they are."
- Posted by
- Radhika Sanghani
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Beauty
How beauty products help women in prison retain their identities
For female inmates in the UK, having access to make-up can be life-changing. Stylist investigates…
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- Sophie Goddard
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Life
This incredible short film explores how the ‘ideal body’ has changed over time
In Anna Ginsburg’s animation, fertility goddesses morph into Nineties supermodels.
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- Moya Lothian-McLean
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Beauty
Alicia Keys speaks out about impossible beauty standards
“It’s sad that girls can’t be themselves”
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- Harriet Hall
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- Anna Pollitt
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Miss Iceland quits beauty pageant after being ‘told she's too fat’
“I am a very strong woman, but sometimes my strength isn't enough”
Beauty
“Azealia Banks is wrong, skin bleaching is steeped in racism”
"This is not body modification." By Kuba Shand-Baptiste
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- Stylist Team
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