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Can You Use Perfume to Seduce a Partner?
Calling your partner “stinky” suddenly has a whole new meaning.

Kaitlin Owens
Nov 5, 2024


Victoria’s Secret Tries to Relive Its Glory Days
Some progress was made, but not nearly enough.

Niya Doyle
Nov 2, 2024


The Age of the Mad Scientist
On plastic surgery, Ozempic, and body modification as body horror.

Olivia Linnea Rogers
Oct 30, 2024


The Best Beauty Secrets We've Learned From Cat Marnell
Inside: a round-up of the legendary party girl's most genuinely helpful beauty tips over the years.

Sydney Yeager
Oct 27, 2024


The Substance and the Pseudoscience of Perfection
What body horror says about the beauty industry’s use of false expertise.

Sandra Ubege
Oct 8, 2024


Saccharine: On X, Fragantica, and Communicating Desire
How are we using gourmands — or, at least, the suggestion of gourmands — to offer public insight into the self?

M.P.S Simpson
Sep 29, 2024


What Comes After the Clean Girl?
The aesthetic has dominated our lives — and feeds — for the past four years. But what lies beyond it?

Niya Doyle
Aug 3, 2024


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