beauty – WEW

Apr 25 2023

Thoughts on Beauty Services Jobs

By Deena Goodrunning

I think all the jobs in the beauty services industry are a form of art. Styling hair, painting nails, applying makeup, threading and tinting brows, applying eyelash extensions —- all of these practices are forms of art. They all require incredible skill and eyes for detail and beauty, and I really dislike this idea that people who have beauty tech jobs must be unskilled and that the prices they charge for their services are too expensive.

Feb 22 2022

The Politicization of Modest Clothing

By Eman Ahmed

Women’s clothing, fashion and dress have been ridiculed for decades. The focus on what we wear and its messages constantly are the basis of how people, specifically women, are judged and controlled within society.

Feb 06 2022

Commodifying Self Care: Reflections on Jia Tolentino’s “Trick Mirror”

By Abigail Isaac

Jia Tolentino asked herself, “how do I have a personal relationship with my face wash?,” so I asked myself the same question, and began thinking more critically about the commodification of “self-care.”