Name: Is Beauty Culture Hurting Us? - Glad You Asked S1
Uploaded: 2020-08-15T18:05:04.000Z
Duration: 20 min 13 s
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when I started to feel like my eyebrows were insufficient.

So I went out and I bought an eyebrow pencil,

All agreeing to scan millions  of pages from books...

So I watch these beauty vlogs, and almost without fail,

all of these beautiful women with gorgeous,

flawless skin would mention the same thing.

I was like, what is a retinoid and where can I buy one?

So I have very minimal beauty routine, I think.

I mean, okay, I do go get my eyelashes done

and people are like, "Emma, you look really tired today."

I'm just like, well, I guess I didn't put on enough concealer,

I feel like the only reason I care about the way I look

it's 'cause I want to impress on social media.

Cleo:  Over the past few years,  research shows

that more and more women are saying that they feel beautiful.

But at the same time, the vast majority of women

So what effect is this online beauty culture having on us?

If we have more choices and more information than ever before,

So here's how makeup was marketed in the '90s.

Today, if there's a YouTube video and someone's like,

"I've used this product, I know it works, here's how you do it."

- Way more compelling. - Way more compelling.

The data shows that people interact with,

meaning like and comment on influencers' videos and posts

32 times more often than they do on brands.

- who writes about the history   of beauty culture. - Huh.

I think the digital aspect is what really has changed.

over what constitutes beauty  and beauty culture.

I mean, first of all, anybody can make content.

And when they do, they end up talking about

Hi, everyone. Welcome back to my channel.

but it doesn't mean that I don't love my face.

I did not have a good high school experience at all.

Most of it kind of stemmed around my skin tone.

Actually, all of it stemmed around my skin tone.

sort of defining themselves as beautiful,

about being able to show yourself to the world

Cleo: At every level  in these magazines,

and the gatekeepers  at these institutions,

Whereas now,  it's not as though somebody's  making a decision

You know, I think Instagram's actually been really, really important

for the ability to kind of follow people who look like you.

Because the reality is that not everyone is, like,

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