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gingham, smoothies, & beauty labor

gingham, smoothies, & beauty labor
2015-05-13 17:32

From blog My Kingdom for a Hat



gingham, smoothies, & beauty labor

There’s this post making the tumblr rounds positing that praising a woman’s makeup or clothes is just reinforcing patriarchal beauty standards. “[R]ather than praising beauty labor,” it claims, “we should be dismantling the system that requires it, to thus free up women for other pursuits.”* And I could not disagree more. I think when people in the anti-beauty-labor camp think of makeup, they’re thinking of concealment. Of norms against displaying acne, scars, natural hair, etc. I agree that these are bad. But this argument completely ignores makeup-as-enhancement. It ignores this , and this , and this . It...

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