From Deconstructing “Ugly” to “Peak Tweak,” This Women’s Day We’re Exploring Beauty Standards with Beauty Journalists Anita Bhagwandas and Charisse Kenion

Breaking Beauty Podcast

Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins

Jilldunn, Arts, Beautyeditors, Style541811, Beautyexpert, Beauty, Carlenehiggins, Fashion, Society & Culture, Magazineeditors, Fashion & Beauty

4.7 • 954 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Happy Women’s Day, everyone! This week we’re putting a lens on beauty standards, gaining some much needed perspective and discussing how rising pressures from celebrities, social media and real life biases are shaping our experiences.

Joining us are two fellow beauty journalists from across the pond. Charisse Kenion is the host of BeautyMe podcast. She’s also a beauty and fashion writer, editor and photographer who’s interviewed everyone from Diane Von Furstenberg to Dolce & Gabbana. (Be sure to follow Charisse on TikTok for epic 90s era fashion moments!)

We’re also welcoming Conde Nast Traveller Beauty Director, Anita Bhagwandas. Anita is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and she’s the beauty columnist for The Guardian. Her new book, “Ugly: Giving Us Back Our Beauty Standards” uncovers where beauty standards started, why they've been perpetuated and she unmasks the structures that continue to support them.

This Week We Discuss:

Whoopi vs. Joan, Child-free Chelsea and Viola the Brave: The women who are living rent-free in our head at the moment
Madonna-Gate: Does the limit exist when it comes to celeb plastic surgery or should we all stop judging?
How artificial intelligence is shaping our views around beauty
Are “tweakments” warping our authentic sense of selves?
Where we are with diversity and body positivity in the beauty biz - how far have we come, really?

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Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:02.8	Welcome to Breaking Beauty,
0:08.8	the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty.
0:12.9	We're your host, Jill Dunn, and Carleen Higgins.
0:15.8	Hey friends, happy women's day. I'm Carleen Higgins and I'm here with my
0:24.4	trusty sidekick Jill Dunn where two beauty editors turned beauty
0:29.3	podcasters. Hey Carleen and, I can't help but notice your nails. You've got like a cherry bomb.
0:38.0	It's true. I posted about this on the weekend.
0:41.0	This is the first time I've worn bright red nails in I don't know how long like I don't
0:46.9	know what got onto me I feel like I don't know if I just needed to it's like winter
0:50.8	doldrums I needed that cherry but I'm loving it.
0:54.7	I wear red nails all the time and back in December or January we were talking about the
0:59.2	red nails theory. Yeah that sort of surfaced on Tik-Tock and how it's like everybody who says that they get they were kind of testing the red nails theory which is like you get a red manicure and guys compliment you on your nails.
1:12.4	Okay so you think I'm thirst trapping?
1:14.3	Is that what?
1:14.9	Well, no, I think it's gone one step further
1:18.8	since that initial conversation
1:20.4	because I personally notice the color red
1:22.4	is really having a moment right now like I think it's I don't know if it's a bit of like a middle finger to the patriarchy or what but like
1:28.9	Riana with that full red outfit during the Super Bowl I felt like that was very powerful.
1:35.7	We also had Dojakat.
1:36.7	Oh yes of course who could forget the Crystal head to toe from Pat McGrath. Yeah. Is it giving handmaids? It's a giving
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