Hot Takes on the Cultural Obsession of Hotness ft. Darian Symoné Harvin
Naked Beauty
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4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
I don’t know about you, but our cultural fascination not just with beauty, but with hotness seems to be on the rise. Since moving to LA, I’ve begun to realize just how much we’ve normalized this pursuit of becoming the most visually attractive versions of ourselves. And discovering Reddit channels like HowToBeHot have only emphasized the fascination. But why are we so obsessed with hotness and who exactly is writing the rule book? Well, I had to hit up the one and only Darian Symoné Harvin to help me break it all down. As one of my favorite Naked Beauty guests and beauty reporters, Darian and I sat down to discuss lip flips and buccal fat removal, question what’s really considered obsessive when it comes to beauty, break down the socioeconomic power behind your hotness, and share our own beauty “maxxing” tips.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, it's Brooke DeVard and you're listening to the Naked Beauty podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | I am really excited for today's conversation. |
| 0:09.3 | It's more of a conversation than an interview. |
| 0:11.5 | If you've listened to the podcast, you know Darian, she is an incredible beauty journalist. |
| 0:15.5 | She's been on before if you want to get her whole story. |
| 0:17.5 | I definitely recommend listening to her solo episode. |
| 0:20.3 | She is just one of those deep thinkers, someone that is always thinking about beauty at the |
| 0:24.8 | intersection of culture and politics. |
| 0:27.5 | And I feel like we're in a really interesting space with beauty right now. |
| 0:30.6 | I've been thinking a lot about what it means to have beauty beyond the male gaze. |
| 0:35.4 | Doja Cat, if you missed it, showed up to Paris Fashion makes you into the Scapper Relie |
| 0:39.3 | Show. |
| 0:40.3 | She was covered in red crystals, a look that took five hours by the legendary Pat McGrath. |
| 0:45.7 | Also just what a pleasure to watch Pat McGrath create her art. |
| 0:48.9 | Like I just think about how we are alive in this time where like the greatest makeup |
| 0:52.6 | artist of all time is just putting together these really incredible looks that push the |
| 0:56.4 | boundaries of makeup as just a tool to look like your most gorgeous, glowy self and |
| 1:01.7 | really pushing makeup into an art form. |
| 1:04.4 | All of that aside, people criticized the look because they were like, Doja Cat doesn't |
| 1:07.8 | have eyelashes on where the lashes, she said, you want lashes, I'll give you lashes. |
| 1:12.7 | And then she showed up to the Victor and Ralph Coutorshow the following day with lashes |
| 1:17.3 | for eyebrows and like a little mini lash mustache and go T hilarious, definitely Google the |
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