The Sleepover Club: Will The Rise Of Ugly Beauty Save Us All? Or Is It Another Capitalist Gimmick?
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The TikTok girlies are creating makeup looks that make you look as though you're crying. Julia Fox is walking down the red carpet with grey hair, and declaring both ugly and ageing as 'in'. Trend forecasters are declaring that we're over the clean girl look, and that the next beauty trend is all about highlighting your 'imperfections' rather than concealing them. This week, Ione and Eden are discussing whether these trends are actually shifting beauty standards, who we allow to be 'ugly', whether it's ever impossible to block out the male gaze, and how we stop aspiring to beauty.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Eden. |
| 0:01.7 | Hi, Ione. |
| 0:02.6 | And hello to the listeners. |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome to the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm I'm Ioni and I'm the founding editor-in-chief of polyester and the author of Poor Little Sick |
| 0:10.5 | Girls. |
| 0:10.9 | And I also have a cold today. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm very spotty. |
| 0:16.2 | It's good, good cold times, isn't it? |
| 0:19.3 | I'm Eden and the managing editor of Polyester and the co-host of this podcast. This is the Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all. Before we get started, please like, rate, review and subscribe. Do we have any reviews? We do, but it's our last one of this lot. |
| 0:37.7 | So please leave us some more reviews. |
| 0:39.8 | But this one is, you know that 100 emoji that has two lines underneath it? |
| 0:43.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.4 | It's that twice. |
| 0:45.3 | Five stars. |
| 0:45.9 | I love this podcast talking about the important stuff in a lighthearted way. |
| 0:49.8 | And then that 100 emoji again by W. Dogg 89 from Great Britain. Thank you very much. Thank you, W. Dog. |
| 0:57.8 | So what are we talking about today, Eden? We are talking about ugly being in. |
| 1:04.2 | Which is so funny. I feel like it exists. Like, it's really opposite of when we talked about skinniness, but I suppose it's kind of the same. |
| 1:13.6 | Anyway, we'll get into it, whatever. |
| 1:15.3 | I would also like to unofficially declare this podcast the, we are right about Julia |
| 1:20.9 | Fox all along podcast. |
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