Mixed Girl, Wash Your Face

This week we tackle the beauty industry and standards while touching on the topic of body image. We share our “beauty routines” and our own experiences (or lack of) with make-up. We discuss beauty trends and the narrow idea of beauty we have in the western world. We point out how marketing is pushing the “All-American beauty” standards and the damaging effects it has on WOC.

On the flip side we examine beauty standards within our race and the complexities when you are mixed race. We recognize that even within our own race we have “family pressures” that can hold women to unrealistic beauty standards.

As we transition into our own battles with body image we briefly mention “beauty privilege” and fantasize about life without a colonial view of beauty. We would love to here your own experiences or struggles with the beauty industry. Please feel free to let us know and we can share it with all the other unicorns, you never know how your story can empower someone else.

As we try to end on a serious note we end up discussing Korean beauty secrets, you are NOT going to want to miss this. We also challenge ourselves to “wash our face” every night for 30 days. Want to join in on our challenge? Watch our Instagram for details.

Lastly--our happy place! Will we end a whole episode without mentioning serial killers? Listen and find out!

Thanks to Josef Scott of Citizens of Tape City for our theme music and Dollipop Art for our podcast artwork - you can find her on instagram @dollipop.art.

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