Decolonize Beauty

Decolonize Your Beauty

It has always been easy to point at features that stand out: big nose, thick eyebrows, fat cheeks, big moles, stretch marks, big breasts, small breasts, too tall, too short, so skinny, so fat, thin hair, frizzy curls, tiny mouth, pulpy lips… Honestly, the list is endless and I don’t have time to write it all. However, it seems that there are specific features of beauty commonly agreed upon, although no one sent me the rulebook yet: you already have a picture in mind, there’s no need for me to describe further. But this picture isn’t you, is it? it’s too perfect to be true.

You are under surveillance

In this digital age, our lives have become reduced to virtual communities condensed behind small screens. However, in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of hours spent on our phones drastically increased due to quarantine and self-isolation. Notably, people spent most of their day on social media platforms such as Facebook which marked an increase of 27% on a user’s ‘online hours’ and Netflix which also registered an increase of 16%, as per an article written in the New York Times.