There’s a certain power in wearing sunglasses, especially indoors or at night. When someone wears them, the message is clear: “You can’t see me, but I …
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Clarity Creates Change
The Barbie Standard
The psychological themes found in the Barbie movie, such as identity, self-perception, and societal pressures, have strong parallels to the world of makeup. Makeup, much like Barbie, …
Beauty from a Distance
We’ve all been there—leaning into a magnified compact mirror, zeroing in on every pore and tiny flaw. But what happens when we step back to …
Fancy Gets Broken
There’s an old saying: “Once you get fancy, fancy gets broken.” It’s a reminder that the more elaborate and polished we try to make something, the more …
Archetypes in a Compact
Archetypes involving beauty often reflect deep, symbolic meanings related to transformation, identity, power, and inner truth. These archetypes appear in myths, stories, art, and psychology, …
Beauty is Truth
In “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, John Keats leaves us with a thought-provoking conclusion: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” But what does that really mean? In a …
The Masks We Wear
In the realm of philosophy, Leo Gura of Actualized dives deep into solipsism—the idea that every person we meet is actually ourselves, hiding behind different …
Blind to Our Own Beauty
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Changing the Viewer, Not the Viewed
Have you ever considered that the pressure to change may not come from the mirror but from those looking at you? Society has a way …