Some people avoid mirrors like they hold secrets too cruel to confront. Others can’t seem to look away, as if more staring might eventually yield …
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Eating Our Skincare, Wearing Our Growth
“Eating our skincare” might sound like a wellness trend or a cheeky phrase — but it’s actually a return to something very real: beauty rooted …
What We Don’t Say, We Wear
Hemingway once wrote what might be the world’s shortest tragedy: For sale, baby shoes, never worn. Just six words—and yet the silence between them is deafening. It’s …
What Even Is an Aesthetician? (And What Am I?)
The word aesthetician began not in a salon or a studio, but in philosophy. It comes from the Greek aisthētikos, meaning “of sense perception”—a word used to describe …
Getting Ready in Someone Else’s House
A reflection on borrowed spaces, fragmented selves, and the relief of returning to your own mirror. There’s a particular kind of vulnerability that comes from …
Field Notes from the Makeup Chair
I wish I could photograph the moment before someone says what they really mean. It usually happens around minute 27. The eyes are halfway done. …
Lighting That Cross-Examines You
Every time I catch my reflection in a gas station mirror—bathed in that harsh, overhead lighting that angles down like an accusation—I have to remind …
The Mirror Forgot Me
The Mirror Between Us
We like to believe we know what we look like—what we project, how we come across—until the moment someone else sees us, really sees us, …
The Beauty We’ll Never See Again
What parts of us are never captured, and how does beauty teach us to grieve change? There are versions of ourselves we’ll never meet again. …