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Originally annotated everything in a private group and couldn't figure out how to unprivate it, so I just moved them all into the public one.
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the clean girl is perceived as morally and aesthetically superior for being ‘on trend’ whilst other styles are looked down upon.
The underlying message being that 'white' is superior, and if you can't afford high-end beauty products, pure straight-from-the-garden foods, and all the trendy outfits, then don't bother showing yourself.
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Whilst the clean girl/make-up free aesthetic can be seen as empowering for many, it [is] also inherently racialised and classed in a way that doesn’t make it very viable for specific marginalised groups to achieve or be celebrated for wearing”.
Let's not exclude another factor, everyone's favorite topic: patriarchy. in the manosphere it has been emphasized that men should only want girls who don't wear a lot of makeup, they want 'natural' looks, obviously not too natural though. In that area of the internet though the demand for women who look effortlessly flawless is high and this trend could definitely be the response to that demand
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Drunk Elephant
I know this one in particular was popular with the '13-year-olds taking over Sephora'. different issue with kids and the lack of third spaces.
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The name ‘clean girl’ suggests the existence of its diametric, the ‘dirty girl’.
The clean girl aesthetic likely is what caused the rise of people taking interest in maximalism, stories of rot, and a break in the same formula of content. There was another microtrend surrounding forgotten supermarkets and the gross things inside. In a way, romanticized bugs, rot, and decay.
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A researcher at the Berkeley School of Information found that TikTok’s feedback loop makes it harder for creators of colour to gain notoriety and reduces their influence on popular trends. Thus, credit for elements of the aesthetic, such as the slick back bun, have been attributed to white creators – despite it being popular in Black and Latin cultures for decades.
A lot of social things are geared to the slow erasure of things outside societal norms or things that don't resonate with the perfect format. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, they all prefer particular curated short form videos that hit every mark and are easily marketable. That means therapy talk, routines, the perfect set, and a white person telling you whats fashionable and whats not.
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Some students have expressed experiences of judgement, reporting being stopped by college porters and asked for student ID. A member of the debate remarked, “Until you have been continuously stopped by staff for ID and questioned by other students if you even go here you won’t understand that it is quite deep”.
Its all part of a system, conform or be excluded and alienated. This behavior dates back to hunter/gatherer times where stepping outside of line means slow exile until you cooperate. of course, that was life and death and this is completely social however our brains are still hardwired to crave acceptance from the group
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In spaces like Cambridge, where educational and social elitism historically prevail, certain styles earn a person symbolic capital, whilst others subject them to symbolic violence.
This makes sense since Cambridge is known to be a wealthier school. It would make sense for somewhere like Dalton State to not have this problem because most of the students aren't that wealthy or white. It's easier for Cambridge to fall subject to trends like this because a lot of the trend's demographic goes there.
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Whilst this impacts women from all backgrounds, the economic demands of the ever changing idea of femininity especially burden working-class women.
Very true. Things like Femininity and Masculinity are always changing definitions while trying to maintain core attributes. Lately, society has been trying to subtly shift those definitions back to the traditional ones but using new words that sound freeing. Think the 'male gaze' vs the 'female gaze' or 'feminine energy' vs 'masculine energy'
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women’s bodies have historically gone in and out of fashion.
There is always something that women are doing that is critiqued by the rest of the world and judged on whether or not women are allowed to like. is this the case here?
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“heavier makeup is indexically and discursively linked to working-class women and their aesthetic labour”.
How?
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(this demographic being mostly white and wealthy)
arguably most are
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Largely targeting young women, it aims for wellness, minimalism, and undetectable work
Sad beige aesthetic may be connected. Spend more to have less but look like you have more. popularized by celebrity houses. a vast number of aesthetics are likely connected
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