I am suspicious of the beauty that does not dwell in the interstices of the vulnerable and the fierce.
In 2022 we have put a filter on even inner beauty.
And when anxiety commands the only angle of the camera where double chin and stupidity do not meet, beauty is no longer in the eye of the beholder or in what is looked at, it is somewhere else.
Borderline, bastard, excessive.
I always hated the color brown, it seemed to me the ugliest color of all until I realized that it was the color of my skin.
If the Renaissance sublimated classical beauty, we sublimated the abyss.
Like goldfish in the cloudy water of the fish tank, we open our lips and glue them to the glass.
Deformed, peripheral beauty, beauty of the diaspora.
Ava Hariri-Ka, with Lancôme's Rénergie HCF Triple Serum, which is formulated with Hyaluronic Acid, Vitamin C(2)+ Niacinamide, and Ferulic Acid to target firmness, wrinkles, and blemishes.Michael Schulz
The centralism of beauty fell, the empire of the natural and the tongo of artifice, the empire of the cuqui fell and daffodil fell into the water, they were confined like everyone else.
That is why beauty 2022 is not a pretty face, it is a complete face, breathing with the nose and mouth uncovered.
The old normal as a dazzling twist.
What remains when justice and ethics are models of abjection, when we are only the most beautiful drowned in the world?
In these years they have sold us the Armani tracksuit, the last little flower that sprouts from the asphalt, the Rosalía choni and a Dove soap.
Beautiful is the expensive, and beautiful is the free and the new and the old and the poor and the good and the wicked and the dead.
The world has not changed, the batch of looted products has changed.
No longer the Aryan, Nazi, Apollonian body, but the larvae.
Not the sunset anymore, but the scar.
No longer the naked maja, but the guillotined head.
No longer the still life, but the rainbow in a spit.
The fleeting aesthetic of the blanket top before being suffocated by order.
The glam of bondage.
No, beauty does not exist, they are not going to sneak it in this time.
Mo Mbengue applied Shiseido's Ultimune Power Infusing Concentrate Serum, which minimizes the appearance of signs of aging and fatigue by helping to diminish fine lines, roughness and dryness.
It promises to provide 32 hours of hydration.Michael Schulz
Now don't tell me that the handsome ones are the weird ones.
And that we are the rare ones.
Don't tell me that in the 21st century.
Is the new beauty the new quota?
Beauty would be that the structural conditions changed for black, Asian, brown, disco and fat.
Not just for the photo.
It would be biutiful.
Dirty-chic.
Representation no, redistribution of beauty.
Or real pheocracy already.
Let's make another canon, another one, the umpteenth.
The one who spoiled the photo is now a model.
Check.
And downstairs they continue to sew bags and shoes in series so that others look beautiful in series.
That for when.
We have come to die of the virus together in a beauty salon, Bellatin would say.
At least we won't do it alone.
I steal for the purposes Kawabata's epigraph: "Any kind of inhumanity becomes, over time, human."
Tara Raani wears Clarins Double Eye Serum, which is applied in the morning or at night to hydrate, help reduce puffiness, dark circles and wrinkles, and firm the eye contour.
It has a fluid texture.
Michael Schulz
But after so much searching, perhaps beauty does exist, one crouched in the landscape of the survivors, in what has not gone away, in what we have not yet lost.
We are beautiful on balance, guerrilla.
We are left with the beauty of the body that tells stories.
The Greek profile of the guardians of memory.
The sexy high of the defenders of the woods.
The contouring of the latin queens drunk with desire and lack of love.
The perreo of the leftovers.
The presumptuous panache of the mares of the apocalypse.
And the beautiful dark circles from having fought against something monstrous.
How beautiful we look when we escape death.
Tara Raani wears The Premier Cru Cream, by Caudalíe, with hyaluronic acid.
It acts on expression lines, firmness, volume, elasticity, spots, hydration and luminosity.
It is a vegan formula and is available in a refill format.Michael Schulz
Wojung Jo, with Biotherm Homme Aquapower moisturizing gel, which helps restore the skin's luminosity, restoring softness and hydration, acting on signs of fatigue.
Maintains hydration for 48 hours.
Michael Schulz
*Born in Lima 46 years ago, Gabriela Wiener is a writer and journalist.
In 2008 she burst in with
Sexografías
, somewhere between literary chronicle and lewd memories.
In 2012 she narrated her pregnancy in Nine Moons.
Her latest book is
Huaco Portrait
(Penguin).