• frezik@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Which is true, but the male gaze is at work here. Makeup isn’t necessarily about attracting men.

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        1 year ago

        yeah wtf is all that about, never understood it. The only way it makes sense is: some dumb b on YouTube sold it to a bunch of 12 year olds that that made them look better and gave them social status, a portion of those 12 year olds bought into it, and the trend perpetuated itself.