Beauty
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My FUPA
"Body positivity" is bullshit if it's only positive about a certain type of plus-size body. And if I want to change that, I need to expose the one thing I've always been afraid of: my gut.
10 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask an Ugly Person
"Knowing I'm ageing physically doesn't affect me as much as it does other people, because I've never really looked that great."
The Beauty and Timelessness of Rural Colorado
When photographer Trent Davis Bailey came back to the North Fork Valley, he realized he had found his home.
The South Asian Women Reclaiming Their Culture and Battling Colorism
How Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr became awash with "bindi-adorned brown girls demanding change."
I Tried Out Some of the Weirdest Celebrity Beauty Regimes
I had horse placenta put on my face, hemorrhoid cream under my eyes and my own blood injected in my face – all in the name of beauty.
I Froze My Body for Three Minutes To Be Beautiful
For a recovering addict, doing insane things to your body for silly reasons isn't such a big deal.
Photos from Inside Seoul's Plastic Surgery Clinics
Ji Yeo's It Will Hurt a Little is an exhibition of photographs documenting South Korea's cosmetic surgery craze.
Watch Transphobia Fuel an Angry, Violent Mob in Myrtle Beach
In a short new film by Alli Coates, performance artist Signe Pierce saunters through a touristy boardwalk in South Carolina dressed in stripper garb. She's propositioned, berated, and ultimately attacked.
Prue Stent’s Photos Are Dreamy, Gruesome, and Beautiful
The 21-year-old artist is trying to invert beauty, although she's still figuring out what that means.
The Complicated Beauty of the Persian Nose
Iran has the highest rate of nose surgery in the world per capita. For Persian women and some men, the operation is a marker not just of physical beauty but also of wealth and social priorities.