HeyJaredFLESH WORLD by Jessica DeFino
Reporting on the absurd world of beauty culture. / “The newsletter the beauty industry fears.” - the Herald.
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The FleshMatrix: Presidential Injectables, Perianal pH, & Handheld Eye Mask Factories (opens the original)
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September’s “fresh start effect” has not affected the beauty industry; here, it’s business as usual, but worse. Prominent aesthetics influencer Clavicular was charged with rape. Robots walked the Vogue World runway. Under-eye masks are packaged in mini mass-production machines now — so you can cosplay a factory cog and “grind” a fresh pair from a blob of glop anytime you want! Is it any wonder I went m
All About That Treble (opens the original)
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We’re back with a new episode of Mess World, a podcast collaboration between FLESH WORLD (by me, Jessica DeFino) and I <3 Mess (a fashion newsletter from Emily Kirkpatrick ). Today we’re talking about: The John Galliano Met Gala mess [2:58], a new perfume named White Blood [20:18], Klutz-core plastic gems [33:50], the trouble with r.e.m. beauty and Ariana Grande [43:06], justice for the Chanel barefoot shoes [59:30], misinterpreted data from the Reddit People’s Beauty Index [1:09:47], Brooks Nad
The FleshMatrix: Britney’s Botox, Kim’s Broccoli, & A New MAGA Makeup Line (opens the original)
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The other week, the algorithm plopped me on the Instagram page of an aesthetic doctor attempting to distance her work (and the work of the beauty industry at large) from looksmaxxing. She claimed that “looksmaxxing comes from incel culture,” while “beautymaxxing focuses on enhancing your appearance.” <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!a9th!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2
Be So Blurreal (opens the original)
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This post is too long for email and will cut off in your inbox. Click here for the full version!Hello and welcome to another edition of THE DON’T BUY LIST! Let’s start with a quiz: Who’s on the cover of British Vogue’s<a href="https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/editors-letter-british-vogu
Queen Victoria, Originator of the Morgue Gaze? (opens the original)
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Regular readers know I’ve been on an aesthetic death watch for nearly a year now, tracking the development of what I like to call the “Morgue Gaze” — e.g., necrocosmetics, “casket scents,” coffin-shaped lip gloss, funeral makeup must-haves, the beaut
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