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This is it isn't it?! It's the idea that the covered/treated/makeup-d face is your ONLY face is deeply saddening. Thank you for putting it in this context. Also, adding that book to my list of things to read stat!

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Apr 1, 2022·edited Apr 1, 2022Liked by Jessica DeFino

Self-expression? Hmmm… I think it is always questionable - unless it’s one’s political stance (punk hairdos and leather jackets in 70ies Britain, skinheads, Femen’s bare breasts), but that isn’t so much individual as collective self-expression. Other than that, any performance of beauty is an ego-booster - or a means to fit in (although again, the ‘self’ hardly figures in that one either)…

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