Donald Trump's American Beauty
The Don't Buy List: Issue #75
Hello and welcome to another edition of THE DON’T BUY LIST.
IN THIS ISSUE:
Republican women are making themselves over to appeal to current U.S. presidential candidate, convicted felon, and former beauty pageant owner Donald Trump.
The second-fastest growing population at needle exchange programs after steroid users — who now outnumber heroin and crack users, per the Guardian — are allegedly people injecting themselves with illegal Botox and filler.
Anti-aging enthusiasts Bryan Johnson and Kim Kardashian gathered for a “Don’t Die Dinner.”
Also: Joe Biden tightlines! Goop mascara! Tradwife beauty influencers! Love Island beauty standards! Hair relaxers linked to cancer! Medical ethics! “The Swan”! The butthole beauty category continues! Bum Bum Cream! BBL regret! Don’t cry over dissolved filler! Social media linked to an increase in cosmetic surgery! And more!
The beauty industry feels like a parody of itself lately, doesn’t it?
Anyway! Onto the links…
RELAXER REPORT: Hair relaxers have “been linked to reproductive disorders and cancers,” Linda Villarosa reports for the New York Times. “Why are they still being marketed so aggressively to Black women?” She continues:
“A robust body of scientific evidence has now shown that straighteners and other hair products marketed to Black girls and women have been linked to endocrine-disrupting substances associated with the early onset of menstruation and many of the reproductive-health issues that follow, from uterine fibroids, preterm birth and infertility to breast, ovarian and uterine cancer. Many of these hormone-health-related problems are more common in Black women than in other women, including an aggressive form of breast cancer that contributes to a death rate from the disease that is 28 percent higher than the rate for white women.”