The Review of Beauty by Jessica DeFino

The Review of Beauty by Jessica DeFino

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The Don't Buy List: Botox Is Love, Pollution Is Anti-Aging, & Sunshine Will Kill You

The Don't Buy List: Botox Is Love, Pollution Is Anti-Aging, & Sunshine Will Kill You

Plus, introducing "calm-mongering".

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Hello, dewy dust bunnies, and welcome to another edition of The Don’t Buy List! I’m working my way through What To Miss When: Poems by Leigh Stein this week. In “Let’s Beauty Together,” the poet pretty much sums up my entire body of work in nine perfect words:

I’m exfoliating
until someone asks me
what’s really wrong.

Yup. Yes. But also: May I suggest askin…

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