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Cosmetics

Business Tech Media

The Beauty of 78.5 Million Followers

How social media stars like Addison Rae gave the cosmetics industry a makeover.

Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Times Magazine Mar 2021 30min Permalink

Health

The Age of Instagram Face

How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.

Jia Tolentino New Yorker Dec 2019 20min Permalink

Arts

Making Up Hollywood

The story of Max Factor, a Polish immigrant who revoltuionized Hollywood cosmetics starting in the 1920s, and his “Beauty Calibrator” machine.

Sasha Archibald Cabinet Jan 2014 20min Permalink