The Terrible Love of Looking Pretty...

Ironically (or unironically?) GRWM while we talk beauty and not just the products! When did wanting to be beautiful become so tangled up with wanting to be chosen? In this M.A.C. Edit, I'm getting ready for date night and thinking through the terrible love of looking pretty. From "pick-me" culture and the pressure to be desirable, to the beauty rules we absorb without ever agreeing to them, the rise of “natural” beauty, and the strange ways romance and social media turn being chosen into something we can display. Just think makeup, Maya Angelou, mayhem, and a few wondrous ideas on whether we ever really unlearn beauty standards... or whether we just learn new ways to follow them? The M.A.C. Edit — Meaning, Character & culture through wellness, wardrobe, and worldview. ✨🤍 #TheMACEdit #BeautyCulture #BeautyStandards #Makeup #ModernBeauty 0:00 The ritual of beauty 1:07 A terrible love of war/beauty 2:13 The desire to be chosen 3:30 Deconstructing pick-me culture 5:45 Nuance in beauty trends 7:16 Visible labor and advocacy 9:48 Culturally rich product review 13:13 Internalized beauty standards 17:16 The evolution of trends 20:36 Public vs. private validation 22:28 Performance of self 24:13 Finding beauty intimacy