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On TikTok, aging is the hot new trend
Every day my TikTok algorithm feeds me dozens of anti-aging solutions. I’m 23. My skincare routine consists of washing my face and applying moisturizer, yet the videos I get served urge me to do more — apply more serums, try more fancy tech solutions for taut skin, and spend more time in front of the mirror. The “get ready for bed with me” or “day in my life” TikToks that frequent my For You Page aren’t ads; they’re something more insidious: a normalized culture of costly, laborious anti-aging routines targeted at young women like me. In one of these videos a 31-year-old woman applies silicon patches around her mouth and…
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The Very Best Foundations for Aging Skin
Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photo: Getty This column first ran in Valerie Monroe’s newsletter, How Not to F*ck Up Your Face, which you can subscribe to on Substack. Valerie Monroe was beauty director at O, The Oprah Magazine, where she wrote the monthly “Ask Val” column for nearly 16 years. Now she writes the weekly newsletter How Not to F*ck Up Your Face. Her goal continues to be to shift our thinking in the beauty arena from self-criticism to self-compassion and to learn how to be loving witnesses to ourselves and one another as we age. I don’t often write about makeup — probably because I don’t often wear it. Actually, since I left…
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