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This picture is of singer Beyonce before and after airbrushing. This is relevant because it demonstrates how the media is trying to display an unrealistic expectation of beauty. The magazine editors airbrushed her skin to the point where she has no pores, smile lines or texture. Women will be comparing themselves to a model that does not even look like that. Airbrushing lowers women's self-confidence and supports the beauty standard of youthfulness (Slater, 2017).

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This picture shows a woman with acne and redness on the left and society's standard of a beautiful complexion on the right. The woman on the right has no signs of acne, redness or pores. This is relevant because it demonstrates how society's standard of beauty is skin will absolutely no imperfections such as acne, redness, pores, or texture. No magazines, tv shows or advertisements show women with acne which teaches women that they need to purchase cosmetics in order to fit in. Companies target girls at young ages about the appearance of their complexion in order to get them to invest in their products. This has led women of all ages to invest in their complexion (Leiva, 2017).

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This article is about the movement to help people embrace their acne by posting photos of themselves without makeup. This was done to help break society's stigma towards acne. Even famous celebrities such as Kendall Jenner made posts about their acne. This is relevant because beauty has always been associated with clear skin, which therefore teaches individuals that they need to cover up their acne is order to identify as beautiful (Sanghani, 2018).

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Radhika Sanghani

The Instagram body positive movement has been going strong for several years now. It has helped people across the world embrace their body shapes, stretch marks, stomach rolls and thunder thighs.

But there's one physical attribute that's only just starting to get its share of social media love: acne.

Acne is commonly seen as a teen affliction, but a study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology found 54% of women over 25 had acne, while in the UK, a study of 92 private dermatology clinics found a 200% rise in the number of adults seeking specialist acne treatment in 2015.

Acne can be an issue for men and women well into adulthood. It doesn't just affect appearance; it can impact self-esteem and confidence levels. It can cause people to isolate themselves and even trigger mental health problems. Take it from someone who knows.

But now, a growing number of people have decided to stop feeling embarrassed by the clusters of spots creeping up their faces and have started to own their acne instead. With the hashtags #acnelove, #acnepositivity, #acneisbeautiful and, #acnedoesntmakeyouugly, they're sharing unfiltered, unedited photos of their acne and they #justdontcare.

Kendall Jenner is leading the movement, after posing with her acne on the red carpet at the Golden Globes. "Never let that s*** stop you," she wrote.

All of their messages are accompanied with honest selfies of the raw red marks on their faces.

Acne is almost universally seen as ugly. Acne-ridden skin is 'problem' skin. Spots are 'before' pictures in skincare advertising. A clear, flawless face is the standard beauty goal. Models, actors, TV stars - they all have clear skin. And if they don't, they use make-up and lighting and airbrushing to look like they do.

Over the course of sharing these photos, I've learnt for the first time in years to accept my skin.

Most of us will never have considered the possibility that "acne doesn't make you ugly," let alone heard the message that red, bumpy spots can be beautiful. But it's one that dozens of young people - predominantly women - are trying to spread, whether it's with the occasional #owningmyacne post, or an entire account devoted to #acnepositivity. Even YouTuber Zoella has joined the movement, with her vlogs about acne and how "spots are normal".

"I've suffered with acne for as long as I can remember," she explains, "and over the course of sharing these photos, I've learnt for the first time in years to accept my skin. Now I want to show people that acne does not alter who or what I am. I want to prove it's okay not to wear make-up - I can feel like myself just as much as when I am covering up my skin."

Sharing photos of my skin without make-up makes me feel empowered because I am embracing something that society has taught me to cover up...

After a while, this message really does start to sink in. I was mortified by the sudden arrival of spots when I was 26, and though I never covered them with make-up, I used to hate looking at them.

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Yet after seeing women embrace their spots on social media, I've realised that while I might not be able to change my skin, I can change my mind-set.

"I think it looks like little cherry blossoms," she says.

I don't think I'll ever see my spots as beautiful blossoms. But I don't have to fight my acne so hard. In fact, all I can do is try to stop it ruining my life. Thanks to #acnelove, I'm slowly starting to accept it. Whenever I feel bad, I remember the messages on Instagram: "Acne doesn't make you ugly. Everybody gets spots. Who cares?"

This article was originally published on 22 November 2017

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'Acne positivity' will make you love your spots - BBC Three

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N/A Radhika Sanghani The Instagram body positive movement has been going strong for several years now. It has helped people across the world embrace their body shapes, stretch marks, stomach rolls and thunder thighs. But there's one physical attribute that's only just starting to get its share of social media love: acne.

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This video is about a woman who posted a photo of herself without makeup on social media which showed her face with acne. The comments were extremely negative. Then she posted a photo of herself with makeup on that covered her acne and the comments were very positive. When people discovered what she actually looked like, the comments became negative again. The message this video is trying to send is that no matter if you wear makeup or not, social media will always find a reason to make you feel bad about yourself. This is relevant because society is telling this woman that something as common as acne is what makes her ugly and then shames her for covering it up because it is "false advertising". However, advertisements and media in general do this with everything they produce due to photoshop (Ford, 2015).

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This article explains how Rihanna's makeup brand, Fenty Beauty, released 40 different shades of foundation and it's effect on the beauty industry. Ever since Rihanna released her various shades of foundation it led other brands to widen their shade range too. This also opened up more opportunities for beauty brands to collaborate more with models of darker skin tones. At the New York Fashion Week, models noticed that there was much more models and makeup artists of darker complexions after the release of Fenty Beauty. This is relevant because the more beauty brands collaborate with models of a darker complexion, the more society will accept darker skin as beautiful and break society's current beauty standard. In order to sell skin whitening products, ads would display darker skin as an imperfection. However, if more beauty brands widen their shade range for darker women, the more likely the beauty standard for lighter skin will end (Schallon, 2018).

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In the year following the launch of Fenty Beauty, makeup brands are offering a wider range of shades than ever before. But how much has inclusivity in the beauty industry really improved?

Before this time last September, if Nyma Tang wanted to buy a new foundation, she'd hop in her car, cross her fingers, and brace herself for the scavenger hunt to begin. Despite living in Dallas, Texas-where roughly a quarter of the 1.1 million people are black-the 27-year-old says it would often take her days of searching to find a shade that suited her "very dark skin with cool red undertones."

"Once, I was looking for a specific drugstore foundation and went to five different Walmart and Target stores [that carried the line], and I still couldn't find [my shade]," she says. "One day I'd go to one store, the next day, I'd drive a ways to the other. After all that, I had to end up buying it online-and you know how hard it is to match yourself online." Even at prestige stores, where there were more options but formulas cost triple or quadruple the price, Tang says she'd often find herself hitting a dead end. "I've had makeup sellers say, 'Oh, you don't need foundation. You're perfect the way you are,' because they didn't carry any foundations that matched."

Then along came Fenty Beauty. By this point, the story should sound familiar. It's become canon in the beauty industry and the standard of which makeup brands have been scrambling to match-or outdo-over the past 12 months. More than two years in the making, Rihanna and her team put extensive thought and research into Fenty's products, which eventually led to its hero: 40 shades of foundation that spanned evenly across the spectrum-from the fairest to the deepest-along with a marketing campaign that made its point of view loud and clear. " Foundation for all" shouldn't have been a revolutionary idea, and yet, with so many women starved of accessible base makeup that actually worked for their complexion, that's exactly what it was.

Unlike other celebrity lines, Rihanna didn't just slap her name on the label and call it a day. She was 100 percent involved in the process, including packaging, marketing, and formulation-something she said was especially important to her given the number of times she'd walk away from the makeup chair only to be disappointed. Fenty was a labor of love, and she made it so no woman would ever feel that frustration. "I never could have anticipated the emotional connection that women are having with the products and the brand as a whole," Rihanna told Time last November. "Some are finding their shade of foundation for the first time, getting emotional at the counter. That's something I will never get over."

"I saw other dark-skinned girls in Sephora getting matched in this foundation, and it literally melted by heart," Tang wrote on Instagram the weekend of its launch, which promptly went viral when the Fenty Beauty account re-grammed it. It wasn't just the deep shades flying off shelves either.

Krystal Robertson, a 26-year-old nurse from Mississippi, also made headlines for her review of Fenty's Pro Filt'r Foundation in #110. As a woman with albinism, it was the first time she'd ever found a shade that truly matched and didn't come off orange. What captured the awe of the Internet the most was that it wasn't even the lightest shade. "I felt that me finally being myself was worth it," she wrote online. "It actually means the world that [Rihanna] not only made a diversity of shades for all women of color, but she brought us together."

In the year since, both Tang and Robertson say the Fenty Effect (i.e., the chain reaction of brands launching more inclusive shade ranges in response to Fenty's fanfare) has dramatically changed their experience with shopping for foundation. CoverGirl, Maybelline, and Dior, to name just a few, all now carry 40 shades of foundation-MAC even has 60. (See the chart below for more.)

"The opportunities for black influencers to collaborate with beauty brands on more inclusive foundation shade ranges has increased tremendously, too," says Michanna Murphy, a Washington, D.C., makeup artist. She points to Jackie Aina's work with Too Faced on its foundation expansion and Alissa Ashley's collab with NYX as shining examples of what happens when black women are given a seat at the table.

The next products Tang says she'd love to see improvement in are bronzers and blush. "A lot of times a pale pink blush will look pretty, but if it has a white base to it, it'll come off ashy on someone with medium-to-deep skin," she says. "Many blushes still don't work for dark skin." She's also noticed a lot of dark foundation shades are still reading ashy. "Brands tend to choose just one undertone and neglect the others," she says. For light shades, however, there is an overwhelming number of options.

Though representatives for both Fenty and Sephora declined to share revenue or sales numbers with Glamour, early estimates compared Fenty's monumental success to that of another celebrity mogul's beauty line: Kylie Jenner's Kylie Cosmetics. In November 2017, when Time named Fenty Beauty one of its Best Inventions of the Year, the magazine revealed that the brand had raked in a whopping $72 million in its first month (five times what Jenner made in the same period). In January 2018, WWD reported that Fenty was on track to outpace Kylie's earnings, despite the fact that the two had a very similar customer base: diverse women who are willing to spend substantial money on makeup. (African-American and Latina shoppers make up Fenty's biggest demo, along with a solid base of Asian customers. White women are its smallest consumer group.)

Also a sign of complexion's boom as a category: Sephora recently launched a new campaign geared toward helping shoppers find their perfect shade, undertone, formula, and finish of base makeup. "Sephora has always been a destination for foundation, but we haven't always necessarily broadcasted it in a loud and proud way," says Sephora beauty director Jeffrey English.

Brands That Now Carry 40+ Shades

Elsewhere, the modeling world and fashion industry are feeling the aftermath of the Fenty Effect too. Backstage this season at New York Fashion Week, I can personally say I noticed much more deep complexion shades at workstations than in seasons past-something both models and makeup artists corroborated when I asked. "I would definitely say that there's been more improvement, but I think that's because there's a lot more pressure for artists to provide makeup for everybody now," model Leomie Anderson told Glamour backstage at Savage x Fenty.

But before the industry goes patting itself on the back, it's clear this is only the beginning. As Bee Shapiro recently pointed out in The New York Times, diversity has been "in" in the past. How do we make sure this time isn't a fleeting trend and instead becomes an ingrained part of our culture?

For starters, makeup artists need both the right tools and better training. According Precious Lee (as well as Anderson), models with dark skin are still often bringing their own makeup with them backstage and to shoots. "I've been modeling in New York for six years," says Lee. "I should be able to sit down in the chair like any other model and trust that they're going to know how to do my makeup and hair. But I've been in a position so many times where that hasn't happened. So I decided, literally, just this year, to become one of those people who brings my own products. But I'm fortunate enough to work with a lot of artists who are prepared, but there are still so many artists in high positions who [aren't]."

Even when an artist does come prepared with a range of shades, model Duckie Thot says it doesn't mean they always have the skills to apply her makeup correctly. "Honestly, we're still in a time where it's a first for this many black models to be working-like, really working," says Thot, who starred in Fenty's inaugural campaign, in addition to walking in the spring 2019 show. "So even having the space for other makeup artists to come in and work with black models on a regular basis is all new. [That is why] there's been pressure on [makeup artists] as well to perform and lift their game. More than anything it takes understanding our skin. As a model, you can tell when they understand color correction or the texture of your skin. Those things need to be taken into consideration when you're doing makeup."

Adds Jaleesa Jaikaran, a makeup artist who has worked nine seasons of NYFW: "When I started [working backstage], sometimes I would have models either coming to me to do their face specifically or whisper to me in the lineup to have me fix it for them. It wasn't always bad, but as an artist of color who can do all skin tones, many times I'd do only models of color for shows because either the [lead artist] trusted me to do so or [the models] came directly to me." Jaikaran compares the job to painting: If someone is a painter, they wouldn't show up without the color paint they'd need. Makeup artists, she says, should always have products to suit every skin tone and the skill to use them.

"It's all a part of the conversation," says Thot. "The more we keep talking about it, the better."

And while we're on the topic of things to talk about, nearly every model of color Glamour spoke with backstage at NYFW this season said hair is now lacking far behind makeup in terms of inclusion. "They need to have more hairdressers who are equipped and know how to lay wigs and work with black hair," says Anderson. "That's the next thing the industry needs to start exploring."

Rihanna, if you're reading this: Fenty Hair. 2019.

Lindsay Schallon is the senior beauty editor at Glamour. Follow her on Instagram @lindsayschallon.

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One Year Later, This Is the Real Effect Fenty Has Had on the Beauty Industry

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Makeup brands are carrying a wider range of shades than ever before, thanks to Fenty Beauty. But how much has inclusivity in the industry really improved?

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These pictures are of Zendaya and Willow Smith from a W Magazine cover. These pictures demonstrate how media is whitewashing models in magazines by lightening their skin tone to conform to the lighter complexion standard of beauty. This is relevant because it shows that the media is conforming to society's standard of a lighter complexion by lightening the skin tone of the models. This leads women to use harmful skin bleaching products in order to conform to society's beauty standards (Sanusi, 2016).

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This video provides insight from people of many different complexions on how they have felt about their experience with standards of beauty relating to skin colour. This is relevant because it demonstrates how society has made individuals with darker complexions feel less beautiful. One women explains how fair skin has been linked to beauty because of white Europeans justifying slavery. One women also shared her experience with the use of skin bleaching (BuzzFeedVideo, 2016).

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This article explains how skin is a determining beauty factor. It explains how minor and common skin conditions can cause self-consciousness. This article is relevant to this topic because it explains why skin is so important to determine society's standard of beauty. As we have learned, skin was the first beauty 'project' because our complexion helped people advance their social standing. This article states that skin is one of the most visible signs of aging. As we have learned, airbrushing removes wrinkles and age spots which supports society's standard that looking young is beautiful (Sinclair, 2018).

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Beauty is skin-deep: why our complexion is so important to us

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Despite skin conditions such as acne having no negative health effects, they can take a huge toll on the confidence and mental health of the person.

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Model Nyakim Gatwech explains the trouble she had growing up with having a dark complexion. She explains that it was not until she came to America that she felt that her skin colour was not beautiful. Then she overcame that and showed America how beautiful her dark skin is by becoming a model. This is relevant because she discusses skin whitening, whitewashing in magazines and makeup artists not providing her with the right makeup for her skin. She also mentions that someone asked her if she would bleach her skin so that men would find her attractive which is an example of how the male gaze is used to get women to conform to society's beauty standards. The colour of Nyakim's complexion had a huge impact on her career and her life growing up in America (As/Is, 2017).

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This “Queen of the Dark” Got Bullied And Is Now A Model