Beauty has never been static. Over the past hundred years, the ideal face, body, and overall “look” have shifted again and again—shaped by culture, media, politics, technology, and the changing roles ...

LONDON — The Wellcome Collection is an unusual place. I mean that sincerely as a compliment. It’s a rare example of a scientific institution doing something genuinely bold and creative with its ...

Evidence shows that beauty standards can affect individual mental health. Social media, television, and film can all portray unrealistic beauty standards and create pressure for people to look a ...

Whether it’s the media, the society, or teenage boys, it’s way too easy for girls to get sucked into a wormhole trying to fit ...

In 2011, Yale sociologist Alka Menon came across an article in The New York Times on the racial and ethnic differences in cosmetic surgery. A plastic surgeon quoted in the piece explained that when he ...

Remember when we all thought we needed to look like we'd been run through seventeen Instagram filters just to grab coffee? Yeah, those days are finally getting the boot. Women everywhere are ...

Following the 2022 publication of the NIH's 10-year epidemiological study that found an association between hair straightening products and uterine cancer, thousands of Black women filed lawsuits ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Meggen Harris writes about entrepreneurs in beauty and wellness. These days, what constitutes beauty seems to be an ever-moving ...

In this op-ed, Korean-American writer Rosa Jisoo Pyo explores how the popularity of K-beauty has reinforced harsh beauty standards and how many Korean women are striving to change that. When I went to ...