#beauty industry
Aesthetic labor for women has always been hidden behind the closed doors of bathrooms or a mother’s dressing table. Stepping inside a beauty salon is like entering a private space or a secret factory concealed from the masses, where women are wholly committed to beautification and self-transformation. But as beauty critic Jessica DeFino once asked, if beautification requires so much work, then who’s the boss? The cosmetics and beauty industry has traditionally been perceived as feminine, but most of the…