All Made Up

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The book covers a few female cultural icons from different countries who used their looks to their advantage and yet had to conform to the rigid beauty standards of their time. I would have preferred to hear more about makeup/beauty culture in Indigenous cultures as well as its role in gender presentation — these sections felt glossed over, especially considering their amount in the book combined is barely more than the entire half of a chapter dedicated to just Empress Wu. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. But as she struggled with the physical and emotional changes of adolescence, almost everything she thought she knew began to change.I would have liked to see this information put into a thesis statement but primarily Nudson gives us the information and that’s all.

This way, she can use Cyrillic script when she records her thoughts and feelings, ensuring Cora can't read them. Our blog is written by many different voices and, although everything we share is in line with our values, some of the views expressed are personal and do not necessarily reflect the wider views of GWL. It delves into a lot of interesting information and while I thought a few poignant points were made throughout, the book lacks a strong conclusion and really doesn’t have much of anything to say beyond presenting us these facts.Exotica such as Vesta curries and bolognese sauce arrive in 1970s Saltcoats, and the family eventually adds a fridge to its consumer electricals, while mother continues to dispense advice: "Self-sufficiency was the only survival tool you could count on.

To the child and adolescent Janice, abrupt violence is just another facet of her existence, and is hardly given more attention than night-time reveries over the fate of Yuri Gagarin, "his face smeared by console lights", the thrill of illicitly borrowing the goriest tomes from the library, "Spartacus, Caligula and Vlad the Impaler", and the sudden importance of pop culture awareness and effortless prettiness: "My blazer sprouted Bowie badges . We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. She does a fantastic job of acknowledging that while this is often considered a women’s issue, women of color and LGBTQ individuals are often judged most harshly, have the most risk, and are the most harmed in going against the dominant culture in the world of makeup. There is a history and a cultural significance that comes with wearing cat-eye-inspired liner or a bold red lip, one that many women feel to this day, even if we don’t realize exactly why.Similarly, both books have a constant, unsettling undertow, because of an unpredictable antagonist waiting to strike.