{"id":4467,"date":"2010-10-09T10:36:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T10:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.transversalmedia.eu\/cro-magnon-women-medusas-and-nosferatu-beauty\/"},"modified":"2010-10-09T10:36:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T10:36:38","slug":"cro-magnon-women-medusas-and-nosferatu-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/cro-magnon-women-medusas-and-nosferatu-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Cro-Magnon women, Medusas and Nosferatu: beauty tips for the uninitiated"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read The Guardian. Really. In a sea of \u201csubtle as a brick<\/em>\u201d newspapers, The Guardian is slightly more informed, a bit deeper than \u201cFox News shallow<\/em>\u201d and certainly more varied in view points. So this morning, as I am scanning my newsfeed, I came across this beauty advice article, Slap shtick: How not to put on make-up<\/a> and seeing how this is a more or less progressive newspaper, I thought to check it out. Well, progressively patriarchal<\/em> as it seems to be the case.<\/p>\n

Just before I continue, I want to come out of the beauty case<\/em>: I do wear make up. In fact, I love make up. I love colors, eye shadows, palettes, etc. Also, and I know this is not a very orthodox approach to make up, I was taught how to apply it by a bunch of performing drag queens from burlesque shows when I was a teenager in Buenos Aires. So yeah, at times, I have a penchant for the theatrical. I know better than to inflict the world my love of fake eyelashes at 9 AM or liquid eyeliner extending all the way to my eyebrows for a lunch meeting, but in general, I just find make up to be an extension of self expression, particularly on my free time (i.e. in non professional related hours). But that\u2019s neither here nor there, my point is: I do not read beauty tips from a place of disdain or dislike. I read them hoping I will find something I did not know about. Reading the article at The Guardian, though, what I found was spoonfuls of derision, heaps of self esteem undermining and reinforcement of the old tired beauty cliches. A few gems from the article:<\/p>\n