Magpie - Issue 3 - Beauty

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Photo credit: Anna Sastre

Showing face In 2018, beauty is more than skin deep Undoubtedly, it’s an overwhelming time to be alive. The acceleration of media and its mass consumption, technological disruption and a shifting value system have led to the most hyperconnected generation yet. At this moment, there are 500M daily active users on Instagram, with 40 billion photos shared to date. The rise of social media has changed the way that we present ourselves: today, one’s appearance exists not only in the real world but in a virtual one as well. At first glance, two polarizing ends of the beauty spectrum are immediately

natural

apparent — natural and made-up.

Photo credit: Amanda Dalbjorn

Hannah Conway


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