“You put on makeup because it's fun, but why is lengthening your eyelashes and painting your lips redder fun, instead of painting your forehead blue and drawing roses on your cheeks? Because that's the beauty standard that the patriarchy has enforced on us... You can still make these choices. We're a…”— calamity, thefinancialdiet.comTagged: Consumerism, Capitalism, Make Up, Choice, feminism
“You can’t buy your way to empowerment.”— Bree Rody-Mantha, thefinancialdiet.comTagged: Consumerism, Capitalism, Advertising, Beauty Industry, Fashion Industry
“At some point in recent years, the same advertisers that shoved women into darkened corners of shame for not being pretty enough, not being thin enough, not having light enough skin and straight enough hair re-emerged under a sparkly, vamp-red, feminist banner.”— Bree Rody-Mantha, thefinancialdiet.comTagged: Consumerism, Capitalism, Advertising, Beauty Industry, Fashion Industry