Stories
- Article
The desire for lighter skin
Discover why some Black people feel more attractive with lighter skin. Ngunan Adamu speaks to three women who explain how they got hooked on skin bleaching.
- Article
Dress and the magic of touch
Fashion, of course, is largely about appearance, but the feeling of clothes on your skin is a complex sensory experience. Shahidha Bari contemplates the human connections in the business of creating and wearing clothes.
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Keeping death close
Scattering her father’s ashes, Lauren Entwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember.
- Photo story
How wigs help children handle hair loss
For young people who lose their hair during cancer treatment, a wig can make them feel normal again. Carmel King photographs some of the processes and people involved with a charity providing beautiful human-hair wigs for kids.
Catalogue
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My beauty secrets / Hedges (Chemists) Ltd.
W. R. Hedges and Son Ltd.Date: 1915?]- Books
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The bawd: a poem. Containing All the various Practices those diabolical Characters make Use of to decoy Innocent Beauty into their Snares, with their Behaviour to them, and the Means they are made to employ to entertain their numerous Gallants, many of whom are here described in the most glowing Colours. -And is, in the Whole, a high-seasoned Dish cooked up for the Bucks, Bloods, Choice Spirits, and Demy Reps, of the present Age. By a distinguish'd worshipper in the Temple of Venus.
Distinguish'd worshipper in the Temple of Venus.Date: [1782?]- Books
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The charms of beauty; or the grand contest between the fair Hibernians, and the English toasts, a poem: occasioned by the marriage of his Grace the Duke of Hamilton with Miss Elizabeth Gunning; and the expected Marriage of her elder Sister with a certain noble Earl.
Date: [1752]- Ephemera
Beauty ephemera. Box 12.
- Ephemera
Glycerine and cucumber cream : a most elegant preparation for beautifying and preserving the complexion.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]