Weiss: Women face a double bind between lazy and frivolous beauty standards
Emily Weiss · Live Episode! Glossier: Emily Weiss · Nov 26, 2018 · at 21:36
Glossier founder Emily Weiss reflects on interviewing women about their personal beauty routines and the cultural stigmas surrounding female appearance.
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“It's so hard for women to be the right level of maintenance. If you're too low maintenance, then you're lazy. You know, there's this stigma of, like, the person who, like, isn't doing enough, and yet if you're wearing a lot of makeup or you're, like, look like you really care about, you know, beauty or appearance, then you're seen as sort of frivolous or, like, not to be taken seriously.”
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