• dangblingus@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You raise an interesting point. Are women’s preferences in how they look organically theirs? Or is it conditioned over time by patriarchal beauty standards? Like, why do women actually like long lashes? If long lash products didn’t exist, would women go out of their way to invent them?

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      11 months ago

      Longer lashes look more youthful and healthy. So do bigger eyes and framing your eyes can make them look bigger, that’s why people use dark eyeliner and mascara on light skin tones and light eye makeup on darker skin tones mostly.

      This is of course not “organically” in their interest. It comes from our society valuing women almost exclusively for how youthful and pretty they look.