Adolf Hitler’s vision of an Aryan future didn’t just include fair-skinned people with blond hair—it also included women sans makeup. He even demanded women visiting his country retreat “avoid excessive cosmetics, avoid red lipstick, and on no account, ever, are they to color their nails.”¹ That’s an aesthetic white conservatives continue to idolize today. But
Last year, Jeff Bezos traveled to space for the first time in New Shepard, a first-of-its-kind consumer space shuttle. Created by Blue Origin, a company he founded in 2000, the flight inched him closer to his childhood dream: Colonizing space. In a 1982 interview with the Miami Herald, the 18-year-old graduate envisioned building “space hotels,
Around a month ago, Marlena Stell announced the end of Makeup Geek, one of YouTube’s first influencer brands. Founded in 2012, the brand became synonymous with names such as MAC and Inglot, offering its own range of single eyeshadows (in addition to brushes and other basics). In 2015, Forbes revealed it was on track to
Dr. Fred Palmer’s marriage to Julia Hayes had all the hallmarks of a star-crossed romance: Ex-slave in love with a white southerner, marriage dissuaded by the public, and intense racism that haunted them for decades. Yet despite all of this, they openly lived as husband and wife, marrying in 1872. Though marriage laws refused to
As I mentioned last year in my video on H&M, the biggest trend in 2021 will inevitably be sustainability, which you would think is a good thing. But a lot of brands like to cut corners here, trying to make their products look sustainable in appearance only. Dig into the nitty gritty behind their marketing
