I test drove the viral ‘morning shed' overnight beauty routine — it was exhausting!
We have evolved (devolved?) to an arguably even more self-punishing pursuit of impossible beauty ideals. The beauty trend du jour, or rather du soir, is the 'morning shed,' in which TikTok influencers partake in a nightly self-mummification routine: swaddling, wrapping, taping, masking and girdling their faces in a positively Victorian procession of patches, straps and bonnets.
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I test drove the viral ‘morning shed' overnight beauty routine — it was exhausting!
In Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel 'Little Women,' youngest sister Amy sleeps with a clothespin on her nose 'to uplift the offending feature.' This thumbtacked itself to my memory as a relic of feminine vanity. But now Amy's nocturnal nostril-narrowing reads as quaint — minimalist, even. We have evolved (devolved?) to an arguably even more self-punishing pursuit of impossible beauty ideals. The beauty trend du jour, or rather du soir, is the 'morning shed,' in which TikTok influencers partake in a nightly self-mummification routine: swaddling, wrapping, taping, masking and girdling their faces in a positively Victorian procession of patches, straps and bonnets.
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