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Pretty Hurts

  1. pretty hurts
    I Tried the World’s Most Painful FacialAnd I loved it.
    By Diana Tsui
  2. pretty hurts
    This Is Why Halle Berry’s Beauty Is a Giant BurdenHow unfair.
    By Ashley Weatherford
  3. pretty hurts
    The Viral Video of the World’s Most-Painful Skin-Care MaskGet ready to cry.
    By Ashley Weatherford
  4. pretty hurts
    Why I Keep Going to the Dominican Salon, Even Though They Damage My HairThe cost of feeling safe in your skin.
    By Leah Rodriguez
  5. pretty hurts
    This Pretty Slug Is All, ‘Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful’Beauty is not just skin-deep.
    By Dayna Evans
  6. men getting dressed
    A Male Model on What It’s Like to Be Pretty‘‘One of  the first comments I remember getting back in high school was ‘You have amazing eyebrows.’’’
    By Ian Mellencamp As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
  7. pretty hurts
    Watch Melissa McCarthy Explain Double Standards in HollywoodShe describes confronting a terrible sexist journalist about beauty standards.
    By Ella Cerón and Ella Ceron
  8. pretty hurts
    Pick Your Poison: Adult Acne or Fatal SuperbugThe antibiotics-resistance apocalypse is going to wreak havoc on our skin.
    By Kat Stoeffel
  9. icymi
    Read All of the Cut’s Pretty Hurts Stories in One Place Meditations on chin hair, weight gain, Spanx, and much more.
    By the Cut
  10. pretty hurts
    Should Teens Get Laser Hair Removal?Permanent beauty treatments ask us to guess how much beauty norms will change during our lifetime.
    By Kat Stoeffel
  11. q&a
    What It Takes to Be a ‘Plus-Size’ Model For her dissertation, a sociologist decided to see if she could make it as a plus-size model.
    By Erica Schwiegershausen
  12. women in the morning
    She Woke Up Like This: Stylist Haley Wollens“If I feel dirty enough, I’ll take a shower.”
    By Petra Collins
  13. experiments
    Can You Train Yourself to Accept Your Body?A wearable device delivered an electric jolt every time I had a negative thought about my appearance. 
    By Allison P. Davis
  14. She Woke Up Like This: Curator Yvonne Force Villareal“My preferable hair look is ‘bedhead.’”
    By Petra Collins
  15. first person
    Why I Didn’t Wear Makeup Until I Was 30I’d never thought of myself as particularly attached to my femininity.
    By Nina MacLaughlin
  16. paparazzi pits club
    16 Famous, Glorious Women With Armpit HairMadonna, Kathleen Hanna — even Beyoncé! 
    By Arabelle Sicardi
  17. pretty hurts
    My Double-D Breasts Made Me Feel Absurd at My WeddingAs I walked down the aisle, I could think of only one thing: my cleavage.
    By Jessica Silvester
  18. epiphanies
    I Did Not Truly Understand Spanx, FUPA, or Stretch Marks Until I Had a BabyI loved my partner and my child and I had no idea how I was ever going to wear pants again.
    By Meaghan O'Connell
  19. women in the morning
    She Woke Up Like This: Student Jackie Storr“I take selfies sometimes.”
    By Petra Collins
  20. beauty innovations
    Can’t Afford Botox? Try Electrocuting Your FaceA new technology to stave off the dread and existential horror of female old age!
    By Rebecca Harrington
  21. pretty hurts
    Why Do My Salon Visits Cost More Because I’m Black?I was charged an extra fee because my hair is “harder” to style. 
    By Ashley Weatherford
  22. The Photographer Who Captures Fat-Shaming on CameraTalking to Haley Morris-Cafiero about her powerful photographs of strangers reacting to her body.
    By Erica Schwiegershausen
  23. pretty hurts
    Skinny Mirror Company Courts Retailers for Capitalist TrickeryThe Skinny Mirror, retailing between $165 and $5,500. 
    By Maggie Lange
  24. tall tales
    What It’s Like to Be a Woman Who’s 6’2”I’ve gotten more comfortable with myself — but not with the feelings my body seems to bring out in other women.
    By Ann Friedman
  25. women in the morning
    She Woke Up Like This: Designer Cynthia Rowley“I wake up like I’m shot out of a cannon.”
    By Petra Collins
  26. wayne’s world
    How to Completely Hide a Blemish in a Few Simple StepsNo highlighter needed.
    By the Cut
  27. not by the hairs on a chinny chin chin
    The Best Way to Secretly Get Rid of Your Chin HairNo one will know.
    By Kathleen Hou
  28. first person
    I Gained So Much Weight I Didn’t Recognize MyselfWhat it’s like to go from a size 4 to a size 12 in three months.
    By Anonymous As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
  29. women in the morning
    She Woke Up Like This: Tavi Gevinson“I have a note on my full-length mirror that says, ‘There is not enough time for hating yourself.’”
    By Petra Collins
  30. women in the morning
    She Woke Up Like This: Stylist Linda Rodin“My dog, Winky, follows me to the bathroom.”
    By Petra Collins
  31. lab rat
    Does At-home Waxing Actually Work?Ow. Just ow.
    By Ashley Weatherford
  32. Find a Staircase and Freakum Dress, You Just Had a Movie MakeoverUgly ducks transformed into swans from Cinderella, Clueless, The Breakfast Club, and beyond.
    By Miriam Agwai
  33. bottom’s up
    Your Yoga Pants Might Be Giving You Butt Acne But we’re getting to the bottom of how to fix it.
    By Kathleen Hou
  34. pretty hurts
    30 Famous Women on Overcoming Their InsecuritiesBeyoncé, Barbra Streisand, and so many more. 
    By Julie Ma
  35. women in the morning
    She Woke Up Like This: New School Student Paloma Elsesser“Even if it’s like, Fuck Monday, I just start my day out however I want my day to be.”
    By Petra Collins
  36. pretty hurts
    Nobody Wants to Be the Girl on a DietI’ve known smart women who go to extremes to hide that they watch what they eat. I’ve been one of them.
    By Lauren Bans