More than skin deep
Over at the beauty blog, I’ll tell you which products I love and hate, and why Gwyneth Paltrow’s new haircut is stupid. But Hillary comes out with stuff like this:
We’re always being urged by one cranky, superior pundit or another to get back in touch with our humanity, and to eschew the “superficiality” that pervades our culture–and makeup is often cited as one of the hallmarks of the fatuous and shallow.
I beg to differ. Grinding up symbolically potent, exotic substances and adorning ourselves with them seems to me like a practice straight out of our visceral, shamanistic heritage, an act of animistic faith in the power of our objects and rituals to elevate us to a higher plane. The pursuit of beauty is indeed a spiritual practice.
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