In the high-stakes arena of corporate America, millennial Black women are waging a silent war — not for corner offices or stock options, but for the right to be themselves. A groundbreaking study has ...

Societal beauty standards can increase the risk of mental health conditions, including low self-esteem, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and social isolation, especially among young females.

My first attempts to alter my face in junior high conformed to the beauty standards of the ’90s in Los Angeles: brown Wet n Wild eyeliner rimming my bare lips, arced eyebrows plucked wire-thin. This ...

Growing up as a Korean American girl in a predominantly white suburb of Chicago, I had a very specific idea of what beauty was. It only took me until the age of about eight to realize that I was not ...

In 2011, Yale sociologist Alka Menon came across an article in The New York Times on the racial and ethnic differences in cosmetic surgery. A plastic surgeon quoted in the piece explained that when he ...

Millennial Black women feel they have autonomy and flexibility in navigating beauty standards in their personal lives, according to a new qualitative study. But at work, they feel compelled to adapt ...

A new study shows how millennial women dress in intracultural beauty standards outside of work and Eurocentric standards when at work. A new study is digging into the beauty standards of millennial ...