Counterfeit injectables, fraudulent credentials, lumpy lips, and droopy eyes—inside the underregulated world of med spas. By Sarah Treleaven in Elle As pressures mount driven by AI beauty standards what sort of lengths our business owners women and men going to to get the homogenized look of modern femininity and masculinity? In Facetune Portraits I look at the tension being created when we try to live up to the ai-driven ideal of how we're supposed to look. What if we cou

Lately, I’ve been watching something shift in the world of men — particularly men who hold power. For a long time, masculinity has been culturally defined as something proven through what you do : build companies, run teams, secure funding, conquer industries. Appearance was secondary, almost suspicious. A man was supposed to be above caring about how he looked. But that story seems to be over. In a recent article in The Wall Street Journal , we learned the following: Men in