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Eternity Now | GDI
▻https://www.gdi.ch/en/events/eternity-now

Les vendeurs savent attirer l’attention du public. Leur principale fausse promesse fait croire aux gens qu’il est possible de changer sa vie et sa propre personne par délégation. On paie pour un produit, on vote pour un parti et le tour est joué, la récompense suit immédiatement. Cette attitude idéologique est parfiatement décrite dans cette invitation d’un institut de marketing suisse. Elle contribue beaucoup à la dépolitisation des membres des classes moyennes qui ne touchent pas encore le fond. Ceux qui n’ont plus honte d’afficher leur désarroi s’habillent en gilet jaune.

Health, well-being, and an attractive body are highly valued by consumers. The global market for cosmetic products is expected to reach a market value of over USD 800 billion by 2023. Generation Z is born into a world of fitness, organic nutrition, and social media driving the image of beauty; their aim is to stay fit for the continuous job and partner market.

At the same time, that consumer wants a balanced life. This is demonstrated by high expenditure on beauty products, wellness cults, and healthier food. Tracking technologies and smart mirrors help consumers stay on their personal course. What appears today to be high-tech will soon be considered the standard.

Consumers expect every product and service to help them improve their well-being. This spurs competition beyond traditional categories such as health, beauty and food. Soon, every retailer or service provider will be judged by their contribution to individual well-being, which will be considered more comprehensively; in the future, it will be measured in a personalised way, in everyday life, using increased technology.

#it_has_begun #fétichisme_de_la_marchandise #singularité #prothèses #gilets_jaunes

Beauty Products for Black Women Are Full of Dodgy Ingredients - Mother Jones
▻http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/12/black-women-beauty-products-ingredients

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Less than a quarter of all the products analyzed by the EWG scored low in potentially hazardous ingredients—things like hormone-disrupting parabens, chemicals linked to skin cancer, and formaldehyde-releasing preservatives that can increase the risk of skin allergies—in the group’s analysis. By comparison, about 40 percent of health and beauty products targeted to the general public fell into the low-risk category.

#cosmétiques

Iran’s Booming Consumer Culture

During his visit to Cuba in 2012, former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, “Thankfully we are already witnessing that the capitalist system is in decay, on various stages it has come to a dead end — politically, economically and culturally.”

But the changes that have been taking place in Iran in the last few years seem to contradict this.

Despite slow mobile internet connections, high prices for imported – most of the time smuggled – technological products, and constant governmental censorship of the media, Iranians are frantically buying smartphones, tablets and flat screen TVs.

Shopping has became a near obsessive ritual for young people, and especially women, who have now turned to buying beauty products and high-end western brands to fill in the void of entertainment options and to “rebel“ against the array of restrictions they are subjected to.

Even if traditional Grand bazaars continue to be the favorite places to shop for regular Iranians, they now face competition from huge shopping malls, which were erected in the outskirts of major cities across the country. And these offer western-style hypermarkets, international brands and colourful gaming arcades to list just a few temptations.

In his recent opinion piece for Al Jazeera, Dott. Richard Javad Heydarian described Iran “as one of the most promising economies of the 21st century – and perhaps the next China”, a lion ready to awake.

Perhaps “the lion“ is getting ready – In the last few months we have witnessed improved relations between Iran and the West, while the upcoming negotiations for the lifting of the sanctions could pave the way for even more changes in the country and consequently also within the region.

— Thomas Cristofoletti

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▻https://www.lensculture.com/articles/thomas-cristofoletti-iran-s-booming-consumer-culture
#photographie #consumérisme #Iran #reportage_photo
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The Revolution Will Not Be Colorized : Silver Sisters Strut Against ’Beauty Terror’ - Times of San Diego
▻http://timesofsandiego.com/life/2014/10/26/the-revolution-will-not-be-colorized-silver-sisters-strut-against-b

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Rachelle Lasater said, “I just found out about the Silver Sisters, and I was so thrilled to know that there was a movement going on of more and more women going natural because I decided at a very young age when I was turning gray that I couldn’t deal with dying my hair the rest of my life.

“But I felt alone and got a lot of pressure from family and everyone to color my hair and I just didn’t want to give in, she continued.

Dans les commentaires Amazon au sujet du livre mentionné dans l’article, « Going Gray, Looking Great », je lis cette information :

... But I was horribly disappointed with the turn the book took halfway through. The author encourages “looking younger” by using BOTOX or collagen injections. She advocates using expensive “age defying” moisturizers and makeup lines. Though many sources of skepticism about the claims of these expensive beauty products exist, she asserts that the more expensive products really do help. She lists products from very expensive companies that she swears are “worth” the cost, and will make women look younger and better. Not only cosmetics, but expensive hair styling products and shampoos and conditioners are raved about. She also recommends going to a colorist and having your hair highlighted/lowlighted so that your gray hair will “pop.” The message seems to be that if a woman decides to go gray she must counteract the negativity of this image by being hyper-fashionable in all other ways, having a short stylish cut, using expensive beauty products and styling products, using minor cosmetic surgical procedures to look artificially young, and especially dyeing her hair to keep it looking “gorgeously gray” in a very fake manner.

I can’t tell you how this disappointed me. The author’s message that a woman can’t truly embrace her natural looks, that even her gray hair isn’t really `gray’ hair, but a styled and dyed approximation of what gray hair looks like, a la Hollywood, makes me horribly saddened.

▻http://www.amazon.fr/Going-Gray-Looking-Great-Unfading/dp/0743246802

Ce livre-là a l’air beaucoup mieux (ça m’ennuie de mettre un lien Amazon, mais les commentaires sont super intéressants)
▻http://www.amazon.fr/Going-Gray-Motherhood-Authenticity-Everything/dp/0316166618

#femmes #Jeunisme #sexisme #beauté