From Beauty Salons to Online Views: Egyptian Women and the Labor of Beauty

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From Beauty Salons to Online Views: Egyptian Women and the Labor of Beauty

Hailey Bieber for Rhode skin. (Courtesy of Rhode)Aesthetic labor for women has always been hidden behind the closed doors of bathrooms or a mother’s dressing table. Stepping inside a beauty salon is like entering a private space or a secret factory concealed from the masses, where women are wholly committed to beautification and self-transformation.But as beauty critic Jessica DeFino once asked, if beautification requires so much work, then who’s…