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Cosmetics

Toxic beauty & polished rank

Eleanor Konik
Sep 26, 2022
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portrait of woman wearing cosmetics via Midjourney

Clothes and accessories are usually a straightforward way to establish details about a character's preferences and social position, but at work I've noticed how much today's teenagers have upped their make-up game since I was a kid, and it got me wondering about trends in cosmetics and how I can integrate that into the fantasy world I'm building.

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