Race, Empire and the Politics of Beauty

💄🕯️ In Victorian society, beauty was power — but it was also a risk. Pale skin, bright eyes, and a tiny waist were prized so highly that people willingly used toxic cosmetics, dangerous diets, and harmful fashion to achieve them. What looked refined and delicate often came at the cost of health, fertility, and sometimes life itself.

Tonight, close your eyes and drift into gaslit mirrors, powder rooms, and silent suffering — where beauty promised status, but danger hid beneath the surface.

👉 Boring History For Sleep | Fashion, pressure, and the quiet cost of perfection. 💤