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8 Books About Girls Growing Up on the Internet

1 week ago | electricliterature.com | Allie Rowbottom |George Wylesol |Julia Wertz |Andy Anderegg

Reading Lists These novels explore what it means to come of age in the online generation I’ve watched so many hours of video, maybe you have too, and I’ve seen people on the internet rise and fall, disappear. I’ve wondered about them after, millions of us have. I’ve even uploaded a few videos myself, but when two comments came through about my glasses, I took it as a turning point. Either I was going to tell them my prescription and shoot a video where I took my glasses on and off, like...
Why I Can't Get Enough Beauty Treatments

2 months ago | bustle.com | Allie Rowbottom

Vice WeekSpray tans, Botox, facials, filler, and falsies? I’ll take the lot. by Allie RowbottomJan. 31, 2025Emma Chao/Bustle; GettyVice Week“Hold up your arms,” the woman tells me. I’m naked, freezing, cornered in a tile booth, no escape. So I do what I’m told. She lifts a gun the size and shape of a vintage dust-buster, fires a stream of ice-cold sludge at my body and layers me in a brown bronzer that stinks, for some mysterious reason, of tomato soup. I’m getting a spray tan.
When horror tackles beauty and wellness, glamour meets the grotesque

Oct 30, 2024 | audible.com | Alanna McAuliffe |Mona Awad |Mira Grant |Allie Rowbottom

“Beauty is pain.” It’s an old adage meant to assuage the blisters born from pointed-toe heels, the pinch and pull of shapewear, the sting of bleach searing your scalp raw. It also hints at the horror beneath the endless pursuit of perfection, the impossible societal standards that fuel a twisted desire to be poreless, ageless, ever-shrinking—standards that disproportionately impact women but increasingly target men and kids, too.
The Original Lit Girls Are Still Influencing What We Wear

Oct 25, 2024 | msn.com | Allie Rowbottom

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The Original Lit Girls Are Still Influencing What We Wear

Oct 25, 2024 | yahoo.com | Allie Rowbottom

The Original Lit Girls Are Still Influencing UsPhotographed by Julian Wasser. Courtesy of Craig Krull Gallery"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In one of the most famous photographs of Joan Didion, she leans against a Corvette Stingray, one arm crossed over her torso, the other extended, as if caught mid-flick of the cigarette forked between her fingers. She wears a long dress, well-draped, modest.
What It's Really Like Getting A Robot Manicure & More AI Beauty Treatments

Aug 6, 2024 | nylon.com | Allie Rowbottom

NYLON/ Victoria Warnken x MidjourneyThe New RoboticsAre AI beauty treatments the key to the future? by Allie RowbottomOn a recent Thursday afternoon, I roll up to a quiet office park in Beverly Hills where I’m scheduled to receive a manicure from a robot.
8 Novels About the Dangerous Pursuit of Youth and Beauty

Jul 22, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Allie Rowbottom |Mona Awad |Frances Cha |Oscar Wilde

Reading Lists Beauty comes at a cost, but can you pay the price? We look at our faces so often we hardly notice them changing.
Sexe i tecnologia: així seran les nostres relacions del futur

Mar 2, 2024 | arabalears.cat | Allie Rowbottom

Som en una tarda plujosa de gener i estic asseguda davant de l'ordinador en una casa buida. S'han acabat les festes i les vacances. Aquesta és una època de l'any solitària, tot i que navegant per internet trobo una pàgina anomenada Candy.ai que promet ajudar-me. "T'espera la teva companya somiada", diu la pàgina inicial. “Crea la teva xicota amb intel·ligència artificial, modela el seu aspecte, personalitat i dona-li vida amb tan sols un clic”. Així que faig clic. I qui soc jo?
Sexe i tecnologia: així seran les nostres relacions del futur

Mar 2, 2024 | ara.cat | Allie Rowbottom

Relacions Des de joguines sexuals intel·ligents a parelles creades amb IA. Cada vegada hi ha més dispositius connectats a través d’aplicacions mòbils que permeten buscar plaer a distància o a través de màquines 7 min Som en una tarda plujosa de gener i estic asseguda davant de l'ordinador en una casa buida. S'han acabat les festes i les vacances.
'We’re all little sex cyborgs': The rise and rise of technosexuality

Feb 17, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Allie Rowbottom

Home / LifestyleNew York TimesBy Allie RowbottomSaveshareShare this articlefacebookcopy linktwitterlinkedinredditemailOur erotic and romantic lives have become ever more tangled with machines. On a rainy afternoon in January, I’m sitting at my computer in an empty house. The holidays are over; the parties, too. It’s a lonely time of year, but, browsing the internet, I stumble on a site called Candy.ai that promises to help. “Your dream companion awaits,” reads the homepage.