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Jan 9, 2025 | 
beautymatter.com | Ellen Atlanta
Despite often being dismissed as superficial, beauty trends have proven to be one of our most reliable cultural barometers. While political analysts pore over polling data and economists track market indicators (largely predicting the latest election result incorrectly), subtle shifts in beauty trends have been forecasting a significant cultural pivot towards more conservative values.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
elle.in | Ellen Atlanta
‘You’ve lost weight!’ my aunt effused last Christmas, reaching for my waist as I arranged mince pies on the kitchen counter. Her words were meant as praise, but they landed like a stone in my stomach. In the background, relatives quipped about how ‘big’ some of our family members had become, while others had ‘kept nice and trim’.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
dazeddigital.com | Ellen Atlanta
That so many public figures continue to lie about getting cosmetic surgery proves that there is still a deep cultural belief that “natural” beauty is a moral achievement, writes Ellen Atlanta Lindsay Lohan’s dramatically different look sparked a lot of discussion when she debuted it earlier this year, with social media filled with speculation over various different “undetectable” procedures she might have undergone to achieve the look.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
dazeddigital.com | Ellen Atlanta
When Lindsay Lohan appeared in public last month with what appeared to be an entirely new face, her explanation was simple: skincare. Speaking to Allure magazine, the actress credited her transformation to “a morning cold face towel, Avene redness solution, along with their recovery creme”. Later in the piece, almost as an afterthought, she mentioned trying treatments like Morpheus, IPL and lasers – though she was quick to add that she doesn’t do them “too much”.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
dazeddigital.com | Ellen Atlanta
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There’s something deliciously defiant about Caroline Kingsbury’s approach to pop music. Through the holographic lens of 80s maximalism and New Romantic flair, she creates songs that are “emotional, percussive, and dramatic”, born from breaking free of the conservative constraints of her Southern evangelical upbringing. “I grew up in Florida, which is a complicated place,” Kingsbury tells me from her bedroom, where we chat while she eats cereal.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Ellen Atlanta
When I heard the news last week that mother of five Alice Webb, 33, died at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital after a nonsurgical “Brazilian butt lift”, I felt sadness and a huge amount of empathy, because I too had gone to great lengths to try to change the appearance of my bottom via nonsurgical cosmetic procedures. I was 23 when I took the day off work in London to get two trains and a taxi to a beauty salon just outside Birmingham.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
nextbigideaclub.com | Ellen Atlanta |Clayton Aldern |Jennifer Berkshire |Jack Schneider
Jennifer Berkshire is a freelance journalist and host of the education podcast Have You Heard. She teaches in the Boston College Prison Education Program. Jack Schneider is the Dwight W. Allen Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he directs the Center for Education Policy. Below, co-authors Jennifer and Jack share five key insights from their new book, The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
scremesreport.substack.com | Ellen Atlanta |Aria Aber |Adam Dalva
An economist, a painter, and a novelist walk into a bar… rather than the start of a bad joke, this could very well be a description of any given Saturday night in the West London neighborhood of Bloomsbury in 1912. Before Brat, there was Bloomsbury — a collection of twenty-odd artists, writers, and minor aristocrats who formed the core of a hedonistic and experimental sub-culture in the midst of Edwardian London.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Ellen Atlanta
Radiant and fresh-faced, the girls who sat chatting to me had the flawless complexions that older women try so hard to emulate with expensive fillers. I was meeting them to research my new book about the modern beauty industry and its impact on young women. You might imagine that, in their early teens, they were too young to be in the thrall of companies selling wrinkle-smoothers and plumping injections. Sadly, however, the very opposite was true.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
dazeddigital.com | Ellen Atlanta
Speaking to the singer’s make-up artists, Ellen Atlanta unpacks her beauty and how it expresses her creativity in limitless ways17 What do the Statue of Liberty, drag queen Divine, a pink butterfly and Swan Lake all have in common? They’re all looks that have recently been brought to life by Chappell Roan – the rising pop star and beauty icon we didn’t know we needed.
