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FLESH WORLD by Jessica DeFino

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Reporting on the absurd world of beauty culture. / โ€œThe newsletter the beauty industry fears.โ€ - the Herald.

Free Subscription Benefits

  • The Don't Buy List: a weekly (product-free!) curation of beauty news, current events, and criticism

Paid Subcription Benefits

  • Exclusive, independent beauty reporting + the full FLESH WORLD archives
  • Access to the comment section and subscriber chats
  • A portion of proceeds donated to The Beautywell Project, Slow Factory, + Transgender Law Center

Paid Subscription Plans

  • $65 a year
  • $6 a month

About Jessica DeFino

Jessica DeFino is an award-winning beauty reporter (The New York Times, Vice, Vogue). She writes the Guardian advice column Ask Ugly and has been called "the woman the beauty industry fears" by the Herald.

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