Why question "beauty standards"?

Makeup can boost your salary, make you look more "professional" and "approachable".

But who set these standards, and who profits from you constantly investing time, money, and emotional labour into being "nice to look at, nice to deal with"?

Here we draw on radical feminist critiques of the beauty industry to ask a harder question: are you dressing yourself, or dressing the compliant "woman sample" they want you to be?