Ok here's a shot for now— Many countries have popular skincare brands... what was it that made specifically the Korean beauty products/treaments become so wildly popular recently, especially in the West? (I'm sure you'll have like 3 chapters on this.) How much of it is westerners exoticizing/fetishizing images of youthful Korean women, vs these products/treatments are just that innovative? Has Korea's messaging around women aging always as bad as ours, or has it only recently gotten that way with these trends? And finally... we're at this weird time with an increasingly narrow 'standardized' version of beauty AND some messages pushing against that and telling us to embrace our authentic selves. Being immersed in this research, which message do you think will prevail (spoiler alert, we're still capitalists after all)... basically, are we even more fucked with this than we were 5 or 10 years ago?
I don't yet have any intellgent questions to ask (I will have some at some point, I'm sure!), but DAMN I am excited about this book.
YAAAAY! Could you please ask UN-intelligent questions please? Just one or two.
Ok here's a shot for now— Many countries have popular skincare brands... what was it that made specifically the Korean beauty products/treaments become so wildly popular recently, especially in the West? (I'm sure you'll have like 3 chapters on this.) How much of it is westerners exoticizing/fetishizing images of youthful Korean women, vs these products/treatments are just that innovative? Has Korea's messaging around women aging always as bad as ours, or has it only recently gotten that way with these trends? And finally... we're at this weird time with an increasingly narrow 'standardized' version of beauty AND some messages pushing against that and telling us to embrace our authentic selves. Being immersed in this research, which message do you think will prevail (spoiler alert, we're still capitalists after all)... basically, are we even more fucked with this than we were 5 or 10 years ago?
Congratulations. The subject sounds fascinating and fortunately you're an excellent writer. Look forward to it.