Controlling inflammation and routines for perfect skin: it’s no longer just about thinness, there are new beauty standards to torment women

Aesthetic mandates are now disguised as health and well-being, creating a new, also impossible, canon that generates obsession, self-esteem problems and insecurity: is this a coincidence or is it part of a conservative backlash that seeks in beauty a way to subjugate women?

Illustration El Diario newspaper, written by Ana Requena Aguilar.