The Abnormal Beauty Company
The Abnormal Beauty Company offers a raw, rare glimpse into the meteoric rise of The Ordinary, the price of transparency, and the enduring legacy of one of the world’s most disruptive skincare brands and the enduring legacy of its troubled, genius founder.
Cosmetic
Set in the beauty industry, colliding the worlds of glamour and body horror in a supernatural tale of one girl's deadly pursuit of perfection.
No Lye: An American Beauty Story
A documentary that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in America.
Rouge
"Described as 'Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut,' Rouge is a horror-tinted gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Set in California, the story explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry — as well as 'the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze.' Set to be published in September this year by Simon & Schuster/Marysue Rucci Books, Rouge is the latest novel from [Mona] Awad, behind All’s Well, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Bunny, which was listed among the best book of 2019 by Time, Vogue and the New York Public Library." (THR)
Call of Beauty
Two young women making videos for their Youtube channel, stuck in beauty-industry and product-placement. A tyranny of clicks, likes and follower, a gamble with truths and autenticitates.