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When self-care creates careless consumerism

The "clean" aesthetic: effortless? Or only accessible by those who can afford to buy all of the right products?  Lifestyle reporter Miranda Dunlap talks to consumer behavior and retail experts to explain how our current era of self-care promotes consumerism and impossible beauty standards.  

LIFE

How Euphoria can become a lasting cultural phenomenon

This article is not going to be a think piece about whether the show was glamorizing drugs, or how far can the producers stretch the impact of visuals before they must open the writer room. What it attempted to do, is explain how Euphoria became a cultural phenomenon while many other recent shows have struggled to do so.