Holmes’s makeup, which is certainly part of her personal brand along with the turtlenecks — intensely black-shadowed eyes, pink blush and deep red lipstick , all imprecisely applied — has also ignited a mass trolling impulse. Yet Twitter is ablaze with jibes about hot oil treatment recommendations regarding Holmes’s frizzy blond hair , which is naturally fine and curly but bleached and straightened into submission. But let’s consider whether criticism of the feminine codes of their appearance weakens our larger arguments. But we reduce her to her slapdash makeup and frizzy hair because she makes us uncomfortable. Let’s instead sit with the discomfort Holmes induces and learn something from this cautionary tale.

Source: thestar March 26, 2019 18:56 UTC