Power Move: Empowering Beauty Statements Through History

We invite you to witness beauty return to its inevitable form: a personal power that allows us to express our truth

This is an excerpt from MEGA October 2024 cover story

The societal expectations surrounding beauty have constantly shifted throughout the course of history. Yet, time and time again, it continues to liberate itself from conformity. In this editorial, beauty returns to its inevitable form: a personal power that allows us to express our truth—an artful interpretation of how beauty empowers those who liberates themselves from conformity.

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Short Story: The Hair Impact

^{Long before high-impact colors and editorial styles, pixie cuts were considered the unrivaled statement hairdo}

Once considered a controversial hair edit, the pixie cut has often been regarded as a symbol of nonconformity, independence, and empowerment—bravely emphasizing that one’s femininity should not be defined by hair length. 

Brow Liberty: The New Canvas

^{Self-expression has found a new canvas in brows — allowing one to explore shapes and colors that feels more true to their identity}

The attitude towards brows has dramatically changed throughout beauty history, allowing us to freely wear new shapes and lengths outside of what many of us are acquainted with. Keep it thick, revive the thin, or opt for no brows at all — the choice is yours. 

Power Pigment: Wear your Color

^{The 80s were a masterclass in more-is-more — pushing the boundaries of makeup artistry with a new wave of color sitting on one’s lids}

Of all the rule-bending beauty moments born in the eighties, colored lids reigned supreme— empowering the world to let our eye makeup speak what our words say.

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Read more about how beauty provides a space of self-expression in MEGA’s October 2024 issue, now available on Readly, Magzter, Press Reader and Zinio.

Photographed by DOOKIE DUCAY. Art Direction BRIE VENTURA. Sitting Editor AGOO AZCUNA-BENGZON. Makeup RAFFY MENDIOLA. Hair MONG AMADO. Nails ELI NAILS. Styling RYUJI SHIOMITSU and ERICA TEROL. Model TOMMI and NIKKI DE MOURA. Fashion JOSEPH PALMA.

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Power Move: Empowering Beauty Statements Through History
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