It’s easy enough to use a smartphone, but the old-fashioned way is far more stylish
For women, compact mirrors have two charged uses: looking at your vulva in private or doing your makeup in public.
The sight of a woman applying makeup on crowded public transport is a daily reflective shard of Fleabag’s “Hair matters!” speech, Gone Girl’s “cool girl” voiceover and Barbie’s America Ferrera soliloquy. A reminder, in short, that we are expected to appear pleasing, but never let slip that we’ve made an attempt to do so. When 2004 US vice presidential nominee John Edwards was caught doing his hair before an interview, wags set the footage to I Feel Pretty and it killed his career. Of course he cared about his appearance – he literally wanted to be electable. It was a rare male equivalent to the crime women are accused of when they apply makeup publicly.
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