AESTHETICS: PROS & CONS

“Growth involves learning new things and unlearning old ones. And that includes redefining what ageing gracefully means.”
– Ng Yi Lian, editor

“Coming across body positivity movements on social media, I became hyper aware of how beauty is a social construct.”
– Kayce Teo, beauty writer

“Hell, yes!”

 In my 20s, I told myself I’d never get fillers and botulinum toxin injections. I worried about becoming addicted to aesthetic treatments, the possible pain, and that I wasn’t accepting what nature had given me.

I found myself wondering about my own definition of ageing “gracefully”. I believe grace is the ability to think independently, even if it goes