Rewiring Beauty Standards: Embrace the Radiant Glow of Acne
<p>The world is obsessed with beauty standards, especially skin tones and skin textures.</p>
<p>In skin tones, white is considered as beautiful and this concept has been internalized in our brains since childhood. To test the internalization of beauty standards on children’s brains, psychologists <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_and_Mamie_Clark" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Kenneth and Mamie Clarke</a>, husband and wife, invented <strong>“The Doll Test” </strong>in 1940.</p>
<p>This test is used to investigate Black children’s perception of their identity. When the children were given a choice between the black and white dolls, most children preferred white.</p>
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