FACE VALUE
NEW YORK, NY
MERCHANT 0087
MERCHANT 0087
RHINOPLASTY30,000.00
SEPHORA391.37
NAD1,500.00
HUMAN HAIR2,200.00
CHENOT10,100.00
TAXBEAUTY
TOTAL44,191.37
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YOU'RE NOT UGLY. YOU'RE JUST POOR.
coming soon-ish
You’re Not UglyYou’re Just Poor
A beauty bookby a woman who stopped brushing her hairand learned to bake from Sylvia Plath.
You’re Not Ugly You’re Just Poor follows the money through the modern beauty economy, from the algorithm-fed desire for beauty to the actual injectables, surgery, and wellness routines that can make beauty look genetic. It is about a market that sells a correction for a penalty most of its customers don’t have, at prices structured so the people who would gain most can’t reach it.
The largest study ever run on injectables, with strangers rating the before and after, moved attractiveness by 0.09 points on a seven-point scale.
In seventeen years of cosmetic-endorsement enforcement, the FTC has named two individuals.
The woman financing her nose at 32.99% is chasing a composite. The face she’s paying for belongs to no one, because it was averaged out of millions.
This book isn't telling you what to buy. It's telling you what you're buying.
Lauren Berkley holds a master's in bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania and spent years in the pharmaceutical industry. She founded EllenRx, a patient advocacy platform that helps people decode insurance denials and bills, understand their options, and find funding for the medications they need.