Global Vanity Fair: How Makeup Conquered the World One Insecurity at a Time
**The Global Face-Paint: How a 6,000-Year-Old Scam Still Sells Hope in a Tube** By the time the first kohl-rimmed Egyptian corpse was unearthed, humanity had already discovered its favorite pacifier: a colored paste that whispers, “You’re almost adequate.” From the pharaohs’ arsenic-laced kohl to Seoul’s 12-step “glass-skin” regimens, makeup has always been the world’s most…