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    Anita Bhagwandas

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    Anita is an award-winning journalist with over 15 years of experience on some of the UK’s biggest magazines. She explores beauty culture and questions the power that pretty privilege has over our lives. She's so passionate about the topic, she has written a book on it called UGLY: Giving Us Back Our Beauty Standards (2023, Blink), which was serialised by The Guardian and Independent and featured by Vogue, Elle, and many more. She's also a beauty columnist for The Guardian Saturday magazine, freelance Beauty Director at Condé Nast Traveller, and contributes to several international publications. 

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