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When interracial couples clash over wedding beauty standards

My partner is Korean and I'm Black and we're planning our wedding photos, but we keep having these tense conversations about makeup and styling because what looks good in their family's eyes versus mine feels impossible to bridge.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love confronts the reality that beauty itself is culturally constructed when two aesthetic worlds must merge.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Desirability and beauty standards across cultures?”

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