How Do I Help My Daughter Cope With Impossible Beauty Standards When I Never Did

For my sixteen-year-old daughter getting dressed requires the right fit, hair, face. She possesses piles of clothes, practically collects beauty and hair products. She can rate mascara. “Face masks are soothing,” she says.

She didn’t learn this from me. I’m a wash hair rarely, never blow dry, “no mascara since my twenties and barely then” gal. But she learned this from me as I learn it from her. None of us truly escapes this; by 2025, the global beauty industry is expected to produce revenue...