Ling Ling Huang’s ‘Natural Beauty’ is our August Book Club pick.
today, her influences when writing, and the best and worst treatments she’s ever received. Check out the conversation below, and order your copy ofpresents the wellness industry as a slippery slope—trends and treatments quickly go from aspirational to encouraging the abandonment of one’s sense of self altogether.
When I was writing this, I was very jaded. I drank the Kool-Aid so hard when I was working at the wellness store. Then, when I started realizing how beauty and wellness had co-opted my entire personality and my attention, I went through some really cynical times. A lot of this book was me navigating that cynicism and trying to make space again to have a relationship with something that I initially really enjoyed.
Now, after writing it, I think I've found more of a balance. I question things that I buy more, and I feel like I'm not as susceptible to marketing gimmicks and trends. Everything that I purchase, I'm trying to honor myself as I am and my ancestors. So I am less jaded now. The wellness industry is as evil as we want to make it—by giving it power—and hopefully this book questions that power. I sometimes joke that this will be a nonfiction book in a few years.
When did you realize that your relationship with beauty and wellness was becoming too consuming, or even unhealthy?, and I work pretty hard not to slide back into that kind of behavior again. Well, I realized I was backsliding. It is so natural for wellness to be entangled with beauty and looking a certain way, and that started affecting me. I was also spending way too much money that I didn't have. I think I went to a concert and I was like,, which had been my career for so long.
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