Beauty

Beauty: why Laura Kennedy is looking forward to her next trip to an airport (and why you should too)

“The airport beauty hall is about heroes,” writes Laura Kennedy

The airport is a funny, liminal sort of place. Part holding facility, part retail experience, it evokes a constant and slightly paranoid thrum of anxiety. Airports make us feel guilty, ambivalent and a bit unsafe, as though we’ll probably get to our destination, but whether we do is ultimately not within our control. Even before the pandemic, the American Center for Treatment of Anxiety and ...