Freckles - Nimble Spirit

Freckles (ephelides): origins, when do they appear, protect your skin?

Once perceived as signs of witchcraft, freckles are now the must have beauty standards. They intensify as soon as the sun comes up, and gradually fade when winter comes. For some they are a source of complex, but others find them a certain charm, to the point of displaying fake splashes. The point on this … Read more

When Deleuze praised the “exquisite lightness” of freckles

by Janet Freeman

85 Why this new obsession with these small ocher, brown or orange spots? Philosopher Gilles Deleuze succumbed to the charm of these freckles (the learned name for freckles). In a text written less than 20 years ago, Description of the Woman. For a gendered philosophy of others (1944), Deleuze’s thoughts show a surprising contemporaneity. In … Read more