Month: November 2025
I paid €5,000 to be a ‘skin flare’ technician. They Tried to Make Me a Criminal Instead.
The sun is soft and warm as it filters through the ornate ironwork of the bandstand in Jardim da Estrela, a tranquil public park in Lisbon. We are meeting Julia Babikova here, away from the sleek glass and concrete of the city’s business districts, for a reason: her story is about the dangerous illusion of