Victoria Munn is an early-career researcher interested in beauty, bodies, and visual and material culture in early modern Europe, and she has spent much time dissecting and testing the beauty recipes that were circulating in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Victoria recently completed her PhD in art history at the University of Auckland. Entitled Gold, Fox, Jet, Snow: Colouring the Hair in Early Modern Europe, her doctoral thesis analysed the cultural value of hair colour, and hair dyeing culture, in early modern Italy, France and England. Victoria has previously held research fellowships at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Tate Britain, and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.