Victoria Munn is a current PhD candidate in art history at the University of Auckland, researching the cultural value of hair colour and the practical means undertaken to dye hair in early modern Europe. She has previously studied the beauty cultures of early modern England, Italy and France, and spent much time dissecting and testing the beauty recipes that were circulating in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 2019, she was awarded the Brooks Fellowship, in conjunction with the Delfina Foundation and Tate Britain. She is currently based in London, undertaking her research project which focuses on the treatment of women artists in archives and art history.