I will be examining the path of global trends in regards to beauty and track how they ended up in James Joyce’s Ulysses. With this, I will also be considering why Joyce made the decision to include these as well as how it relates to the perception of beauty that Joyce chose to portray in his novel. The main goal of this research is to understand the grasp of the British Empire and the way in which colonialism was used as a vessel to spread various ideas. To track this, I have used Google Earth Pro to identify the starting locations of certain beauty trends and products to help understand how they made their way into Ireland. By using Google Earth Pro, I am able to understand the global reach that certain brands or trends mentioned in Ulysses had, and can reflect on the various paths that led trends into Ireland. I found that this mapping methodology along with an understanding of global comparison flow best with the questions that I would like to further research as they provide a visual representation of the way in which trends traveled from their origin to Dublin as well as make global connections through the ways in which these trends moved across the globe. The main literary text that I will be using in this paper is Ulysses, specifically the “Nausicaa” and “Penelope” chapters. With Molly Bloom and Gerty MacDowell being the only two central female characters, much of my paper will have to do with the ways in which they are depicted by Joyce. The specific ways in which I will use mapping and comparison involves the visual display of travel of trends from different countries into Ireland, and then finding sources to track this travel as well as origins by comparing different global beauty trends at the time that Joyce wrote Ulysses. With the large grasp that Britain had over the world through various colonies during the time that Ulysses was written, the understanding that trends and products could be spread within the network of the British Empire is imperative.