Let me tell you about the biggest sacrifice I’ve made for this project thus far: Sitting through all twenty minutes of Vh1’s season premiere of Jessica Simpson’s The Price of Beauty. This show is one hot mess.
Entries Tagged as ‘Beauty Schooled’
March 19, 2010
Beauty Schooled on Crazy Sexy Life!
Hello and welcome to new readers coming over from my guest post on Crazy Sexy Life!
March 18, 2010
Join Beauty Schooled for the next Feminist Carnival: Beauty Edition! [Deadline March 29]
I’m so excited to announce that Beauty Schooled will be hosting Feminist Carnival No. 16: Beauty Edition on Wednesday, March 31.
As you might recall, I participated in Feminist Carnival No. 11 over at Gender Across Borders back in January. It was so much fun that I decided to get in on the hosting action myself. [...]
March 17, 2010
[Glossed Over] COVERGIRL says beauty is the victim.
Drew Barrymore and a whole bunch of celebrities and beauty bloggers are on board with COVERGIRL’s new “Stand Up For Beauty” Campaign, claiming lip gloss’s ability to put a smile on your face as an inalienable feminist right. Where to even begin?
March 16, 2010
Salty goodness.
The salt scrub might be the one spa treatment that isn’t about perfecting you or fixing you in some major way. Sure, we’re getting off the dead skin so you feel soft and smooth, but that’s all, folks. We’re not making you skinnier or changing the shape of your eyebrows or using this as an opportunity to sell you wrinkle cream or tell you how clogged your pores are.
March 15, 2010
Trade schools scam students and taxpayers like you.
The New York Times says for-profit trade schools are raking in beaucoup tuition bucks, taking advantage of desperate-for-work students and federal financial aid programs alike. I weigh in from ground zero: Beauty U.
March 11, 2010
[Tip Jar] Client #3 likes me; she really likes me.
I’ve decided to start a new blog category called “Tip Jar,” where we’ll track how much I make in tips working on clients at Beauty U. And because tips make up such a huge portion of the average salon worker’s income and because they are so entirely subjective and at the whim of the client, we’ll also spend some time exploring what went into each tip — or lack of tip, if/when that happens.
March 9, 2010
Miss Jenny Quits Part 2: The Crackdown Begins.
With Miss Jenny gone, the remaining teachers decide that its time for us to hear about everything we’ve been doing wrong under her tutelage.
March 5, 2010
Pretty Price Check (03.05.10)
Eyelash junkies, blood is the new Botox, RIP on the Colorado Safe Personal Care Products Act, and more.
