Belated Price Check on American Apparel, reverse retouching, and more.
Entries Tagged as ‘Glossed Over.’
June 4, 2010
Pretty Price Check (06.04.10)
Thanking Rue McClanahan for being a friend; Iranian women on cosmetics, More beauty labor research, dimple implants, and more.
May 28, 2010
Pretty Price Check (05.28.10)
Hooters waitress told to lose weight, women still fighting for spots on beauty company boards, the Seventeen Magazine Project, and more.
April 28, 2010
[Glossed Over] Don’t call COVERGIRL’s contest winner “Mustache Girl.”
CoverGirl wants you to know that “pretty can be funny.” No kidding — now how about the rest of us?
April 15, 2010
[Glossed Over] Britney Spears is hot. (With and without her cellulite.)
Britney Spears let Candies release her photos sans-retouching. Is this a helpful feminist statement or a desperate ploy for media coverage? Discuss.
April 8, 2010
[Glossed Over] The skinny on J. Crew.
J.Crew throws women under the bus in more ways than one; hopes you’ll still want a pair of wicked cute capris for spring.
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?
February 17, 2010
[Beauty Overheard] Another fine reason to go Team Jacob.
Well here’s Robert Pattinson on surviving the cover shoot for the March issue of Details: “I really hate vaginas. I’m allergic to vagina. But I can’t say I had no idea, because it was a 12-hour shoot, so you kind of get the picture that these women are going to stay naked after, like, five [...]
February 9, 2010
It’s okay to look different. As long as different means the same. [Glossed Over]
Hooray! The trend of “photographing naked women to pretend we care about body image issues” continues today, with the latest issue of LOVE Magazine hitting newsstands across the UK. For its third annual “Fashion Icons” special issue, LOVE shot eight different covers, depicting eight naked supermodels in the same pose. As LOVE editor-in-chief Katie Grand [...]
February 1, 2010
Pretty Price Check & Beauty Schooled on Feminist Blogs! (02.01.10)
Why did Rainbow Brite need to grow up and get Barbie-fied? Find out at Feministing, one of many great blogs in the Feminist Blogs network. Big news, sports fans! I’m so pleased to announce that Beauty Schooled is going into syndication, joining the ranks of Feministing, Feministe.us, Gender Across Borders and tons of other provocative, [...]
