Entries Tagged as ‘Happenings’

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.

May 18, 2010

Field Trip to the Makeup Show.

The Makeup Show report and thoughts on why “professional products” cost so darn much.

May 14, 2010

Pretty Price Check (05.14.10)

Secret toxins in celebrity perfumes, the dress size mystery continues, the Today Show ditches makeup, and more.

May 7, 2010

Pretty Price Check (05.07.10)

Mannequins, big bras, breast cancer survivors and more.

March 22, 2010

[Fun with Press Releases] Forget Stupak. It’s all about boob jobs.

Because sometimes, the beauty industry just goofs.
(Attention journalist friends: If you get a hilarious beauty press release, do send it to me at beautyschooledproject [at] gmail [dot] com. We’ll run them here with all names and contact info X-ed out to protect the not-quite-innocent.)

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 1, 2010

Abercrombie wants you! (Just skinnier, blonder, less Muslim.)

Dear readers, please forgive this short post. Beauty U has been closed four days in a row due to the recent weather/power outage insanity, so I’m fresh out of school news. But now that I’ve got interweb access restored, I did want to pop on and direct your attention to Jezebel’s great piece on Abercrombie [...]

February 24, 2010

On the matters of tanning and toxins. [Government Watch]

The tanning industry is at odds with the rest of the beauty industry. But is this debate distracting from the need for toxic chemical law reform?

February 16, 2010

The other kind of Brazilian beauty.

Last week, I had my first brush with a Brazilian bikini wax. Well, let’s face it, I just overheard other people learning how to do one and I pretty much broke out in hives — but don’t worry, my turn to wield the wax is coming up in a few weeks, and you’ll get every [...]

January 11, 2010

Are you green, glam and gorgeous?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/jan/08/miss-earth-2010