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Entries Tagged as ‘Makeup’
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.
April 2, 2010
Pretty Price Check (04.02.10)
This week’s Price Check: Avon ladies, a haircut tax, and a hair stylist’s tragic death.
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?
January 7, 2010
Men don’t hate makeup. (Just maybe some women.)
My 600-hour adventure in esthetics school. Read about the project or catch up if you’re behind on the reading. Everyone is in a flutter about this new survey by the Daily Mail, which found that 1 in 5 men with their partner would tone down the makeup, while 1 in 10 guys want women to [...]
December 21, 2009
From the department of nothing tastes as good as thin feels:*
*Except for everything, ever. Instead of “gorging on calories” this holiday season, The Cut encourages you to “satisfy your sweet tooth in a different, fat-free way,” by purchasing Jane Iredale’s Chocoholicks lip gloss gift set for $44. Oy. I guess that’s a helpful diet strategy if you’re sad and hungry like Kate Moss (the pithy wordsmith/awesome role [...]
December 18, 2009
Twiggy, out of fashion. (Glossed Over.)
Glossed Over: Taking a closer look at what advertisements are really selling. Quick props to Salon’s Broadsheet for an incisive analysis of the UK’s decision to ban this heavily-airbrushed Olay eye cream ad, but not to regulate heavy photo retouching more generally. Having worked at fashion magazines (where before/after Photoshop exercises such as this litter [...]
November 30, 2009
The official BSP product policy.
So, what’s wrong with this picture? Why yes, those are some delicious eco-friendly product samples, which just arrived from indie beauty line sumbody (tag lines: “Handmade. Pure. Earth-friendly Skin Care for the Eco-Minded Consumer.”) And they are all packed up in lovely, landfill-clogging, styrofoam peanuts. Oops. This seems like a good time to outline my [...]
November 25, 2009
the makeup practical.
My 600-hour adventure in esthetics school. Learn more about the project, or catch up with weeks 1, 2 and 3. Sometimes, practicing makeup feels like a middle school sleepover. But when we take our Makeup Practical (that’s Beauty U speak for a test that involves a physical demonstration) there’s no talking allowed. We’re suddenly aware [...]
November 24, 2009
the matter of lightening up.
No, it’s not a skin condition or his attempt to woo Twi-hard fans. Sammy Sosa is stepping up to fill the Michael Jackson void as the latest celeb-of-color to become um, less colorful thanks to skin lightening creams. The Root has a great essay on the cultural ramifications of his progression to pale. And Sammy’s [...]
