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?
Entries Tagged as ‘Makeup’
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 give [...]
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 model behind the [...]
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 photo department [...]
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 plan for beauty product [...]
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 not [...]
November 19, 2009
the fantasea face.
My 600-hour adventure in esthetics school. Learn about the project, or catch up with Weeks 1 and 2.
We’ve been practicing the daytime face for two weeks now, so tonight, Meg and I are messing around in our FantaSea makeup kits. They’re filled with clever compartments and secret drawers, all fitted with perfectly pressed cakes of [...]
November 18, 2009
career opportunities.
During a back wax, pants should be worn. (This guy is not Frank. And he did it for charity.)
Miss Jenny asks us to go around the room and talk about which field of esthetics we’re most interested in pursuing. Everyone is deciding between being a makeup artist or “medical esthetics,” which is where you work [...]
November 12, 2009
field trip.
My 600-hour adventure in esthetics school. Learn more about the project and catch up with Week 1.
Me. Airbrushed.
Today we pile into Miss Jenny’s SUV and drive over to the fancy mall for a demonstration of the AIRbrush Makeup System by Temptu at Sephora. Miss Jenny has been planning the trip for days, making at [...]
