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 [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘week 7’
December 17, 2009
Is it a dress code or a body code?
On Tuesday, I told you about American Apparel instructing female employees on eyebrow grooming. Now, bellasugar is reporting on two cases where elementary school children are in trouble over their hair. A Milwaukee first-grade teacher cut off one of 7-year-old LMya Cammon’s braids when the little girl wouldn’t stop twirling them in class (video above). And [...]
December 16, 2009
The European Facial.
My 600-hour adventure in esthetics school. Read about the project or catch up with Weeks 1-6. We get down to business with the European Facial tonight, with everyone paired up on the spa beds while Miss Jenny perches in a director chair between us to critique our work. The European facial is kind of the [...]
December 15, 2009
A different kind of pageant.
Oh my goodness. Remember how we got all worked up about beauty pageants because of the disturbing baby beauty pageant contestants with their flipper teeth and taxidermied smiles? Then, do you remember how I followed that up with news about the Miss Trans Indian Beauty Pageant — which seems like an amazing celebration, yet still [...]
December 15, 2009
Eyebrows, Made in America. (Glossed Over.)
Glossed Over: Taking a closer look at what advertisers are really selling. I’ve tried so hard to like American Apparel, with its “Made in LA,” sweatshop-free guarantees. Lately, they’ve gotten more press for thinking neon high-waisted leggings are an important fashion statement (they are not) than their pro-worker practices. But they’re still the only clothing [...]
