My thighs, and four million people.

The Manic Pixie Dream Fund, beautiful witches of Japan, the life of a perfume "nose," and how to use your blow-dryer for auto body work.

"Is it possible you're a little afraid to be on—in the limelight—every single day?" On Helen Gurley Brown, and the woman who works it.

Olympian butts, anti-ogle goggles, romantic regrets, aging supermodels, and the last bastion of female-centric beauty.

Kinky & Carl E. Stranz, the link between vegetarianism and eating disorders, 15-year-old lip gloss, and a shapeshifting beauty-boutique thief.

Glamour bonnets, the great eyelash courtroom drama, domestic violence awareness in hair salons, the Icelandic Phallological Museum, and more.

  If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’re well aware of my admiration for Sally McGraw, the mind behind Already…

What Mary Kay workers hope will be flexibility turns out to be precarity—the very thing that prevents many of us from “fulfilling our dreams” or “reaching for the stars” or any of the bootstraps-happy talk we’re led to believe is the key to success.

Fashion in academia (elbow patches!), the "pink pyramid" of Mary Kay, and nun beauty pageants.

The major beauty company that's tap dancing for Romney, Will Smith's "mythic phallic power", My Little Brony, and the shocking truth about horizontal stripes.

Why was my annual month without mirrors so excruciatingly difficult this time around?

Jon Bon Jovi perfume, Miss Holocaust Survivor, Siberian body image tips, and the missing link to women's independence.

Compliments given from men to women are received differently than woman-to-woman sweet nothings—complicated all the more so when romance enters the picture.

Hunka hunka sexist love, exclusively plus-size gyms, the trouble with fitspo, and Hello Kitty collagen marshmallows.