Values, Stereotypes, and Big Feelings: Compliments, Part II
Four findings of compliment scholarship.
No, You're So Pretty: Compliments, Part I
In a study of more than a thousand compliments, women accepted compliments from other women 22% of the time. When they came from men? 68%.
Beauty Blogosphere 6.22.12
Fifty Shades of Grey makeup, the world's most beautiful women announced at long last, Big Brother helps you choose your outfit, and more.
Girl Talk
I'm discomfited by my own gendered assumptions about small talk. And where did you get those shoes?
Beauty Blogosphere 6.15.12
NBA stripper heels, Obama's moisturizing plan, Occupy Fashion, and Gisele's search in the slums for Brazil's next top model.
Beauty Blogosphere 6.8.12
Male body image, NASA beauty products, and devastating accusations that the Miss USA pageant is based on something other than "high moral character."
Twenty Places to Get Your Hair Cut
#10: Hair We Are.
Checks/Balances
What happens when you're in the top 1% of the population as far as hours spent reading women's magazines go.
Beauty Blogosphere 6.1.12
Dog pedicures, Africa's first hair show, body lotion "Made in Occupied Palestine," the ever-frustrating xoJane.com, and free Pussy Riot.
You Really Got Me
"Mad Men," erotic capital, and the red-herring desire to "truly own" beauty.
What 36 Looks Like
Is there a Platonic Form for what a thirtysomething is supposed to look like?
Beauty Blogosphere 5.25.12
Beauty and the singularity, bad girls, literary makeovers, and butt-shaped nail polish.
A Partial List of Male Celebrities Who Have Given Or Received Pedicures
The opposite of news.
The Sweet Smell of Sexcess
Chocolate, "naughty virginity," and beauty products: The biggest thing that changed from the 14-year-old me dragging magazine samples of Red Door across my wrists and the 15-year-old me dabbing vanilla onto my neck was firsthand knowledge of what an orgasm was.
Beauty Blogosphere 5.18.12
Pedicure Senate bills, the Avon-Coty saga, the myth of women's razors, and what is surely the stupidest invention of the decade.
"She Was 25 and Curvaceous": The Death of Lorena Xtravaganza
If the New York Times can get away with describing a trans woman as "25 and curvaceous" in the first line of the piece covering her death, that means it only stopped describing all women in those terms because they “had” to.