We Can Do It!: Rosie the Swiffer
Rosie the Riveter was propaganda created to refashion the idea of conventional femininity. Which is exactly how the Swiffer folks were using it.
Beauty Blogosphere 5.31.13
Hair dryer history, pubic hair removal injuries, shaving in space, and more.
Beauty Blogosphere 5.24.13
Procter & Gamble goes back to its Satanic roots, the real-life Barbie Dream House, Sharpie eyeliner, and more.
Do Lipstick Feminists Actually Exist?
Yes, yes, you're a feminist who wears lipstick. But would you call yourself a lipstick feminist, or is she made of straw?
Beauty Blogosphere 5.17.13
Cleopatra's lipstick tips, Bro-sie the Riveter, how to shoplift from Sephora, and Amanda Bynes, Selfie Heroine. And fine, kittens.
Guest Post: Mother's Day
"While it wasn't only the teens who were questioning authority in the '60s, we teens were in the fashion and styling vanguard—or so we thought."
Beauty Blogosphere 5.9.13
Hair color history—and the end of gray hair—underwear week 2013, and perfume to "shatter traditional notions of gender."
Mirror Binge
"Mirror fasting" led me to believe that what we see in the mirror isn't how we look, but how we feel. Mirror binging showed me it wasn't quite so easy.
Dove "Real Beauty" Redux
The Dove Real Beauty campaign exploits women's self-esteem for its own purposes. That is: It's doing exactly the same thing as the ads it claims to be so different from.
Beauty Blogosphere 4.26.13
The United States Senate's greatest hair threat, roadside pedicures, the gray cosmetics market, and Mitt Romney-colored nail polish.
Guest Post: Gone Swimmin'—African American Women and Hair
Combine the stereotype about how black folks don't swim with the stereotype of women being obsessed with their hair, and we've got a problem.
Beauty Blogosphere 4.19.13
Barbie sans makeup, the cosmetics kit for curing eye chlamydia, Gaza hair rebels, and nipple tattoos.
One Narrative Fits All
In the branded content from Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty, we find a template for women's relationship with beauty that's just as rigid as the standard it's challenging.
Beauty Blogosphere 4.12.13
The world's most beauty-based art collection, Barbie shrines, Lizzie Wurtzel's beauty tips, and more.
Bookin' It
A piece of news that I'm excited about, personally and professionally: I'll be spending the next year writing a book on beauty, to be published…
On POTUS's Benign Sexism
The act of observation changes that which is being observed. Which, when you're the attorney general of California, is problematic.