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Do You Need a PhD to Be Pretty?

Most of our beauty products are, at their essence, quite simple - if you look at your stash of makeup, and notice that much...
Beauty Technology

This Makeup Artist Went to Work for a Tech Startup and Here’s What Happened

For a while here at Wild Beauty, I was posting on the regular - I'm more than a little obsessed with the the broader...
Beauty Technology

The Future of Facials? Trying Skin Laundry’s Ten Minute Laser Facial

You wouldn't be surprised if I told you that as a makeup artist, I love great skin. And you might think that I'd be...
Beauty and Culture

Is Your Makeup Killing You? Decoding Cosmetic Scare Stories

You've seen the stories: There's Lead in Your Lipstick! Pthalates in Your Shampoo! Parabens in Everything!   Our cosmetics are awash in toxic chemicals, or so...
Beauty and Culture

Do Facial Expressions Rule Emotions? My One-Woman Experiment in the Field, Plus How Botox Could Help Depression

How do our faces convey emotion? Conventional thinking tells us that we smile because something made us happy, or we frown because we're annoyed...
Beauty Book Reviews

Cult Favorites: Miss Craig

It's easy to make fun of vintage beauty regimens - any beauty fiend who's watched George Cukor's 1939 classic The Women is mesmerized by...
Beauty Technology

Beauty Inventions: The Hair Dryer

What would life be like if we couldn't dry our hair at will? In the 21st century, we take our clean, styled-if-we-want-it hair for...
Beauty and Culture

Creating Characters for Epic The Movie: Why Perfection is Overrated (Even in Hollywood!)

One of the more fun and surprising things about blogging is getting invited to swag-erific events. Not very many - Wild Beauty isn't up...
Beauty and Culture

A Week Without Mirrors, Plus a Review of Kjerstin Gruys’ New Book

In support of Kjerstin Gruys' new memoir detailing her year without mirrors, a call was put out for beauty bloggers to take a day...
Beauty and Culture

A Week Without Mirrors: My Space vs Their Space

Less than three days into my week without mirrors (inspired by Kjerstin Gruys' Year Without Mirrors, I noticed that I was feeling really annoyed......
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Beauty and Culture

Does Makeup Hurt Self-Esteem? Is The New York Times Sexist for Asking?

The New York Times published - on its "room for debate" page - a by authors with various viewpoints about makeup and self-esteem....
Makeovers in the Movies

Makeovers in the Movies: Grease

There's nothing like the vicarious thrill we get when we see a makeover in a movie. In the blink of an eye, a made-over...
Beauty and Culture

The “Yoga Body”

We see them everywhere: some are serene, blissful, meditating in drugstore fliers. Others - lithe visions of feminine happiness, stretching in yogurt and maxi...

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