Beauty Technology
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Beauty Technology
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......
My Writing
Vintage Makeup Workshop with Gabriela Hernandez, Creator of Bésame Cosmetics
There's a lot to love about Old Hollywood movies: the dialogue is fantastic, the sound effects are minimal, and the stars aren't likely to...
Last-Minute Gift Book Ideas for the Beauty Maven who has Everything
Have you finished your holiday shopping? Probably not, unless you're incredibly organized. And even so, there are always a few people who aren't that...
Wild Beauty Booklist: Awesome Beauty Books to Give (or Keep!)
Books make great gifts, and beauty books make even better gifts - at least for the makeup mavens in your life. Here is a...