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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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

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 Archetypes: Witches

  What is it about Witches? We can't get enough of them. For women they speak to our fantasies of glamour and power, even as...

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...