Lockdowns Destroyed Our Human Energy Exchange Economy and I Want it Back

My husband and I went to a comedy club with friends a few weeks ago. I was afraid to go - would the comedians be funny? Or would we be sitting...

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Beautiful People: Jane Iredale

Working as a makeup artist, I'm familiar with the extremes of what can be put on a face. Plastic glitter, sequins, acrylic paint, theatrical adhesives... sometimes it gets a...

Inside Beauty: 7 Reasons Why Models are so Skinny

As a makeup artist, I get a lot of questions about models from my non-industry friends. And most of these have to do with fashion's requirement for thin models:...

The French Beauty Secret Magazines Won’t Write About

We're all familiar with the articles and books about French women's beauty secrets. The secret moisturizers, the insouciance, the je ne sais quas - we in America are held...

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