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Undercurrents
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...
featured writing
What is Looking Young Anyway?
On Being Happy – and Beautiful – at One Hundred
Beauty Archetypes: Whores
Mirrors – A Short History
Beauty and Culture
Makeup as Ritual: Man as Art
Beauty and Culture
A Rant on Self Esteem: Must We Always Love Everything About Ourselves?
Beautiful People
Beautiful People: Hedy Lamarr
Beauty Tech and Biz writing
Botox, Empathy, and the Rise of the Robots
Do You Need a PhD to Be Pretty?
Do Facial Expressions Rule Emotions? My One-Woman Experiment in the Field, Plus How Botox Could Help Depression
A Week Without Mirrors, Plus a Review of Kjerstin Gruys’ New Book
Beauty and Culture
Beauty Archetypes: Villainesses
Bad girls - we may fear them, and we're supposed to hate them. But some of us love them! I do, and I know I'm not the only one....
Beauty and Culture
Faces: Thérèse Le Prat
As a makeup artist, I love faces - that goes without saying. But I don't just love a pretty face with makeup on it - there are interesting faces...
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 it seems. Are we in...
Makeup portfolio
dBox for Surface
Nicholas Moore for Jane
Jeff Tse for L’Oreal
Nick Haymes for I-D
David Stesner for Allure
Daniel Gabbay for Teen Vogue
Fabio Chizzola for British Glamour
Jenny Gage/Tom Betterton for German Vogue
Patrick Demarchelier for Glamour
David Stesner for Allure
Walter Chin for Glamour
Frederique Helwig for Teen Vogue – Miami
Kim Myers Robertson for Italian Glamour
Jenny Gage/Tom Betterton for Bergdorf Goodman
Nicholas Moore for Flair
Assorted Beauty