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: Way Bandy

To call him a beauty pioneer is no overstatement: Way Bandy was the first superstar makeup artist. And for photographic makeup techniques, you could say he started it all... When...

Stealing Beauty: On Cultural Appropriation in Fashion

If there's any constant in fashion, it is that it always changes. And part of that change is fashion's taking of inspiration from every time and place that it...

War Paint

Do you watch Vikings? I'm totally hooked, and between the violent clashes between cultures (and the costume details), I've been musing about Floki's eyeliner.   Fierce is a word that's been...

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