Meli Pennington

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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...

Behind the Scenes with Vikings Makeup Artist Tom McInerney

Anyone who mentions the TV series Vikings around me knows I'm a big fan. It's got everything: History! Violence! Men in Leather! And that's...

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...

Painted Ladies: Adele Bloch-Bauer, Gustav Klimt’s “Woman In Gold”

She was the Mona Lisa of Austria - her mysterious beauty enthralled everyone who saw her. For years, she was simply called the Woman...

A Rant on Self Esteem: Must We Always Love Everything About Ourselves?

If you haven't heard, Facebook has removed its "feeling fat" emoticon this week, apparently in response to online petition that gathered 16,000 signatures. The...

Photographing a World of Everyday Beauty

It's not really news that there are beautiful people everywhere, is it? And not just because we're surrounded by Photoshopped images of perfection, either....

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...

Jodi Hilton Captures The Beauty of the Last Tattooed Women of Kobane

While documenting the war between Syrian Kurds and Islamic State fighters, photojournalist Jodi Hilton got the idea to make a portrait series of Syrian...

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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...
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