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Beauty and Culture
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...
Beauty and Culture
Mirrors – A Short History
"Man wishes to see himself because he is vain, and he's afraid to see himself since, being vain, he cannot tolerate the sight of...
Beauty and Culture
Makeup as Ritual: Man as Art
We in the beauty business like to think of ourselves as modern - we try the newest products, seek the latest tricks, and read...
Beauty and Culture
Could Wearing Makeup Make You Better at Everything?
When I tell a "serious-minded" person about my business, there's an automatic assumption - often stated - that my job involves making stupid people...
Beauty and Culture
Is Photoshop an Enemy of Feminism?
There's been a lot of press coverage of Seventeen Magazine's "body peace treaty" lately, and I've been getting questions about it myself. What do...
Beautiful People
Makeup as Performance: Cindy Sherman
Do we create our own identities, or are they created for us? In the age of seemingly infinite aesthetic choices (including surgery), are our...
Beauty and Culture
Who’s Afraid of Wrinkles?
Recently I met a Celebrity Dermatologist who gave me quite a lecture on exfoliation, and how I should do more of it. This isn't...
Beauty and Culture
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...
Beautiful People
Makeup as Ritual: The Sadhus of Nepal
Living in the Western world, it's easy to take our participation with cosmetics for granted. Whether we use makeup to smooth and conceal, or...
Beauty and Culture
Medieval Mean Girls: Vanity as Morality (or Lack Thereof)
Vanity gets a bad rap in popular folklore: from Cinderella to The Devil Wears Prada, the bad girls are usually the vain, superficial, and...
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Beauty and Culture
Is Wearing Makeup Unvirtuous?
Quite often when I tell another woman that I'm a makeup artist, she'll respond with an immediate confession about her makeup habits. "I don't...
Beautiful People
Chantelle Brown-Young & Desigual Bust Through Another Beauty Barrier
Beauty acceptance has hit a new level with Desigual's hiring of Chantelle Brown-Young for their Autumn 2014 campaign. Brown-Young, who models under the name...
Beautiful People
Painted Ladies: Madame X
To us in the 21st century, masterworks in painting convey a classicism and elegance that seem nonexistent in the modern world. But in the...