Beauty Technology

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A Week Without Mirrors

What would a day be like without looking at ourselves in a mirror? The idea of seeing our own reflections - first thing in...

Beauty Inventions: The Eyelash Curler

The modern eyelash curler is iconic - and for those of us in the beauty business, it's indispensable. It seems simple enough, but the...

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...

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...

Botox, Empathy, and the Rise of the Robots

Anyone who's watched a few episodes of The Real Housewives can attest: it's difficult to decipher emotions on a heavily Botoxed face. Now a...

My Writing

Makeovers in the Movies: The Skin I Live In (La Piel Que Habito)

As January ends, it's occurred to me that I haven't posted anything about makeovers. And since January is National Makeover Month (in the US...

A Week Without Mirrors: My Space vs Their Space

Less than three days into my week without mirrors (inspired by Kjerstin Gruys' Year Without Mirrors, I noticed that I was feeling really annoyed......

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...