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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...

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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....

Beauty Archetypes: Tattooed Ladies (Part One)

Tattooed Ladies! Even though we missed the circus sideshows that ran from the 1800's well into the twentieth century, the name itself conjures up...

Beauty Archetypes: Tattooed Ladies, Part Two

When we look at Tattooed Ladies, we often think of them in the context of individuality, self-expression, and self-ownership. And in the United States,...