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...

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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...

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......

Artist Francesco Vezzoli Shows us What the Ancient Romans Looked Like With Their Makeup On

True Colors (A Marble Relief Head of a Goddess), c.1st century A.D.-2014. Francesco Vessoli It's easy to imagine the ancients in monochrome. Their classic architecture...