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Beauty and Culture
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......
Beauty and Culture
The Duty of Beauty: Vanity in Downton Abbey
Any of us who are into fashion and beauty watch Downton Abbey with an eye for the details: the clothes and jewelry, and of...
Miscellaneous
Inside Beauty: Why You Can’t Match Makeup Colors in Magazines
Ever seen the perfect makeup color in a magazine and gone to the counter to buy it? It's never the same color. Or texture....
My Writing
Makeovers in the Movies: Now, Voyager
Makeovers are so often dismissed as superficial - nothing more than a quick romp through some stores and a beauty salon. But quite often...
Do Facial Expressions Rule Emotions? My One-Woman Experiment in the Field, Plus How Botox Could Help Depression
How do our faces convey emotion? Conventional thinking tells us that we smile because something made us happy, or we frown because we're annoyed...
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...