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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...

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...

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...

Book Review: The Makeup Wakeup

It's easy to assume that the makeup tips we pick up over time will accumulate into an always-better look. But after 40, that assumption...

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....

Book Review: Erotic Capital

We all know people who get by on their looks. For women, that has often been the only way to get ahead. But when...

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...

Camilla Barungi: A New Model of Economics

In the fashion business, there's no shortage of models turned beauty entrepreneurs. The pressure to always look good - plus countless hours spent in...

Book Review: Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change

There is a moment in every woman's life when she passes a mirror and doesn't recognize the person looking back. Maybe it's too many...

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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Lockdowns Destroyed Our Human Energy Exchange Economy and I Want it Back

My husband and I went to a comedy club with friends a few weeks ago. I was afraid to go - would the comedians...
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