Meli Pennington

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Makeup Portfolio

Frederique Helwig for Teen Vogue – Miami

Beauty Book Reviews

Wild Beauty Booklist: Awesome Beauty Books to Give (or Keep!)

Books make great gifts, and beauty books make even better gifts - at least for the makeup mavens in your life. Here is a...

Makeovers in the Movies

Makeovers in the Movies: My Fair Lady

Every makeover holds some small promise of a new life - as we try a new hairstyle or outfit we might hope for renewed...

Beauty and Culture

Beauty Archetypes: Witches

What is it about Witches? We can't get enough of them. For women they speak to our fantasies of glamour and power, even as...

Beauty and Culture

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...

Beauty and Culture

Makeup as Ritual: Man as Art

We in the beauty business like to think of ourselves as modern - we try the newest products, seek the latest tricks, and read...

Beauty and Culture

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...

Makeovers in the Movies

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...

Beauty and Culture

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...

Beautiful People

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...

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

Assorted Beauty

Nick Haymes for I-D