"beauty-myth" Articles & Blogs:
Gisele Bündchen at the Annenberg: “I Am My Worst Critic”
| Photographer Nino Muñoz (L) and model Gisele Bündchen pose at the opening night of 'Beauty Culture' at the Annenberg Space for Photography on May 19, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)Last night in Los Angeles,...[Read on] |
Danica Patrick joins the celebrity fragrance circuit
| IndyCar
driver, Danica Patrick, recently announced that she will be joining the NASCAR
racing circuit. But it’s not only her racing that fans have to look forward to,
as Patrick is also on track to launch her own fragrance this year.
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Fragrances, an ...[Read on] |
What’s a “Sorority Girl” like? Break the Stereotype and See the Woman
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Sorority girl: the name carries with it a slew of both positive and negative connotations. Though many sororities are founded on high moral standards, the most widely-held perceptions about its members reflect the complete opposite and can be harmful.Let&...[Read on] |
With a Nod to the Past, Estée Lauder Launches a Super-Cream
| Left, an ad for the original Re-Nutriv cream, which was launched in 1956. Right, Estée Lauder’s Re-Nutriv Ultimate Lift Age-Correcting Cream, new this year.Mrs. Estée Lauder with her granddaughter, Aerin, who is now the senior vice pre...[Read on] |
What We Missed: Health Care Reform Addition
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<object width="512" height="328" class></object>Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
The health care debates are making me feel more ambivalent about politics than I have in a while. Enjoy some better babbling on the topic.
Wil...[Read on] |
A Practicing Omni-Sexual Weighs In on Miss California, Gay Rights and Perez Hilton
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Mr. wOw vents about the brouhaha at the beauty pageantMr. Wow Blasts Perez Hilton | 05/01/2009 4:15 pm
Editor’s Note: Mr. Wow writes upon occasion for wOw. He is the ultimate Hollywood insider who live-blogged Oscar night for us. Today he dro...[Read on] |
Women Only Pink Cabs Provide Safety and a Beauty Kit In Mexico City
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No, this pink car has nothing to do with Breast Cancer Awareness. Instead its intended to keep women safe in a different way but I’m not sure if this is an incredibly sexist or incredibly smart idea. Mexico has figured out a way to curb sexual haras...[Read on] |
Part II: Clarifying the Myth About Exercise
| If you didn’t read the TIME magazine cover article which stated that exercise is basically a waste of time and doesn’t help people lose weight, my blog critique of the article, or the very insightful comments of blog readers (particularly Jenny Ev...[Read on] |
Susan Boyle: 10 Tips for Taking Off 20 Years, by a Top Beauty Editor
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Let’s be honest: At 47, Susan Boyle looks 67. Charla Krupp suggests ten ways she can take 20 years offMakeover Tips for Susan Boyle | 04/28/2009 5:00 pm
Editor’s note: Charla Krupp wrote the essential 2008 bestseller How Not to Look Old, whi...[Read on] |
Q&A;: Marianne Faithfull Doesn’t Like to Talk About the Rolling Stones
| Marianne Faithfull. By Patrick Swirc.Depending on the era in which your playlist resides, you know Marianne Faithfull as a beautiful, blonde pop ingenue on the arm of Mick Jagger (60s), a strung-out New Waver with a cigarette hanging from her lips (80s), ...[Read on] |
Her beliefs hurt women
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Christine O'Donnell: Believes Creationism should be taught in schools and given equal time to Evolution. Believes a woman does not have the right to choose and should submit to her husband. That's right, she's advocation for a 1950's social model which op...[Read on] |
America's Next Top Model Contestant Over 6 Feet Tall and Weighs Less Than 100 Lbs.
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Wow.
This isn't right: she's 6'2 , weighs less than 100 pounds, and shows up to audition for Tyra Banks' ANTM in a corset. Um...wat?
Time for this show, which has tried so hard in recent season to break color and beauty norms in the fashion industry (...[Read on] |
Princess Eugenie Learns the Pitfalls of Social Networking
| Prince Andrew, Duke of York, has reportedly been entertaining 25-year-old model Alexandra Escat in his private apartment. This summer, Escat caught our eye when she was spotted getting cozy with the Prince on a yacht. (We unearthed one of her old commerci...[Read on] |
The hot new color for beauty? Green.
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Everyday women have to make choices regarding their appearance.
What jeans will make your legs look two feet longer? What shirt will hide that extra five pounds? What shoes will hurt your feet less? What kinds of beauty products should you use ...[Read on] |
Does Fashion Deserve To Be In a Museum?
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At any given moment, there are at least a dozen fashion displays and exhibits going on around the world. Most recently, I saw the Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty exhibit at The Met and had no hesitation about considering it art, but I did start to wonder,...[Read on] |
Despite Myth, Anorexics Do Become Pregnant
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(WOMENSENEWS)--As a child with anorexia, I was too young to worry about losing my period.
But many of the older girls and women in my treatment center believed the loss of a regular period was a perk to the potentially deadly illness. With the loss of th...[Read on] |
One Step Closer to Stepford
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The New Beauty Magazine advocates plastic surgery as the sole way to become “beautiful”. In the current issue Megan Fox’s face is dissected using Leonardo da Vinci’s rule of thirds to summarize “why she is hot”. Essenti...[Read on] |
Highly religious states have top teen birth rates
| A new study shows that states that skew towards more conservative religious beliefs tend to have higher rates of teenage girls giving birth. (Shocking, I know.)
Researcher Joseph Strayhorn of Drexel University College of Medicine and University of Pitts...[Read on] |
Anne Rice has left the building
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That building would be the Catholic Church. Rice was never exactly the follower the Catholic Church dreams of. She’s known primarily for either the seriously sexual Vampire Chronicles (the first of which was written the year Stephanie Me...[Read on] |
Beauty Mega-house Lancôme Ends Its 75th-Anniversary Year with a Big Bang
| To celebrate Lancôme's 75th anniversary, the brand is launching a celebratory bottle of its classic scent Tresor. Above, Penélope Cruz stars in the fragrance campaign, shot by Mario Testino.Lancôme's Tresor. Looking back over Lancô...[Read on] |
Spotlight on Alexis Wolfer: Beauty guru changing the industry with The Beauty Bean
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Full of sass and intrigue, one woman’s creation is aiming to make a revolution in the world of beauty and of women’s magazines.
Alexis Wolfer, a 25-year-old founder and CEO, created The Beauty Bean, an online beauty and health women’s magazine. La...[Read on] |
Autobiograhy of Red: A Verse Novel
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Today, we have only fragments of Stesichorus’ original masterpiece, Song of Geryon, which tells the story of Herakles’ Tenth Labor and the death of the red-winged monster, Geryon. In Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson retells the myth with a modern twi...[Read on] |
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty Exhibit at the Met in NYC
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I previously blogged about the opening of the Alexander McQueen exhibit and the fashion extravaganza that is the Met Gala, but the exhibit itself deserves an entry all its own. There are people who are undeservingly called “genius” and “...[Read on] |
Clarifying “The Myth About Exercise”
| Every Saturday I look forward to the TIME magazine in my mail. I know I can read it all online, but there is something satisfying about print media. As someone trained in sport science (aka, Kinesiology) this week’s cover story by John Cloud ...[Read on] |
National Love Your Body Day
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A headline from the Tucker Center blog alerted me to the fact that today is Love Your Body Day. The Tucker Center, by the way, is a think tank at the University of Minnesota that studies girls and women in sport. Lots of great resources and definitely...[Read on] |
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