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Beauty News, Pic of the Week, Weekly Essentials

Pic of the Week: An Amazing Fashion Show That’s Freakish!

1 Comment 31 January 2012

I saw this in the Huffington Post.  Pretty cool use of digital media and amazing, freaky photos that still make the fashion look awesome.  Have fun checking them out! (Designers of each outfit in order of images: Cover, Christian Dior, 1. Vest by D&G; 2. Dress by Yusuke Maegawa; 3. Gloves by La Crasia; 4. [...]

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Weekend Observations, Weekly Essentials

Weekend Observations: How Much Humiliation Are We Willing to Endure for Beauty?

1 Comment 29 January 2012

Ask my husband.  I’m willing to do so embarrassing things for beauty … most recently, walking around every few weeks with laser scabs on my face the whole past year.  And yet, there are other things that make me feel down right humiliated! Let me ‘splain.  This week I traveled to a few of my [...]

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Week in Review, Weekly Essentials

Week in Review: 1/22-1/28

No Comments 28 January 2012

Fun and productive week for me.  Despite being on the West Coast, we shared quite a bit @Beautyskew: Sometimes the tiniest beauty treatments can change an outcome Weekend Observations: Even the Little Things Make a Huge Difference Wow!  Is this a man or a woman?  Which ever, he looks sensational! Pic of the Week: Wow Andrej [...]

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Beauty News, Week in Review, Weekly Essentials

More to Love: Additions to the Reading List

No Comments 27 January 2012

Some more juicy beauty reading for the weekend (or lunch breaks): Men aren’t just increasing their investment in their own beauty, but are actually increasingly joining the ranks of beauticians. http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/edinburgh/beauty_is_a_man_s_world_1_2014239 Another example of the positive power of beauty: beauticians in California helping cancer survivors feel beautiful again. http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20111216/NEWS01/112160332 No surprise, royal sisters Pippa and [...]

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A Cultural Perspective, Beauty News, Beauty Theories

Stop the nastiness already, Biology doesn’t have to dictate our emotions

1 Comment 26 January 2012

If any of you have taken a basic evolutionary biology course at some point in your lives, you know what’s at the heart of so much “female-on-female” jealousy.  While women are hardwired to want to mate with fewer but greater providers, men are wired to want to mate with as many women as possible.  And [...]

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