For the past few days, I had been seeing articles pop up on my feed about Zimbabwe’s “Beauty Without Brains Syndrome.”  While pageant stories show up a lot in my feed, recurrence of this “syndrome” intrigued me. Here’s the story: in a Zimbabwe pageant, beauty contestant after beauty contestant was coming up short – way [...]

@Beautyskew was in full force this week: While I haven’t gone through a total on-camera transformation, I started using a few tricks Weekend Observations: Applying the Lessons An honest, raw perspective on modeling from a model/TED speaker Behind the Image: An Honest & Bright Model’s Story From aging beauty contests to a history of beauty [...]

I was taken in by this TED talk: What You Didn’t Know About the Modeling Industry.  Unlike some of the overly scary (but true) stories about how horrible the industry is — it leads to anorexia, fuels major competition and expresses intense age-ism, this story is an honest, thoughtful and raw perspective by model Cameron [...]