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Additions to the Reading List, Beauty News, Uncategorized, Weekly Essentials

More to Love: Additions to the Reading List

1 Comment 17 May 2013

Some fascinating beauty-in-culture reading!  Take a look: Beauty secrets of geisha revealed http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/on-beauty-bottled-secrets-of-the-geisha/ Brazil celebrates the aging beauty with its own aged-beauty contest…nice going! http://www.skynews.com.au/offbeat/article.aspx?id=871413 Beauty starts from within.  Foods to eat that, well, make you beautiful http://www.thereporter.com.au/news/beauty-that-starts-within-healthy-eating/1854198/ When did the concept of beauty in Japan start? Read this and find out http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/05/12/general/beauty-as-beheld-in-japan-through-the-ages/#.UZGbQ5VQ5jA Any more [...]

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Additions to the Reading List, Beauty News, Uncategorized, Weekly Essentials

More to Love: Additions to the Reading List

No Comments 03 May 2013

What beauty-in-culture news have attracted our attention?  Take a look: The annual beauty contest to raise money for the military is getting criticized, but this time, it’s by men http://spartandaily.com/104362/beauty-bowl-is-not-pretty-to-all No surprise, beauty treatments still flourish despite the recession — even these! http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/the-beauty-market-resists-recession/ How those Dove sketch videos really went viral http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-26/how-those-dove-real-beauty-sketch-ads-went-viral Lots of hoopla [...]

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Beauty News, Uncategorized

Can the Difference between Heavy and Thin Come Down to a few letters?

1 Comment 02 May 2013

According to a recent article in the New York Times, our brains respond to sweet things but not always in the same way.  A research study by the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation and the Yale Diabetes Research Center, explains that there are two types of [...]

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Additions to the Reading List, Beauty News, Weekly Essentials

More to Love: Additions to the Reading List

1 Comment 26 April 2013

Check out the latest beauty-in-culture reading: The ultimate lipstick challenge: a different lipstick shade worn by a blogger every day for 6 months.  Find out what happened. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2311141/Beauty-blogger-documents-pout-different-lipstick-day-months.html?ito=feeds-newsxml The newest anti-aging secret heralded from Japan. http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130417-910746.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Jayne Mansfield: the  maybe the smartest “dumb blonde” you’ve never met http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/18/jayne-mansfield-blonde-bombshell_n_3110418.html?utm_hp_ref=style&ir=Style Ok, this may seem a bit light. [...]

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Beauty News, Uncategorized

Why Naming Gwyneth World’s Most Beautiful is a Good Thing

No Comments 25 April 2013

Breaking News: (well not so breaking in this speedy internet age) People magazine has named 40 year-old Gwyneth Paltrow the World’s Most Beautiful woman. Ok, Ok, don’t snort. Who says People magazine knows squat about beauty.  And what idiotic measures are they using to determine this?  Moreover, can we really say there’s ONE person who [...]

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