Tag archive for "Boomers"

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Additions to the Reading List, Beauty News, Weekly Essentials

More to Love: Additions ot the Reading List

No Comments 30 September 2011

How are Boomers changing the face of fashion? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivian-diller-phd/fashion-for-the-ages_b_957543.html Even disposable fashion is getting more expensive, yikes! http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/sep/13/rising-cost-of-clothes The latest anti-aging craze: sucking your blood and reinserting it. http://www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/issues/20110908/Sucks+be+old UK school has removed mirrors in girls bathrooms to curb make-up obsession.  Fair or not? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2036958/Shelley-College-removes-mirrors-girls-toilets-stop-pupils-putting-make-up.html Have a laugh and watch how this Bangkok beauty salon [...]

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A Cultural Perspective, Beauty News

Older Women Can Totally Be Hot!

2 Comments 01 September 2011

MSNBC that despite an aging beauty/fashion magazine readership, the models featured are so much younger.  Case in point, 1/5 of all Vogue readers are over the age of 50 but the magazine has only featured one model over the age of 40 (Halle Berry) in the past year.  And physicians are pointing to this fact [...]

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Beauty News, Week in Review

Week in Review 7/31-8/6

No Comments 06 August 2011

Have a read of what we discussed this week: How my mom’s looks inspire me Weekend Observations: Looking Awesome in Your 60′s Louis Vuitton’s latest drool-worthy but practical new fashion Pic of the Week: When Utility and Sex-Appeal Marry A debate over beauty treatments for girls Are Beauty Treatments For Young Girls Such a Bad [...]

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A Cultural Perspective, Weekend Observations

Weekend Observations: You Want to Criticize? Bring it On!

1 Comment 27 February 2011

“You’re judgmental.” “What’s so hard to understand about people’s relationship to beauty?  It’s obvious!” Me: “Some could think I’m vapid.” “Yes, they’d be right.” These were some of the reactions I got this weekend when I described my blog to a woman in her 60’s (whom I respect a lot, btw). I was actually surprised [...]

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A Cultural Perspective, Beauty News

Have You Had That “Oh Shit” Moment Yet?

No Comments 05 January 2011

I have.  It happened when I turned 36. What am I referring to?  It’s that moment that Vivian Diller and Jill Muir-Sukenick describe in their new book, Face It, as the time a woman realizes something ain’t right with the world.  After digging in deeper, she realizes she’s been struck by the fact that she’s [...]

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