“I like natural beauty, and touch – I’m into the way things feel.” Maryam Moma is taking natural to a new level. The Tanzanian-Nigerian model came to the United States to study architecture, but while modelling she started formulating skin products with pure unrefined shea butter and herbs. Before long, she had launched Yamerra Skincare, and has just opened her first mini boutique at 12 Lions Studio in New York’s NoHo district.
For Maryam, beauty starts from the inside. “As …
Has the “Most Beautiful Woman in the World” gotten too fat? Aishwary Rai went from Former Miss World title holder to Bollywood Actress, L’Oreal Cosmetics model, and possible global representative for the UN’s girl child campaign. She’s also a new mother to a baby girl, and at 38, hasn’t yet shed the “baby weight”. In a country where starvation is still common, she was one of the first Bollywood stars whose proportions were closer to supermodel thin than to curvier …
Do we create our own identities, or are they created for us? In the age of seemingly infinite aesthetic choices (including surgery), are our physical identities truly fluid, or are they dependent on the stage upon which we perform?
Visiting the Cindy Sherman retrospective at MOMA, there’s a lot to be divined on these questions. Sherman, who has famously cast herself as various personas in self portraits for the past thirty-seven years, has used the genre to explore perception …
Recently I met a Celebrity Dermatologist who gave me quite a lecture on exfoliation, and how I should do more of it. This isn’t the first time a Committed Skin Professional has told me this – I’m a very lackadaisical exfoliator. But amidst the talk of clear pores and light-reflective skin surfaces, I started to wonder: What is this current obsession with shiny-smooth, super exfoliated skin? Does it really look “young”? And really, what is so scary about getting wrinkles?…
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