One of the more fun and surprising things about blogging is getting invited to swag-erific events. Not very many – Wild Beauty isn’t up there in the numbers, nor is it particularly “PR Friendly” (which is another term for “will write for lip gloss”). And I get anxious when I’m invited – will there be an angle I want to write about? Or am I just going to drink the prosecco and run?
So when Independent Fashion Bloggers invited …
In support of Kjerstin Gruys’ new memoir detailing her year without mirrors, a call was put out for beauty bloggers to take a day off from looking at our reflections. Inspired by both Kjerstin’s book Autumn Whitefield-Madrano’s month long mirror fasts, I decided to take a week without mirrors. And here’s what I found:
1. I missed looking at myself in the mirror. It’s not that the voices in my head are always rah-rah-rah; they run the …
Less than three days into my week without mirrors (inspired by Kjerstin Gruys’ Year Without Mirrors, I noticed that I was feeling really annoyed… I was enjoying reading about Kjerstin’s journey without mirrors, but I was not enjoying my own.
It wasn’t just the inconvenience of putting my contacts in with a tiny speck of reflection, nor was it not having a visual frame of reference before I go out into the world.
I had the feeling …
What would a day be like without looking at ourselves in a mirror? The idea of seeing our own reflections – first thing in the morning, or anytime we want to check something out – is so easy and automatic that we don’t even think of it. Mirrors surround us – in our bathrooms, our bedrooms, and even on the street if we live in a city. The ubiquity of mirrors in our lives mean that we are constantly checking …
The New York Spa and Wellness Show is a trade show featuring the latest equipment and treatment options for spas and skincare salons. From big-name salon skincare to upstart technologies, ideas abound as to what the next big thing will be.
But amidst all the laser equipment and skin imaging technologies, there are the take-home treatments: the extras salons hope will keep their clients’ skin looking its absolute best.
Salons may be the first to offer these options, …
She was called “The Most Beautiful Woman in the World” – and as a Hollywood movie star, Hedy Lamarr was certainly one of the most stunningly beautiful women of the twentieth century. But while she was famous for lighting up the big screen, in private Hedy Lamarr was working on an invention designed to help save the free world.
As a child in Vienna, the young Hedwig Kiesler dreamed of being in the movies – and at sixteen, she …
Any of us who are into fashion and beauty watch Downton Abbey with an eye for the details: the clothes and jewelry, and of course, the hair and (imperceptible) makeup. But I’m also struck by all the beauty and dress rituals going on in the background: the starching of collars, removing of stains, the help bathing and doing hair. Those of us behind the scenes in photography know how much labor goes into a “flawless” look, and that the series …
The modern eyelash curler is iconic – and for those of us in the beauty business, it’s indispensable. It seems simple enough, but the eyelash curler has been through many, many revisions.
Eyelash curling doesn’t seem to have been a big concern for women before the rise of the moving picture. Stage actresses darkened their lashes and brows with burnt cork and greasepaint, but those looks were designed to be seen from afar.
Hollywood changed all that – …
“Man wishes to see himself because he is vain, and he’s afraid to see himself since, being vain, he cannot tolerate the sight of his flaws.” Pierre Nicole, Jansenist Theologian, 1669.
There’s been a lot of talk about mirror fasting and what it means to go without looking at one’s own reflection on a daily basis. Many who do it talk about freeing themselves from constantly checking their appearance – and not just their physical appearance. Autumn Whitefield-Madrano …
Anyone who’s watched a few episodes of The Real Housewives can attest: it’s difficult to decipher emotions on a heavily Botoxed face. Now a new study suggests that Botox may also decrease its users’ ability to perceive the emotions of others. But there’s another irony: as we humans, in our anti-aging quest, get closer to smoothing our faces into inscrutable masks, robots are being built with more of these expressions and quirks. And they’re being built this way so that …
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