Category Archives: Beauty Bytes

Beauty Bytes: April 26, 2013

By Meli | Published: April 26, 2013

Beauty pageant contestants have long been accused of all looking alike. After all, their competition involves reaching towards an “ideal” standard of beauty. But the convergence of beauty ideals plus the ready access to cosmetic surgery may have taken the phenomenon to a new place: contestants in the Miss Korea pageant have been accused of all looking exactly alike. And no, it’s not just Westerners saying it either: in a country where one in five people go under the knife, …

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Beauty Bytes: March 22, 2013

By Meli | Published: March 22, 2013

A lot is made of the fashion industry’s extreme beauty standards, and how women consumers feel pressured to look like thirteen year old girls. But what about the girls themselves? Girl Model is a documentary airing on PBS March 24 (then streaming until April 23) that follows Nadya, a thirteen year old model from rural Siberia, to Tokyo, where she is expected to learn her new trade. Autumn at The Beheld gives a full review of the film, which reveals …

Also posted in Inside Beauty | Tagged Baarde Lunde, Beauty Contest, Cara Silver, Frog, Girl Model, Goat's Town, Gotham City, Gottam, Jan Chipchase, Jordan Almen, Martha Stewart, Model Alliance, New York, NOI.SE, PBS, Pull Yourself Together | Comments closed

Beauty Bytes: March 15, 2013

By Meli | Published: March 15, 2013

Scars: we all have them, and we usually do our best to hide them – the damage makes us feel vulnerable. But there’s healing from telling others our stories. Esther Armah from Emotional Justice is inviting teens of color to share their “scar stories” as part of 30 Days of Fly, an initiative designed to help girls aged 13 to 25 recognize their individual beauty and strength. Launched on March 9, 30 Days of Fly includes a month of …

Posted in Beauty Bytes | Tagged 30 Days of Fly, Ad Makeover, App, Cassie Goodwin, DIY, Dove, Dress Code, Emotional Justice, Esther Armah, Julie Daley, Makeup Museum, Pretty Enough to Eat, Real Beauty, Reluctant Femme, Scar Stories, Sex Industry, Sweet Tooth, Tattoo, The Beheld, Unabashedly Female, XOJane | Comments closed

Beauty Bytes: February 22, 2013

By Meli | Published: February 22, 2013

File under “It took me hours to look this casual”: Los Angeles carpenter Johnny Harrington had been growing his beard on-and-off-again for years, but since the 32 year old was spotted by a modelling agency, his “urban woodsman” look has gone viral. Now that he’s been chosen as the face of U.K. department store John Lewis, he’s admitted that the “hobo-chic” look isn’t as easy to keep up as it seems. He tells the London Evening Standard: “I absolutely …

Posted in Beauty Bytes | Tagged Angelina Jolie, Beayond Buckskin, Burning Hair, Cynthia Sansone, Hobo Chic, John Lewis, Johnny Harrington, Modays at Racine, Rachel DeMolfetto, Those Graces, Tori Locklear, Urban Woodsman | Comments closed

Beauty Bytes: February 8, 2013

By Meli | Published: February 8, 2013

Yo Dawg, I heard you like lookin’ good: the hottest new male model is here, and he’s a 3 year old shiba inu. His site is blowing up, and why not? It’s not just cats that rule the Internet. I just wish I’d thought of it first…Menswear Dog.

Here in New York, we’re in the season where we talk about fashion, models, and body size. If I didn’t know it was Fashion Week, I could tell

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Posted in Beauty Bytes | Tagged Already Pretty, beauty, Fighting Weight, Goop, Gorgeous, Gwyneth Paltrow, Health, Kay Montano, Menswear Dog, New York Times, NYFW, Shiba Inu, The Beheld, Why Models Are So Skinny, Wild Beauty | Comments closed

Beauty Bytes: February 1, 2013

By Meli | Published: February 1, 2013

Say it with me: “Eyelash Jewelry” – it could be the next new thing after 3d nail art. Etsy seller Natalie Russo wanted a more colorful and sturdier alternative to flimsy false eyelashes, so she got out her craft supplies and got to work. Featuring farm animals, fish, and cupcakes, the whimsical bead/wire/polymer clay/feather creations seem like they’d be too heavy, but Natalie says they’re as wearable as false lashes. She tells Fashionista.com ,”If I can’t walk down the …

Posted in Beauty Bytes | Tagged A Bad Marriage is Fattening, Autumn, Classic Beauty, Eyelash Jewelry, Gariella Hernandez, Joan Oshatz, Love Yourself, Natalie Russo, The Beheld, Vintage Makeup | Comments closed

Beauty Bytes: January 18, 2013

By Meli | Published: January 18, 2013

Mostly when people discriminate against others because of their skin color, it’s racist. But what do you do when your own race is weirded out by you? Africans born with albinism face more than just discrimination based on their lack of melanin – in many African countries they are believed to have mystical healing powers. With poachers looking to chop their arms off to sell to witch doctors (yes, really), living “in the skin of a white person”, as Refilwe …

Posted in Beauty Bytes | Tagged African, Albino, Aspasia, beauty, Downton Abbey, Fake Facebook Girlfriend, Lady Edith, Lucie Amundsen, model, Refilwe Modiselle, Thando Hopa, Virtual Makeover | Comments closed

The First Official Portrait of Kate Middleton is Just Awful

By Meli | Published: January 11, 2013

The first official portrait of Kate Middleton has been revealed, and oh boy, what a disaster! The artist, photorealist painter Paul Emsley, told The Mirror he found that the Duchess of Cambridge’s “beauty” made it more difficult to convey her character.

So rather than allow the warmth of her personality to shine through her beauty (the combination endears her even to non-royalty-worshippers like me), he managed to strip down both the beauty and the warmth. What we’re left with …

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Beauty Bytes: December 28, 2012

By Meli | Published: December 28, 2012

Do as I say, not as I do: for those of us who’ve always regarded the pat answers given by beauty pageant contestants as a little forced, there may be real reasons why beauty queens don’t say what’s really on their minds. Former Miss Pennsylvania USA Sheena Monnin has been ordered to pay the Miss USA pageant $5 million for defamation after her remarks that the pageant was fixed. Monnin, whose controversial exit was also tied to the …

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Beauty Bytes: December 14, 2012

By Meli | Published: December 14, 2012

And you thought bee stings were only for lips: A new(ish) trend is growing in Britain for bee-venom facials. The venom is extracted from the bees by keeping them in a glass container and vibrationally “agitating” them to sting (they supposedly keep their stingers in this procedure). An unspecified amount of this venom is included in a cream which is applied during the facial. Danielli Marcelino of the Suddenly Slimmer Med Spa tells reporters that the treatment is a gentler …