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Beauty Bytes: 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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Beauty Bytes: December 7, 2012

Guess it had to happen: with the rise of “healthy at any size”, there is now a fearful backlash by one woman who is worried that fit people are now being stigmatized. Britton Delizia is a Las Vegas fitness model who is sick and tired of being told to “eat a sandwich”, and has started a Kickstarter to raise funds for a book to fight the stigma of being a fit woman. Now I know that my skinny friends get …

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Beauty Bytes: November 23, 2012

People make a Big Deal about the homogenization of beauty standards as beauty and fashion go global, but there’s also a countertrend lately of alternative models. Casey Legler had been an Olympic swimmer before she found her way into working as an artist, but along the way she’s been experimenting with her looks – and becoming friends with photographers as well. So when Cass Bird asked her to pose as the man in a fashion spread, well, why not? Now …

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Beauty Bytes: October 19, 2012

Be careful taking the bus today – Barbie Flu is catching! In Odessa, Ukraine, there are now three(!) young women who’ve self-recreated themselves as the iconic doll. First it was Valeriya Lukyanova (aka”Amatue“), whose surgical modifications helped create her own fairy tale reality (she also teaches astral projection). Now two more “Barbies” have emerged: Valeriya’s friend, Olga Oleynik (“Domenika”) has also had surgeries to accentuate her otherworldliness. And 19 year-old makeup and hair artist Anastasiya Shpagina (“Anime”, pictured …

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Beauty Bytes: September 21, 2012

Did Maybelline rip off a New York graffiti artist? New Yorkers are familiar with (and mostly amused by) Patrick Waldo’s calligraphic “moustache” written on poster faces in the subway. Now the “Moustache Man” is facing the dark side of fandom: unlicensed copying. First, Zara had one of their designers place a “moustache” on a skull for a t-shirt. And now Maybelline has a calligraphic “eyeliner” on one of their ads. Waldo, who has stopped his tagging after …

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Beauty Bytes: August 23, 2012

People don’t usually think of makeup artists as card-carrying feminists, but most of us working behind the scenes in fashion, music, and advertising are just that. What’s the connection between lipgloss and feminism? Super-Top makeup artist and Chanel Brand Ambassador Kay Montano pays tribute to Helen Gurley Brown and Cosmopolitan Magazine on her site: kaymontano.com.

 

  • Former makeup artist and current style columnist Rachel Weingarten shares her personal experiences with Helen Gurley Brown, as well as life and beauty
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