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 …
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 …
Books make great gifts, and beauty books make even better gifts – at least for the makeup mavens in your life. Here is a list of some of my favorites this year. (And yes, if you buy from these links you’ll be contributing to my beauty book fund for next year!)
A list of beauty books has to start with a book of pure makeup porn – the kind of makeup you might never wear, but whose mere existence …
Is there a connection between beauty and danger? Maria Susana Flores Gámez is the latest Mexican beauty queen to be connected to the country’s drug gangs, dying in a shootout against the Mexican army. Unfortunately, it appears to be a trend: in her state of Sinaloa, home to a powerful drug cartel, at least three other title holders have been linked to druglords and even drug crimes themselves. And in Sinaloa’s capital city of Culiacan, a beautiful woman is said …
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 …
Kate Moss baby pictures up for auction! Before models go super, they have to get some pictures done to show how they photograph. These “test” shots usually get buried by later work, since most girls don’t know how to pose when they first start in the business. But for Kate Moss, whose enduring appeal is partly due to the fact that she’s, well, Kate, there’s a sense of how fresh she is, even in her first ever photoshoot. Signed …
Every makeover holds some small promise of a new life – as we try a new hairstyle or outfit we might hope for renewed attention from outside ourselves – or we might feel bolder while going after our own desires. But is it possible to take the makeover too far? What happens when we change so much our old lives don’t make sense anymore?
My Fair Lady, the delightful movie musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s hit play …
Warning: graphic images of self love! Oops, too late – Harvey Nichols, one of Patsy and Edina’s favorite shops on AbFab, is opening a three-storey Beauty Bazaar in Liverpool, and they’ve just released the advertising artwork. With the slogan “Love Thyself” and mirror images of a model in graphic eyeliner moving in for a kiss with herself, the photo straddles the line between self love and, well, self love. The store, which will be 22,000 square feet large, will …
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 …
What is it about Witches? We can’t get enough of them. For women they speak to our fantasies of glamour and power, even as we fear their negative connotations. But why do we have all this imagery of witches? And what are witches, really?
For quite a long time, “Witch” (in Europe, at least) was sort of a blanket term for various practitioners – herbalists, midwives, spirit healers and conjurers…there wasn’t really one way to be a witch, …
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