Tag Archives: Men

War Paint

Do you watch Vikings? I’m totally hooked, and between the violent clashes between cultures (and the costume details), I’ve been musing about Floki’s eyeliner.

 

Fierce is a word that’s been used – and overused – by fashionistas when describing some of their own looks, but the drag queens bringing the word into the studio aren’t that far off the mark. “Wild or menacing in appearance“, fierce describes a way of looking that’s deliberately designed to look …

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Does Makeup Hurt Self-Esteem? Is The New York Times Sexist for Asking?

The New York Times published – on its “room for debate” page – a collection of essays by authors with various viewpoints about makeup and self-esteem. As would be expected in such a collection, the authors include a couple of makeup artists, some writers and research scientists who’ve written on beauty and women’s issues, and the lone heterosexual male who loves his wife both with and without makeup.

 

But it’s not the coverage that’s rankling me – there’s something …

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Video: Billion Dollar Beauty at Huffington Post

How does globalization affect the beauty industry? Does it depersonalize us or could it “repersonalize” us? James Poulos, who covers politics and culture at Forbes, hosted this talk at Huffington Post, asking questions about organics, global beauty standards, the rise in beauty spending, and whether men should be wearing makeup.

 

The panel of experts includes me (in my first video appearance), along with representatives from the organic skincare community and a psychiatrist specializing in teen self-image. A lively …

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