Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never mind the products themselves. But now we’re all mature, we’re all free, non-judgemental, confident in ourselves and our sexuality. Yes, whatever yins your yang, it’s all totally groovy. So we’re all using skincare products, nobody’s mocked ...
Two women are blogging about their effort to quit makeup and beauty products cold turkey. Molly Barker and Caitlin Boyle are giving up makeup, hair products, deodorant, and razors to put a focus on women’s inner beauty. Both women work for organizations that encourage positive self-image in women. “The project is about figuring out our ...
Baldness. It’s all the rage -– well, it is with men. Of course, there’s nothing new about male pattern baldness being on the increase, as it has been for some time, and we all know being hairless is not so different now, and nothing to tease men about (well, almost nothing). So why do some ...
You know the saying “It’s not the journey, it’s the destination?” Well, my hair story is a journey. A journey of self-discovery. I know what you might be thinking. What the hell kind of First World feminist, skewed self-awareness and failed attempt at philosophy is that? This piece is about much more than hair. It’s ...
Men! You can be pretty too. I’m sure you know that by now. It’s 2012, after all, and as your burly provider/protector credentials lose value, your value as an object of beauty increases. Nowhere was this more apparent this week than in Milan, where men’s autumn/winter fashions sauntered down all the catwalks under that watchful ...
Long and luscious locks may always come to mind when I reminisce about Barbie, but surely there’s room for a bald version of the popular doll, especially if it’s for a good cause. Two women, whose lives have been greatly affected by cancer (Jane Bingham lost her hair when undergoing chemotherapy treatments and Rebecca Sypin‘s young ...
I really like where Tony Robbins says that we’re all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it’s true. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow
Having strong European genes has made hair removal one of the biggest challenges in my life. Earning a university degree? Yeah, whatever. It doesn’t compare to the in depth research I’ve done regarding Nair, wax strips, five bladed razors, bleach, shaving creams, and hair removal aftercare. I am still waiting for my tax rebate to ...
Once upon a time in a land far, far away, there was a little brown girl who liked watching Disney movies and reading fairytales. Although she liked to believe that the fairytales were real, the little brown girl knew better than that. You see, this little brown girl was always pretty sensible. She knew that ...
Photoshopping is dangerous. Not only does it show us a false view of reality, it has led to eating disorders in men, women and children. It causes people to compare their bodies to something that doesn’t exist. Fortunately, there may soon be a tool that shows us just how fake photoshopped pictures are. This tool would tell ...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
