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Why Can’t Feminists Wear Makeup?
March 19, 2012 1 CommentTwo 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 ...
No More Real And Fake Women
February 24, 2012 No CommentsAll women are real. I don’t mean to jump the gun, but there, I said it. I’m just so sick of women being separated into two distinct groups, one being “real” and the other “fake.” First of all, it seems downright derogatory to say that any woman is not real. I mean, is she some metaphysical ...
Men’s Guide To Women’s Beauty Insecurities
November 1, 2011 No CommentsIt was almost two years ago when my co-worker, Laura and I were breaking out. We were not breaking out of prison, or the underground club scene, nor were we breaking out like MC Hammer doing the running man in front of a harem of spandex-clad dancers. We were breaking out in acne, presumably a ...
No Makeup, No Mirrors, No Choice
September 14, 2011 No CommentsAlthough a school must provide education to children, it’s questionable whether it should interfere with self-expression. School uniforms remain controversial. Some believe that they could have a positive “social leveling” effect, others think they will help children concentrate on education and some believe that it will stifle individuality. Since I tend to be in the ...
Screw Love, Women Want Makeup
August 2, 2011 No CommentsSome women have a shoe obsession, others are addicted to clothing, but for most women, makeup is “the one.” Women’s intimate relationship with makeup comes at an astronomical cost. They’re spending up to $165,000 on makeup over their lifetimes, according to a new study by Biosen, a deodorant company. Apparently, they’re keeping up to 16 ...
Living Dolls Of Porcelain Perfection
July 27, 2011 No CommentsMost of us think that children are beautiful the way they are, but for pageant organizers, they can never be too perfect. For only $45, mini beauty pageant contestants get can their photos retouched at the The Universal Royalty Beauty Pageant taking place this Friday at Northcote Town Hall. Pageant moms and dads can bask ...
Like Daughter, Like Mother
July 26, 2011 No CommentsMothers may have a hand in shaping their kids’ values, beliefs and even pass down behavioural traits, but their daughters are paving the way in the style department. In what’s termed the “consumer doppleganger effect,” moms are keeping on top of trends by looking to their daughters for “fashion and beauty inspiration,” according to a ...
Will We Ever Be Equal At Work?
July 15, 2011 1 CommentA woman has been sacked in the UK for refusing to wear make-up at work, and she’s decided that’s just not right. Melanie Stark was a retail assistant at department store Harrods before she was unceremoniously dumped for daring to show her bare face in public. Now she’s taken her case to the media and ...
Drop Dead Gorgeous: Makeovers For The Afterlife
July 14, 2011 No CommentsCosmetics brand teams up with funeral directors to beautify the afterlife. With the way our beauty obsessed world is, this was only a matter of time. Relatively new beauty brand Illamasqua is working with funeral directors Leverton & Sons to provide makeovers for the recently deceased. Promoting the slogan, “The final act of self expression,” ...
