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Book Review: Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change
Face It! There is a moment in every woman’s life when she passes a mirror and doesn’t recognize the person looking back. Maybe it’s too many fine lines, maybe sagging, maybe the midlife pounds have...
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Book Review: Erotic Capital
We all know people who get by on their looks. For women, that has often been the only way to get ahead. But when feminists fought for greater legal and professional rights for women, did they inherit a...
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Book Review: The Makeup Wakeup
It’s easy to assume that the makeup tips we pick up over time will accumulate into an always-better look. But after 40, that assumption falls apart: things start drooping or wrinkling, our natural...
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Wild Beauty Booklist: Awesome Beauty Books to Give (or Keep!)
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...
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Cult Favorites: Miss Craig
Miss Craig Goes Through The Motions It’s easy to make fun of vintage beauty regimens – any beauty fiend who’s watched George Cukor’s 1939 classic The Women is mesmerized by the beauty salon scenes,...
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Do Facial Expressions Rule Emotions? My One-Woman Experiment in the Field,...
Photo of Margaret Severn by Nina Leen for Life Magazine How do our faces convey emotion? Conventional thinking tells us that we smile because something made us happy, or we frown because we’re annoyed...
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Book Review: The Power of Glamour
You’d think that after working in the fashion, beauty, and entertainment industries for ages, I’d have a lot to say about the subject of Glamour. But like a fish trying to describe the water it’s been...
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Andrea Q. Robinson knows a lot about beauty – she’s a legend in the cosmetics industry. As a student in an all-women’s Catholic college, she was entered into a “best-dressed” contest and landed a job...
View ArticleLast-Minute Gift Book Ideas for the Beauty Maven who has Everything
Have you finished your holiday shopping? Probably not, unless you’re incredible organized. And even so, there are always a few people who aren’t that easy to please. What do you get that one person...
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