I have got some THINGS for you beauties that I just can’t wait any longer to share with you. Are you ready?
summer beauty
gross things
I believe that you’re only as sick as your secrets, so here, for all the world to see, is the essence of my beauty editor malpractice. Forgive me, y’all, for I have sinned.
jezebel
"Real Beauty" features and advertisements cleverly sell you products under the guise of body-positivity while actually reinforcing the idea that a woman's worth is based on the way she looks to others.
trashy
Sometimes you just want sparkly limbs, crazy-long nails and three layers of slept-in eyeliner -- and there's nothing wrong with that.
the militant baker
Things that I wish I knew earlier. Things that I've learned in real life. Things people really need to talk about more:
nails
As far as I know, the half-birthday celebration has no basis in any religious or cultural tradition. They do mention an un-birthday in "Alice in Wonderland," but that is any day that is not your actual birthday.
shoppables
There are only two scents on Earth that I’m actively addicted to: laundry detergent and rose.
beauty
Comments can encourage people, or stand up for them.
beauty
Most people think it is pure, sweet, wholesome and all around lovely.
beauty
I think he’s ridiculously good looking. I just think he needs help sometimes.
makeup
The word “pretty” makes me cringe, especially when it’s referring, to, uh, me.
beauty
Or: I Went to the Drugstore High on Morphine and Ativan After Surgery and Bought a Bunch of Beauty Products
expensive
While I’ve made the transition to certainly drugstore beauty products, there are some products that I really and truly believe are worth their high price point.
chub rub
CHUB RUB: When the inner thighs of a human touch, and upon locomotion, rub together, thus causing friction resulting in a number of maladies including, but not limited to chafing, blisters, rashes, bleeding, bumps and discoloration.
health issues
I thought I was better. I'm not. And looking ill is SO not my bag.
beauty
Another treatment that almost kills me.
shoppables
It was one of my new year’s resolutions to rid my life of products containing parabens and sulfates, and to finally stop buying stuff that had ingredients I can't pronounce.
beauty products
What's a girl to do when her skin revolts against the contents of her beauty bag?
exotic
An unwanted seatmate on a train spent the entire hour-and-a-half trip calling me beautiful and stressing to me that he always found dark-skinned women attractive, as if he should be praised for this decision.
friendship
We’re moving in together soon, and shining, unachievable beauty will become the norm. I’ll be the ugly one.
cancer
When I got my diagnosis, I didn’t think about feeling pretty, or (in the words of a male friend who tried his best one day to make me feel better) whether the treatment would give me a “free Brazilian.”
beauty
A few years ago, I went on a date with this one guy who kept saying "You're so fucking beautiful" in the most aggressive all-the-better-to-wear-your-skin-like-a-bathing suit type way.
