Fashion and Beauty :: You Are What You Wear
60% of ingredients put onto the skin penetrate into the bloodstream within 15 minutes.
Thank goodness for magazines like OKOTEST that advocate on behalf of the consumer by laboratory testing 1,800 cosmetic products to find out which of them have 'questionable' substances. The makers of Clinique, Chanel, and Nivea scored pretty poorly. Who was first? Lavera, founded by Ulrike Jacob-Dewor, a biochemist! more...
Beauty :: Skin Care 2008 :: Dry, Neutral, Oily
As those of us in the Northern Hemisphere begin to daydream about this wintry season's end and the arrival of warmer weather, we contemplate the idea of coming out of hibernation. Finally, no more Michelin-man down coats. No more layers, layers, and yet more layers. When we finally do come into the light, we'll need to think about sloughing off our old beauty regime and finding something for our newly re-emerged selves. It seems to me that we are often locked into a specific skin care program regardless of temperatures and climate changes and stick with the same old, same old. Women often tell me they do this because they know what to expect, it's within their comfort zone and they are daunted by the idea of trying a new product, even when the old ones cease to perform at peak levels. more...
Beauty :: This Freedom
'Our standards are so completely changed from the old that comparison or argument is impossible.' Cecil Beaton, 1928.
In the 1920s, women were waking up from a post-Great War slumber and rising as vaseline-lidded flappers. Shaking off their hospital and munitions factory uniforms to 'bob their hair, raise their hemlines & paint their faces', '...they smoked hard, swore hard, and drank hard - got 'blotto'. more...
Beauty :: Skin Care 2008 :: Body, Masks, Treatments
As those of us in the Northern Hemisphere begin to daydream about this wintry season's end and the arrival of warmer weather, we contemplate the idea of coming out of hibernation. Finally, no more Michelin-man down coats. No more layers, layers, and yet more layers. When we finally do come into the light, we'll need to think about sloughing off our old beauty regime and finding something for our newly re-emerged selves. It seems to me that we are often locked into a specific skin care program regardless of temperatures and climate changes and stick with the same old, same old. Women often tell me they do this because they know what to expect, it's within their comfort zone and they are daunted by the idea of trying a new product, even when the old ones cease to perform at peak levels. more...
Beauty :: I Love Rock 'n' Roll
In the video for 'I Love Rock 'N' Roll' Joan Jett stormed into a dive bar to tell people when to clap, play guitar on the bar, and take someone home. With black eyeliner-laden eyes, in studded leather from head to toe topped off with spiky hair, JJ inspired thousands of girls and at least one cartoon character (Gem) to get tough or at least look the part. more...