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Category Archives: Beauty
What Happens To Your Face As You Age?
I notice my face sagging. So what’s ahead? Google says: The appearance of the face and neck typically changes with age. Loss of muscle tone and thinning skin gives the face a flabby or drooping appearance. In some people, sagging … Continue reading
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Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit (2020)
Ashley Mears writes: * Door personnel quickly assess a person’s status by sizing up physique, beauty, race, accent, clothes, watch, dress, even handbag. Red-soled Louboutin heels signal high status, but if the girl wearing them stands below five feet seven, … Continue reading
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Pretty Girl Jobs
You can also add fundraisers and secretaries (formerly) for the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Just Not Said: A young man mentioned to me the other day that certain jobs are basically those that strippers would do if they had college degrees. … Continue reading
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The War Against Beauty Rolls On
BBC: Hermione Granger to be played by black actress Noma Dumezweni
The More Stock You Put On Your Beauty, The More You Will Miss It
Danielle Berrin writes: The day does come when a woman who once felt beautiful now feels invisible. I am prematurely sad for that period of life. For all the women and men who feel deep inside that looks count for … Continue reading
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The Default Position For Beautiful Women Is To Get All Of Their Worth From Their Looks
I’m reading this article about singer Lana Del Rey. Jewish Journal blogger Tamara Shayne Kagel writes: “Lana Del Ray’s stereotypical, codependent, frivolous girlishness is a regression for feminism according to a new article in the Atlantic. Definitely worth a read. … Continue reading
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Camel Beauty Pageant
Why must I toil in poverty when a pretty camel fetches $2.7 million? The unfairness of G-d’s ways. ABU DHABI (AFP) – The crown prince of the United Arab Emirates of Dubai has bought a female camel for a record … Continue reading
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Tagged abu dhabi, al maktoum, amiri, beauty pageant, camel festival, camel races, camels, crown prince, cultural heritage, first test, hamdan bin mohammed, jockeys, million dollars, prize money, quot, sheikh hamdan bin mohammed, sidelines, test tube, unfairness, united arab emirates
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Blogging for Truth and Beauty
Natasha Singer writes: MOST bloggers have never met a beauty product or treatment they didn’t love. The fill their columns with wildly enthusiastic prose about the latest blush, the newest procedure or research that they laud as cutting-edge. Then there … Continue reading
Study Suggests That a Need for Physical Perfection May Reveal Emotional Flaws
Here’s a study that reflects common sense. Natasha Singer writes: IN the first season of the television drama ”Nip/Tuck,” two plastic surgeons named Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy hire a staff psychologist to determine whether their patients are … Continue reading
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