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Trust in Me, Baby 27 Aug 2013 | 06:04 pm
Sometimes you've just gotta trust the hand you've got. Promotional tie-in alert! I’ve got an essay up today on Medium.com’s new mind and body channel. It’s a revisiting of something I wrote years ago...
Nicole Kristal, Writer and Bisexual Advocate, Los Angeles 14 Aug 2013 | 12:29 pm
Picking a title to introduce Nicole Kristal was probably the most challenging part of this interview. Screenwriter, sure—her short film, Do You Have a Cat?, has been screened at LGBT festivals interna...
Fairest of Them All: Excerpt and Giveaway 6 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
Some might say that novelist Carolyn Turgeon's books tell the hidden side of fairy tales. That's true enough, but I'd put it differently: Her books tell of the ways women relate to one another through...
Beauty Blogosphere Hiatus 2 Aug 2013 | 06:21 pm
Regular readers may have noticed that I haven't done my links roundup for a couple of weeks. I'd intended to just take a brief break, but when I started putting together this week's collection, I real...
Invited Post: "She Has Glasses" 31 Jul 2013 | 04:19 pm
Longtime readers may remember an invited post by Alexa, aka Blossoming Badass, that I ran some time ago as a teen perspective on the beauty mores of her generation. Alexa's writing first spoke to me b...
Coming to My Senses: Excerpt and Giveaway 29 Jul 2013 | 06:04 pm
A memoir about perfume from anyone other than a perfumer seems unlikely—unlikelier still that such a book would raise questions about gender, community, family history, class, and expectation. So it’s...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.12.13 12 Jul 2013 | 04:37 pm
What's going on in beauty this week, from head to toe and everything in between. From Head... Crop top: Cristen and Caroline nail it again with their podcast on what short hair symbolizes on women. (...
Go, Tootsie, Go 9 Jul 2013 | 11:20 pm
I've been half-in and half-out of the blogosphere for a couple of weeks, so when my blogger buddy Tatiana tweeted this video of Dustin Hoffman talking about Tootsie to me, I didn't realize exactly how...
Vote for Me, S'il Vous Plaît? 1 Jul 2013 | 06:33 pm
I'm pretty much thrilled to have been nominated for the Marie Claire Most Wanted Beauty Blogger award. It's particularly thrilling that it's Marie Claire that took notice, since they have a long recor...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.28.13 28 Jun 2013 | 07:28 pm
What's going on in beauty this week, from head to toe and everything in between. From Head... "Why go gray in my mid-50s? Because I can": There may be a "cure" for gray hair on the way, but Leah Roz...
