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Oh, man. You know things have gotten bad when we can't afford lipstick. According to a story in last week's WWD, 59 percent of female consumers have curbed their spending on beauty products, compensating by using less, trading down to cheaper brands and finishing the absolute last of an item before buying anew.
This trend is especially worrisome, the story reports, because in past downturns, cosmetics have been the last little splurges to go—even in a weak market, consumers would regularly indulge in, say, an expensive tube of lipstick or a hair product over dropping serious money on a new bag.
Financial analysts are viewing this as an  "economic transformation," the last layer in a series of cuts... Read More »

Last night a few of us Glamour staffers went out for drinks and I noticed how amazingly long our deadline-enforcement agent, Betty's, nails are.
They're also so perfectly oval. Betty says she didn't even file them--she just slapped on some polish and called it a day. She is actually a former nail-biter and ever since she stopped, her nails have been growing and growing. She said, "I would rather have boobs or a booty but what I got is...nails."

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P. Diddy does it. So, apparently, does Jay-Z. And we're not just talking about Brazilians. It's all about the fuulll monty baby.

And why shouldn't they? It's about time men started to understand some of the pain and indignity that generations of women have endured in the name of "hygienic" grooming, (most specifically, we pour some out to the brave women who toughed out those pube torture chambers also known as the J.Sisters Spa and Salon in New York where this whole damn bald is beautiful craze began). Read More »

So my friend and co-worker Annette and I were sitting around a few weeks ago bemoaning the many, many grooming indignities of modern womanhood: The facial (not to mention other) hair maintenance, the never-ending skin hydration, the constant nail upkeep, etc to infinity. Then we were wondering if maybe it was easier in generations past, when there were not only fewer areas to groom, but fewer magic products and potions to own.
Case in point: Remember cold cream?
Do you know how much this stuff does? OK. Let me fill you in. There are women of our mothers' and grandmothers' generations who seriously used nothing else on their skin. It was just cold cream to take off the makeup, cold cream to moisturize, cold cream to wear overnight with curlers and be a 50's housewife cliché. You know what else? Lots of these women continue into their 70s to have truly amazing skin, soft, supple, not-completely-wizened-like-a-prune-that's been-left-on-the-counter skin.
So what's in cold cream? Read More »

Have you ever noticed how haggard extra-skinny celebrities start to look as they get older? It's kind of scary, actually—while their fannies remain tight and tiny and youthful, their faces start to look sad and sunken, a bit of a Tale From The Crypt.
This "choose your ass or your face" dilemma was first expressed publicly, weirdly, I think by Mae West, and has been voiced recently by super-fit stars like Madonna (it's also one of the cornerstones of Howard Stern's "butter face" theory). But I always remember it from Courtney Cox, who once said:
“In Hollywood, you get your bottom half to be the right size, your face may have to be a little gaunt,” says Cox. “You choose your battles.”

Hollywood wisdom aside, a new study out of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center proves Cox's theory true. Read More »

Um. Where to begin with this one? There's a new BBC series called Britain's Missing Top Model, which debuts on Tuesday and will feature eight women with disabilities—ranging from missing limbs, deafness and a neuro-muscular disorder that makes it nearly impossible for one contestant to walk—all striving to become models.
According to the BBC, the program is an attempt to "challenge the artificial boundaries that seem to exist in the beauty and fashion industries." But I really worry that this show will just end up major, tragic exploitation—like a sad freak show. And that would suck.  Read More »