As a makeup artist and business owner, I feel this tension sharply. I’m told to bombard — to post, create, share, and sell — because …
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It’s a Crime to Be Gorgeous
The hook repeats like a spell: “It’s a crime to be gorgeous.” The mantra becomes an incantation, echoing through a hall of mirrors where adoration …
The Slow Review of a Beautiful Moment
There are things we think we know right away such as whether we like something, whether we feel beautiful, and whether it worked. But beauty …
Embodying a Space: The Intimate Art of Dressing Its Essence
Taylor Swift’s New Album Is a Warning Sign of Who I Don’t Want to Become
Taylor Swift’s latest album The Life of a Showgirl is difficult to forget because it’s so alarmingly hollow. What lingers is the sensation that something …
The Face Beneath the Skin
Dedicated to Chester Bennington—who gave sound to the silence so many of us carry inside. Your voice still echoes beneath the skin. Beneath it lies …
The Beauty of Maintaining Things
True beauty, doesn’t always live in the new. Sometimes, it lives in what’s been kept, cared for, chosen, repaired, and reimagined. There’s elegance in maintenance …
The Girl Gets the Guy *After the Eyeliner*
There’s something weirdly magnetic about a movie makeover. The girl steps out from behind her old hairstyle, the camera pans up, and boom, she’s visible, …
Chasing the Chase
Born in 1987 (barely), I’m a Millennial. I grew up on a steady diet of TV shows and movies that centered around a girl, living …
Let’s Tell the Truth
Let’s tell the truth. Makeup is not salvation. It is not a time machine. It will not make you young again, nor will it deliver …