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The Beauty Myth

Posted in Beauty, Celebrity, Feminism, Personal, Rants, tagged , on June 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Remember we said we were going to have some exciting guest posters? Well, meet the first one! Medbh of the excellent Dante and the Lobster is not impressed by Elizabeth ‘Whiny’ Wurztel’s lament for her supposedly lost looks…
Amy Benfer’s post over at Broadsheet brought my attention to Elizabeth Wurtzel’s article in the latest [...]

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“Of course, they ALL have lovely bottoms”

Posted in Beauty, Television, Women, tagged , , , on August 25, 2008 | 12 Comments »

Tonight on RTE 1 the beauty pageant relic that is The Rose of Tralee kicks off. Growing up I loved its beauty-with-brains-and-jigs approach to making women don pastel coloured dresses and compete against each other. This was mainly because along with the Eurovision and the Late Late Toy Show, it was one of three events [...]

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Gok v Trinny&Susannah

Posted in Beauty, Fashion, Television, Women, tagged , , , on August 20, 2008 | 15 Comments »

I’m a relative newcomer to the joys of Gok Wan. Previously, I had only seen him as a panelist on quiz shows or a judge on reality shows and never quite knew who he was or what he did. Last week I read an interview with him, watched How To Look Good Naked and his [...]

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Before and after, apathy and rediscovering one’s mojo

Posted in Beauty, Fashion, Personal, Women, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »

 
Lately it seems like I’ve been stuck in a rut. In many ways – work, fashion, hair, love, life. My apathy knows no bounds. I come home from work with great intentions to clean my hovel of a flat and even whilst faced with the yawning abyss that is my kitchen sink, I somehow can’t [...]

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Under the Skin

Posted in Beauty, Rants, tagged on August 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Annoyed and downright confused by the amount of stuff labeled “skin coloured” that are clearly only the colour of white people’s skin? So are the people behind a new project.

Skin Coloured is intended to be a collaborative, visual exploration of what it is to be non-white in a white culture. Make-up, plasters and tights – [...]

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A few of my favourite things

Posted in Beauty, Music, Personal, Women, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 31, 2008 | 10 Comments »

I’m in a giving mood….blame the good weather.
Anyway, I thought I’d divulge a few of the things that have been making my life more fun as of late. First up, time to get a little Beaut.ie on yisser arses:
I have discovered two new beauty products that have made my life a lot easier. First up [...]

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