[Glossed Over] Britney Spears is Hot. (With and Without Her Cellulite.)
I really want to be excited about this Britney Spears/Candies/”Look Ma, no retouching!” business. I mean, I really, really do. This blogger is psyched. Female Impersonator is pretty happy. And I get...
View ArticlePretty Price Check: It’s Protest Friday! (10.29.10)
The Pretty Price Check: Your Friday roundup of how much we paid for beauty this week. Attention New Yorkers! You still have time to hoof it over to the Abercrombie & Fitch store on 5th Avenue and...
View ArticleBeauty Schooled is on Marie Claire!
Because I know you never get tired of reading about me performing bikini waxes. But this piece, which just got published on MarieClaire.com, is actually about the art of the upsell. Which I’ve touched...
View ArticlePretty Price Check (05.06.11)
The Pretty Price Check: Your Friday round-up of how much we paid for beauty this week. 32 percent of teenage girls have used a tanning bed in the past year, and 81 percent report tanning outside,...
View Article[Never Say Diet] Nutritionists Know Best? Not Always
I dropped this into Friday’s Price Check, but your smart comments got me thinking that it really needs its own standalone post. So, voila! It’s what happens when good women’s mag service stories go...
View ArticleRethink the Pink Drink [Marie Claire, October 2013]
Greetings, earthlings! I’m back to work after baby leave and it does feel a little like returning from outer space. If in outer space you are never allowed to sleep and spend most of your days feeling...
View ArticleHeavy & Healthy [Marie Claire, August 2014]
Getting back to my roots here, with a new feature for the August issue of Marie Claire that asks: Can you be heavy and healthy? Longtime blog readers know that my gut response on this would be yes —...
View ArticlePleasure in a Pill? [Marie Claire, December 2014]
As a journalist, you always try to go into a story unbiased — but the truth is, we all of us have biases, almost all of the time. It’s unavoidable. You’ve got some kind of back story that brings you...
View ArticleRethink the Pink Drink [Marie Claire, October 2013]
Greetings, earthlings! I’m back to work after baby leave and it does feel a little like returning from outer space. If in outer space you are never allowed to sleep and spend most of your days feeling...
View ArticleHeavy & Healthy [Marie Claire, August 2014]
Getting back to my roots here, with a new feature for the August issue of Marie Claire that asks: Can you be heavy and healthy? Longtime blog readers know that my gut response on this would be yes —...
View ArticlePleasure in a Pill? [Marie Claire, December 2014]
As a journalist, you always try to go into a story unbiased — but the truth is, we all of us have biases, almost all of the time. It’s unavoidable. You’ve got some kind of back story that brings you …...
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