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Beauty, and What It Means: The Party’s Girls and Party Girls: Negotiating Feminine Beauty in the Soviet Union

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Tuesday, July 1, 2014. The Party’s Girls and Party Girls: Negotiating Feminine Beauty in the Soviet Union. I'm pleased to welcome back Alana Massey. Oh It's Just Awful. The first Soviet beauty pageant. I need a particular beauty treatment, I’m always pleasantly surprised when Spa Jolie staff upsell with no-nonsense pitches like, “Do it. It will make you look better,”. Or, “It will make your boyfriend very happy.”. 8221; And while I half jokingly plan for the latter comment to have a spot in the highlight...

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Beauty, and What It Means: Ladyfans: A Fairy Tale of the World Cup

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Thursday, July 10, 2014. Ladyfans: A Fairy Tale of the World Cup. A few quick thoughts on this story. Of how Belgian soccer fan Axelle Despiegelaere, who attended the Belgium-Russia World Cup game, is now modeling for L'Oréal after being singled out in photos of the match:. This World Cup has seen the connection cemented with two Kia commercials that show Adriana Lima and other Brazilian beauties seductively telling gaga male American football fans. When it's a tale like this—of someone landing som...

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Beauty, and What It Means: Because You're Worth It: Masstige and Bargain Beauty

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Thursday, August 21, 2014. Because You're Worth It: Masstige and Bargain Beauty. The price may be right, but what else drives your beauty buys? I’ve been thinking about high-end beauty products as inconspicuous consumption. And what that means for displays of wealth among women. In doing so, I ignored the other end of the scale: bargain beauty products. The idea I was exploring a couple of weeks ago was that high-end beauty products signaled an investment. Regard beauty as an investment. You might even t...

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Beauty, and What It Means: Beauty and (In)conspicuous Consumption

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Friday, August 1, 2014. Beauty and (In)conspicuous Consumption. It wasn't just her last name that marked Gloria Vanderbilt as one of those. I've been enjoying participating in this month's structured conversation on visual persuasion and the state at Cato Unbound. Virginia Postrel (whom regular readers will recall authored the excellent The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion. Which I reviewed here. Wrote the lead essay. And Postrel's thoughts on the true danger of glamour. Find Ro...

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Beauty, and What It Means: 6 Artists Exploring Female Beauty

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Thursday, December 8, 2011. 6 Artists Exploring Female Beauty. One of the unexpected upsides of the bind of the beauty myth is that it's spurred plenty of good art. I'm just about the most bourgeois art fan there is ("I like it! Texas Beauty Queen Cream detail, mixed media, Rachel Lee Novnanian. In “Baby’s Nursery Wallpaper,”. A porcelain-white pram is parked in front of a stark wall “papered” with beauty pageant tropics. Another wall, dubbed “Wall of Confidence,”. Giving us a deliberately distorted body...

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Beauty, and What It Means: Laurie Penny's "Unspeakable Things"

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Wednesday, October 1, 2014. Laurie Penny's "Unspeakable Things". There are two reasons it’s taken me longer than it should have to write out my thoughts on Laurie Penny’s newest book, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies, and Revolution. The first is technical: I’ve been ostriching from pretty much everything for the past couple of months while working on other projects, and am only now coming back to things like blogging and social media and leaving the house. The second is personal: It made me mad. I don&#821...