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Sunday, August 17, 2008

BEHIND THE FAIRY TALE

Image | By Booth Moore | August 17, 2008
GERREN TAYLOR was still playing with Barbie dolls when she walked the runway for the first time at Los Angeles Fashion Week in 2003. Read more
 

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Easy on the tinsel

Image | By Emili Vesilind | December 23, 2007
FORGET the vermilion lips, glittery cheeks and Sharpie-style black eyeliner. Read more
 

Sunday, December 2, 2007

THE MAKEUP? KEEP IT SUBTLE

Image | By Melissa Magsaysay | December 2, 2007
Glitter can be a dangerous tool around the holidays, when partygoers commit a multitude of makeup sins, making eyes and lips so sparkly they look like tinsel on the Christmas tree. Read more
 

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Our bodies beautiful

Entertainment | By Elizabeth Kaye Mccall | April 22, 2007
THEIR lives came together as surely as if it had been scripted – a 12-year-old modeling sensation on the verge of a literal “trip to fame” and a documentary filmmaker on a quest to explore America’s obsession with an idealized, superficial beauty. Read more
 

Monday, January 22, 2007

Good-looking? If you think so

Health | January 22, 2007
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but other people’s opinions matter too. Read more
 

Sunday, July 9, 2006

Q + A

Magazine | By Laurie Drake | July 9, 2006
I Didn’t Feel Beautiful Jamie Lee Curtis, 47, is an actress and author of children’s books who swore off plastic surgery and the whole chasing-youth thing * Question: When you were young, what films or TV shows or people influenced your beauty ideal? Read more
 

Friday, May 19, 2006

The beautiful draw of Allure magazine

Entertainment | By Samantha Critchell | May 19, 2006
Linda Wells takes beauty seriously. Read more
 

Saturday, May 6, 2006

Beautician Is Charged After Client’s Death

California | Local | May 6, 2006
A beautician has been charged after allegedly injecting a client with cooking oil as part of a wrinkle-defying cosmetic procedure. Read more
 

Friday, April 8, 2005

It Pays to Look Good, Federal Reserve Bank Analysis Finds

Business | April 8, 2005
Why wasn’t I born rich instead of handsome? Read more
 

Tuesday, March 18, 2003

Botox, this is your big week

Entertainment | By Gina Piccalo | March 18, 2003
Here in Beverly Hills, amid the gurgling fountains of wealth and luxury, the world’s most famous women come in disguise, during off hours, by private elevator, using false names, to fight the good fight against the one thing that money can’t buy: time. Read more
 

Friday, November 30, 2001

The Flaw That Punctuates Perfection

News | By Hillary Johnson | November 30, 2001
The most significant cultural event of the year may well be the rise of actor Owen Wilson’s nose. Read more
 

Wednesday, August 8, 2001

Small Screen Has Lots of Room for Character

Entertainment | By Brian Lowry | August 8, 2001
Members of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences are in the process of deciding who will walk away with Emmy Awards next month, and while it’s premature to start speculating about winners, it’s a pretty safe bet some of them will be kind of, well, unattractive. Read more
 

Monday, July 16, 2001

Why Hasn’t Julia Reeled One In? Too Many Hot Fish in the Sea

News | By Kathleen Kelleher | July 16, 2001
When actors Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt called it quits recently, the media went into a frenzy of speculation about why Roberts (who is only 33 after all) can’t seem to stay in a lasting love relationship. Read more
 

Sunday, May 20, 2001

Homeless and in Squalor, ‘Blue Eyes’ Sees Beauty

California | Local | By Noaki Schwartz | May 20, 2001
Sheila Dixon Howard calls him Blue Eyes. Read more
 

Friday, May 11, 2001

Beauty, Always in the Eye of the Beholder

Entertainment | By Howard Rosenberg | May 11, 2001
Let me entertain you. Read more
 

Thursday, April 5, 2001

Skin-Deep Ratings - Voyeuristic sites use cold numbers to feed our need to know whether the world finds us hot–or not.

News | By Christine Frey | April 5, 2001
On the Web, beauty really is only skin deep–and it can be quantified to within a tenth of a point. Read more
 

Friday, February 16, 2001

Masculine Beauty: The Fall From Gable

News | By Peter Whittle | February 16, 2001
The King is a hundred years old. Read more
 

Wednesday, February 7, 2001

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

Sports | By Diane Pucin | February 7, 2001
For women athletes, there is nothing wrong with being proud of your looks or your body, just as there is nothing wrong with being proud of your jump shot or your forehand. Read more
 

Tuesday, September 26, 2000

Pinnacles of Beauty

News | By Reed Johnson | September 26, 2000
If the ancient Greeks had invented Wheaties, they might’ve been inclined to put star Russian gymnast “Sexy” Alexei Nemov on the box cover. Read more
 

Friday, March 3, 2000

Lopez Defines Sensuality, Without Being Razor Thin

News | By Barbara Thomas | March 3, 2000
Every culture has its ideal of feminine beauty and sensuality. Read more
 
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