Taking back our power

Unfortunately for women, the dominance of male motivation spans the globe--particularily in the beauty industry. As a result, men often define the perfect norm against which women are measured and found lacking. Sometimes, women's bodies are the blank screens upon which men's standards of beauty are projected (including other women involved in the beauty industry). More....

how silly are we?

For ancient Egyptians, Romans, and Persians, sparkling eyes were considered beautiful. Sometimes they even applied a heavy metal poison antimony to make their conjunctiva sparkle. During the Elizabethan era, a woman with a high forehead was considered beautiful so upper-class Elizabethan women plucked or shaved their foreheads. More....