The Beauty Experiment

Neon Optimism

by on Feb.19, 2013, under time

  I have some, you have some, we all have some and probably want a little more on the soles of our ...
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Superbowl Sexism?

by on Feb.01, 2013, under time

Soooo.....Big weekend coming up for those who love football and those whose eyes reflexively glaze over when they hear the phrase ...
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To Cake or Not To Cake?

by on Jan.28, 2013, under time

Forty minutes before I'm slated to arrive at the CBS studios of Live from the Couch in NYC, I get an ...
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Pretty Mind

by on Dec.28, 2012, under change, happiness, spirituality

Chapter 8 of The Beauty Experiment is entitled "Pretty Mind." It was a difficult chapter to write, not for reasons of ...
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The book is out!

by on Dec.23, 2012, under time

My memoir, The Beauty Experiment: how I skipped lipstick, ditched fashion, faced the world without concealer and learned to love the real me  is ...
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The dress that started it all

by on Dec.22, 2012, under clothes, happiness, self-image, what is beauty

Everyone knows about hanging wreaths and lighting candles, but there’s another holiday tradition that gets less press: Desperately Shopping for a ...
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Demise of the bitchy villain?

by on Nov.08, 2012, under change, gender, media

I missed the legal thriller Damages when it came out in 2007 and only just got hooked on Glenn Close’s reprehensible ...
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Why Barf-o-ramas are Important

by on Oct.26, 2012, under gender, media, self-image

Here's why Pitch Perfect rocks: it's funny, it's gross, it has a female DJ musical genius as its lead and it ...
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Some early results…

by on Sep.10, 2010, under time

As of today, 249 women have taken my survey! I can't help but be excited by this, especially since the results ...
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Celebrities without their makeup!

by on Jul.26, 2010, under hair and skin, make-up

It must be trending because there was another one in the checkout line today: stars without their makeup. Katie Holmes had ...
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