The Pretty Price Check: Your Friday round-up of how much we paid for beauty this week.

• 37 percent: How much more likely you are to develop an early form of liver cirrhosis if you dye your hair (compared to women

Kittens, I am so excited to introduce this cross-post to you. The Fornicating Feminists are a group of Smith College students running a very new, very kick-ass community blog about “our recent musings on sexual encounters in college.” From their …

Goodness! I am so excited because today’s post will be cross-posted over at Eat the Damn Cake, one of my new favorite body image blogs. Kate is honest, hilarious, and oh so smart and insightful, so do click over…

Pretty Price Check: Your Friday round-up of how much we paid for beauty this week.

• 14: The average number of secret toxic chemicals found in each bottle of perfume tested in a new study by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics

Pretty Price Check: Your Friday round-up of how much we paid for beauty this week.

• 27 inches: The waist size of the new male mannequin, down from 33 inches in 1967. Because we love when body shame becomes equal opportunity.

The Pretty Price Check: Your Friday round-up of what we paid for beauty this week.

• $42,500: How much the highest bidder paid for a week “working” at Vogue in a charity auction to benefit the RFK Center for Justice and

So here is what I’m stuck on, from this morning’s New York Times piece on tweens wearing makeup:

“I’m using the choose-your-battles kind of parenting,” Mrs. Pometta, an independent publicist from Plainfield, Ill., reasoned in a telephone interview. “I figured,

COVERGIRL has announced the winner of their “Stand Up for Beauty” Video Contest. (Remember their Campaign Declaration Cloud, that read like a spambot’s mash-up of “love your body” rhetoric mixed with “buy our products” reminders? How could …

Fun With Press Releases: Because sometimes, the beauty industry just goofs.

Really, I should just post this and not write one word about The Wonder that is this press release. This canvas doesn’t need any more paint. It feels sacrilegious. …

The Pretty Price Check: Your Friday round-up of how much we paid for beauty this week.

• 78 percent of frequent tanners say they’ve tried to cut down but can’t — and feel guilty about it, according to a new study