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

• 7 year olds don’t need padded bikinis, as British brand Primark learned this week when pretty much the whole rest of the UK said

I really want to be excited about this Britney Spears/Candies/”Look Ma, no retouching!” business.

I mean, I really, really do. This blogger is psyched. Female Impersonator is pretty happy. And I get that it is super important to educate everyone …

Via Jezebel (click here for video if you can bear Larry King’s inane interviewing style):

Last night, Jane Fonda appeared on Larry King Live to plug the launch of World Fitness Day. Fonda, 72, admitted she “caved” after swearing

The Pretty Price Check: Your Friday roundup of how much we paid for beauty last week.

• 24: How many women marched topless through the streets of Portland, Maine to try to normalize the presence of female skin in public. A

The interweb is all abuzz about the newest J.Crew catalog. (I just moved and my catalog doesn’t seem to have followed me, so thanks to Sociological Images for the tip on this.) Were you to compare the apparent ages of …

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

• $7.1 million: How much Avon CEO Andrea Jung earned in 2009. It’s down 64 percent from 2008, when, apparently, she was paid all the money

I am so delighted that Emily Heroy of  Gender Across Borders asked if I would cross-post this piece. When I was preparing for this week’s Feminist Carnival, I had several bloggers say, all sheepish like, that they wanted to …

Because of this little moment, from Vanessa Grigoriadis’ feature in the current issue of New York Magazine:

At five-two and 100 pounds, with her hair styled into a mod blonde bob, she looked flush from a strict diet of

Hooray!

It’s Feminist Blog Carnival day!

I know, you could hardly sleep last night with excitement. (I too could hardly sleep because I was busy reading through the many, many awesome submissions. And also excited.)

Thanks so much to everyone …

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

You know how Beauty U is always talking about how recession-proof the beauty industry is, and how we’re going to have such great post-graduation job prospects? (All the while …