I have been puzzling all week over Sandra Tsing Loh’s essay, “Taking a Leap of Faith Onto the Scale,” which ran in Sunday’s New York Times Styles section. And I do mean puzzling. Because it starts out with …

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

• 71 percent of women feel fat, according to a new Glamour Magazine survey.

• Only 46 percent of those women are actually overweight,

Considering Rachel Leigh Cook is best known for playing the we-hid-her-hotness-under-glasses lead in She’s All That, I am loving this quote from her, via Jezebel:

Nothing that you see is real, even if you look at what looks

So here we are, a full two months after I graduated from Beauty U. And while my life is largely back to “normal,” last week’s fat talk made me realize that I’m walking around feeling very not normal in one …

Yikes, 9 PM. We’re really bordering on Wednesday post territory here. See, as I may have mentioned, Beauty U is on summer break this week, which means I’m on a bit of a break too — or, more accurately, sequestered …

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

Shhh — technically, I’m still on blog-cation (oh ew, don’t you hate when bloggers combine that word with absolutely everything?). But there has …

Glossed Over: Where we take a closer look at what beauty advertisements are really selling.

Oh, I just can’t make up my mind about Dove.

On the one hand, I completely get Bitch Blog’s “but they sell beauty products!” response …