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 …

At least, that’s the conclusion drawn by this study, as reported in the New York Times‘ Sunday Styles this week.

From the official write-up (emphasis mine):

The authors conducted four experiments to examine the different meanings
consumers gleaned

This story from last week’s New York Times is still haunting me and it seems like nobody really took much notice, so we better: Poor Russian women are selling their blond hair for around $50 a braid, so you can …

I’m pleased as punch about Patricia Leigh Brown’s new New York Times piece, “At Some Nail Salons, Feeling Pretty and Green.” It reports on San Francisco’s new Healthy Nail Salon Recognition ordinance, which gives props to nail salons …

I, umm, kind of don’t want to, because we’ve been talking a LOT about the body image side of things in the past week (especially Fat Talk, Fat Talk Haters, and how I feel about being a little …

Now I know why I’ve been watching “Veronica Mars” reruns instead of reading the newspaper in the morning: Creepy stories like “First Signs of Puberty Seen in Younger Girls,” from Monday’s New York Times, which reports on a new …

Guy Trebay has a little “Noticed” story tucked in the back of the New York Times‘ Thursday Styles today, called “Even Macho Toes Like to Breathe,” about how Birkenstocks have become hip with hipster guys, thanks to …

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,