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Showing posts with label cosmetics. Show all posts
25 Jul 2023

On the Traditional Beauty of Japanese Women (1): Green Lips, Black Teeth

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Nothing fascinates more than the ghostly beauty of the geisha  with her iridescent green lips and blackened teeth ...     There are three t...
24 Jul 2019

On the Politics of Lipstick

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Victory Red lipstick by Elizabeth Arden   No lipstick will win the war. But it symbolises why we're fighting.  I. Can we ...
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4 Dec 2017

Lipstick Traces: Lessons for Lucia

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Lucia Pica photographed by Daniel Jackson  Vogue (Sept 2015) Like many people, when I heard a couple of years ago that Italian-b...
20 Feb 2017

Lex Oppia: On Women, Cosmetics and Austerity in Ancient Rome

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Julie Ege as Voluptua in Up Pompeii ,  dir. Bob Kellett, 1971 The noblewomen of Ancient Rome - being sophisticated and molto mod...
1 Apr 2016

Thoughts on the Phrase 'Black is Beautiful'

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Photo: Rachel Marquez Model:   Janica @ Best Models rachelmarquez.com Whiteness, of course, isn't a colour, it's a no...
9 Sept 2014

Put on a Little Makeup ...

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One of the things that I find a joy to watch is a young woman putting on her makeup in the morning whilst on the tube and, presumably...
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