- 1. 7 Brilliant Holiday Makeup Looks To Glam Up The Season
- (Style)
- ... lips and winged eyeliner, but ‘tis the season to add a little extra glitter and shine! To that end, we’ve hand-picked 7 glamorous looks that are inspired by this holly jolly season. Winter Breeze ...
- Created on 09 December 2022
- 2. These 13 Stunning and Extremely Affordable Beauty Products In Cozy Fall Colors Are Great, Glam, Fun
- (Style)
- The temperature is dropping, and the leaves are falling. If you enjoy makeup, the changing colors may inspire you to try different shades of beauty products. Here are 13 of our hand-picked favorites ...
- Created on 11 November 2022
- 3. 13 Epic Halloween Makeup Looks to Elevate Your Costume This Spooky Season
- (Style)
- With Halloween a little over one week away, we’re all under the wire to finalize our costumes. Looking to spice up your costume or just experiment with some face paint? Here are 13 Halloween makeup ...
- Created on 21 October 2021
- 4. How Overzealous Research Landed A Cross-Dressing Victorian Writer In Jail
- (Feminism)
- Just before midnight on June 25, 1891, a police detective encountered two women strolling arm-in-arm down Regent Street. One of the women struck him as being rather odd in appearance. He approached ...
- Created on 09 October 2019
- 5. A Comprehensive History Of Women's Underwea
- (Style)
- It’s a brave woman who lives her life eternally sans knickers (or panties, for you Americans) but until very recently, it was the norm. Though men throughout history wore underwear (Charles ll ...
- Created on 12 April 2019
- 6. Inside The “Body Neutrality” Movement
- (Living)
- ... in the drowning of sorrows in a pint of Ben & Jerry's. Everyone has days when they feel horrible about themselves, and guess what? That's OK. At the start of the new millennium, women around the world ...
- Created on 14 March 2019
- 7. This Cap Was A Modest Necessity For 19th Century Women
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- The 19th century cap was a modest necessity. Worn by "spinsters" and "matrons" both young and old, it neatly covered a lady’s hair while she was at home and abroad. At face value, such a basic article ...
- Created on 28 November 2018
- 8. This 19th Century Writer Put His Hatred Of Cats Into A Science Book
- (Living)
- If we are curious about the origin and characteristics of an animal today, we look it up on the internet. Decades ago, we would have used an encyclopedia for such research. In the early 19th century, ...
- Created on 20 November 2018
- 9. 13 Sweaters That Will Make You Feel Like You're Back In The Womb This Winte
- (Style)
- The gray days are here! You know, that time of year when a gray sky means it’s daytime. When the air is so cold and dry, walking outside feels like a slap in the face. As temperatures drop, my sartorial ...
- Created on 09 November 2018
- 10. Embrace '90s Nostalgia This Halloween With These TV Character Costumes
- (Style)
- According to the calendar, September 22nd is the first day of fall. But for many people, myself included, fall doesn’t start until mid-October, when the temperature drops and the drugstores break out ...
- Created on 15 October 2018
- 11. Before Crest Whitestrips, Victorians Used Sulfuric Acid
- (Style)
- I like to make my historical novels as authentically Victorian as possible. However, when it comes to the subject of dental health, I’m guilty of fudging the facts. The truth is, not everyone in the ...
- Created on 26 September 2018
- 12. The Fascinating 1840 Case Of The Woman Hired To Be A Dog's Nursemai
- (Living)
- A September 8, 1840 edition of London’s Morning Post reports the “humorous story” of a case that came before a French Police Correctionelle. The plaintiff in the case, a young nursemaid by the name ...
- Created on 06 June 2018
- 13. This Art Exhibit Celebrates Female Eroticism And Same-Sex Intimacy
- (Arts)
- Las Vegas’ Erotic Heritage Museum is a sex-positive exhibition space, operating with an ethos that sexual pleasure is an intrinsic aspect of the human experience, and that celebrations of human sexuality ...
- Created on 30 May 2018
- 14. I Was Promised Queer “Star Wars” And I Got Queer “Star Wars”
- (Movies)
- Spoilers ahead. No matter what you think of Solo: A Star Wars Story, you have to know that this movie is important. I think it deserves better than the 69% on Rotten Tomatoes, but maybe that’s because ...
- Created on 25 May 2018
- 15. Here's How Fashionable Women Dressed In The 1820
- (Style)
- There were many important, transitional years for women’s fashion during the 19th century. For example, in a single decade, sleeves might transform from slender and straight to enormous gigot or leg ...
- Created on 22 May 2018
- 16. The Fascinating History Of Peacocks, From The Devil's Assistant To "The Most Beautiful Bird In The Worl
- (Living)
- In his 1836 book On the Mental Illumination and Moral Improvement of Mankind, Reverend Thomas Dick calls the peacock “the most beautiful bird in the world.” There are few that would dispute this ...
- Created on 04 October 2017
- 17. I Recreated 4 Historical Lipsticks — Here's How Well They Worke
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- For the next four days, I’m going to try out lipsticks from history. From The 1300s to the 1940s, I’ll be testing them all. On my lips... I’ll admit to being something of a lipstick junkie, to ...
- Created on 05 September 2017
- 18. Niecy Nash Tells Us Her Five Must-Have Beauty Products: BUST Interview
- (Style)
- We first fell in love with Niecy Nash as Deputy Raineesha Williams, the saucy, man-bashing cop on Comedy Central's Reno 911. Since then, the California-born actor, model, and producer has taken on countless ...
- Created on 05 June 2017
- 19. This Model Is Fighting Stigma And Proving That Dark Complexions Are Goddamn Beautiful
- (Arts)
- ... and 67 percent of women use skin lightening products), Khoudia spent her childhood being bullied for her dark complexion. “I was picked on by other kids, when I was a bit younger because [of the darkness] ...
- Created on 26 October 2016
- 20. What I Learned When I Stopped Wearing Makeup
- (Style)
- ... mom was a free-spirited feminist who shunned most of the ideals about women's beauty that we're subject to. She often went without a bra. She washed her hair with simple shampoo and towel-dried it. Her typical ...
- Created on 17 October 2016
