Have you ever pondered how to heal an unsightly pimple, remove dark bags under your eyes, or make your eyes brighter? Learning how to take care of your skin and how to use lovely, natural cosmetics are only the beginning. You'll discover the tricks makeup professionals employ to make models seem picture-perfect inside. Every female should include the perfect manicure, luscious curls, and glowing skin on her regular pampering list. It felt logical to create a space to store beauty information I'd gleaned from the industry's top names over my time as a model since I was the go-to person for makeup and beauty guidance. After all, why should the only people who are aware of how to appear stunning and attractive be superstars and models?

Have you ever pondered how to heal an unsightly pimple, remove dark bags under your eyes, or make your eyes brighter? Learning how to take care of your skin and how to use lovely, natural cosmetics are only the beginning. You'll discover the tricks makeup professionals employ to make models seem picture-perfect inside. Every female should include the perfect manicure, luscious curls, and glowing skin on her regular pampering list. It felt logical to create a space to store beauty information I'd gleaned from the industry's top names over my time as a model since I was the go-to person for makeup and beauty guidance. After all, why should the only people who are aware of how to appear stunning and attractive be superstars and models?

Have you ever pondered how to heal an unsightly pimple, remove dark bags under your eyes, or make your eyes brighter? Learning how to take care of your skin and how to use lovely, natural cosmetics are only the beginning. You'll discover the tricks makeup professionals employ to make models seem picture-perfect inside. Every female should include the perfect manicure, luscious curls, and glowing skin on her regular pampering list. It felt logical to create a space to store beauty information I'd gleaned from the industry's top names over my time as a model since I was the go-to person for makeup and beauty guidance. After all, why should the only people who are aware of how to appear stunning and attractive be superstars and models?

Have you ever pondered how to heal an unsightly pimple, remove dark bags under your eyes, or make your eyes brighter? Learning how to take care of your skin and how to use lovely, natural cosmetics are only the beginning. You'll discover the tricks makeup professionals employ to make models seem picture-perfect inside. Every female should include the perfect manicure, luscious curls, and glowing skin on her regular pampering list. It felt logical to create a space to store beauty information I'd gleaned from the industry's top names over my time as a model since I was the go-to person for makeup and beauty guidance. After all, why should the only people who are aware of how to appear stunning and attractive be superstars and models?x

Have you ever pondered how to heal an unsightly pimple, remove dark bags under your eyes, or make your eyes brighter? Learning how to take care of your skin and how to use lovely, natural cosmetics are only the beginning. You'll discover the tricks makeup professionals employ to make models seem picture-perfect inside. Every female should include the perfect manicure, luscious curls, and glowing skin on her regular pampering list. It felt logical to create a space to store beauty information I'd gleaned from the industry's top names over my time as a model since I was the go-to person for makeup and beauty guidance. After all, why should the only people who are aware of how to appear stunning and attractive be superstars and models?x

Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Colorism and color bias—the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the color of their skin—is a pervasive and damaging but rarely openly discussed phenomenon. In this unprecedented book, Lori L. Tharps explores the issue in African American, Latino, Asian American, and mixed-race families and communities by weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis. The result is a compelling portrait of the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Tharps, the mother of three mixed-race children with three distinct skin colors, uses her own family as a starting point to investigate how skin-color difference is dealt with. Her journey takes her across the country and into the lives of dozens of diverse individuals, all of whom have grappled with skin-color politics and speak candidly about experiences that sometimes scarred them. From a Latina woman who was told she couldn’t be in her best friend’s wedding photos because her dark skin would “spoil” the pictures, to a light-skinned African American man who spent his entire childhood “trying to be Black,” Tharps illuminates the complex and multifaceted ways that colorism affects our self-esteem and shapes our lives and relationships. Along with intimate and revealing stories, Tharps adds a historical overview and a contemporary cultural critique to contextualize how various communities and individuals navigate skin-color politics. Groundbreaking and urgent, Same Family, Different Colors is a solution-seeking journey to the heart of identity politics, so that this more subtle “cousin to racism,” in the author’s words, will be exposed and confronted.

Beach Lovers is a series of intimate moments shared by couples at the beaches of NYC. These moments hold intimate gestures of couples; some tender, rubbing sunscreen on a partner's back; others lustful, a deep kiss in the water. Being amongst the waves and sand emboldens couples to enjoy more affectionate freedom, their inhibitions less hidden than anywhere else observed in the city. Beach Lovers is about the public display of intimacy between couples from diverse backgrounds, a claiming of public space for private tenderness.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Youth and Media -- 2 Then and Now -- 3 Themes and Theoretical Perspectives -- 4 Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers -- 5 Children -- 6 Adolescents -- 7 Media and Violence -- 8 Media and Emotions -- 9 Advertising and Commercialism -- 10 Media and Sex -- 11 Media and Education -- 12 Digital Games -- 13 Social Media -- 14 Media and Parenting -- 15 The End -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as … a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering, Blair tells the captivating story of growing up and finding her truth. "Blair is a rebel, an artist, and it turns out: a writer."—Glennon Doyle, Author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Untamed and Founder of Together Rising The first story Selma Blair Beitner ever heard about herself is that she was a mean, mean baby. With her mouth pulled in a perpetual snarl and a head so furry it had to be rubbed to make way for her forehead, Selma spent years living up to her terrible reputation: biting her sisters, lying spontaneously, getting drunk from Passover wine at the age of seven, and behaving dramatically so that she would be the center of attention. Although Selma went on to become a celebrated Hollywood actress and model, she could never quite shake the periods of darkness that overtook her, the certainty that there was a great mystery at the heart of her life. She often felt like her arms might be on fire, a sensation not unlike electric shocks, and she secretly drank to escape. Over the course of this beautiful and, at times, devasting memoir, Selma lays bare her addiction to alcohol, her devotion to her brilliant and complicated mother, and the moments she flirted with death. There is brutal violence, passionate love, true friendship, the gift of motherhood, and, finally, the surprising salvation of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. In a voice that is powerfully original, fiercely intelligent, and full of hard-won wisdom, Selma Blair’s Mean Baby is a deeply human memoir and a true literary achievement.

Explores the nature, the meaning, and the very history of the idea of beauty in Western culture; illustrated with abundant examples of painting and sculpture and lengthy quotations from writers and philosophers. Demonstrates how every historical era has had its own ideas about eye-appeal.