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Your armpit, already the subject of Vogue scrutiny for possible plastic surgery, has another problem besides being fat and saggy: Being just plain ugly. More »
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The theme of Cycle 14 is "social networking sites," and on last night's premiere, Tyra narrowed the semi-finalists down by having them create a "MyFierce page." Is this a foreshadowing of her next step in her business empire? More »
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Bliss Spa is hiring people in gorilla suits to roam the streets of New York handing out coupons for waxing to promote hair-removal services. The slogan: "We're wild about hair removal." Our slogan: obsession with hairlessness is out of control. More »
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Uh oh. "If having malodorous armpits (called osmidrosis) and goopy earwax isn't bad enough, a discovery by Japanese scientists may add a more serious problem for women facing these cosmetic calamities. That's because they've found that a gene responsible for breast cancer causes these physical symptoms." [EurekaAlert] More »
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• One English woman grew out her underarm hair to see how people would react. Let's just say they made her feel like the pits (sorry). • More »
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• Okay, so they're saying Beyoncé had a little armpit hair at the Cadillac Records premiere. 1) Who cares? 2) Can you even see it? [Mirror]
• A reader points out you can barely see Beyoncé's pit hair in Perez's pictures, though on TMZ, her pits seem especially hirsute. Photoshop of horrors? [Perez Hilton, TMZ]
• Surely when Kanye West said that Beyoncé is "just as great, if not greater, than artists we had in the past. She’s probably greater than Tina Turner," he had not seen this. [Perez Hilton]
• Tina Turner put on a show in New York right after being hospitalized for having a very high fever. Amazing. [Page Six]

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In a story appearing in a recent issue of New York magazine, Corrie Pikul, a self-professed "rampant perspirer," tested some sweat-prevention solutions. Secret Clinical Strength anti-persperant? "I still developed big splotches at the gym," she writes. She also tried Drionic Iontophoresis kit, which sens a mild electrical current through the skin (no noticeable improvement); sage leaves (relaxing, but ineffective); anti-cholinergic meds (100% dry from head to toe!) and Botox ("It felt like I was being attacked by bees, but for the next three weeks…my underarms only dampened on my morning jog"). Yeah, it's summer, and the armpit stories are afoot. (Aarm?) Anyway, it's one thing to try and combat perspiration. It's quite another to search for the perfect pit. Dodie Kazanjian penned a piece for August's Vogue titled "Up In Arms," and the subhead says it all: "With all the body parts we've grown to obsess over as we age, should armpits, too, be on the list?" In a word, Vogue says: Yes. More »
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The economy may be in the crapper, but Americans know what's really important: Looking good! Science Daily reports that plastic surgery procedures will quadruple by the year 2015. They're predicting that cosmetic surgery will weather the current decline, and that in 7 years, 55 million surgeries will be performed annually. "While today's economy reflects a slow-down in plastic surgery procedures, the specialty will weather the current decline in economic growth just as it has previous declines, such as the stock market correction after the 2001 Internet bubble," says American Society Of Plastic Surgeons prez Dr. Richard D'Amico. "This prediction for 2015 is exciting." Definitely! Americans already spend $13.2 billion, more than the GDP of Bolivia, on cosmetic surgery, so quadrupling that number to $52.8 means more cash for doctors. Eh, you're thinking, I'm not shallow like that, I've got priorities. Guess what? More »
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Summer = pit stains. Unfortunately. But Shizuka New York, a midtown salon, offers an "underarm overhaul," reports New York magazine. Steaming, cleansing, hair removal and botox injection should render your pits perfect. The cost? $1,500. You could probably buy new arms on the black market for that kind of cash. [NY Mag] More »
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Hair is steeped in symbolism and layered with subtext and meaning, especially for women. Our tresses speak volumes, suggesting to the world that we're wild, refined, high-maintenance or lazy. Hair can reveal our age and our ethnicity. And that's just the hair on our heads. For one woman, Laura Woodhouse (left), who posted today on UK feminist site The F Word, hair has become a reason to celebrate. One year ago today, Laura stopped shaving her armpits. (It's been 14 months since she last shaved her legs.) Woodhouse had some hair paranoia (hairanoia?) in the past. "I spent at least two hours defuzzing before visiting my boyfriend, and then spent the majority of the naked time we spent together worrying whether my bikini line was symmetrical, wincing where I'd irritated a bit of delicate skin with that nasty smelling hair removal cream," she writes. "I thought I was gross." More »
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