Last weekend, a group of San Francisco body positive activists wore their Sunday best undergarments, and stood proud and tall (and short) (and skinny) (and fat) in front of a Victoria’s Secret store. Their message? Love your body, even in the face of the photoshopped-to-hell-and-back photos we see in the media.
A bunch of supermodels talking about beauty might sound like pretty thin material for a documentary — and the women featured in photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' About Face, which aired last night on HBO, are indeed probably too exceptional to give viewers an idea of how the modeling industry really works.…
The recipient of America's first near-total face transplant finally got to meet the family of the woman whose face she received. It was, not surprisingly, emotional.
Argos' new commercial is troubling, and not just because it's a holiday ad released in October! The U.K. retailer has taken footage from Bing Crosby's '70s Christmas specials and used CGI to make the late crooner look like he's beatboxing.
The young Afghan woman who appeared on the cover of Time after having her nose and ears cut off by the Taliban
Italian scientists say CAT scans show there is an "inner statue" under Nefertiti's bust. Using computer-generated images and portraits of her relatives they developed an image they say is closer to her actual face than the bust. [UPI]
In a piece for Sunday's L.A. Times, Mary McNamara wrote about all the Botox, face-lifts and cosmetic surgery on TV right now. For instance: Priscilla Presley. "At once puffy and yanked, her face, and its odd relationship to her neck, often takes on the dimensions of a Picasso painting." Or Barbara Walters, whose face is…
"I was watching the hypnotically horrible new Coen brothers movie, No Country For Old Men, and I couldn't shake off the sense there was something different, something thrilling and vivid, about the performances of all the lead actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin. It was only after half an hour of awe…
Women on the Upper East Side of New York are taking classes in facial yoga, reports Reuters. Instructor Annelise Hagen (pictured) says that muscles become weak and flabby and need workouts for circulation and reduced wrinkles. Wait a minute: don't people who "exercsie" their face by laughing get laugh-lines? And crows…
