According to a newly released poll from Gallup, men feel better about their looks than women feel about theirs at almost every age, minorities generally feel better about how they look than white people and middle-aged people feel the worst about how they look. Well! » 7/11/14 12:00pm 7/11/14 12:00pm

Leave it to the latest scientific study to suck some of the glamour out of the mysteriously magnetic aura that surrounds self-proclaimed rebels and badasses like Ke$ha and Pee-Wee Herman: according to the deflating new study (published in Social Psychological Personality and Science) from Nicholas S. Holtzman and… » 12/02/12 3:00pm 12/02/12 3:00pm

South Korea, which, as the country with the highest number of plastic surgeries per capita is the country Dr. Christian Troy will most likely flee to when he's caught trying to turn all of his patients into versions of his long-lost partner, is starting to become really comfortable with cosmetic surgery. So… » 10/09/12 3:40pm 10/09/12 3:40pm

Remember how youthful and exuberant Gordon Gekko seemed in Wall Street when he was trying to siphon large piles of money from hard-working American hero Carl Fox? All that evil money necromancy can't be good for one's worry lines, which is why it's so surprising that Gekko didn't look like the haggard, woebegone, Wall… » 8/08/12 11:55pm 8/08/12 11:55pm

Relentless bullying can make even the most strong-willed of kids want to curl up under a down blanket and spend the rest of day thinking about how cool it would be to live in a submarine because fish, at least, seem like pretty reasonable and accepting creatures. Some people (ahem, comedians) develop witty coping… » 7/30/12 10:50am 7/30/12 10:50am

A wave of new teacher dress codes is inundating schools across America and threatening to sap the last little bit of dignity that the much-maligned school teacher has left. The Wichita School District has made it a point to regulate teachers' appearance, from the number of visible tattoos a teacher is allowed to have… » 7/30/12 10:00am 7/30/12 10:00am

A new study purports to show that women start feeling old at 29. But take it with a grain of salt — the study was commissioned by funeral home. » 3/30/11 9:46am 3/30/11 9:46am

A reader sent in an exchange from the Sephora blog, and it raises some interesting questions. » 8/04/10 2:50pm 8/04/10 2:50pm

A new book recommends that we prosecute appearance discrimination as strictly as we do racial or gender bias. But is that even possible? » 6/07/10 6:00pm 6/07/10 6:00pm

When you're a child, your parent can seem like the earth, moon and sun. That's why an off-hand remark can inadvertently affect a child for life. In this month's O: Oprah Magazine, writer Lisa Dierbeck talks to comedian Margaret Cho, pro basketball player Tiffany Jackson, opera singer and controversial gastric bypass… » 7/08/08 4:30pm 7/08/08 4:30pm