Why Do Men Hate ‘Birthday Makeup’ So Much? An Investigation

Sadly (though not surprisingly) a US study found that 63% of men think women mainly wear makeup to trick people into thinking they’re attractive, hinting at an issue of mistrust. In an R29 article written by Parisa Hashempour, Dr Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor at Cornell University, highlighted a frustrating catch-22. Women are “expected to be effortlessly, naturally beautiful in a way that requires things like makeup and filters”, said Dr Duffy, but going “too far” will have you observed as “fake, a fraud or narcissistic”. This, Dr Duffy said, sets women up for intense scrutiny and ultimately failure. read more

I’ve Lived in Paris for 8.5 Years—This Is the Dress French Women Always Wear

I’m a big advocate for the capsule wardrobe—an armoire filled with cherry-picked items that, to borrow from Marie Kondo, give me only joy when wearing them. Conscious shopping is something I’ve adopted too in the past eight and a half years since moving to Paris, and it’s also incidentally something I write about in my book, Practising Parisienne: Lifestyle Secrets From the City of Lights read more