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You too can look like Cruella Deville with MAC's Venomous Villains Collection!

Social Commentary post by Kelsey Wallace, May 19, 2010 - 1:46pm; tagged cosmetics, Cruella Deville, Disney, Dr. Facilier, Evil Queen, MAC, Maleficent.

By now, you're probably aware of the Disney Princess Industrial Complex, an entire industry built on encouraging young girls to fantasize about being princesses and convince their parents to spend tons of cash making their tiara-clad dreams come true. Well, apparently the folks at Disney don't want to stop at marketing their characters to young girls, because they are teaming up with MAC Cosmetics to offer a line of Disney-inspired makeup. And what's more, the makeup is not modeled after Disney's princesses, but rather their "Venomous Villains." You too can look like Cruella Deville or the Evil (nameless) Queen from Snow White! Finally!

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Dear Beauty Industrial Complex: Take Your LATISSE and Shove It.

Love / Shove post by Kelsey Wallace, July 24, 2009 - 11:38am; tagged beauty products, beauty standards, Brooke Shields, contraindications, cosmetics, eyelashes, feminism, Latisse, prescription drugs, side effects.

Dear Women,

We realize that we're already making you feel bad about your hair, breasts, lips, butt, legs, and overall body type, but our work is far from over. We would now like to introduce you to a new, hopefully self-esteem-lowering, chock-full-o-side-effects cosmetic designed to make you feel like your F*ING EYELASHES aren't good enough. Please watch the following video, feel the requisite amount of inadequacy, ignore the dangers, and write your doctor a big fat check for some LATISSE today.

Sincerely, Your Beloved Beauty Industrial Complex

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Beauty Secrets

The New Cosmetic Cover-up

Article by Jacqueline Houton, Illustrated by Taryn Egan, published in 2008; filed under Consumer culture; tagged advertising, beauty, beauty products, corporate ickiness, Cosmetic Ingrediet Review, cosmetics, FDA, health, women's magazines.

From the pages of every mainstream women’s magazine—between the list of 43 things every confident woman knows and the six-week ab-blasting plan—the ads beckon. Conditioners enriched with vitamins vow to make each strand 10 times stronger. Undereye concealers containing white-tea antioxidants claim to combat the cellular damage that deepens those oh-so-unsightly dark circles. Pricey foundations promise to rejuvenate the face at the molecular level with the new Pro-Xylane compound, carefully extracted from Eastern European beech trees.

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