Sitemap - 2024 - The Review of Beauty by Jessica DeFino

Post-Election, Beware 'Self-Care'

Founder of No. 1 Beauty Retailer In Nation Interferes With Election Journalism

Glitter Freckles Are Canceled

'I was prescribed medicine for a zit. Should I take it?'

Are You Ugly? Do You Have A Good Life?

An Aesthetics of Anti-Consumerism

Scarlett Johansson Wants To Be The Next Kylie Jenner

I Shaved For This?

Stop Trying To Make 'Moo Deng Skin' Happen

Glossier Has The Fragrance Market Locked Up

ANNOUNCING: The Hole Debate, Live In NYC!

Let's Talk About Holes, Baby

'People Keep Insulting My Gray Hair! Should I Dye It?'

The Morning Dread (— I Mean, Shed)

Just How ‘Minimally Invasive’ Can A Scalpel Be?

Blake Lively Is Not Very Demure

Why Do We Want To Look Like Glass?

The Filler To Facelift Pipeline

This Perfume Is (Not?) Sublime

Objectifying People, Personifying Objects

'My Big, Ugly Feet Are Ruining My Life!'

Ugly Republicans & Night Cream For Cat Ladies

Everyone Is Botoxed & No One Is Horny

WikiFeet Goes A-List

FREE BIRTHDAY GIFT FROM SEPHORA

Skinfantilization

'My Mother Wants Me To Get Plastic Surgery'

Boyhood Is Trending

It's A Woman's World?

Lash: My Life With Trichotillomania

Donald Trump's American Beauty

The Fall of the House of JLo

Cosmetic Mimetic Desire: A Lip Gloss That 'Makes You Want To Make Out'

Do You Have Taste?

Garbage: The Beauty Trend That Won’t Go Away

Look Good, Feel Bad!

The State Of The Bush

The Eye Of The Beholder Got A Blepharoplasty

BBL Drizzy, Taylor Swift Perfume, Merkins & More: A New Podcast About Celebrity Beauty Mess!

Shampoo For Your God-Shaped Hole

Stop Exfoliating (Start Eating Rose Petals)

Gilding The Cage

When Obsession With Skincare Becomes Dermorexia

'Challengers': An Ad For Augustinus Bader Body Cream?

On Fragrance, Or Sidestepping The Problems Of The Flesh

The Pubic Hair Poll

Don't Call It Girlhood

DoorDashing Boyfriend Blush

Terror & Mundanity In A Makeup Bag

Banking On Collagen (& Losing Billions)

Introducing: The Review of Beauty

Microdosing Prejuvenation

When Beauty Becomes Background Noise

Would You Rather Die Hot or Live Ugly?

Sephora Dysmorphia with Nymphet Alumni

We Are The Poor Things

Makeup As Meditation, Skincare As 'Girl Therapy'

From 'Lolita' To Dakota Johnson's Book Club: A Brief Look At Beauty's Relationship To Literature

On Night Cream & The Nothingness of Being

Célebrating The Célf By Consuming Célebrity Shampoo

'Beauty Felt Like A Second Job — One I Couldn't Afford To Keep'

What To Do When You Have More Lip Balms Than Friends (& Your Lips Are Still Chapped)

Every Beauty Commercial From The Super Bowl, Analyzed

Butthole Beauty, Ancestral Skincare, & More

Cosmetics ≠ Clothing

Venus Explains It All

A Retraction of Yesterday’s Guest Essay

Serum Moms Are The New Almond Moms

#GetReadyWithMe Videos Are Out