Does Makeup Keep You From Getting Laid? (Or, When He Professes He Likes The ‘Natural’ Look)
November 13, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Advice, Appearance, Sex
Don’t you just hate it when your man turns to you and says, “I like you better without make-up,” or makes some comment about how he “prefers the natural look” — and you remember how you looked when you met, all dolled-up. You (and I) know that he was drawn to you for how you [...]
Make-Up Works: Exaggerated Beauty Gets Noticed
November 13, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Appearance, Studies
Also in the December issue of Psychology Today, Mina Shaghaghi reports on the findings of a series of studies by Richard Russell of Gettysburg College which explains the “allure of dramatic eye makeup and va-va-voom red lips on women has biological roots.”
It seems that what glamor girls do (whether they know it or not) is [...]
Can He Last Three Minutes?
November 11, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Appearance, Communication, Meeting A Potential Mate, Studies
In the November issue of O (and that stands for Oprah, not Orgasm or Overstock.com),
Uh, My Eyes Are Up Here, Bud.
October 9, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Appearance, Don We Now Our Gay Apparel
Every female who has had to remind a male to look her in the eye (or at least her face) as opposed to looking at her breasts when talking to her — and that’s a whole lot of us! — will find this item annoying.
In the October issue of Cosmo, Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley models [...]
Being Frank About Female Insecurity
September 22, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Appearance, Fears, Toxic Relationships
“If I had as many love affairs as you give me credit for, I would be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.”
~ Frank Sinatra ~
Ahh, Frank. Everybody loves the Frank. Or at least he was convinced of that.
Is anything as suave & steeped in romance as Frank crooning to [...]
Sexism Alert: “The Great Male Survey” Results
Last month, AskMen.com (50,000 AskMen.com readers) & Shine (19,000 respondents over a four week period) conducted its second annual online survey, where real women and men answered questions on such topics as online dating, money, careers, soul mates, marriage, romance, cheating, etc.
One area where men really weighed-in differently was the matter of weight gain. [...]
Sensationalized Sexist TV That’s Mean To Men?
July 22, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Absurd, Appearance, Reality Self-Check
Have you seen these screaming headlines yet:
Is your boyfriend/husband HAIRY and you are sick of it?? Now Casting
and
America’s Uggliest Husband — Is he yours?
Can you imagine if we saw headlines & programs dedicated to calling women ugly? If we saw casting calls announcing how husbands who were sick of their wives looks could get help [...]
Is Dating In The Dark Treating Us Like Mushrooms?
July 21, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Appearance, Reality Self-Check
You know the old joke, “I must be a mushroom because people keep me in the dark and feed me BS,” right? So when I heard about ABC’s Dating In The Dark, I was suspicious. My verdict? The bad news is that the new reality dating show is unremarkable. But then again, the [...]
Engaged? Be A Big Tease On TV
June 2, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Appearance, Reality Self-Check
Engaged? Getting married? Want to get a free smoking-hot hair makeover for yourself, your Maid of Honor, and one of your Bride’s Maids?
44 Blue Productions is now casting for a new show called Big Tease, a special (not a series) in which the best of the best hairstylists from Style Network’s two-time [...]
Women: You Can’t Beat Em
May 20, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Appearance, Attitude
This retro ringer tee from Vintage Vantage is sure to remind our fellow citizens to march to the same beat for women’s safety — or, at the very least, piss off the male chauvinist pigs who are still sore that Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs. And those men, my friend, are not good [...]








