As I mentioned last week, we were very happy to welcome BeachMint as Women.com’s first official sponsor in February. BeachMint is the hot, Los Angeles-based company behind such brands as BeautyMint, JewelMint, ShoeMint and StyleMint. It seems like all the celebs are wearing accessories from JewelMint, so after the success of my Stylemint tee, I [...]
“Women Power,” “Fearless Women,” “Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures,” and of course, “Feminist” – all of these wonderful and empowering words are flying around with March being Women’s History Month. Ever since we re-launched Women.com in December, I talk a lot about “the awesomeness of women,” and the term feminism comes up a lot. Like many [...]
I sat glued to the screen for forty minutes as I viewed Saving Face, the Oscar-winning HBO documentary that premiers tonight on HBO. The story follows two Pakistani women, Zakia and Rukhsana, whose faces have been disfigured and severely burned because of acid attacks by their husbands. It’s hard to watch a story about women [...]
Ah, the Oscars! The dresses, the jewelry, the hair, the makeup. It’s all so fun! I love the glizt and glamour, but the news last week of “Am I Ugly” and then Tumblr announcing a new policy against “self-harm” blogs has me more pensive and eager to steer conversations away from vanity. Furthermore, I was [...]
Inspiration hits you at the strangest times. The stars aligned Thursday morning: an early-wake up by Annie, two days without a shower (forgive me, she’s 18 months old), a week without yoga, and a 12-year-old on line at the bagel store. I placed my order and smiled while he fooled around with his mom and [...]
In case you missed it, the buzz on the Internet today is about a young girl’s posting on YouTube asking the community if she is ugly. “People say I’m ugly,” she says with the saddest look on her face. “So, tell me….am I?” Here’s my reply: Dear Beauty (I’m talking about your insides – that’s all [...]
I mindlessly slip on leather shoes all the time. I buy handbags based on the style, not the material. But after coming across this post and watching a heart-breaking video this morning, these will never be “mindless” acts again. I am very grateful to Stella McCartney for raising awareness on the brutality with which cows are [...]
