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The Most Important Thing Brides Need To Remember

Anne Almasy | Posted 06.04.2013 | Weddings
Read More: Photography, Wedding Beauty, Wedding Photos, Real Beauty, Wedding Photography, Brides, Beauty, Wedding Photography Tips, Weddings, Weddings News
Anne Almasy

On your wedding day, stand with your shoulders back and your arms held slightly away from your sides. Keep your chin up and your neck long. But remember: I'm not photographing you for Vogue or Marie Claire.

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What's Next for an Imperfect World?

Marian Salzman | Posted 02.12.2013 | Media
Read More: Cgi, Plastic Surgery, Botox, Perfection, Artificial Technology, Unnatural Perfection, Media Perfection, Artificial Media, Real Beauty, Media News
Marian Salzman

Now that anybody can produce technically perfect, beautiful images with digital photography, we're seeing a countercurrent of interest in producing images that are not perfect but grainy, backlit, overexposed, blurred -- anything that suggests a human touch.

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Why Dressing Room Mirrors Still Have So Much Power

Kate Fridkis | Posted 01.02.2013 | Women
Read More: Macy's, Women, Self-Esteem, Kate Fridkis, Beauty, Department Store, Body Image, Shame, Work Clothes, Real Beauty, Weight Loss, Pride, Ugly, Fitting Rooms, Women and Body Image, Women News
Kate Fridkis

When my mom saw me in an old pencil skirt she said, "I don't think you're a pencil anymore, honey. You're more of a pen, or a marker."

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Confident Women Can Change the World

Jennifer Hyman | Posted 12.22.2012 | Style
Read More: Real Women, Women, Our Runway, Body Image, Women's Self-Esteem, Real Beauty, Dove Real Women, Self-Esteem, Beauty, Confidence, Becoming-Fearless, Rent the Runway, Style News
Jennifer Hyman

The solution to breeding self-confidence in women is to celebrate that their reality, Spanx and all, is aspirational in and of itself. That reality is all of the things that make us amazing women -- like our smarts, or our humor or how we love. Beauty is a thing, not the thing.

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You Can Fake Pretty But You Cannot Fake Beautiful

Amy Chan | Posted 11.19.2012 | Women
Read More: Self Esteem, Amy Chan Vancouver, Love Yourself, Amyfabulous, True Beauty, Inner Beauty, Real Beauty, Beauty, Natural Beauty, Women News
Amy Chan

The next time your inner self-critic takes over when you're looking in the mirror, I challenge you to stop the negative dialogue about your looks

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Please Don't Tell Me I'm Beautiful

Jane Devin | Posted 11.07.2012 | Women
Read More: Work, Feminism, Obesity, Women, Beauty, Love, Inner Beauty, Real Beauty, Self-Esteem, Body-Image, Women and Body Image, Women News
Jane Devin

It has always felt like a special woman-to-woman lie -- a strictly feminine code that seeks to replace an unwanted truth with a pretty fiction.

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When Is the Desire to Be Beautiful Too Much?

Shannon Bradley-Colleary | Posted 08.21.2012 | Women
Read More: Aging, Beauty, Non-Surgical Procedures, Acceptance, Middle Age, 20-Something, Women and Beauty, Self-Confidence, Body Image, Real Beauty, Confidence, 40-Something, Beauty and Aging, Women News
Shannon Bradley-Colleary

Does caring about beauty make me vain? A hypocrite? A middle-aged woman with too much time on her hands? A privileged narcissist?

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Redefining Beauty in 7 Easy Steps

Nicole Cothrun Venables | Posted 08.11.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Beauty and Skin, Healthy Living Body, Mood Board, Makeup, Changing Styles, Empowering Beauty, Redefining Beauty, Real Beauty, Healthy Living News
Nicole Cothrun Venables

Having seen this firsthand, I know that the quest for beauty can be an unconscious and endless search for some. For others, it can be a way to define, develop and revel in their inner and outer beauty.

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Dove Vs. The Retoucher: Company At Standoff Allegations Of "Real Beauty" Airbrushing

Ad Age | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Unilever, Dove, Dove Airbrushing, Pascal Dangin, Real Beauty, Airbrushing, Business News

It was a few lines in a 6,000-word article, but it threw Unilever and its advertising agency, Ogilvy & Mather, into a tizzy of denials, explanations a...

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