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Forever Young: My Battle With Botox

Mark Brennan Rosenberg | Posted 05.13.2013 | Comedy
Read More: Lgbt, Essays, Comedy News, Vanity, Comedy, Botox, Botox Procedure, Botox Before 30, Botox Results, Comedy News
Mark Brennan Rosenberg

One hot night in the summer of 2012, I was standing in my bathroom looking at myself in the mirror with roommate. It was three in the morning, he was a little hammered and we were taking inventory on our looks, as gay men do at that hour on a Wednesday night.

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What's Vanity Costing You?

Mark Brennan Rosenberg | Posted 05.17.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Mental Health, Personal Growth, Personal Health, Personal Development, Essays, Vanity, Happiness Tips, Culture, Botox, Happiness, Find Happiness Within, Emotional Wellness, Inner Beauty, GPS for the Soul, Healthy Living News
Mark Brennan Rosenberg

Next time you look in the mirror and see what you want to see, think about how much it would really cost you to upgrade how you feel. Chances are, it's a lot less expensive than you think.

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50-Plus Beauty Tip: First, Do No Arm

Sienna Jae Fein | Posted 04.13.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Aging, Arm Exercises, Maturity, Beauty, Vanity, Seniors, 50 Plus, Skin, Plastic Surgery, Brachioplasty, Arm Surgery, Exercise, Bat-Wings, Weight Loss, Fifty Plus, Underarm Flab, Bat Wing, Fifty News
Sienna Jae Fein

My grandma had bat wing arms. Her arm jiggle fascinated us kids. My cousin Rachel would reach across Granny's corset-clad girth, tap the wrinkled drape of skin and shriek with half-delight, half-horror as the bat wing came to life.

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Stop Accusing Women of Being Vain For Caring About Their Looks

Kate Fridkis | Posted 02.17.2013 | Women
Read More: Supermodels, Victoria's Secret Commercial, Body Image, Self Acceptance, Kate Fridkis, Beauty, Eat the Damn Cake, Vanity, Women and Body Image, Women News
Kate Fridkis

Vain? I had thought that vanity was the evil queen in Snow White, gazing into her mirror, desperate to be the most beautiful in the land. Vanity, I knew, was always feminine. It was always about beauty.

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Confessions of a Mirror Addict

Leigh Vinocur, M.D. | Posted 12.02.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Multitasking Moms, Self-Esteem, Obesity Epidemic, Vanity and Health, Vanity Health Benefits, Mirror Fasting, Vanity, Self-Image, Healthy Living News
Leigh Vinocur, M.D.

I am writing in defense of the mirror! A Today Show segment highlighting Autumn Whitefield-Madrano's blog on HuffPost on mirror fasting, struck me as ...

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Maybe a Wrinkle Would Do Me Good

Leigh Greaney | Posted 10.21.2012 | College
Read More: Living in New York, Post-Grad Life, Quarter-Life-Crisis, Moving to New York, Post-Grad Problems, Beauty-Ideals, Vanity, Femininity, Women Self-Esteem, College News
Leigh Greaney

New York City can ruin your day when you're a semi-decent looking 20-something, hoping for a little respect on a friendless subway ride.

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The Lines of My Life

Alice Carey | Posted 08.11.2012 | Style
Read More: Face Creams, Oscar Wilde, Liz Taylor, Aging, Cecil Beaton, Fashion, Gay, Girls Like US Magazine, Vanity, Portrait of Dorian Gray, Style News
Alice Carey

Elizabeth Taylor once said that every wrinkle tells a story. Fine. When I was young Taylor's words of wisdom seemed great, but not now. Not to my generation who truly believed "all you need is love," not face cream.

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Self-Esteem vs. Narcissism

Lisa Firestone | Posted 08.07.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Terror Management, Sheldon Solomon, Narcissism, Differentiation, Self-Esteem, Vanity, Lisa Firestone, Healthy Self-Esteem, Narcissism Definition, Emotional Wellness, Gps-Soul, Emotional Intelligence, What Is Narcissism, Healthy Living News
Lisa Firestone

Feeling good about yourself as a person and acceptable for who you are allows you to move through your life with a sense of purpose, meaning, and value.

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I Thought Vanity Was Superficial -- Until It Helped Me Get Through My Grief

Emily Rapp | Posted 05.22.2012 | Women
Read More: Body Image, Disability, Women-Authentic-Beauty, What Is Beauty, Vanity, Motherhood, Disabled Children, Video, Women News
Emily Rapp

What is authentic beauty? I feel like every woman struggles to define, but the question is even more pressing when you're a woman with a disability. When I was four, my left leg was amputated.

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The Man in the Mirror

Robert Levithan | Posted 04.17.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Ageism, Internalized-Prejudice, Perception, Mindfulness, Vanity, Aging, Aging Gracefully, Thoughts on Aging, Healthy Living News
Robert Levithan

What about developing a truer relationship with the man or woman in the mirror? Yes, look into your eyes, the proverbial windows to the soul. Get curious. Leave judgment behind. Take a breath. Don't listen to the harsh voices that might show up.

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Our Trainers, Our Selves

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 02.29.2012 | Women
Read More: Yoga, Women, Aging, Running, Fitness Trainers, Exercise, Health, Pilates, Vanity, Women News
Barbara Greenberg

"DO YOU WANT TIGHT ARMS, TIGHT ABS ... ? Yes, I said somewhat meekly through my agony. I certainly do.

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The People Women Really Count On

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 01.15.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Yoga, Friends, Hair Colorists, Relationships, Love and Relationships, People We Count On, Facialists, Manicurists, Housekeepers, Beauty, Vanity, Homosexuals, Friendships, Make-Up Artists, Fitness Trainers, Aestheticians, Spouses, Fashion, Beauticians, Yaga, Personal Trainers, Parents, Fifty News
Barbara Greenberg

Yes, we women count on our partners, our parents if we are lucky enough to still have them, and, of course, our friends. But let's face it, there is ...

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On Not Marrying

Larissa Archer | Posted 11.12.2011 | San Francisco
Read More: Marriage, Relationships, The Cosby Show, Adulthood, Phylicia Rashad, Vanity, Unmarried Women, Single Women, Beauty Products, Love & Sex, San Francisco News
Larissa Archer

Marriage has always held a place in the image of myself that seems so far away, I almost believe I will have to be a completely different person by the time it happens.

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TSA Took My Teeth, and I'm Mad as Hell

Anne Sobel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Dentures, Tsa, Qatar, Vanity, Dentist, Flying, Chicago, Comedy News
Anne Sobel

TSA took my teeth. What on God's green earth would they do that for? Was I going to bite a pilot into submission mid flight? Also, what if this had been my dentures?!

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Northwestern Study Shows Students What Aging Looks Like

Chicago Sun-Times | Patent Baristas | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Aging, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Kellogg School, Vanity, Northwestern University, Chicago News

What if, as a 20-year-old, you could look into the future and see your future self -- as a droopy, liver-spotted 60-something? Maybe you'd freak ou...

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No Makeup Week: Women Pledge To Keep Their Faces Bare For 7 Days

The Huffington Post | Jen Sabella | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Gender Politics, Rachel Rabbit White, Chicago Writers, Chicago Media, Cosmetics, Chicago Culture, Makeup, Vanity, No Makeup Week, Feminism, Chicago Style, Chicago News

Could you go a week without makeup? While some women avoid it altogether, others have developed an inexplicable need for the stuff over the years. Wha...

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Damn, She's in Distress!

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Betty Friedan, Chivalry, Aging, Middle Age, Body Image, Women's Lib, Women's Rights, Women's Movement, Vanity, Healthy Living News
Stephanie Gertler

Does chivalry begin again when a woman becomes of a "certain age" or is it simply making a comeback?

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Why Women Should Look Forward To Aging

yourtango.com | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Aging, Older Women, Relationships, Sex, Older Women Strength, Women's Self-Esteem, Cougar, Tenacity, Cougar Sex, Vanity, Older Woman Sex, Healthy Living News

Publications for women love to make you feel sh**ty about yourself, particularly when it comes to aging as if it were a choice, and women who choose t...

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Disappointing Disappointment About Vanity Fair's "Tweethearts" Article

Mark Drapeau | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Society, Celebrity, Twitter, Technology, Vanity, Vanity Fair, Felicia Day, Tweethearts, New Media, Media, Media News
Mark Drapeau

Ladies, disappointed or not, you're in Vanity Fair. I don't care if they made fun of your tweeples and twosses and focused on your legs -- that's still cool.

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The Best Aging Secret: Make Time Your Friend

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Aging, Time, Beauty, Vanity, Deepak Chopra, Healthy Living News
Deepak Chopra

We've all been conditioned to look upon time as our enemy. This belief is wrong, but it's so deeply ingrained that if affects even the most gifted people.

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Beauty, Botox and Delving Deeper: Sip Through A Straw I Say!

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Aging, The Balanced Life, Plastic Surgery, Wrinkles, The Full Life, Beauty, Grandparents, Vanity, Natural Living, Botox, Healthy Living News
Danielle Cavallucci

Something is afoul in this system of propaganda and quick beauty fixes, that cost us more than we make in hopes that we'll make more once we look the part.

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A Fool and His Money Are Soon Parted (Because) There's a Sucker Born Every Minute

Judith M. Bardwick | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Willie Sutton, Bernard Madoff, Conned, Money, Scam, Flattery, Madoff Scam, Ponzi Scheme, Madoff Scandal, Vanity, Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Bernie Madoff, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Business News
Judith M. Bardwick

Who is a sucker? A sucker is someone who wants something so badly that they lose all critical judgment.

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My Musings On Vanity

Verena von Pfetten | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Vanity, Vanity Deadly Sin, Seven Deadly Sins, Pride Deadly Sin, Healthy Living News
Verena von Pfetten

Mirror, mirror, on the wall! Who's the vainest of them all? Yesterday, while doing something decidedly un-vain, my thoughts happened to stumble upon ...

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