Tag: Vanity

Beyond Vanity The History and Power of Hairdressing


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English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 0262049058 | 248 pages | PDF | 9.68 Mb
From the award-winning author of Dressing Up, a riveting and diverse history of women’s hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America.

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Beyond Vanity The History and Power of Hairdressing (The MIT Press)


Free Download Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing (The MIT Press) by Elizabeth L. Block
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 0262049058 | 248 pages | True EPUB | 7.34 MB
From the award-winning author of Dressing Up, a riveting and diverse history of women’s hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America.

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Die Hot with a Vengeance Essays on Vanity [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CKZH8DRV | 2024 | 7 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Sable Yong
Narrator: Sable Yong

Journalist and former Allure editor Sable Yong debuts with a sharp-toothed and hilarious essay collection about beauty and vanity, examining their stigmatization in the cultural zeitgeist, and how to shift the focus to use both for powerful tools for self-exploration, interpersonal connection, and cultural change. The beauty industry has a single mandate: be hot. In the same week that you might be encouraged to try curtain bangs, contouring, bleached eyebrows, laser facials, buccal fat removal, fillers, and "non-invasive" facelifts, you’re simultaneously absorbing mantras about self-care, body positivity, empowerment, and loving yourself just as you are. Overwhelmed yet? Fear not. Die Hot with a Vengeance delves into the machinations of this multi-billion-dollar industry, offering listeners an expert analysis of its inner workings with the precision of a scalpel and the humor of a stand-up comedian. Along the way, Yong sets off to answer some of the biggest questions of our time.

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Die Hot with a Vengeance Essays on Vanity


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English | July 9, 2024 | ISBN: 0063236486 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 2.7 MB
Journalist and former Allure editor Sable Yong debuts with a sharp-toothed and hilarious essay collection about beauty and vanity, examining their stigmatization in the cultural zeitgeist, and how to shift the focus to use both for powerful tools for self-exploration, interpersonal connection, and cultural change.

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Vanity Fair Oscar Night Sessions A Decade of Portraits from the After-Party


Free Download Vanity Fair: Oscar Night Sessions: A Decade of Portraits from the After-Party by Mark Seliger, Alan Cumming, Radhika Jones
English | November 14, 2023 | ISBN: 1419754785 | 256 pages | MOBI | 41 Mb
Vanity Fair: Oscar Night Sessions presents 10 years of luminous photographic portraits of Hollywood celebrities who attended the most exclusive and glamorous after-party of the year in a gorgeous volume.

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Don’t Lose Sight Vanity, incompetence, and my ill-fated left eye


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English | 2021 | ISBN: 1771804807 | EPUB | pages: 140 | 1.3 mb
When Genevieve Chornenki escapes a brush with blindness, things never looked better-city pigeons, people, stainless steel pots. But questions about her experience linger: Who was responsible for her close call? Can she safeguard other people’s eyesight? How do our eyes work, anyway, and why do they give so much pleasure? With a newborn baby and a background in dispute resolution, Genevieve sets her sights on answers. The results aren’t always what she went looking for.

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