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2008

May

• Aesthetic and cosmetic skin treatment

• Cellulite treatment by electromagnetic radiation (infrared, laser, radiofrequency) and ultrasound

• Makeup as cosmetic camouflage

April

• Sensation seeking and men’s preference for facial femininity in women

• Fashion illustration vs. superheroines, pinups and fantasy art

• Pending French law will make the promotion of extreme thinness or proana criminal: Qui est pissé?

• Aesthetic surgery of women’s genitals: reduction of large labia minora

• Women’s body size preferences among men in Britain, Malaysia and Samoa

• Quick judgment of face beauty; variation in and appeal of women’s gait across the menstrual cycle

• Some sex/gender differences in nose shape; measurements for rhinoplasty

• Please do not post direct links to this site at digg.com, plus other news

March

• How often men approach women in relation to the size of their breasts

• The interaction between cellulite and skin aging: another reason to treat cellulite?

• Acne treatment: the utility of azelaic acid, and photopneumatic technology

• A review of mesotherapy solutions for breaking down fat and treating cellulite

• Drugs that attenuate skin aging: proven therapies

• Natural vs. fake tan: which is better for darkening skin?

• What are the requirements for becoming a top-ranked fashion model or supermodel?

• Bradley Bayou on the fashion world and eating disorders, and thick-legged Ali Michael

• What goes into the selection of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit models? Some video clips

• What form of women’s body shape was preferred in medieval Europe?

• The strange research of Pettijohn and Tesser on movie actresses, Miss Americas and Playboy Playmates

February

• Exposure to imagery featuring thin women and women’s eating behavior

• How feminist and non-feminist women rate women’s bodies

• Why is physical attractiveness more important for women?

• Leg-length to height ratio and attractiveness

• A waste of a study on waist-hip preferences: people do not have for waifs a taste

• The utility of makeup for women

• The 2008 London spring Fashion Week: some comments

• Homosexual designers’ influence now more obvious in the selection of male models

• Maria Sheriff

• Linda D. from Met Art

• If most read this tale about a topic beyond the pale, without fail, wouldn’t fashion bigwigs wail?

January

• Machines judging human beauty

• Rose McGowan

• Shape preferences pertaining to ancestral and derived forms

• Stephen Marquardt Phi (Golden ratio) mask formally refuted

• The 2004 Miss Poland beauty pageant: a poor choice for discerning what makes women super attractive

• Sample artwork

• Barbie: the bane of feminists, and why she is preferred

2007

December

• The facial and body attractiveness of women as shape

• Will a union help fashion models?

• Foot size preferences

• The distribution of facial masculinity-femininity in men and women

• A preference for placement along the ancestral-to-derived discriminant in an European population

• Do women with lower waist-to-hip ratios have higher intelligence?

• Gay fest in full bloom at the Miss World 2006 beauty pageant

• Why are there so many high-fashion models from Eastern Europe?

• How can one have a son that looks like a Greek God?

November

• A woman with small breasts

• What definitely not to do to tackle the influence of fashion media on triggering eating disorders

• Cosmetic surgery in relation to altering ethnic features

• Four common nose shape anomalies that increase the odds of unfavorable results from rhinoplasty

• Feminization and masculinization in the looks of men

• Why are children used to model clothes for women in their 30s and 40s?

• Does Miranda Kerr have a broad nose or am I biased?

• 2-year roundup

• Do regular male viewers of x-rated movies prefer fake breasts to naturally well-endowed breasts?

October

• Stephen Marquardt Phi mask application: how to compare shape

• Tyra Banks on honesty

• Fashion models with and without make-up

• Sexy ana-rexi mystery

• Melisande aka Guinevere

• Musings on setting up alternative fashion industries

• Anna S. from Hegre Art

• Gabrielle from MC nudes

• Karl “models have skinny bones” Lagerfeld rejects three models for being too skinny!

• 2 min 23 sec video: Fast track learning for newcomers

• Why would a fashion magazine publish these photos?

• If designers were typically straight men, fashion models would look like…a curvy cola bottle!

• Does fashion advertising cater to the buyers or is one observing the effects of a monopoly?

• Helen Mirren says that the tail wags the dog

• Cure worse than the disease? The No-l-ita ad: how not to tackle anorexia

September

• What is wrong with this video?

• 5 resolutions to transform the fashion and beauty industries

• 12-year-old fashion model: Maddison Gabriel

• Fashion world news

• No comment needed

• Stephen Marquardt Phi (golden ratio) mask application: a methodological problem

• Slender feminine women

• The golden ratio or divine proportion and facial beauty

August

• Why are Victoria’s Secret models so popular?

• Feminists offended by Tom Ford perfume ad

• Who has the body? Alessandra Ambrosio or Dasha from Hegre Art?

• Educational videos: The models of Francesco Scognamiglio and Lena from FTV girls

• Wiki added

• Daria Werbowy video

July

• Extreme femininity

• Height in women and its relation to femininity and attractiveness

• Micro-fat grafting: more evidence for the relationship between waist-hip ratio and attractiveness

• The attractiveness of eyebrow form as a function of face shape

• Anna Wintour should not be blamed for skinny high-fashion models

• Attractiveness as a function of eyebrow position and shape in women

June

• Earlobe proportions and attractiveness

• Nasion placement and attractiveness

• Mandibular profile and attractiveness

• Sexually antagonistic selection

• Masculinized women in the 2007 Miss Universe beauty pageant

• Fashion models that don’t look bad

• The transsexual parade otherwise known as the Victoria’s Secret lingerie show: part 7

May

• Beth Ditto: male homosexual fashion designers to blame for size zero trend

• Rhinoplasty in Stockholm, Sweden: comments on the fine, straight and chiseled Nordic nose

• Attractive nose profile in white women

• Must read for New Woman magazine readers with distorted beliefs regarding what is a “sexy” body

• Cute women 7

• Even more women related to the “clothes hangar” argument

• Feminine beauty from Russia

• Inna B. from Met Art

• Cute women 6

• More women related to the “clothes hangar” argument

• Sally Todd

• Katherine Heigl

• Sandie

• Sharon Clark

• Evelina

• The curvaceousness of fashion models, Miss Americas and PMOYs over time in the twentieth century

• Cute women 5

April

• More on Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine

• Medial canthal tilt and attractiveness

• Pamela Jean Bryant

• Body mass index and attractiveness in women

• Anorexia and bulimia prevention programs: the most effective intervention

• More on how well the public appreciates the looks of high-fashion models

• Top-50 high-fashion models

March

• Lisa Welch

• Cute women 4

• Human evolution: initial steps toward an hourglass figure in the female

• Lena Sunshine

• I am not alone

• ACNielsen report: Majority of global consumers find female fashion models “too thin”

• Petra Nemcova not spared, either; models and their agents ready to sue

• Fan email: You are not alone

• Masculinized women among Miss USA 2007 contestants

• The 2006 Miss USA beauty pageant: are beauty queens supposed to look like prostitutes?

• Rapid judgment of aesthetically pleasing waist-hip proportions in women

• Council of Fashion Designers of America’s lame excuses for not enforcing models’ health guidelines

• Natalia Vodianova’s disordered eating, and Elle “The Body” MacPherson cannot find a man!

• Ignoramus Naomi Campbell; the tragedy of Luisel and Eliana Ramos

• Response to comments by Claudia Schiffer and Stefano Gabbana

• Exposure to skinny fashion models and body image in women

February

• Fashion models increasingly slender and masculine in the latter half of the twentieth century

• New studies and the latest literature review on the prevalence of eating disorders

• Irishka A. from Met Art

• Cute women 3

• Cute women 2

• Mario Testino: high-fashion models not too thin

• Cute women 1

• And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein

• Invitation-only discussion on beauty and health in the fashion world during NYC fashion week…Duh!

• Academy for Eating Disorders’ guidelines for the fashion industry

• Families do not cause anorexia nervosa: NEDA responds to Gisele Bundchen

January

• Encouraging news from New York: lawmaker proposes body weight standards for the fashion industry

• Attractiveness ratings of three-dimensional female physiques in color

• Angelina Valinurova

• Viktoria from Abby Winters

• More absurdity from Gisele Bundchen: families, not the fashion industry to blame for anorexia!

• Waist-to-hip ratio and attractiveness in women: addressing confounds

• Female waist-to-hip ratio preference among rural men in Bakossiland, Cameroon

• Female waist-to-hip ratio preference among Chinese men

• Abbie Gortsema

• Fashion models’ health guidelines will not help

• Functions of fat cells beneath the skin

• Self/body-esteem problems in relation to the promotion of feminine beauty

• What is sexy?

• The transsexual parade otherwise known as the Victoria’s Secret lingerie show: part 6

• Valery from Galitsin News

• Rachel from Domai

2006

December

• More evidence against the “clothes hangar” argument

• Ulya I. from Met Art

• Paris A. from Met Art

• Dasha from Hegre Art

• The physique of Tara Conner, Miss USA 2006

• Does beauty lie in the eye of the beholder?

• Tara Conner (Miss USA 2006) vs. the average North American white female

• Italy bans ultra-skinny fashion models; homosexual fashion designers pissed, no doubt

• Miriam from watch4beauty (W4B)

• Maria McBane

• Jenni from Femjoy

• Sonia Blake

• Maria A. from Domai

• Pamela Anderson: an example of fake femininity

• The transsexual parade otherwise known as the Victoria’s Secret lingerie show: part 5

November

• The skinny on the general public vs. the fashion industry

• Art depicting feminine beauty

• “Beauty is good” vs. “ugliness is bad”

• The transsexual parade otherwise known as the Victoria’s Secret lingerie show: part 4

• Discrimination against unattractive women

• The transsexual parade otherwise known as the Victoria’s Secret lingerie show: part 3

October

• The transsexual parade otherwise known as the Victoria’s Secret lingerie show: part 2

• New additions

• The influence of the thin ideal in fashion magazines on women at risk for anorexia

• Anorexia statistics: Naomi Wolf’s Overdo and Lie Factor (WOLF)

• The transsexual parade otherwise known as the Victoria’s Secret lingerie show: part 1

September

• Michaela from glamour.cz and Keeley Hazell

• Is she the next hot Calvin Klein model?

• Miscellaneous attractive women

• Are these girls high-fashion model material?

• Seska from Teen Stars magazine

• Carli Banks

• Olga K. from Met-Art

• Masculine vs. feminine face variation assessed via 3D laser scanning and geometric morphometrics

• Lilian Rose from pure beauty magazine

• Attractive women that unfortunately have small breasts

• Lidiya from MPL studios

August

• Nonheterosexual vs. heterosexual male preference for petite women: Alessandra Ambrosio vs. Camille

• Ilona from Twistys

• Weep Donald Trump, weep!

July

• Miss Universe 2006: beauty pageant par excellence!

• Eva Herzigova

June

• The 2006 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue

• Luciana Vendramini

• Domenica from Domai

• Dascha from Domai

• Is it possible to objectively compare the attractiveness of women from different populations?

• Meadow from karupspc

• Anna from ATK galleria

April

• Lingerie modeling: Rebecca Romijn or Layla from W4B?

March

• Fashion models like this woman can obviate the need for this site

• The importance of femininity to beauty in women

• Elkie from Simonscans

• What range of body fat is considered socially acceptable in the general population?

February

• Princess Alla

• The aesthetics of the eyebrows

• Anna from European Glamour Girls

January

• Masculinization in the 2005 Miss World beauty pageant contestants

• Andrea from femjoy

2005

December

• Gisele Bundchen slams skinny fashion models

November

• The aesthetics of the buttocks in the white female

• Elle MacPherson vs. Monica from FTV girls

• Facial masculinization in beauty pageant contestants: an example from the Miss Germany 2002 pageant

• Backside comparison: Daria Werbowy vs. Cindy D.

• Claire: for the skeptics

• Estradiol and face shape in women

• Gay fashion designers

• Guinevere: attractive slender nude

October

• Welcome!