Word: glamourizing
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...That's Washington. Seeing her, the white viewer thinks: Join us! Elevate the race - ours. The movie screen is only skin-deep, and surely glamour counts more than an ancestor's color. Peola thinks that; she glides on the edges of white society and wonders why, if Bea could ascend to it via money, a light-skinned young woman couldn't do it with prettiness. She has a wonderful mother who is exactly the wrong mother for her, so far apart are their respective ideas of what is possible and proper. Peola runs away from home, finds a job - cashier...
...trusty copy of Glamour open to the techniques and products page, I plan to take advantage of the free advice being dished out by the make-up artist to the new “it” star. As I skim the advice I become excited at the prospect of looking a bit more like a supermodel…or at least a knock-off MTV VJ for an evening...
...Glamour doesn’t do the greatest job of giving skin-tone specific beauty advice. I mean, it does if your skin tone is somewhere between Swedish pale pink and J-Lo bronze. I suppose if I want to learn which dark-people lipsticks or blushes to wear with a particular outfit, I could refer to the make-up artists who are dishing out advice in the dark-people magazines. And there are “special” make-up lines made especially for black people with invitingly dark shades that start somewhere around caramel and only...
While I-banking may be Krinsky’s long-term plan, writing a sex column for a professional newspaper is her immediate dream. She is pursuing internships at America’s finest journals, including Maxim, Stuff and Glamour. Asked if she would ever consider a post at Playboy, Krinsky replies “in a second...
While Krinsky’s column may not soon replace the standard dorm room library—Maxim, Cosmo, Glamour, Playboy, Black Tail—it has, at least for the moment, earned a place among those sacred ranks. Krinsky says she receives enthusiastic feedback from other colleges. “I receive a lot of e-mails from people at Duke,” Krinsky confesses...