Monthly Archives: September 2011

Cut your hair and what do you find? Insecurity.

Posted on September 30, 2011 by jude

I’ve had long hair since I was seventeen, grown as a result of a catty comment following my first short Vidal Sassoon haircut…”Are you a boy or a girl?” That did it. Since then, I’ve had the Farrah Fawcett, the Read more

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Real NYC Housewives fired, and we know why…

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Geo Palette

Jill Zarin, Kelly Bensimon, Alex McCord, and the new girl with the hair removal business will not be coming back to Housewives of NYC. Fired. Removed. Kaput. And we know why! Big-mouthed Jill was a bully and a mean girl. Read more

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Glamour bondage: have you discovered it yet?

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Geo Palette

French Vogue editor and Tom Ford muse, Carine Roitfeld,  coined the phrase “glamour bondage”, and had feminists complaining about  images in a recent magazine. But when we’re strapping on a pair of skyscraper heels, or wearing spanx that make us Read more

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Has your roommate ever asked you if she could smudge your house?

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Geo Palette

Mine did. Apparently my grandmother touched the back of her head last night, and Grandma died fifteen years ago.  I told her, “Go for it. Burn those herbs and purify that space.” But Grandma was a force to be reckoned Read more

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Being authentic: but what if you’re an authentic idiot?

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Geo Palette

“Being your authentic self” has been bandied about since the nineties: in self-help books, on Oprah, and lately, with politicians. But what if your authentic self is nasty? Or selfish? Or out of control? Maybe the goal should be to Read more

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