On AlterNet: appearance

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "appearance"

The Brotox Era: Does Male Vanity Even the Playing Field, Or Condemn Us All to Unreachable Beauty Standards?

Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet. January 16, 2012.

Instead of all of us accepting our flaws, are men facing new pressure to be ageless and perfect?

Was It Hard Work, or Your Good-Looking Face That Got You a Raise?

Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. May 15, 2009.

New study finds that, even accounting for intelligence, income prospects are enhanced by being good-looking.

Are Asians Increasingly Undergoing Plastic Surgery to Look White?

Andrew Lam, New America Media. March 31, 2007.

Plastic surgery is on the rise in ethnic communities across the United States, and in Asia it is as routine as having one's wisdom teeth pulled. Are these alterations an attempt to look more "white?"

$Beauty Standards Can Kill: Women\'s Deadly Desire to Enhance Their Derriere$