The beauty experiment
Subtitle: how I skipped lipstick, ditched fashion, faced the world without concealer-- and learned to love the real me
By: Phoebe Baker Hyde
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press ed.
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780738214658; 9780738215433
Subjects: Clothing and dress; Self-acceptance in women; Psychological aspects; Self-esteem in women; Self-perception in women; Personal Beauty
Description: Giving up new clothes, makeup, haircuts, and jewelry, the author, after the birth of her daughter caused her to question society's concept of beauty, chronicles her quest for self-acceptance in nothing but her own skin.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-230).
Table of contents: title: The red dress; title: The beauty experiment; title: The hair questions; title: Two half-moons of peach paste; title: The day I covered the mirrors; title: Itsy bitsy teeny weeny fertility advertisement; title: The professionals; title: Pretty mind; title: A language every body speaks; title: The empty jar; title: Outgrowing the gown; title: Burn like the sun at midday.