The Lipstick Effect: Beguiling Empowerment, Beauty as a Duty, and an Economic Indicator

Undocumented history alleges beautician Elizabeth Arden handed out thousands of bold red lipstick tubes to New York suffrage marchers as they passed her Fifth Avenue salon in 1912. Photographs of both the May and November suffrage parades show no evidence of ‘painted lips’ on these protestors demanding their right to vote. Arden, herself a suffragette,Continue reading “The Lipstick Effect: Beguiling Empowerment, Beauty as a Duty, and an Economic Indicator”

Indigenous Healing Knowledge Adopted by European Settlers in Upper Canada – early 1800’s

Neither Women’s history not that of the Indigenous people was considered notable…Little is recorded of their lives.