| Her hair razing adventure
Recently I have been looking like a King Kong tribute act - I am hairy, really very hairy - as part of a journey to learn to love my body hair. I've been growing everything for a comedy documentary about hairy women. My friends don't understand why I am doing it. I've told them it's for the money but really it is for the challenge - because I didn't think I could do it. I have been a serial hair remover - waxing, shaving and plucking - since I was 14, when I should have been learning about the speed of molecular activity in an equilibrium reaction. Instead, I was bleaching my moustache. I have never known anything else other than being smooth and lovely. To me, being hair-free is associated with being feminine, beautiful and sexy. Could ditching the razor, tweezers and wax help me change my mind about body hair being unattractive? .
Anger mounts in Zimbabwe as crisis nears
Zimbabwe is reaching the end game, witnessing the last, desperate throes of a regime that has destroyed one of Africa's few successful economies, plunged millions of people into grinding poverty and led to the deaths of tens of thousands from malnutrition and lack of medical care. .
Buyer Beware: Salon Hair-Care Products
The brand names are familiar: Paul Mitchell, Nexxus, Bed Head. They're industry staples, sold in salons across the country. But the companies that make the products say consumers should not purchase them from any store except authorized salons. Many retail and drug stores, including Target and Walgreens, stock their shelves with salon-only products. Salons and the companies that produce the products say these stores obtain them on the "gray market" from unauthorized wholesalers or from distributors overseas, and import them back to the US. The practice is legal, but manufacturers warn fake or expired products can slip in. Cost-Cutters, a salon that is authorized to sell many of these products, told us that a warning sign is smudged UPS barcodes.
Updated: February 15, 2007, 8:32 am
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