Autumn Whitefield-Madrano
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Birthday
- May 27
- Company
- The Beheld
- Bio
- I write The Beheld (the-beheld.com), a blog examining our concepts of beauty, using interviews with women whose professions and passions lend them a keen insight into personal appearance; analysis of news, business, economics, and culture; beauty experiments; and personal essays.
MY RECENT POSTS
- You Really Got Me
May 31, 2012 08:23AM - Life at 36: Anne Bancroft,
Phylicia Rashad, Reese
Witherspoon, and Me
May 29, 2012 02:53AM - Beauty Blogosphere 5.25.12
May 25, 2012 03:30AM - A Partial List of Male
Celebrities Who Have Given Or
Received Pedicures
May 24, 2012 03:28AM - The Sweet Smell of Sexcess
May 23, 2012 03:52AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “JMac, absolutely agreed.
That's not the focus of the
project
I'm working on, is
a…”
March 12, 2012 10:16AM - “Wordsmith, you're right.
I have a gender bias here,
and
though this blog is
speci…”
February 29, 2012 04:39PM - “Thank you to everyone
who read this and took the
time
to
comment.
Greenhero
n, tha…”
February 29, 2012 04:24PM - “This is a beautiful
account of an extraordinary
evening for
a
19-year-old--thank…”
February 18, 2012 10:21AM - “Rw005g, have you ever
read these ladyblogs? Do you
know what
they write about?
Ye…”
February 05, 2012 01:30PM
Autumn Whitefield-Madrano's Links
Hope in a jar.
This is not me. (It is, however, a Caddo
headpiece.)
Editor’s Pick
APRIL 5, 2012 3:59AM
Jennifer’s Body, Redux: The Case of the Incredible Shrinking Actresses
The best makeover tool since the three-way
mirror.
Science says!
Panem map by Aim My Arrows
High and Bad
Guys.
To give you an idea of where I’m coming from, I devoured the… Read full post »
Around this time each year—usually a hair later, but, hey, climate change!—I enter the same debate with myself: to self-tan or not to self-tan? After years of studiously avoiding the sun, fervently evoking old-timey movie stars with porcelain complexions as my reason for doing so, I spent time in/… Read full post »
I was
recently diagnosed with a medical condition.
I’ve got a mild case of it, but it brings a few
troublesome complications regardless, nothing serious. And as one
might well do, the first thing I did when I got home upon receiving
my diagnosis was Google it to learn more. The… Read full post »
Makeovers are such a staple of movies targeted toward teen girls that it’s almost beside the point for me to call out specific examples. (Oh, fine, since you asked for my favorite movie makeover: Fran in Strictly Ballroom. Remember, though, I was a theater geek in high school so I sort/… Read full post »
Editor’s Pick
FEBRUARY 27, 2012 5:55AM
Barefaced and Beside the Point: Appearance Anxiety in Eating Disorders
In preparation for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week—which starts today—the Renfrew Center sent out an interesting press release, one you’d think would be right up my alley. “Barefaced and Beautiful,†a campaign from the Renfrew Center, one of the best-known eating disorder treatment/… Read full post »
With a tagline like “Not your average beauty
blog,†it’s hardly a surprise that
I’m a fan of re: thinking beauty.
Yassira L. Diggs’s experience as both a makeup
artist and writer ensures her work has a candid, sharp, informed
insight; in particular, her breadth of work on natural hair
has/… Read full post »
Editor’s Pick
FEBRUARY 15, 2012 3:27AM
Sister Nancy Ruth, Life-Professed Member of the Order of St. Andrew, Hudson Valley, New York
Paul
Hoecker, Nonne
im Laubgang von Dachau, 1897
From
Physiognomy Illustrated; Or, Nature's Revelations of
Character, Joseph Simms,
pub. 1889, Crackpot Press
pub. 1889, Crackpot Press
An early editorial meeting at Beheld
HQ.
As a feminist who started my career at Ms. and wound my way through Glamour and Playboy before winding up at CosmoGIRL!—the exclamation point was part of the name—finding Jezebel shortly after its 2007 launch was delicious. I enjoyed it as a reader, and I/…
What, your mustard chinoiserie pajamas
didn't come with a purple poodle?
I wore pajamas to class my freshman year of college. Well, specifically, I wore my pajama pants one time to one class my freshman year of college. I’d read in some YA book when I was, like, 12 that you/…
In the summer of 1986, a small item ran in the biweekly newspaper
of Guymon, Oklahoma, that I am guessing went unremembered by all
but one of the town’s 15,000 residents. The
item in question was a column about how to look good in
photographs, and I will paraphrase the part…
Jezebel asked us last week, "What happens when a kid with Down syndrome models for Target?" The answer seems to be, "You get a Target ad with some cute kids." There’s much you could say about the Target ad (which I’m focusing on instead a Nordstrom catalog from last year that/…
When I first heard of the lipstick index—a term coined by Estee Lauder chairman Leonard Lauder to illustrate how purchases of small luxuries (lipstick) rise in recessions, serving as compensation for consumers suddenly unable to buy larger luxuries (mink?)—I was all giddy that women’s purchasin… Read full post »
Handsome is a man, a woman, but rarely a child. Handsome is a Hemingway heroine, “built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht.†Handsome is Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and every member of the Handsome Men’s Club. Handsome can be equine, old girl, full of vim and vigor. Handsome is/…
Editor’s Pick
OCTOBER 27, 2011 3:06AM
The Solace of Convention: Abuse, Beauty, and What Happened When I Left
This isn’t about an abusive relationship. This
is about what happened next.
I decided to leave my boyfriend not because he had ever hurt me, but because I was turning 30. I mean, he had hurt me, but by the time I left him, it had been four years since he’d touched…
I decided to leave my boyfriend not because he had ever hurt me, but because I was turning 30. I mean, he had hurt me, but by the time I left him, it had been four years since he’d touched…
When the National Organization of Women contacted me about today’s Love Your Body Day blog carnival, my first thought was to feel honored that an esteemed organization that has been a part of my life for literally as long as I can remember—my mother was one of the founders of a/…
In the late fall of 1991, my friend Tony gave me a ride home from school. As we settled into the seats, he pushed in a tape, and I heard this jangly guitar—it sounded like it was barely plugged in, or something, somehow off, somehow disconnected—followed by this aggressive, to-the-point kick/…
Guess who earns the
least?
If any study could put a nice crack in Catherine Hakim’s theory of “erotic capital,†it’s this one. Based on numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, researchers at Elon University have shown some interesting correlations between time spent on personal grooming a/…
(via)
My first kiss was unremarkable except for the fact that it was mine: 4-H camp, nighttime, crickets, slow motion, etc. I’ll remember it forever, of course, but I will also remember what came next. We managed to break from our starry-eyed hold to go back to the main camp for movie… Read full post »
Autumn Whitefield-Madrano's Favorites
Rae Bryant
designanator
Frank Apisa
Sara Grace O'Connell
Beth Mann
Kerry LauermanUpdates
-
The National Debt Clock, 22 years later
-
Too Close To Home
-
TIME FOR THE FRINGE LEFT TO WAKE UP!
-
The Positivity Police and the Good Weather Glee Club
-
Announcing the Salon-Alternet Investigative Fund
-
“Someone” by National Book Award Winner Alice McDermott in The New Yorker
-
Hijab: A Love Story
-
Introducing the new Masturphone™
Salon.com
