Design Happiness at Home

Design Happiness at Home

French writer Stendhal once remarked how “Beauty is the promise of happiness.” Today, research shows that beauty – be it the art hanging in your home, the colors of your walls, and other domestic aesthetics – is also directly connected to decision making, emotion,...
Women Want Michelle’s Arms

Women Want Michelle’s Arms

Plastic surgery certainly isn’t something that we’re unfamiliar with. In 2012, millions of cosmetic procedures were performed on Americans, with about 1.6 million of those being cosmetic surgeries and 13 million being minimally invasive non-surgical procedures (like...
Dove Real Beauty Sketches: How We View Ourselves

Dove Real Beauty Sketches: How We View Ourselves

Dove has been running its “Real Beauty” campaign for almost a decade. In 2004, a major global study found that only 2 percent of women in the world thought that they qualified as “beautiful.” Dove began its campaign in an effort to “challenge beauty stereotypes and...