You’re Never Too Young to Wax
Via Virginia at Beauty Schooled, who is celebrating her graduation from Beauty U by republishing selected posts, I found this August 24 article about the trend of spas offering hair removal services to increasingly younger clients - starting at age 8. Wanda Stawczyk,...
Happy Birthday to Us!
re:Cycling is one year old today! We began with a few warm-up posts in the summer of 2009, but we launched officially (and sent out a press release to damn near everyone in the feminist blogosphere) on September 15. In that year, we've had more than 300 posts (this...
Block that Bloody Metaphor
The challenge that advertisers face when promoting the sale of menstrual products is how to visually demonstrate how the product works or the aspects of the cycle that product addresses without showing actual menstrual blood or a woman’s anatomy. One well established...
September is Menopause Awareness Month, and Menopause Brings Dry Skin and Wrinkles?
September is Menopause Awareness Month. If you do a web search on “Menopause Awareness Month,” the first things that pop up are about hormone therapies, pain, cramps, eye floaters, and other terrible symptoms that should probably be commemorated this month….or maybe...
Weekend Links
What we're reading this week - Fumbling in the Feminine Aisle: What to look for on menstrual product packaging to find the closest approximation to your U.S. brand when you're in China. Gayle Sulik's new book, Pink Ribbon Blues, is available. An excerpt from the...
Social Effects of Menstrual Pain for Turkish Teens
A new study published in the Journal of Pediatric Adolescent Gynecology reports on a study of how dysmenorrhea affects girls' relationships with families and friends and school performance for girls in Turkey. Previously, we reported on research documenting that...
