Clare MaAfee is a professional makeup artist who will do an extreme makeover on you and then capture this in a professional photograph that you can savour today and forever. She's also a wig specialist. Check out this fab video she has made to highlight some of the extreme before and after makeovers she's completed over the past couple of years. Her site is at wiggoddess.com

British men are becoming more comfortable with plastic surgery and 'moob' reductions were the fifth most popular cosmetic surgery procedure for men there last year. Over 1,000 men got a male chest reduction there, which is a 1,000 percent increase over five years and a 44% increase from the previous year.

The four more popular cosmetic procedures for men in Britian in order of popularity are nose jobs, eye surgery, ear corrections and liposuction.

But some men still aim to lose their moobs the natural way. Here's one guys lose the moobs story.

Are gap teeth the latest beauty world obsession? According to this article they are.

Both Chanel and British cosmetic giant Rimmel have just signed glaringly gap-toothed girls as the faces of their newest campaigns: Georgia Jagger, Mick's teenage daughter, replaces Kate Moss at Rimmel, and French actress Vanessa Paradis will be the "smile" behind Chanel's new line of lipstick, Rouge Coco de Chanel.

...If you need further proof that the stars have aligned for the gap-toothed trend, consider the following headline makers with space-invaded smiles: True Blood actress Anna Paquin and model Lara Stone -- named "most wanted face of the moment" in August's W magazine and whose ID magazine cover with the tag line "Yes I think I'm sexy" is already une reference absolue in current fashion magazine circles. There's also Amy Winehouse and Madonna...

What is true love? And how can we take our relationships to the higher level? Check out some of the best YouTube videos available on this important question here.

Elle magazine has put together a slideshow of 50 outfits worn by Carrie Bradshaw in the many seasons of Sex and the City. Check out the fun slideshow at Elle.com.

Liu Wen, age 21, will be the first Asian model at the annual pre-christmas Victoria's Secret fashion show. Three of the regular models are off having babies or recovering from having babies (Karolina Kurkova, Adriana Lima and Heidi Klum). Chanel Iman will also be making a first appearance as an Angel at this show.

Marissa Mayer has been chosen as one of Glamour Magazine's women of the year. She's a senior VP at Google and was one of the first employees there. She plays a key role in setting Google's look and feel (and overall aesthetics). See Glamour's list of other women of the year here.

Here's an unusual project to 'change the face of knitting'. See the video below where women talk about the meditative aspects of knitting and how it helps them feel accomplished. This project also involves a 'Knitting is Sexy' calendar. The objective is to showcase the beauty of an age-old craft.

See the video below where Lesley Scott discusses fashion for Spring 2010, and dubs the new trend as "Futuristic Chic". She says "it's very Blade Runner'y, very tough, and in some cases, quite androgynous."

The image above is from Rodarte's Spring 2010 slideshow at Style.com.

For an interesting discussion of the movie "Good Hair", see Anthea Butler's review. Here is an excerpt;

Apart from being a good film, Good Hair had a religious subtext that is important to look at within the context of the study of religion. You see, most of the “weave hair” ... comes from the practice of tonsure, or ritual haircutting, in Hinduism. The sacrifice of hair to the gods is the source of much of the human hair business in the United States. In fact, Rock’s documentary informs us that the hair cut for temple sacrifices is now the number one export out of India. The fact that tonsure, a religious act, has turned into a profiteering scheme is remarkable. But there also exist unscrupulous people who are stealing women’s hair, either while they sleep or in movie theaters where their braids or hair hang over the seats; while a woman is enjoying the latest from Bollywood, someone is cutting her hair and exporting it to be sold in Los Angeles.

The marriage of Hinduism and black hair care is fascinating—and troubling. The fact that hair willingly sacrificed to the gods is then sold to American women—not only black women now, but anyone who wants a shock of human hair as enhancement—is disconcerting to say the least.

Also see the movie trailer here.

We might want to think twice before applying a lot of face paint on our kids this Halloween.

Some children's face paints contain lead, a neurotoxin that can harm the brain at low doses, according to new product tests documented in a report from the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a national coalition of nonprofit health and environmental groups.

"Parents are stunned when they learn that these products made for kids have lead and other toxics in them. We don't understand how our government is so lax, nor why the manufacturers are so negligent," said Joan Blades, co-founder of Moms Rising, a coalition member and national advocacy organization focused on family health and economic security.

See more about this here. Photo above is via weglet.

Here's a good idea for a home-made Halloween costume. See how to create an Egyptian Queen makeup look and headband in the video tutorial below.

Wow, how many units of the Celebrity Styler will have to be sold to pay Paris Hilton for this glowing review of the flat iron/rotating curling iron product? See the video below.

For those who want to show their shapewear underwear off to the world, DNKY is coming out with a new shapewear product called 'Smoothies'. They're available in some psychedelic colors. They come in bike short, high waist bike short and Capri styles. By early next year, you'll see them being sold in the hosiery departments for $15.

Is this the new look for the 21st century? Are more and more women going to go and get their noses shrunk, and their breasts and lips blown up?

Shown here is Shauna Sand, age 38, mother of three, and a Playboy playmate thirteen years ago.