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The desire for lighter skin
Discover why some Black people feel more attractive with lighter skin. Ngunan Adamu speaks to three women who explain how they got hooked on skin bleaching.
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Dress and the magic of touch
Fashion, of course, is largely about appearance, but the feeling of clothes on your skin is a complex sensory experience. Shahidha Bari contemplates the human connections in the business of creating and wearing clothes.
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Keeping death close
Scattering her father’s ashes, Lauren Entwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember.
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How wigs help children handle hair loss
For young people who lose their hair during cancer treatment, a wig can make them feel normal again. Carmel King photographs some of the processes and people involved with a charity providing beautiful human-hair wigs for kids.
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The life of Lavinia Beswick, alias Fenton, alias Polly Peachum: containing, her birth and education. Her Intrigues at a Boarding School. Her first Acquaintance with a certain Portugueze Nobleman. The Time when, and Person to whom she bestow'd her first Favours. A particular Account of her Conversation with a Mercer, now living near the Royal Exchange. Or the Portugueze Nobleman being confin'd in the Fleet, and the honourable Method she took to gain him his Liberty. A Copy of Verses which she composed on a Fop, which conduced to her Acquaintance with Mr. Huddy, for whose Benefit, at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market, the first appear'd on the Stage. A particular Account of a Benefit she shar'd with one Mr. Gilbert, a few Week-After Mr. Huddy's, at the same Theatre. Her first Admittance into the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields: Her Weekly Salary, both now and then; and the Time when, and the Cause why, it was raised. Of her Wit gaining her more Lovers than her Beauty. The Horse-Courser dismounted, yet saves his Distance. A Poet structing under the Protection of the Nine Muses. Another Poet, who would attack Ulysses and Penelope in a barbarous Manner, is severely handled by Polly in a Satyrical Stanza. Her Judgment in Poetry, and History Painting. And the reasonable Reason why so many great Men have been her Humble Servants. The whole interspers'd with convincing proofs of her ingenuity, wit, and smart repartees. And concluding with some remarkable instances of her humanity to the distressed.
Date: [1728]- Books
My beauty secrets / Hedges (Chemists) Ltd.
W. R. Hedges and Son Ltd.Date: 1915?]- Books
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The grub-Street miscellany, in prose and verse. Containing, I. A. paraphrase upon the 18th Psalm. II. The Pleasures of a Country Life in a Letter to a Friend. III. Verses on Mrs. S-H- IV. A Petition of several of the Inhabitants of Ireland humbly presented to the Parliament. V. The Wish in a Letter to a Friend. VI. A Poem on the Day of Judgment. Vii. A Song to Vens. Viii. An Epithalonium upon the Marriage of a quondam Mistress. IX. Verses to S-L-of Kensington, Gent. X. The Battle of the Muses in Somerset Gardens. XI. Verses on the Royal Oak. XII. A Song, to the Tune of, The Lass of Patie's Mill, &c. XIII. The Fable of the Dog and the Raven. XIV. A Letter in Prose. XV. A Letter to the Author, shewing who are properly living Members of the State. XVI. A Hunting Song. XVII. The Gazer. A Poem. XVIII. Verses on the Spring. XIX. On Love. XX. The Power of Love. A Song. To the Tune of, When Beauty dies ber Power pursue, &c. XXI. Strephen's Complaint. A Song. XXII. An Epitaph upon the Ladyt M-'s Lap dog. XXIII. A Letter out of the Country, in answer to one that was sent from the Devil Tavern. XXIV. The Farewell. A Song. XXV. A Poem on the Death of Mother N-d-m the celebrated English B-d. Written by Mr. Bavius Jun. F.G.S.
Bavius, Mr.Date: [1731]- Books
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The bawd: a poem. Containing All the various Practices those diabolical Characters make Use of to decoy Innocent Beauty into their Snares, with their Behaviour to them, and the Means they are made to employ to entertain their numerous Gallants, many of whom are here described in the most glowing Colours. -And is, in the Whole, a high-seasoned Dish cooked up for the Bucks, Bloods, Choice Spirits, and Demy Reps, of the present Age. By a distinguish'd worshipper in the Temple of Venus.
Distinguish'd worshipper in the Temple of Venus.Date: [1782?]- Books
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The charms of beauty; or the grand contest between the fair Hibernians, and the English toasts, a poem: occasioned by the marriage of his Grace the Duke of Hamilton with Miss Elizabeth Gunning; and the expected Marriage of her elder Sister with a certain noble Earl.
Date: [1752]