Beauty Myth It’s Bank Holiday Monday and I popped into town on the way home from lunch to grab some beauty bits. A disclaimer- I am no fashionista! Most of the time I have a pineapple head, no make up and am wearing training gear or my dressing gown. I have a complicated relationship […]
Tag Archives: beauty
February
15
Barbie Craftivism 2018
posted by plasticdollheads
So, following on from last year’s Barbie Craftvism workshop which you can view here, it was time to do it all over again. After sending my husband out to acquire as many dolls as he could find, this was my haul. This session is part of a Level 6 module called Body Politics […]
March
01
Activism Barbie
posted by plasticdollheads
Firstly I would like to thank Dr Paula Singleton of Leeds Beckett University, whom you can contact on twitter here. Paula very kindly shared her resources and ideas with me, and you can read about some of her Activism Barbie workshops on her blog. I would also like to thank Dr Kay Standing, Reader in […]
August
20
Designing the Doll: bikini, figure and body-building
posted by plasticdollheads
The real living dolls. Not so long ago, female bodybuilding and competing was the preserve of a minority. Then the Bikini category was added, and aided by the explosion of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, blogs.. previous elitist language such as ‘eating clean’, ‘carb depletion’ have become social media favourites. It seems every other bikini-clad twenty-something […]
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