Style & Design
January 31, 2024
Wine Grapes, Beef Tallow: How Local Texas Ingredients Ended Up in Skin Care
These three small beauty businesses sell products with formulas crafted straight from their owners’ backyards.
Beauty
Style & Design
August 1, 2023
What Extreme Heat Does to Your Skin—and How to Cope
It’s the hottest summer in Texas history. Thanks to these expert tips, it doesn’t have to be the rash-iest.
Texas Icons
January 17, 2023
Big Hair 4 Ever
The towering bouffant has gone out of fashion in Texas. But new styles of outsized tresses are taking its place.
Texas Icons
January 17, 2023
In the Decades Since Farrah’s Iconic Poster, Texas’s Beauty Standard Has Evolved
Fawcett set the standard in the 1970s—blond, thin, and smiling. Thankfully, that’s changed.
Made in Texas
December 9, 2022
This Hill Country Hunter Turns Feral-Hog Lard Into Soap, Lip Balm, and More
Kerrville County’s John Michon gives “hogwash” a new meaning with his Boar Brand line of body products.
Business
July 8, 2022
How Houston Went From Oil Boomtown to “BoobTown”
Mimi Swartz reflects on her deep dive into Houston’s breast-implant boom and its larger-than-life profiteers.
Style & Design
January 28, 2019
13 Texan Beauty Products to Get You Through Winter
The winter season is tough enough without dehydrated skin or frizzy hair. Let these products help you make it to spring.
Feature
February 1, 2003
Queen for a Day
At this year's Miss Texas Teen USA pageant, girls from big cities and small towns stuffed their bras, slicked Vaseline across their teeth, and prayed that their thighs were toned enough. Anything for the crown.
Being Texan
July 31, 2001
Queen of the Rodeo
For teenage girls in the Hill Country town of Llano, life can be short on glamour and excitement—except at the annual rodeo, when one of them gets a rhinestone tiara and a rare, thrilling moment of glory.
Business
November 1, 1995
Hostile Makeover
Mary Kay Ash and Jinger Heath have made fortunes getting women to buy and sell their beauty products. But no lipstick or powder can conceal the ugliness between these Dallas cosmetics queens.
Business
August 6, 1995
Silicone City
From invention to litigation, the breast implant has done more for Houston’s economy—and its psyche—than anything since oil.
Style & Design
December 1, 1992
Hooray for Big Hair!
A strand-by-strand look at the roots of a Texas phenomenon.
Style & Design
February 1, 1990
The Truth About Texas Beauty
She might have long legs, blond hair, and eyes as blue as a Panhandle sky. But a Texas woman isn’t really beautiful unless she works at it.
Business
July 31, 1985
The Pink People
A new recruit to the ranks of Mary Kay beauty consultants struggles valiantly to do his part in reaching the woman of the eighties and keeping the company in the pink.
Style & Design
March 1, 1983
Lyndon Johnson, Hairdresser, Prepares for Battle
The long afternoons of the best friend the rich women of Houston have ever had.
Business
April 1, 1979
The Hot Pink Empire of Mary Kay Ash
She learned the truth about selling cosmetics. Her customers didn’t want to buy products, they wanted to buy dreams.
Style & Design
September 30, 1974
The Sweet Smile of Success
In some cases beauty is not even skin deep.
Business
December 31, 1969
Publishing: Christy Haubegger
Pitching to a rich niche.