
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.
Mimi Swartz reflects on her deep dive into Houston’s breast-implant boom and its larger-than-life profiteers.
The winter season is tough enough without dehydrated skin or frizzy hair. Let these products help you make it to spring.
A strand-by-strand look at the roots of a Texas phenomenon.
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.
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.
From invention to litigation, the breast implant has done more for Houston’s economy—and its psyche—than anything since oil.
The long afternoons of the best friend the rich women of Houston have ever had.
She learned the truth about selling cosmetics. Her customers didn’t want to buy products, they wanted to buy dreams.