I rarely buy fashion magazines these days. The last one I purchased was ELLE magazine's September 2010 issue with Julia Roberts on the cover. Recently my friend and I were in the store where she pointed out a magazine with a celebrity on the cover.
"Wow, she looks beautiful!" my friend said.
"She's airbrushed," I replied.
In my years of writing about the fashion and beauty industries, I've become very skeptical of magazines, and my friend Sarah Conley of StyleIT feels the same way. Tonight she wrote An Open Letter To Cosmopolitan Magazine sharing her thoughts about the hypocrisy of the magazine's articles and advice. Read more...
