Flipping through H&M’s Web site, you might get deja vu: Somehow, the lingerie and bikini models manage to pose exactly the same, even down to the arch of their pinkie finger. It’s not just exceptionally good posing — Aftonbladet, a Swedish tabloid, reports that the company created computer-generated perfect bodies, and then edited a different model’s head onto each one, changing the skin color to match. The practice was first noticed by Bildbliffen, a Norwegian Web site that monitors photo retouching. Read full article > >

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Says she has the skin of an alligator.

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The problem started so gradually that at first Carrell Grigsby didn’t pay it much attention. A dozen years ago the professional photographer, who lives in Austin, experienced periodic bouts of ferocious itching, mostly on her arms and legs, which occurred without warning and vanished within a few hours. Grigsby knew she was allergic to mold and pollen. But unlike attacks involving those allergens, these episodes were different: Her skin looked normal, and scratching didn’t alleviate the itch. Even the sensation was unusual. “It felt like tiny ants were crawling under my skin,” Grigsby recalled. Read full article > >

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IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn spent much of Sunday locked up at the Manhattan Special Victims Unit and was forced to undergo forensic and scientific testing for possible DNA evidence on his skin or beneath his fingernails, said officials….

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This can happen? A morbidly obese man in Ohio has died after he was found with his skin fused to the fabric of his recliner. Apparently, he had not left the chair for two years, and was covered in urine, feces, and maggots. He lived there with his…

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When it turns out that barbecue sauce, beef bouillon, pickles, bread, the skin of oranges, cheese, meat and crescent rolls are also dyed to make you want to eat them, healthy eating becomes a ridiculous game of hide-and-seek that few people have time to play.

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Food dyes may make kids hyper, some scientists say, but sadly the price is right

Roger Ebert has a new prosthetic chin after losing much of his lower jaw to cancer in 2006. The silicone piece was sculpted to look like his face before his surgery. “This device would fit over my lower face and neck and, colored to match my skin,…

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Once again, a fashion magazine runs afoul with its airbrush: The Indian version of Elle appears to have lightened the skin of Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on the cover of its December issue. Bachchan, a former Miss World, hasn’t commented…

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When we talk about the mysticism of the Civil War, I think this photo really captures it. The descriptions of slaves reaching out to touch Lincoln as he’s driven through Richmond, or Sherman as comes through countryside, put me in the mind of Sam Cooke’s “Touch The Hem Of His Garment.” Oh There was a woman in the Bible days  She had been sick Sick so very long  But she heard about Jesus was passing by  So she joined the gathering throng A And while she was pushing her way through  Someone asked her what are you trying to do  She said if I could just touch the hem of His garment  I know I’ll be made whole I mentioned in comments that I have virtually no direct relationship with religion. When I was a kid, many of the Conscious folks who’d rejected the Christianity of their youth embraced something else–Islam, Vodun, Santeria etc. We really didn’t have anything–we didn’t even do Kwanzaa.  Still, I think this desire to be transformed, to have the hurt of your life healed, and to–as Sam says–to be made whole again is deeply human, and has incredible resonance among those of us who are down. As Cynic hints at, in my house, the person who granted that transformation was Malcolm X. He took away that sense that the curl of your hair, or the tint of your skin, branded you less than. Malcolm looked clean and straight to us, and the sense that he had himself been cleaned, gave us the feeling that by touching him, we could be cleaned. In the doc, Make It Plain , Sonia Sanchez talks about reaching to touch him after hearing him speak. When you look at this boy, what you see is someone who has been healed–the rags he wears are like wounds–someone who has been ”made whole again.” Circling back to Lincoln, you see that, to the enslaved, much of this debate about what Lincoln thought and when he thought it is academic. Lincoln is a work of art to them, and they are interpreting him, giving him meaning, in the moment.

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Over the weekend, Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn director Bill Condon decided to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving by unveiling the first image from the much-anticipated two-part Twilight finale via Twitter. Was it a shot of Bella and Edward embracing? Not exactly. Instead, the image shows a female arm spread across what looks like a white sheet as feathers dance across her skin, as well as the fabric. Sure, it’s an odd image for those not familiar with Twilight, but you Twi-hards out there should know exactly what this image has to do with the overall story. In Breaking Dawn, Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) finally decide to “do the deed” (so to speak), and it turns out to be such a freakishly passionate night (I mean, sex with a vampire – c’mon!)… Read More Read Comments

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The dermatologist watches her favorite TV shows and likes to read newspapers before anyone else does.

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Death Panels. Witchcraft. Birthers. Islamophobes. Tea partiers. Obama text messages. Palin robo-calls. TV commercial after TV commercial after TV commercial. And now, at the end of this $4 billion We-Didn’t-Start-the-Fire-worthy vaudeville known as the 2010 election, what do we have to show for it? That’s right, a new House Speaker with the politics of Newt Gingrich and the skin complexion of a Syracuse mascot. read more

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David Sirota | From Uprising to Hostile Takeover … and Back Again

A birth control gel that is applied directly to the skin could offer women an alternative to the Pill, say experts presenting latest trial data.

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‘Contraceptive gel’ shows promise

When police walked into the home, they found a 5-year-old girl weighing nearly 160 pounds, her teeth rotting, her skin covered in spider bites. Her 4-year-old sister was lying on a filthy mattress, wearing only a urine-soaked diaper.

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The woman who Jennifer Aniston, Cher, Melanie Griffith and other stars have trusted with their skin allegedly couldn’t be trusted with their credit cards, according to federal authorities.

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