Five students at Chandler’s Hamilton High School said they were made to remove their T-shirts Thursday because they were airbrushed with the words

Five students at Chandler’s Hamilton High School said they were made to remove their T-shirts Thursday because they were airbrushed with the words

Sunless-tanning products have come a long way in the 50 years since they first hit store shelves.

LONDON - Juan Pablo di Pace didn't mind that a Royal Opera House poster showed him naked. He didn't even mind the air brushing.

NEW YORK - No, Katie Couric didn't suddenly lose 20 pounds. The incoming "CBS Evening News" anchor appears significantly thinner in a network promotional magazine photo thanks to digital airbrushing. The touched-up photo of Couric dressed in a striped business suit appears on the inside of the September issue of Watch! which is distributed at CBS stations and on American Airlines flights.

If you love that mother in your home, get rid of those babes spread out on the coffee table. I’ve had it with them. They’re not good for either soul — male or female! Why do we contemplate airbrushed, digitally altered, Botox laden, breast-enhanced illusions?

The Adult Education Department at Mesa’s East Valley Institute of Technology is offering three classes starting in February for those wanting to learn more about air brushing, Adobe Photoshop, and computers.

With the news that actress Mary-Kate Olsen is being treated for an eating disorder, the growing problem of girls and negative body image has been thrust into the spotlight.

The larger-than-life paintings of semi-naked women outside a strip club will stay, despite calls from Tempe residents to cover them up.

Thanks to Lindsay Lohan, UV-free tanning may be getting a bad rap. The truth is, UV-free tanning is easy, breezy, streak-free and oh-so-bronze, but never, ever, pumpkin-colored.

Q. I’m in sales and have noticed that most people in my industry exaggerate their successes ridiculously. Every seminar is taught by some hyperactive person teaching, “How to Make Billions and Be Brilliant!” Is there a way to be successful without speaking in superlatives?

Mark Miller’s studio has polyurethane foam forms of elk, deer, antelope and various other animals hanging on the walls, waiting to become lifelike with real animal hides, heads and antlers.

May 17, 2005

March 18, 2005

By 2 p.m. Saturday, the parking lot at Chandler’s Tumbleweed Park was filling up and there were lines to get into the petting zoo or purchase tickets for the carnival rides or get a cold beer.

August 25, 2004

 The current Blackhawks are a textbook marketing creation. They very well could be the real thing, an actual competitive hockey team, but I have no way of knowing that right now.

If this morning you passed up oatmeal for a chocolate-chip muffin the size of a softball, relax. You weren’t blowing your diet. You were eating like a “hot chick.” Wait a minute. Hot chicks eat?

She went from selling nail polish at a cosmetics counter to tending to the faces of movie stars: Makeup expert and fashion editor Diane Aiello has been beautifying for 23 years.

In "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," the beloved boy wizard — now fully immersed in puberty — pines for girls, endures the ridicule of classmates and is subjected to horrific displays of self-mutilation.

August 11, 2004

Nearly every woman I know judges herself by her number. I’m talking how much she weighs, whether her BMI number is acceptable, which dress size or pant size she wears and how many pounds she’s lost or how many she’s gained.