10 highlights from allure's beauty timeline

Yes, I did go out and buy the March (20th anniversary) issue of Allure.  And I love the fold out cover to set it all off with a timeline of the past 20 years of beauty.
Remember back in ...

• 1991, when Demi Moore was featured "very pregnant and very nude" on the cover of Vanity Fair, causing many to stir?
• 1992, when Veronica Webb became the first African-American to have a cosmetics contract (with Revlon)?  
• 1999, when Felicity star Keri Russell cut off her long curls and the show dropped 20 spots in the Nielsen ratings? (Really, America?)
• 2000, when David Sedaris popularized the term "tanorexic" with the publication of  his book Me Talk Pretty One Day? 
• 2003, when model Gisele Bundschen turned down a multimillion-dollar offer to become the face of cloning service Clonaid?
• 2005, when Dove's Real Beauty campaign featured women who weren't professional models (and caused sales to jump)?
• 2006, when Kevyn Aucoin's Making Faces (still one of my favorite makeup reference books!!) shared the New York Times best-seller list with Angela's Ashes?
• (also in) 2006, when black nails became such a "hot trend" that Chanel's Black Satin polish, normally $18, could be found on eBay for $50? (?!!?)
• 2007, when a photo of Jennifer Love Hewitt in a swimsuit hit the internet, and some folks felt the need to comment negatively, causing her to respond "To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini--puit it on and stay strong." (yes, hello!)
• 2008, when Helen Mirren was photographed in a bikini, just before her 63rd birthday looking hawt?

Now, those were just the things that jumped out at me, but check it out for yourselves.  Which are your favorite moments of beauty past?

allure turns 20 and i want it. (i think)

I haven't purchased an actual (paper) issue of Allure magazine in quite some time.  You gotta trim the subscription addiction  habit somehow, and I have been good: Now I only get Elle, Ebony, Bust, Oprah, Time Out, and New York magazines.  But I just read that Allure turns 20 years old with its March issue (on stands February 22), AND that part of the celebration includes a survey that reveals diversity as the new standard of beauty in America.  Come on.  Sold.  I'm even tempted to re-introduce the magazine to my subscription fold, even if only for nostalgia's sake.

It's precisely because I would make such a move that my partner has been "threatening" to buy me the nook.  "The nook is coming honey," he'll joke, every time he hands me a magazine from the mailbox, "so you should just get use to the idea, it's coming."  We end up in stitches laughing our asses off, with him reminding me that somebody must have felt like me when they invented the wheel.  Can you believe him?  The wheel.


Low blow.
But kind of true.
And I may not have the most solid argument, (ahem!) on paper, but am I the only one who still enjoys thumbing through a paper magazine? Am I the last one?  Do you subscribe to any magazines in paper form?  Have you switched to a digital reader? Howcome?