Barneys’ Transgender Models + More of the Week’s Best Links

 

Beauty with a message: Barneys has casted 17 transgender models for the store’s spring campaign. [The Window]

 

Everything you know about kohl eyeliner is wrong. [Allure]

 

Okay, we all know that smoking cigarettes makes people look older. But now, for the first time, there’s a study to prove it — with side-by-side photos of smoker and nonsmoker identical twins. See if you can guess which one lights up. [New York Times]

 

Next level: Celebrate Chinese New Year and the Year of the Horse by braiding your hair like a dressage horse. Yes, there are step-by-step photos! [xoVain]

 

 

Do the math, possibly reconsider your career path: Sally Hershberger charges around $1,000 for a haircut, does six cuts a day and is in the salon three days a week. [Wall Street Journal]

 

These animated cartoons of iconic celebrities’ hairstyles are too cute. [Refinery29]

 

If you haven’t been watching Katie and Katy’s hilarious “Just the Tips” YouTube series, in which they attempt wacky internet DIYs to varying degrees of success, do yourself a favor and start (our favorite is the Hunger Games makeup tutorial). Here’s an interview with the BFFs about women and self-improvement in the Pinterest age. [The Cut]