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Blonde Hair Color

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Blonde On Blonde This season blonde hair color from platinum blonde to shaded blonde highlights, are making a statement. One of the favorite shades is champagne blonde, which is a beige-blonde. It’s soft, ultra-luxe, and works great on most skin tone. Beige blonde is an old fashioned blonde that is making a comeback.  It looks best with lighter bits around the hairline giving it the look of champagne. Apricot blonde is an updated version of the classic strawberry blonde shade. It’s a mix of golden blonde and copper to give it a bit more edge. Just a drop of copper red will give the gold a shimmering highlight.   Too much and it could look brassy. Honey and caramel highlights have golden and warm hair tones for autumn with depth at the base color. Honey blonde looks best shaded into highlights on light brown hair. Whatever your color choice keep it from fading with Judaysia VS Volumizing Shampoo. Formulated with goldenseal to keep your color healthy and rich looking.

Pradas Sack Dress

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Raw Glamour   When the history of fashion is written from the perspective of the upper classes, the cultural heritage of rural America is ignored. Garments made from the material of flour sacks were a common article of clothing from the 19 th  through the mid-20 th  century. Most of us wouldn’t think of a sack as something fashionable. The Parisian public certainly didn’t, in 1957 when Balenciaga’s new silhouette was the sack dress. The dress with its shapeless form turned away from the hourglass look that was popular at the time. Today the sack dress has emerged in all of its glory. The humble flour sack garment has been elevated to star status in opulent fabrics from Prada for the Fall/Winter 2025 season. The anti-body con silhouette sought to move away from sculpted, form-fitting designs, emphasizing freedom of movement and rejecting traditional constructs of feminine beauty. Some of the roomy sack-like dresses were simplified to tubular shapes, loosely cinched at the ...

Farrah Fawcett

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American Beauty Channel surfing the other evening I came across an old Johnny Carson episode of Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O’Neal. I can’t stop thinking about how beautiful she was and I could feel the love they had for each other. In 1978 Farrah Fawcett captured the chain mail trend when she walked the red carpet in a plunging halter-neckline version from Stephen Burrows at the 50th annual Academy Awards. However, Fawcett stunned the beauty world with her locks of layered hair. Layers from short to long framed every beautiful inch of her face. From dancing the night away at Studio 54 to attending the Annual Clint Eastwood Celebrity Tennis Tournament in 1973, Farrah has long influenced designers. Her signature looks—think flared jeans and the iconic red bathing suit didn't just define an era; they transformed how women viewed style and empowerment For Spring Summer 2025 her icon shag with its shorter locks around the crown, and cascading shoulder grazing layers seen at Louis Vuitton m...

Red Lipstick

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Seduction Red Lips   Obsessed Pat McGrath Marilyn Monroe wore it. Cleopatra seduced men with it. Red lipstick has long endured as a timeless emblem of beauty and power. The shade is woven into beauty history. Red lipstick has been synonymous with sex appeal, a call to Hollywood glamour. Research suggests that red lipstick makes women more likely to be approached by men and earns waitresses higher tips from male patrons. Its timeless appeal continues to captivate and empower individuals reaffirming its status as an emblem of rebellion and strength. From New York to Milan for Fall 2025 it’s all about the red lip. Which suggests that you can have an invisible base yet still look elegant and “done” simply by adding a potent slash of red lipstick. I certainly am a subscriber of this notion. I will never be seen without my red lips. Kissable lips and how to get them. Start with a lip liner. This not only redefines the contours of the mouth, giving it the desired shape, but ...

Bridal Veils and Hairstyles

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Juliet Cap Wedding Veil   Brides Head Revisited    In 1953 Jacqueline Lee Bouvier married John F. Kennedy. Her head was adorned with a family heirloom from 1903, when Margaret Merritt Lee wore the exquisite rose point lace veil when she married James T. Lee, a prominent New Yorker. Some 50 years later, her granddaughter Jacqueline Lee Bouvier continued the tradition at her own wedding.What’s old is new again. Modern brides are looking to the past for inspiration. Looking into centuries past, 500 year-old wedding veils are experiencing a new kind of renaissance. The deeply regal and romantic Juliet Cap is a favorite among today’s brides. The calot (French for cap) hat originated in 16th century France as a Juliet cap, named after Shakespeare’s heroine of the world’s best known love story. Juliet caps were small, openwork styles and were usually lavishly embellished. In the 1920s the Juliet cap became a favorite among brides, who refashioned the style into a v...

Fall Winter Shakespeare’s Fashion Influence

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  Stiches In Time Stitches In Time Designers have long been obsessed with the rich possibilities of Shakespeare’s world and work. The Poet has had a huge influence on fashion for fall. Indeed, the runways of Autumn/Winter 2025 were studded with Shakespearean references. Ruffles, bodices, and puffed sleeves and corsets were seen in the major collections. Designers found themselves looking to 16 th century fashion when a complicated dress code dictated what different social classes could wear. Many of these details were updated with variations on Juliet-style puffed sleeves. The ruff (ruffle) which grew more extravagant throughout the Elizabethan era was featured at Dior in an updated style. Chloe took the ruff in a new direction complete with see through . The preoccupation with Shakespearean women influenced Hussein Chalayan to look at what women wore in the brothels, melding that with a modern wardrobe to create an empowered image of the body. The results–a provocat...