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Filmed in 1959, The Way to Beauty shows the lengths women went to 50 years ago in trying to shed the pounds and turn back the clock. Therapies included sticking your face into a blender, covering yourself in candle wax and strapping electrical wires to your head. Via British Pathé ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: [...]
With a face that tells a thousand tales, this unknown young woman was photographed in the Philippines by Dutch photographer Francisco Van Camp in 1875. The photograph’s inscription describes her as Mestiza Sangley-Filipina, a term widely used in the 16th to 19th-century Spanish Philippines to differentiate ethnic Chinese from other types of island mestizos (such [...]
I don’t know anything about her, all I know is her name and that she takes my breathe away. Nambikkai Nagar taken by Arun Titan in India. Browse through the rest of the photographer’s flickr album of India here ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: .
A new HBO documentary that airs on Monday night in the states has managed to track down some of the original faces of the catwalks and see how they feel about getting old in an industry that basically looks at ageing like a bad disease. You can get an idea of some of their thoughts [...]
I‘m kind of excited about these videos I found today. By now, you probably know where I stand on beauty culture and body image and so I’ll let some other people do the talking this time round. This first video link is called “Beauty Culture”, a documentary that has been selected to appear at the [...]
… Smart girl.
We’ve got fishtails, french crowns, greek style, cage buns, cross plaits and five strands– who knew there were so many impossibly intricate ways to braid hair. Are there braiding schools I missed out on? Pinterest ofcourse, is the place to find your hair braiding inspiration. [Follow Shelly McOwen] [Follow Emily Sanborn] [...]
It seems we’re not the only culture obsessed with chasing unattainable ideals of beauty. If you trawl the internet as much as I do, you may have stumbled upon some articles gaining online buzz with titles such as “Asian girls: before & after make-up”. There are now hundreds of these before and after photos online [...]
Sorry to get all girly on you recently but it’s summer and I like to get all kinds of crazy with my nails when it’s sunny out. I know, I’m a crazy gal. UK nail-brand Ciaté (sounds totally British) has just stepped things up a notch with the introduction of their latest product; The Caviar Manicure. Ooooooh! [...]
If you find yourselves in one of those situations when you have absolutely crap-all to do, attempting some nail art is probably a good idea. I do declare that there are a few rules however! 1) Nothing too fancy. This is not a trend to be taken too seriously but you don’t want it to [...]
Pick a bathing suit this summer that allows you to go back to being a kid again when the only thing
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Appropriately, his name was Dandy Wellington. There’s an exciting photographer on the
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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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Apparently Keira Knightley and her co-stars improvised their way through this thirteen minute
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He was selling custom-made clothing to Hip Hop’s finest for thousands of dollars a piece,
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Every once in a while, a fashion brand does something that stays with you and swims around in your
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This is the story of a French postman who spent thirty years of his life building his dream home–
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The first post seems to have tickled your fancy, so over the past month I’ve been collecting
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I came across the fantastic photograph below and knew there had to be more preserved sassy moments
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It all started when I saw a beetroot salad Caprese and thought how much it reminded me of my
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Anna Karina arrived in Paris at the age of seventeen from Denmark. She spoke no French and
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I remember tearing out this advert of Stephanie Seymour in her pastel suit and sticking it on my
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It could be the house of a pirate king who keeps his treasure buried in the waterbed beneath, but
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“Switcheroo” is an ongoing series by Canadian photographer Hana Pesut, as she travels
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You might have heard of the Teddy Boys, a 1950s rebel youth subculture in Britain characterized by
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