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Before Spanx, there was the girdle (not to be confused with the corset). The buttock, stomach, thigh and torso-slimming garment was worn by just about every woman until the 1960s and was cleverly advertised using all types of tactics including before & afters photographs and peer pressure. The trickeries of the before & after format [...]
At first, seeing these celebrated paintings which have been photoshopped by Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano, would probably leave many women feeling a little disheartened. Isn’t there enough worshiping of the skinny female frame today? Must we manipulate the only form of art left in the world that still honours the beauty of a curvaceous [...]
78% of 18 year old women are unhappy with their bodies and this is probably a large part of the reason why… YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Starved of a Realistic Female Body Image? Flesh & Curves this way…
Is it too early in the day for this? I think not. Sarah Bishop is the painter. She calls them “The Girls“. Very rich, very bold and very sensual, I’m absolutely fascinated by these paintings. I also think Ms Bishop should think about going into designing lingerie on the side… IF YOU LIKED THIS, YOU [...]
Hi there. Don’t be shy, yes that’s a boobie and a curvy waist you just saw, we’re going to be looking at a lot of those in a moment. For a few minutes today, I thought I’d give you a little time-out from what we’re used to being brainwashed with exposed to all over the [...]
Somewhere out there is an undiscovered doodling prodigy! A Reddit user recently walked into their
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Apparently Keira Knightley and her co-stars improvised their way through this thirteen minute
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Camping on Mars? Seaside fun with views of Saturn? French artist Djuno Tomsni imagines the perfect
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This weekend, my boyfriend pulled out not one, not two but three grays he noticed glistening in the
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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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I‘m not an art buff. I just like what I like and save it as my desktop background image or,
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If you have typography skills, obviously the next logical step is to just start illustrating
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Waiter! There’s a Britney Spears in my coffee! (I knew that was going to be terrible but I
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Mixing Justin Bieber’s perfume and the scent of Jersey Shore’s Snookie with an Eau de
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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 had always thought Sophia’s disapproving look in this iconic photograph taken by Delmar
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So painstakingly detailed, you could easily mistake these photographs for real life-sized rooms
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What a rare treat it would be to receive something like this today. It certainly makes emailing
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Okay so this is probably going to be more fun for my New Yaawker readers, who know the
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