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This Hilariously Real Video Might Put You Off Charcoal Masks Forever

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They say beauty is pain. In this case, it’s painfully hilarious.  


Married duo Tiff and Cari Polzin regularly post videos to make their friends laugh. We’d say their most recent video, in which Tiff is seen attempting to peel off a charcoal mask, achieves that goal tenfold. 


Polzin told The Huffington Post she purchased Shill’s Purifying Peel Mask after she “kept seeing the mask advertised” and wanted to try it herself. That intrigue quickly turned to sheer panic when it came time to remove it. 


The 15-minute long video is equal parts hard to watch and impossible to look away from. Most notably, her reaction each time another piece is pulled off is too real for anyone who has ever tried a peel off a mask.  


Polzin tried a couple of different attempts at removing the mask, going first in small strokes ...





... And later in fast, excruciating rips:





Finally, Cari, who is mostly just heard laughing off-camera, takes matters into her own hands and rips the entire thing off in one shot. “I think Cari is the real star of the video because she turned into a ninja and ripped the mask off my face in chunks,” Tiff said. 





An edited version of the video, posted by Viral Thread, is up to 43 million views, something Polzin called “a humbling experience for both of us.”


As for whether or not it was worth the pain, Polzin said “it hurt, but it did make my skin smooth,” and that while people have reached out to ask for the rest of the bottle, they “may keep it now.”


We’re not sure the mask, which has been dubbed the “most painful mask ever” by at least one other YouTuber, is worth the result. But we can’t deny that we’re at least a little bit intrigued. 

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I've Never Felt Worse Than In The Moment I Looked My 'Best'

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There is a photo of me, the best one I have. Maybe the best one I’ll ever have.


It was one of hundreds taken by a professional photographer whose pleasantly scruffy assistant spent hours flitting around her, holding a disc reflector to throw the Parisian summer light onto me just so. Before she’d even picked up her camera and he’d reluctantly put down his cigarette, a makeup artist had spent 90 minutes on my face, my hair, my nails. They were going for a ‘50s bombshell look – I’m not entirely sure why, now, but it made sense at the time – so there were hair extensions and curlers and false eyelashes and very bold red lips. In this photo, I’m sitting on a staircase, my hair mimicking the a curly black wrought iron bannister, with my hands demurely in my lap but my mouth slightly open in a Jessica Simpson-ish kind of way. My wrap dress, which I almost never wore in real life because it was too revealing, too clingy, is showing just the right amount of flesh. My eyes, thanks to the falsies and whatever witchcraft the surly makeup artist did with my brows, look enormous.


After the shoot was over, the photographer culled just three photos from the hundreds she took in the space of a few hours, and sent them to me. This is the best of those three. Years have gone by, and this is still the best I’ve ever looked in a photo. It’s also the unhealthiest I have ever been.

When it was taken, I’d been heavily restricting my food intake and compulsively over-exercising for about a year-and-a-half. I was the thinnest I’d been in years, and not that much thinner than I’d been when I fell down that hole, which, now, makes me feel both relief (thank god I didn’t do too much permanent damage) and regret (if I wasn’t even skinny, what the hell was all that suffering for?).


I was unspeakably miserable, literally: Despite being a professional writer, I couldn’t muster the courage to explain to anyone but a therapist how unhappy I was, or marshal the words to do my misery justice. But I was functional: working, traveling, and maintaining a social life ― even though I had to run extra miles to compensate for whatever I ate when people were watching. And this photo shoot was to accompany an essay I’d written for a well-regarded weekend magazine, an international byline, a big deal. The night before, I went for a run and ate lettuce for dinner. The morning of, I drank coffee and ate nothing.


The photo was taken before the rise of Instagram, though Facebook and Twitter were already in full force. Had I had access to a photo-focused social media network at the time I’m sure I would have posted it, probably with a performatively self-effacing caption, and watched with grim satisfaction as the likes and approving comments piled up. This week, in honor of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, I decided to post it, and to be honest about the wide chasm between what that photo shows and the truth. 



Thinness is an achievement for women, one we’re expected to work for if we’re not blessed with skinny genes, and offer sheepish, secretly-smug apologies for if it is gifted to us by nature. It’s a trophy we’re expected to hold on to at all costs.



The truth was that I was drowning. On the outside, things looked pretty good: My career was humming along, I was dating a great guy, I was spending the summer in Paris doing research for grad school, and hey, I’d dropped two pants sizes. For young women, this is what winning looks like.  


In fact, scratch the first three-quarters of that list, and just keep the newfound sense that you’ve earned the right to wear shorts in public: for young women, this is what winning looks like. Skinniness covers all manner of other failure, just as failure to be skinny can dim the sparkle on all manner of other success. There was a reason people were complimenting me on my “accomplishment,” praising my shrinking body. Thinness is an achievement for women, one we’re expected to work for if we’re not blessed with skinny genes, and offer sheepish, secretly-smug apologies for if it is gifted to us by nature. It’s a trophy we’re expected to hold on to at all costs.


Never mind that much of what I produced that summer was garbage, limp and listless writing that had to be redone because it lacked rigor. Never mind that I was lying to that great guy, pretending to be the healthy, naturally slender woman I knew he wanted to be with. Never mind that I spent those months denying myself French food and running along the pretty streets of Paris without ever really seeing them. Never mind; look what I’d accomplished. It was right there in the photo.


My illness never manifested as anything other than an achievement, because it was largely invisible. In that photo, I’m the thinnest I’ve been since hitting puberty in earnest, but I’m not skinny. I do not look sick. I do not look like a person who is suffering. I look like a person has succeeded at losing weight – and so I was. Very few people noticed that something was terribly wrong, because it looked like I was doing something right. This is not uncommon: eating disorders are exercises in secrecy, and while some of us fit the stereotype of the hyper-skinny anorexic, all bones and eyes, many of us don’t. Many of us hide our worst behavior behind closed doors, and hide the rest in plain sight.


I starved myself for two long years, with very little to show for it in the way of weight loss, and even less in the way of proof that I was sick. Again, this isn’t uncommon: There are lots of us out here starving, bingeing, purging and over-exercising, looking nothing like your mental image of a person with an eating disorder. You may think this makes our suffering less real, less corrosive. We may even think that ourselves – I did. I was wrong.



There are so many people walking around looking the “best” they’ve ever looked, and paying far too steep a price, a hidden cost they feel compelled to keep paying.



When, after a year-and-a-half of seeing a therapist, something finally shifted, and I started eating properly again, it showed in photos. In pictures from that year, I look puffy in the face and arms, like my body is clinging to every scrap of fat it’s given. Which, of course, it was. The body is smart: if you starve it once, it will forever be preparing for the next famine.


In those newer photos I am the picture of health, or at least, the picture of healthier. And yet, I don’t like to look at them. I don’t like the photo of me clambering on an ancient Sequoia with my colleagues on a work retreat. I don’t like the photo of me smiling at a dear friend’s wedding and surrounded by brilliant, loving women. I like the old photo, the bombshell photo, the photo that tells lies. It’s in a frame on my new boyfriend’s windowsill. I’m healthier now, and lucky to be so, but if there had been a oath to mental health that had involved no weight gain – well, I’d have been in recovery sooner, and I would have recovered faster. 



My suffering made me look great. There is no getting around this: my self-inflicted pain was rewarded with praise and sexual interest and even short-lived flashes of self-confidence. And there is no getting around the truth that I like the old photo better than the new ones. Just as I am working to accept that some people will always offer, “you’ve lost weight!” as a compliment, I am working to accept the uncomfortable, unhealthy truth: I have never looked “better” than when I was at my worst.


And I know I wasn’t alone. There are so many people walking around looking the “best” they’ve ever looked, and paying far too steep a price, a hidden cost they feel compelled to keep paying. To those people I say: I know your pain, and I promise it won’t always feel this way. It took work, to travel from that hungry day on the staircase, all dolled up and empty inside, to where I am now. It takes work every day, sometimes every hour, and it’s never a straight line. I look fine now, I suppose. I feel fierce, and I mourn the years I lost.


So the photo stays. As reminder of where I used to be, as a way to mark how far I’ve come. And as a reminder of the gap between truth and pretty fictions.



If you’re struggling with an eating disorder, call the National Eating Disorder Association hotline at 1-800-931-2237.

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This Black-Owned Subscription Box Is What Every Debonair Fella Needs

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It just became much easier for the fellas to support black businesses and look damn good while doing it.


That’s thanks to Aaron Barnes, founder of the Dapper Black Box. Each month, the Illinois-based entrepreneur curates four to five men’s accessories and grooming products from black-owned businesses to deliver to subscribers’ doors. Each box costs $28.


Barnes told The Huffington Post he was inspired to create Dapper Black Box when he noticed a lack of black-owned subscription boxes catered to men. 




The monthly box, which launched in August 2015, includes items like suspenders and cufflinks from Tie Fetish, dress socks from Kimchi Socks, pocket squares from Ellis Tie Company and beard balm from Camyri’s Creationz. According to Barnes, Dapper Black Box is the first black-owned men’s subscription company that exclusively curates products from black businesses.


“It’s important to me to showcase to my subscribers and followers that there are quality black businesses that we can all support,” he said. “At the broader level, it was important to me to create a business that supports other black businesses because we desperately need to empower each other economically.” 


Barnes incorporates a history lesson into his service, too, by naming each box after a black innovator. Each month, he posts a YouTube video for his series “The Bigger Picture” to celebrate the impact that person had. So far, Barnes has highlighted George T. Sampson, Wally Amos, Daymond John and Louis T. Wright.




“Black people create some amazing things,” he told HuffPost. “We aren’t new to this. I think it’s important to regularly celebrate the things that black people have added to the world.”


The black community has a spending power of $1.2 trillion per year, but a huge majority of that spending goes to nonblack businesses. Barnes hopes his business can help reverse that.


“We’ve been thinking about how we expand what it means to be ‘dapper’ beyond fashion so that we make it easier for us to talk about investing into black businesses in other industries,” he said. “Our ultimate goal is to persuade every black household to allocate at least 10 percent of its discretionary funds to black-owned businesses.”


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If Only Someone Had Deflated Tom Brady's Poufy Hair In High School

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All-American Uggs wearer and Patriots quarterback Tom Brady hasn’t always been so ridiculously good-looking. Like us mortal humans, he went through a bit of an awkward phase in high school. Never fear, we have photographic proof! 


The five-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback recently posted a picture from his freshman year in high school and his hair is everything.


“Time to bring it back?? #hairgoals” Brady wrote.  



Time to bring it back?? #hairgoals

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USA Today’s “For The Win” section called Junipero Serra, Brady’s high school, and they confirmed that the photo is real. We just want to know what kind of hair products gave his ‘do this kind of gravity!  


Below are some other looks Brady has sported over the years: 


1. This backwards cap and earnest smile. 



2. A slightly longer haircut and scruff. 



3. Hair with a lot of product in it. 



4. Short on the sides and a little longer on top. 


 



5. Some more gelled hair! 



6. A longer look than we normally see: 



7.  This fluffy ‘do. 


 



8. Something that looks a bit like a mullet... 



9. A slicked back look for this slick couple: 


 



9. This helmet hair look he likes to sport all the time. 



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100 Years Of Wedding Hair In 4 Minutes

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The bride’s hair is the finishing touch on her gorgeous wedding day look. 


A new video from Allure takes us through 100 years of bridal hair trends, from the retro finger waves of the 1920s to the loose mermaid tresses that are so popular today. 


Watch the video above and get inspired by the glam ‘dos of yesterday and today. 

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Chrissy Teigen Says She 'Does It All' Because She 'Has Help'

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Chrissy Teigen is known for her brutal honesty, especially when it comes to parenthood.


In a recent interview with Yahoo Style, the model displayed her signature candor while discussing her experience as a working mom. Teigen and her husband, John Legend, have a 10-month-old daughter named Luna.


In addition to raising her baby girl, Teigen still works as a model, co-hosts Spike TV’s “Lip Sync Battle,” and is developing her second cookbook. When asked how she “does it all,” the mom had a simple answer: “Having help.” 


“My mom lives with us. I have hair and makeup people,” Teigen said. “I’m not getting up and doing all this by myself. If I’m not being done for something, I’m not going anywhere. A lot of hands go into it. We have help. It’s important for people to know that.”


She added, “I have the utmost respect for mothers and single mothers who go to work and come home and make dinner. I do all these things because I have help. Luna goes down at 6:30 and has a nurse watch her, and I can cook dinner.”



Teigen’s honest comments are reminiscent of a “Today” show interview she did back in November. Discussing the pressure on new moms to lose weight, she explained that women should not hold themselves to the standards set by celebrities because famous people have the privilege of big (and often expensive) support systems.


“Anyone in the public eye, we have all the help we could ever need to be able to shed everything,” she said. “So I think people get this jaded sensation that everybody’s losing [pregnancy weight] so quickly, but we just happen to be the ones who are out there.” 



Teigen added, “We have nutritionists, we have dietitians, we have trainers, we have our own schedules, we have nannies. We have people who make it possible for us to get back into shape. But nobody should feel like that’s normal, or like that’s realistic.” 



Other celebrity parents, like Victoria Beckham and Solange Knowles, have also been open about their support systems.


Teigen savors every moment with her daughter. She told Yahoo that her perfect day includes “waking up with Luna, singing silly songs to her about poop.” She also loves to watch her daughter sleep. 


The model and her husband want to grow their family over time. Teigen has famously spoken about her experience with IVF and the fact that she and Legend have one frozen embryo left from the process. 


“Hopefully it works. We’ll see,” she said. “Either way, we’re going to try for another kid.”

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Alternative Wedding Shoes For Brides Who Live In Sneakers

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No heels? No problem!


A pair of sky-high stilettos might make you feel like Beyoncé, but let’s be honest: heels that high hurt like hell and will, without a doubt, cramp your dance floor flow. Instead, take a cue from one of the bangin’ brides below who sported a pair of sneakers with style. 


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Emma Watson's Boobs Prove Why We Still Need Feminism

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In her latest interview with Vanity Fair, Emma Watson revealed a lot more than she probably intended.


No, I’m not talking about her revelation that she refuses to take selfies, nor am I even talking about the infamous ‘underboob’ featured in the cover story that has seemingly overtaken the discussion of Trump’s latest tweet (a welcome tangent, might I add). I am talking about the fact that Emma Watson has revealed that our culture cannot handle a woman who is both “sexual AND serious,” to quote Naomi Wolf.




In one simple photo, Watson has inadvertently bared a troubling truth that our society still, in 2017, cannot fathom the possibility that women can both express themselves sexually AND express a desire for equality, simultaneously. It appears as though flaunting one’s figure and a feminist agenda are mutually exclusive.


Throughout her career, Watson has been a champion for women’s rights. From her appointment as a UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador, to her HeForShe campaign that inspires men and boys to be agents of change in reducing the gender gap, to her feminist book that inspires members to read and educate themselves about female equality, Emma Watson has been a beacon for change when it comes to feminism. 


Yet with one photograph, she has allegedly been stripped (no pun intended) of recognition for her leadership towards equality and of her title as a feminist.


After the cover story made its rounds on the internet, many took the productive and always-amicable route of airing their grievances with Watson on Twitter, claiming this photo undermined her fight to diminish the gender wage gap and that she was being hypocritical by baring her body while still touting notions of female equality. The most egregious of the claims against Watson in the aftermath of this photo, though, is that she is a “bad feminist.”



This accusation is the most offensive because it is rooted in a complete and utter misunderstanding of feminism and its core values. The fight towards gender equality is contingent on women having a CHOICE. The choice to enter the workforce or stay at home. The choice to have children or use contraception. The choice to dress how we please or the choice to bare it all.


The choices we make as women do not undermine our loyalty to equality for our gender, but rather support it, nay embolden it. Intrinsic in anyone’s feminist agenda should lie the power of choice and the power to be multi-dimensional human beings of society. Women can be smart and sexual and sassy and sophisticated and still want to make the same amount of money as their male counterparts, ALL AT THE SAME TIME. Maybe we’re just expert multi-taskers or maybe we are just sick and tired of being put in a box that continuously deprives us of our humanity.


One expression of self does not detract from the other. Our messages and means of expression all work in concert to create the multi-faceted, multi- layered, and multi-talented badasses that we, as women, are and will continue to be.


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'The Arrangement' Will Satisfy All Your Curiosities About Fake Celebrity Relationships

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The first thing you need to know about “The Arrangement” ― E!’s new Hollywood-centric drama about a television actress who signs a contract to marry a movie star ― is that it’s definitely not, in no wayinspired by Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and Scientology. At least that’s what the show’s cast and creators claim.


We’ve all heard the rumors that the Church of Scientology allegedly auditioned actresses to become Cruise’s girlfriend before Holmes snagged the “role” and married him. That’s why comparisons between the show’s Kyle West (Josh Henderson) and Megan Morrison (Christine Evangelista) — the aforementioned movie star who belongs to a suspicious organization called The Institute of the Higher Mind and the struggling actress who is contracted to play his girlfriend — and their suspected real-life counterparts are so hard to resist.



“The Arrangement” may seem very much inspired by Cruise and Holmes’ relationship on the surface, but the show is more about the machinations of the Hollywood PR machine and every over-the-top relationship rumor tabloid addicts read over the years.


The concept of the Hollywood contract relationship, otherwise known as a “fauxmance” or “promance,” dates back to the studio system of the early 20th century. Actor Rock Hudson’s 1955 marriage to secretary Phyllis Gates was famously arranged by the actor’s agent, Henry Wilson, in an effort to hide Hudson’s sexual orientation from the public. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn had audiences convinced of their love both on- and off-screen, but a 2012 memoir by Hollywood fixer Scotty Bowers claims their 26-year relationship was a decoy to distract from the same-sex relationships they both reportedly enjoyed.


Today, while Hollywood has become a friendlier place to openly queer actors, it’s possible there are relationships that are arranged to conceal a star’s true sexual orientation; however, it’s far more plausible that a fauxmance might be concocted to promote a shared project or raise a couple’s collective profile.


Take Kaley Cuoco and Henry Cavill’s fleeting 12-day fling back in the summer of 2013, which was widely believed to be a fauxmance ― not that anyone could officially prove it, of course. There just seemed to be something curious about the fact that the two started dating right around the time Cavill was promoting “Man of Steel,” and that somehow the paparazzi seemed on-hand to document every single one of their dates. The fact that their “relationship” ended just as quickly as it started, combined with a suspiciously short timeline between Cuoco and Cavill’s breakup and her new romance with soon-to-be fiancé Ryan Sweeting, added to suspicions their romance was less than authentic. Their coupling reeked of a PR-set up. Cuoco even admitted to Cosmopolitan that it brought her more attention than she ever received before.


“I had no one following me until I met Superman. I’ve been in this business for 20 years, and my whole life, I could go anywhere, do anything. There had not been one paparazzi photo of me until like seven months ago. The recognition has been crazy,” she told the magazine in a 2014 cover story.  



The problem with Cuoco’s statement is that while it used to be commonplace for the paparazzi to be out in full force following celebrities around town, hunting for that perfect picture, that happens far less often today unless you occupy the A-list.


Thanks to the tabloid boom in the early 2000s, being a paparazzo was a lucrative job. There seemed to be a heightened interest in seeing celebs doing mundane things, sparked in part by Us Weekly’s “Stars — They’re Just Like Us!” feature. In the mid-2000s, the right photo could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars, but that kind of payout has dried up since the introduction of social media, allowing celebrities more control over their own image.


And for someone like Cuoco, who was able to keep her relationship with her “Big Bang Theory” co-star Johnny Galecki secret for two years without anyone finding out, it’s difficult to believe the paparazzi were suddenly able to capture intimate moments of her 12-day romance with Cavill ― unless, of course, they were specifically tipped off.


For all we know, Cuoco and Cavill’s brief dalliance with one another could have been real, but it’s hard to deny the overwhelming professional benefits they both enjoyed from the blink-and-you-missed-it affair. Such is the case with what is probably the most-discussed alleged fauxmance in recent history ― Hiddleswift.


From their humble beginnings born out of totally not staged photos on the rocky shores of Rhode Island, Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston’s extremely camera-ready relationship simply did not ring true for many fans. Hiddleston has gone on record claiming that “of course [the relationship] was real,” but believing that means ignoring aspects of their relationship that feel orchestrated.  






The Hiddleswift relationship materialized seemingly out of nowhere, becoming public knowledge a mere day before Kim Kardashian accused Swift of lying about having approved lyrics to Kanye West’s song “Famous.” From a PR perspective, a new, showy relationship not only distracted from the allegations, but also drew focus from Swift’s recent breakup with Calvin Harris.


If Swift benefited by trying to distract from negative attention, then Hiddleston, who was then known as a respected British actor, soaked up more attention ― both good and bad ― than he’d ever experienced up to that point.


Though he took some flak for some of the more attention-grabbing moments of the relationship, like wearing an “I ♥ T.S.” tank top at the beach, becoming fodder for tabloid gossip seems to have proven beneficial for his career. During the time Hiddleston and Swift dated, the actor capitalized on his newly raised profile by growing his Twitter following from 2.8 million to 3.8 million, and he took the opportunity to join Instagram, where he amassed 1.1 million followers in a matter of weeks, according to Refinery 29.


Hiddleston wasn’t an unknown before he dated Swift. In fact, he has two blockbuster movies ― “Kong: Skull Island” and “Thor: Ragnarok” ― due out this year. But every little bit of recognition helps when it comes to promotion and landing that next coveted role.


Observers of celebrity culture can only speculate over the authenticity of relationships like Hiddleswift and others that set off our collective bullshit detectors. That’s why gossip addicts will relish “The Arrangement” for painting Hollywood the way we assume it really is ― calculating and manipulative. From the specifics laid out in Kyle and Megan’s relationship contract, to staged interactions with celebrity exes, and the overreaching publicists and managers who pull all the strings, “The Arrangement” is rich in detail and probably more reflective of Hollywood than it would like to admit. 


“The Arrangement” premieres Sunday, March 5, at 10 p.m. ET.

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Katy Perry Has A Post-Breakup Platinum Blonde Pixie Cut Now

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A lot can change in a week. Just ask Katy Perry, the newest member of the platinum pixie club.




At the Oscars on Sunday, Perry sported a sleek, shoulder-length blonde haircut as she posed for photos alongside then-beau Orlando Bloom. By mid-week, news broke that the pair has split, and by Friday, Perry sported a drastic new haircut ― an elongated platinum blonde pixie with dark roots ― that should look familiar to fans of a fellow beloved pop star. 


Perry revealed her new ‘do, which is giving us total Miley Cyrus vibes, on Instagram. It was chopped by celebrity hair stylist Chris McMillan, who said in the video he’s been “wanting to do this” since the day he met her.


“I wasn’t ready [before],” she replied. 



I WASNT READY TILL NOW

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Fans started speculating immediately about the timing of the haircut, coming two days after Perry’s split from Bloom. Perhaps, like so many others, she’s finding catharsis and healing in a new haircut after a breakup. 


Even if the the timing was just a coincidence, we are more than here for Perry’s edgy new look. 


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Emma Watson Wore A Subtle 'Beauty And The Beast' Tribute On The Red Carpet

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She really is a lovely girl, that Emma Watson.


We’ve been closely following the “Beauty and the Beast” press tour for both nostalgic and sartorial reasons, and Watson just played to both with her look at the film’s premiere in Los Angeles Thursday night.


A gold flower adorned the side of her Oscar de la Renta jumpsuit, and it it wasn’t a nod to the “enchanted rose,” our ‘90s-loving hearts tell a different tale. 



Watson and other stars who attended the premiere showed up in the kind of bold looks that would have made the Oscars red carpet a touch more magical. Chrissy Teigen looked stunning in an intricately detailed Raisa and Vanessa gown with fringe, while Celine Dion continued her fashion tour de force in an epic mock neck powder blue Christian Siriano gown.


Check out more beauty-ful looks from the premiere below. 



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This 10-Week-Old Baby Has A 2-Hour Hair Routine

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While we were busy trying to roll out of bed this morning and look presentable in about 30 seconds, this baby’s hair was luxuriously soaking up a treatment of baby oil for two hours.


Amelia Marsh, a 10-week-old baby who’s our newest source of hair inspo, has a full head of thick hair that takes her mom, Kayleigh Marsh, 2.5 hours to do every morning.  





Marsh, who explained the routine on a UK-based morning show, explained she doesn’t actually “sit there for 2.5 hours doing her hair.” But instead, she puts “the baby oil in, leaves it for two hours and comes back to it.” The purpose is to “soften it,” thus allowing her to style it. 


Amelia also apparently “loves” having her hair blow-dried, which is basically the cutest thing we’ve seen or heard in a long time. 





 It’s not weird to be jealous of a baby, right?


 





h/t Cosmopolitan U.K.


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The Sartorial Genius Of Georgia O'Keeffe

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The great American painter Georgia O’Keeffe flooded canvases with color, conjuring plants and sunsets and lakes with a generous relationship to her palette. At the mere mention of her name, images of flowers surely come to mind, their petals spread open in front of the viewer, each stamen and stigma brushed with heavy doses of gold or pink or green.


Yet images of the artist herself, who was born in 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, are mostly devoid of color. She preferred to memorialize herself in black and white, as evidenced by the astounding amount of portraits for which she posed. In front of the camera ― whether it was held by her husband Alfred Stieglitz or a slew of other famous photographers including Ansel Adams, Philippe Halsman, Bruce Weber, Annie Leibowitz and Andy Warhol ― she frequently appeared in monochrome. She was more likely to brandish a cape and bowler hat, accessories coded male at the time, than a floral dress or broach.


“Everyone wanted to redress her to make her appear more feminine,” Wanda Corn, a Professor Emerita in art history at Stanford, and the guest curator behind the Brooklyn Museum’s latest show, “Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern,” explained in a tour on Wednesday. But O’Keeffe was steadfast in her style: minimalist, modern, androgynous, deliberate.



“She was black-and-white before she met Stieglitz,” Corn added, echoing the overall tone of her show. O’Keeffe was no one’s muse. Aware of her place in history before it was even set, she sat in front of cameras to take hold of her public persona. She dressed in monochrome, capes and all, to cleverly feed her growing status not just as an artist, but a pioneer of every aesthetic she touched.


”Living Modern” bills itself as the first exhibition to examine O’Keeffe’s “self-crafted persona.” With a cascade of artworks paired with personal objects from O’Keeffe’s wardrobe, the show tells a story of how she evolved beyond the easel. The paintings and photographs and pieces of her closet ― handmade dresses, denim, hats, shoes, jewelry ― reveal how she owned her identity, and her eventual celebrity.


The exhibition, separated into four parts, follows her early rise in the New York art world, where she had her first solo show at the Brooklyn Museum in 1927, to the years she spent traveling to the American Southwest, a region that would steal her heart, to the career she nurtured after Stieglitz died. The black-and-white custom suits she’d wear to meetings or openings in New York contrast with the chambray button-down shirts and cowboy hats that marked her New Mexico existence. She was rarely photographed in the latter; more often she was seen in the wrap dresses that constituted her signature outfit later in life, with little or no embellishments.


“Nothing is less real than realism ― details are confusing,” she famously said. “It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get the real meaning of things.” 



“Living Modern” is part of the Brooklyn Museum’s “Year of Yes,” a series of programs that celebrate the 10th anniversary of the institution’s Sackler Center for Feminist Art. The decision to spotlight O’Keeffe’s clothes, in conjunction with an anniversary aimed at “reimagining feminism,” was made with careful thought.


Corn has been planning the O’Keeffe tribute since at least 2011, Cody Hartley, senior director of collections and interpretation at the O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, told The Huffington Post. Much of the clothing on view comes from the two homes, once owned by the artist, that are now managed by the O’Keeffe.


Would Corn have organized a similar exhibition for a male artist who’d lived his life so strategically through clothing? “Yes, I think she would have,” Hartley explained. Of course, the appeal of such an exhibition centered on O’Keeffe, rather than any male artist, is that her clothing ― whether she made pieces herself, commissioned them, or voraciously collected them ― was an extension of her agency in a male-dominated realm. She understood the power of putting on a cape, more often worn by male artists, and staring into a camera. She understood how her personal style, not just her art, could reflect her sincere commitment to modernism. She earned her title, Mother of American Modernism, by being in charge of her identity.



The last room of the Brooklyn Museum show appropriately focuses on O’Keeffe’s life after Stieglitz, the artist who helped catapult her to fame. Before she died at the age of 98, O’Keeffe had become a beacon for a new wave of feminism, a celebrity reincarnated, at least for the 1960s generation who knew her only as a single artist.


At the end of her life, O’Keeffe was the woman, independent in her career and style, who’d left New York City behind for the freedom and solitude of New Mexico. Living a life close to the land, she dabbled in organic gardening and cooking. She was “prescient” to a new audience of housewives, students and young feminists, Corn said, who weren’t so familiar with her early career alongside Stieglitz. They’d later read her interview with Andy Warhol in 1983, or read her 1974 New Yorker profile, or visited her major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American art in 1970, which later traveled to Chicago and San Fransisco. 


Today, over 30 years after her death, O’Keeffe is still a celebrity. While she never fully embraced the feminism that adopted her as an icon during her life ― “Write about women. Or write about artists. I don’t see how they’re connected,” she once told a journalist ― her ability to move through life unencumbered by expectations, so ready to take control of her image out in the world, continues to garner respect. 


Her face, peering at viewers dozens of times throughout the halls of the Brooklyn Museum, dares you to think otherwise.











Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern” is on view from March 3 to July 23 in the Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing on the fourth floor of the Brooklyn Museum.

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Apparently Queen Elizabeth II Sends Secret Messages With Her Handbags

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If you’ve got a meeting coming up with Queen Elizabeth II, there are a few things you should brush up on: your knowledge of corgis, the proper way to bow and just what her handbag could be telling you. 


While meeting with people, Her Majesty apparently uses her handbags to communicate signals to her team, according to royal historian Hugo Vickers in a recently resurfaced interview with People magazine. 


“It would be very worrying if you were talking to the queen and saw the handbag move from one hand to the other,” Vickers said, as that’s reportedly a signal she wants to end the conversation. “Someone would come along and say, ‘Sir, the Archbishop of Canterbury would very much like to meet you.’” 


Vickers added that if the queen wants to leave a situation immediately, she’ll spin a ring on her finger or put her hand bag on the floor.


The handbags in question are generally from Her Majesty’s favorite brand, the British luxury brand Launer. The brand first gave the queen a bag in 1968 and she later granted them the Royal Warrant (a high mark of recognition reserved for goods or services that supply Her Majesty, the Duke of Edinburgh or the Prince of Wales).



Her Majesty evidently prefers her bags with longer handles, so it’s easier to shake people’s hands: 



We’re looking at her bags in an entirely new way now! 


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Take On The Weekend Like Britney Spears Took On This Impromptu Fashion Show

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We’ve all had a long week. But instead of giving up and flopping on your couch in defeat, do as Britney Spears would do: Stage an impromptu fashion show and make someone film it for Instagram.


“Just doing my own runway show,” the “Glory” singer wrote in a caption on the social media site early on Friday.


While us normals may not have the same palatial digs as Spears, luckily, the world can be your catwalk, be it in a tiny apartment, the supermarket or the office.


You better work.



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Vogue Celebrates Muslims In Special Feature On American Women

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Vogue is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year with a dazzling feature on the diverse lives and stories of American women around the country. Among the subjects featured is a community of Muslim women in Maryland, whose stories serve to remind viewers of the faith community’s crucial place in the American fabric.


The anniversary special, entitled “American Women,” encompasses 15 portfolios of video and portraiture shot by an array of photographers.  Photojournalist Lynsey Addarrio shot the feature on “Islam in America,” which zoomed in on four Muslim women living in Maryland.



Addarrio has been photographing Muslim men and women for over a decade, often shooting in regions of the world that have been ravaged by war and strife. But with Islamophobia on the rise, the photographer said it’s a critical time to be doing this work in the U.S.


“Since President Trump took office, he has issued executive orders directly and unjustly targeting Muslims,” Addario told The Huffington Post. “In my opinion, it’s important for mainstream media to show that Muslims are Americans-and many Americans are Muslims, and I hope stories like this can dispel misconceptions.”


Among the women Addario featured is Zainab Chaudhary, the Maryland outreach manager for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a major Muslim advocacy group. In her work and personal life, Chaudry also often finds herself fighting back against stereotypes about Islam and Muslim women.



“We’re not a monolith,” Chaudry said in the feature. “There’s this idea that we’re all cookie-cutter versions of one another. The fact is, we come from very diverse backgrounds. We all have unique experiences that define who we are.” 


That message of diversity is very much part of the ethos of “American Women,” which showcases communities ranging from Standing Rock protestors to salmon fisherwomen in Alaska to Air Force service members in Honolulu.


The special wasn’t “intended as a response to the presidency of Donald Trump or to the women’s movement that has gained force in its wake,” wrote Vogue creator director Sally Singer. “And yet, so much has changed since we began initial photography, and so quickly.”



Singer continued:



The camps at Standing Rock have been razed. Families fear deportation of their friends and loved ones. Notions of race and educational opportunity are debated on Twitter. Sexuality, religion, ecology, nationality...everything seems in transition or under attack depending on where you stand on the political spectrum. Some of these women must feel safer since the election, and for others it’s quite the opposite. No doubt if these images could speak we would hear many points of view.



Life for many Muslim Americans has also changed in recent months. Addario shot the photographs in January ― prior to the inauguration and before President Donald Trump signed an executive order that banned visas for individuals from seven Muslim-majority countries. “There’s a sense, looking at these images, of the calm before the storm,” Vogue’s Julia Felsenthal wrote in the feature.



Trump’s order left many Muslims, especially those with family from the seven countries, feeling alienated and unfairly targeted. In the weeks since, mosques have been burned, Islamophobic fliers have cropped up at universities, and even Muslims who aren’t from the seven banned countries have been barred entry to the U.S.


These incidents reflect the very kind of othering that Addario’s feature aims to combat.


“Ultimately, we are all very similar, regardless of our religions,” Addario said. “Most women want to be happy, successful, and if they choose to have families, want the best for their children.”

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Tilda Swinton, Chameleon Of Our Time, Is Literally Unrecognizable In Her Latest Role

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This is Tilda Swinton. She’s a wonderful actress and, frankly, a goddamn chameleon. 


She usually looks like this:



Over the course of her varied and illustrious career. Swinton has taken on roles that require dramatic transformation. 


Here are a few examples: 





Now, the 56-year-old actress is undertaking what appears to be her greatest on-screen transformation yet.


The British star is apparently playing an elderly man in her latest movie, “Suspiria.” The look is impressive, to say the least. 










According to Deadline, the film is a remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 Italian horror movie and follows an American ballet dancer studying at a prestigious dance academy in Europe. She finds herself in peril as she begins to learn of the school’s dark history. 


Dakota Johnson, Chloe Grace-Moretz and Mia Goth also star in the film.

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Why Dermatologists Say New 'Athleisure Makeup' Trend Is A Bad Idea

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No episode of “Keeping up with the Kardashians” or fierce dedication to the athleisure phenomenon could get us to wear the makeup at the gym, despite various recent attempts by some of our favorite cosmetics companies to act otherwise. 


Athleisure makeup, much like athleisure clothing, is an emerging makeup trend featuring products made to stay in place at the bar and at the gym. These products include items that already existed before, like waterproof mascara and tinted moisturizer, but they’ve been put in a new, made-up category called “athleisure makeup.” It is, to quote Racked’s Cheryl Wischover, “total bullshit.”


Aside from the fact that you simply don’t need to wear makeup to the gym (or anywhere, for that matter), you can probably guess that there are medical reasons to stay away from the stuff during your next sweat sesh, too. 


We’re not here to tell you what to do. If you’re excited about the prospect of makeup that stays put through Soulcycle,  more power to you and your impressive commitment.







We’ll just let these dermatologists explain how they feel about it instead. 


“I’m not a big fan,” Angela Lamb, director of the Westside Mount Sinai Dermatology Faculty Practice, director of dermatology at the Institute of Family Health and an assistant dermatology professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai told The Huffington Post. “It is best to wash your face before workouts and have a clean face. This will prevent buildup and clogging of the pores that can happen when you mix makeup with sweat.”


Dr. Heidi Waldorf, director of laser and cosmetic dermatology at The Mount Sinai Hospital, explains what happens if you don’t wash off your makeup before working out. “The number one problem is acne flares in susceptible individuals,” she said. “Even noncomedogenic makeup will change with sweat,” she said. “Non-comedogenicity means it won’t affect the sebaceous follicles (the combination hair follicle and oil gland which are the basis for comedones and pimples), however, the addition of sweat creates the equivalent of a flood which can move makeup toward the opening of the sebaceous follicle or pore and irritate it, causing acne.”


But it’s not just sweat that clogs our pores. We’ve downward-dogged into a rented mat enough times to feel some kind of queasy way about shared gym equipment. Regardless of our attempts to disinfect, Waldorf said, “There are also times you can’t avoid your face touching or even laying directly on gym equipment. Makeup tends to harbor bacteria – especially after it has been open for a while and applied with a finger – so it’s a conduit to spread bacteria to others.”


Say it with us: EW.


Finally, Lamb added that in addition to clogging pores, makeup can also drip into your eyes from sweat and “cause irritation.”


Lamb’s aversion to athleisure makeup goes more than skin deep.”I think it puts unnecessary pressure ― particularly on women ― to look ‘perfect all the time,’” she said. “Come on. Anything that adds to your regimen when you are just trying to focus on your health is a downer in my book.”


Lamb believes that cosmetics companies are hopping on this trend not only to make money but to feed “the relentless desire for perfection and being ‘watched,’” but says if you are going to wear makeup at the gym, be sure it’s something “very light and oil free.”


Waldorf added that could mean “a noncomedogenic tinted primer, like Colorescience Sunforgettable Primer,” as she said  “primers are meant to stay in place, so you are less likely to have problems while sweating. Alternatively, a water-resistant sunscreen formula with tint” would work, too. 


So, again, we’re all about athleisure, but think we’ll stick to just wearing yoga pants that feel brunch-appropriate for now. 


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Twitter Can't Believe Rihanna's Latest Photo Shoot Proves She Invented Punk

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Rihanna has had a big week: Harvard University named her its Humanitarian of the Year, and her latest photo shoot for Paper magazine inspired a ton of praise on Twitter.



Can you believe Rihanna invented punk? 


It was a popular sentiment






Stylist Shannon Stokes, who worked alongside Farren Fucci for the shoot that took place in New York last month, said her team took inspiration from the singer’s “budding acting career” ― she’s set to appear with Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock and Anne Hathaway in the all-female “Ocean’s Eight.” The resulting imagery casts her “as a high fashion clerk in a bodega of the future.”


For those keeping track at home, Rihanna has also invented the practice of grocery shopping.






Rihanna discussed her philosophy of charity while speaking at Harvard. The singer helped set up a state-of-the-art center for oncology and nuclear medicine and funds a scholarship program to help Caribbean students attending U.S. schools.


“All you need to do is help one person, expecting nothing in return,” Rihanna said. 


She just keeps giving.

























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Emma Watson Fires Back At Critics Of Her Vanity Fair Shoot

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Emma Watson on Sunday responded to critics who said she strayed from her feminist roots when she posed for a revealing photo in Vanity Fair.


In a recent shoot for the magazine, the 26-year-old “Beauty and the Beast” star appears in a white crocheted jacket with no shirt or bra. The pictures, shot by fashion photographer Tim Walker, sparked backlash across social media and from some media outlets.




Watson told Reuters that she’s simply confused by some of the flak she’s received. “It just always reveals to me how many misconceptions and what a misunderstanding there is of what feminism is,” she said.


“Feminism is about giving women choice,” she went on. “Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women with. It’s about freedom, it’s about liberation, it’s about equality. I really don’t know what my tits have to do with it. It’s very confusing.”


“I’m confused. Most people are confused... I’m always just kind of quietly stunned,” the former “Harry Potter” star added.


Along with the criticism, though, came plenty of support for the photo shoot. 


For her part, Watson enjoyed the photo shoot, calling it “incredibly artistic.”


“I was so thrilled with how kind of interesting and beautiful the photographs [were],” she said. 


Watson has long been an advocate for women’s rights, teaming with the United Nations as a Women Goodwill Ambassador and working on the HeForShe campaign.


“Beauty and the Beast” opens in theaters on March 17.

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