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Think You Can't Go Blonde? Stars On This Week's Best & Worst Beauty List Make It Look Easy

January 19, 2014, 7:09 am
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There wasn't a red carpet or panel this week that celebrity blondes didn't dominate.

Brooklyn Decker sported some seriously stunning waves while promoting the new CBS television series "Friends With Better Lives." Meanwhile, Molly Sims looked like a '60s sex kitten with her tousled waves at a star-studded party for designer Diane von Furstenberg. And Heidi Klum wore a bangin' hairdo to host the 50th anniversary celebration of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

Scroll down to see how the hottest blondes in Hollywood do it (plus more noteworthy hair and makeup looks).

BEST: Brooklyn Decker

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THIS is the kind of hair we're trying to achieve when we use a clipless curling iron. Decker's thick, lush waves cascade down her shoulders and work well with simple eyeliner and berry pink lipstick.

BEST: Molly Sims

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Full eyelashes are hard to pull off on the red carpet (much less in "real life"), but Sims succeeds by keeping the rest of her makeup minimal and pairing her '60s-inspired eye makeup with loose, tousled curls.

BEST: Heidi Klum

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Heidi is giving us supermodel hair with her lash-grazing bangs and sleek hair. We also love how she used the classic white eyeliner trick to brighten up her eyes.

BEST: Lupita Nyong'o

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What else can we say about the "12 Years A Slave" star's hair and makeup that hasn't been said? So we'll just keep gushing about her glowy complexion.

BEST: Camilla Belle

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We are beyond elated to see Belle finally growing into this bob haircut -- the flirty flip frames her face beautifully. And her bold brows, curvy winged-out liner and pink lips would make for great night-out makeup.

WORST: Kaley Cuoco

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If we could only convince this "Big Bang Theory" actress to ditch the awkward eyeshadow she's known for during awards show season. Cuoco ends up looking extremely tired or hungover.

WORST: Zosia Mamet

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Just as we were really starting to like Mamet's choppy bob haircut, she goes and ruins it with harsh brown eye makeup and unkempt brows.

WORST: Tyra Banks

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If Tyra Banks were at an Amy Winehouse-themed costume party, this hair and makeup would be okay. But she's not, and this simply does nothing for her naturally stunning looks.

WORST: Kate Mara

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Whoever told Kate Mara it was a good idea to weigh down her scalp with all that gel is not a good friend. The sloppy 'do draws attention to her dry and parched blonde ends.

WORST: Aneesa Ferreira

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Let this be a lesson on how NOT to apply bronzer. The "Real World" alum's skin tone looks super orange because she's wearing faux glow like blush. But we love the dark lipstick!

More celebrity best and worst beauty looks:


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Even The Kardashians Wear Things We Want To Copy In This Week's Cheap Celeb Finds

January 19, 2014, 7:46 am
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This week, when we spotted Reese Witherspoon in a leopard print skirt, we knew we had to have it. Though we thought we were going to cringe when we saw the price, the patterned mini is actually on sale for $135 -- something we can totally save up for.

We were also pleasantly surprised to find out that Kourtney Kardashian's workout t-shirt set her back a mere $53 and Khloe Kardashian's impossibly cool Nike capris only cost her $100. It looks like we have some shopping to do this weekend!

Check out all the cheap finds of the week and let us know which ones are on your wish list!



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The Best Behind-The-Scenes Style Of The SAG Awards Happened On Instagram

January 19, 2014, 9:30 am
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One of the best parts of awards shows are the red carpet interviews, obviously. But even better? The behind-the-scenes antics... captured on Instagram.

For Saturday night's 2014 SAG Awards, it was also the perfect source for any style moments we missed (Brad Pitt's faux-hawk anyone?!) and everything leading up to the red carpets. For instance, Mindy Kaling is officially our favorite person ever, and if you haven't checked out her Instagram, go do it now.

Scroll down for Helen Mirren's first selfie, a precious moment between Jennifer Lawrence and Lupita Nyong'o and more Insta goodness.























What the cameras were supposed to capture:


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Spanx And Other Shapewear Are Literally Squeezing Your Organs

January 20, 2014, 5:19 am
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"I hate Spanx because even though they look so good under your clothes, sometimes mid-wedding I'll be like, 'I feel so nauseous,'" actress Jennifer Coolidge once said. "They're so tight, who knows what you're cutting off?"

Turns out, that star was on to something. While we can all relate to the aforementioned pain and suffering, most of us have no idea about the health ramifications of shapewear. Are we hurting our bodies in the name of smooth garment lines? We spoke to gastroenterologist Dr. John Kuemmerle, dermatologist Dr. Maryann Mikhail and chiropractor Dr. Karen Erickson to find out.

When you wear shapewear, you're compressing your organs.

Shapewear couldn't do its job if it wasn't tight. Unfortunately, this leaves your stomach, intestine and colon compressed, which Dr. Kuemmerle says can worsen acid reflux and heartburn. Restrictive clothing can also provoke erosive esophagitis.

Your digestive tract is also affected, explains Dr. Erickson. The intestines are supposed to contract and move food along, but when they're compressed over a long period of time, the flow of digestion is stifled. "It's like when people eat a huge meal and then unbuckle their jeans," Dr. Kuemmerle says. This damage, though not permanent, can lead to unpleasant symptoms like abdominal discomfort, bloating and gas.

Another hallmark of shapewear? Shallow breath. When you inhale, your diaphragm expands and your abdomen flares out, Dr. Erickson says, but shapewear restricts this movement and decreases the excursion in respiration.

That includes compressing your bowels.

Those with functional bowel disorders and irritable bowel syndrome should wear shapewear with caution. "In someone who has weakness down below and a tendency towards incontinence," Dr. Kuemmerle explains, "increasing intra-abdominal pressure can certainly provoke episodes of incontinence."

Dr. Erickson also notes that there can be a tendency for those wearing shapewear to not to want to go to the bathroom. "You've got all of this pressure on your bladder from the shapewear pressing down," she says. "If you postpone urinating, it can cause stress incontinence, where you leak, or it can exaggerate stress incontinence with people who already have it."

You can develop tingling, numbness and pain in your legs.

Sitting in shapewear can lead to a reversible condition called meralgia paresthetica, which is when the peripheral nerve in your thigh is compressed. This leads to tingling, numbness and pain in your legs, all of which can come and go or become constant. "It's like putting these giant rubber bands around your upper thighs and tightening them when you sit," Dr. Erickson says. (She's also seen this condition in those who wear too-tight pantyhose and pants.)

This rubber band effect can also decrease your circulation and lead to blood clots. When you sit in shapewear, Dr. Erickson explains that those genetically prone to varicosities can develop varicose veins and lymph congestion, which manifests as swollen ankles.

Your muscles will suffer if you rely on shapewear for good posture.

"Shapewear is not a substitute for having strong muscles," Dr. Erickson says. It's important to develop muscle tone, because it's those muscles that hold your posture in perfect alignment. Many people use shapewear as a crutch to avoid using those muscles, Dr. Erickson says.

And don't be fooled into thinking that shapewear works like a medical back brace. "Shapewear's a little different in that it's not therapeutically designed -- it's cosmetically designed," she explains.

Plus, shapewear can create an environment prone to infections.

Shapewear is occlusive, meaning it traps moisture and anything else under it, which predisposes shapewear wearers to both yeast and bacterial infections. Dr. Mikhail says that the most common infection she sees is folliculitis, since bacteria often gets trapped among hair follicles and causes red puss-filled bumps. "Usually folliculitis can be easily treated with topical antibiotics," she says. "But recurrent infections may develop antibiotic resistance, meaning they get harder and harder to treat."

Dr. Mikhail notes that the risks are higher in overweight individuals, diabetics and those who sweat excessively.

Like everything in life, it's important to exercise moderation: Don't wear them too often.

"Everyone I know owns shapewear -- it's kind of a miracle," Dr. Erickson admits. "But I think we want to be mindful to not wear it on a day-in and day-out basis." It's not a problem if you wear it for an evening or a special occasion, she says, but it's not a good idea to wear it daily and sit in it for hours on end.

If you're exhibiting any of the aforementioned symptoms, all three doctors recommend avoiding shapewear until the issues are completely resolved.

Lastly, choosing the right fit is key.

There are so many different types of shapewear out there. You should pick the right style, but you also need to pick the right size, Dr. Erickson says. "You really want to pick shapewear that actually fits you," she explains. "You want it to do its job, but you don't want to get something so small that it's damaging you." For example, shapewear that goes up to your bra line isn't a good idea for those with acid reflux or heartburn, as that area is particularly sensitive for people predisposed to those conditions.

A good way to tell if your shapewear fits correctly? "It's not cutting in anywhere," says Dr. Erickson, who recommends trying out different brands and materials. "All it really does is smooth out the rough edges and you can easily get in and out of it without a struggle."

People really love their Spanx...


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Pain-free New Year Pick-me-ups

January 20, 2014, 6:59 am
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By Rachel Huber

New Year, new resolutions? You don't need to feel punished to brighten your outlook and put spring in your step this January. Forget strict eating plans and complicated exercise regimens, at Vogue Paris we've been celebrating the New Year with a rejuvenating and thoroughly luxurious line-up of products and health tips that will boost energy levels and help you face the final months of winter in style. From gourmet juice detoxes, to spa treatments and refreshing beauty fixes, for a truly happy new year, ditch deprivation and treat yourself with these chic pick-me-ups.

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2014: Embracing the Fashion/Sport Mash-Up Trend

January 20, 2014, 7:05 am
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New years day; was anybody feeling the guilt? Lying on the sofa nursing your hangover instead of preparing for that Iron Man? Not long ago, only the few had run a marathon. It wasn't something every other person had already ticked off their new year's resolution list.

We are a society obsessed with exercise and fitness. One feels almost neurotically guilty if we skip one day on the treadmill, and each year we find a new fitness fling; whether it'll be wild outdoor swimming, SoulCycling or Zumba. There are several similarities between the industry of active living and the fashion industry. You take an old idea, 'update it' by giving it a new spin and voilà! You've got yourself the latest fitness trend. Plainly speaking, isn't wild outdoor swimming just normal swimming in a natural source of water? Maybe not that revolutionary.

The fashion industry has artfully latched onto our fitness obsession. It all started in 2004 when Stella McCartney designed her first collection for Adidas. Her collection was soon after followed by a collaboration between Puma and Alexander McQueen. These paved the way for many others that followed. To date big names such as Marc Jacobs, Liberty and A.P.C have fiddled with the post-gym look and big high street brands such as H&M and Gap have launched new 'work-out inspired' fashion lines.

Surely, the interest from high-fashion brands must be a reflection of our increased time spent on exercise and how it has changed our lifestyle. Living a healthy and active life has never been higher on our priority list. In 2012 YouGov estimated that one million more women were taking part in physical activity and sports since the London 2012 Olympic bid was won in 2005. We are now more willing to pay premium prices for sports apparel as we spend more time in them. No longer is it enough for sportswear to be purely functional. It has to be stylish too.

Arguably, as mentioned, the Olympics in London in 2012 has had a role to play. It was the first time sportswear had been presented in such a fusion of performance and style. While athletic warriors battled it out for the gold medal in the Olympic stadium, Stella McCartney (U.K.), Ralph Lauren (U.S.) and Giorgio Armani (Italy) used the stadium as the ultimate fashion catwalk to showcase their national creations. In 2013, the sportswear look started to filter through into high-fashion casual-wear with the sporty aesthetic being reinterpreted as casual-chic.

Double page spreads in fashion magazines and the latest creations on the catwalk are proof that high-fashion designers are starting to draw inspiration from sports-apparel. As we've seen in the latest women's Spring/Summer 2014 collections high-end designers, such as Gucci and Marc by Marc Jacobs, are using performance fabrics to create the sporty vibe. Fabrics like Airtex, mesh, fleece, jersey and rib knits are used to create a sporty look with simple silhouettes, clean designs and an athletic aesthetic. Kenzo has dominated the last two fashion seasons with black-eye trainers and tiger sweaters and t-shirts. They have reinvented the brand and reentered the fashion map after a brief hiatus struggling in the background. Now they are one of our most desired fashion brands out there.

I predict 2014 will be the year the fashion/sport mash-up trend becomes firmly established on the fashion scene strongly lead by the iconic trainer. The high fashion trainer trend is already thriving with brands such as Dior and Valentino offering their interpretation of the fashion/sport mash-up on a trainer.

So think runway, not running track when you're shopping for next season and embrace the fashion/sport mash-up trend beyond your weekly exercise class.
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Garage Magazine Editor-In-Chief Dasha Zhukova Sits On A 'Black Woman' Chair In Shocking Editorial (PHOTO)

January 20, 2014, 2:20 pm
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How's this for a happy MLK Day?

The online magazine Buro 247 has published a story about Dasha Zhukova, the Russian editor-in-chief of Garage magazine, which shows the editrix perched atop a chair designed to look like a half-naked black woman. Ugh.

Note: the image has since been cropped on the website to only show Zhukova and not the chair. We have reached out to Miroslava Duma the editor of Buro 247 for comment.

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Claire Sulmers, the editor of FashionBombDaily.com, alerted us to the unfortunate feature and calls the image an example of "white dominance and superiority, articulated in a seemingly serene yet overtly degrading way."

We couldn't agree more. Although the chair also comes in "white woman," we can't help but be filled with anger and frustration over the onslaught of negative imagery, constant disregard and unabashed bigotry that continues to plague the fashion industry. From Bethann Hardison's crusade to end racism on the runway to our attempt to educate society over and over and over again about the nonsense that is Blackface -- the stories of racially insensitive absurdity are never ending.

Sulmers goes on to point out that the chair appears to be inspired by a collection designed by British pop artist Allen Jones in 1969. Yet this specific use of a black woman's figure strikes a deeper cord. "The art and fashion industries are the few bastions of society where blatant racism and ignorance are given the greenlight in the name of creativity," Sulmers writes.

Well it certainly seems that way, and this Buro 247 editorial is just another layer of icing on the cake.

And here are just a few of the outraged messages regarding the article we found via Twitter:













What do you think of Buro 247's editorial? Is it racist or just art? Tell us in the comments section below.
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Dove 'Real Beauty' Campaign Turns 10: How A Brand Tried To Change The Conversation About Female Beauty

January 21, 2014, 4:44 am
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One of the biggest conceptual ad campaigns of the decade grew out of a photography exhibit in a retail building in Toronto.

"Beyond Compare: Women Photographers On Real Beauty," a show organized by Dove and Ogilvy & Mather, featured work from 67 female photographers including Annie Leibovitz, Tierney Gearon and Peggy Sirota. And it marked the beginning of Dove's quest to understand how women thought about beauty -- a conversation that would eventually become the Dove Campaign For Real Beauty.

Ten years after the exhibition opened, the Campaign For Real Beauty is one of modern marketing's most talked-about success stories. The campaign has expanded from billboards to television ads and online videos: The 2006 video, "Evolution," went viral before "viral" was even a thing. (After all, YouTube had only launched the year before.) And Dove's 2013 spot "Real Beauty Sketches," which shows women describing their appearances to a forensic sketch artist, became the most-watched video ad of all time.

How did a brand associated with a plain white bar of soap get men and women worldwide to think about the narrow definitions of female beauty? And does the fact that this message comes from a brand owned by Unilever -- the company behind the very sexily marketed Axe -- make it less authentic or important?

THE START OF SOMETHING

In the early 2000s, Dove executives began looking for a way to revive a brand that was being overshadowed by other companies. Their PR agency, Edelman, conducted a study of more than 3,000 women in 10 countries in order to learn about women's priorities and interests. When it reported that only 2 percent of the women interviewed considered themselves beautiful, the executives at Dove saw an opportunity. As they moved beyond the bar of soap and introduced other products such as shampoo and body wash, could they also start a conversation about beauty? Would a campaign that tapped into what women were thinking and feeling help Dove become more relevant -- and more profitable?

Dove's first steps in the Campaign For Real Beauty included "Tick Box" billboards, which debuted in Canada and spread across the United States and United Kingdom. The outdoor billboards featured images of women with two tick-box options next to them such as "fat or fit?" and "grey or gorgeous?"



Passersby could text their vote to a listed number, and the percentages appeared next to the image on the billboard. The campaign led 1.5 million visitors to the Campaign for Real Beauty website, alerting Dove that it was on the right track -- this was a topic women wanted to talk about.

AUTHENTICITY QUESTIONED

Dove's critics were quick to point out that the brand's owner, Unilever, was the parent company of Slimfast, Axe and Fair & Lovely skin-whitening cream. How could a message about "real beauty" coming from a corporation that sells diet products and advertises men's body spray with sexist tropes about women possibly be authentic?

According to Jean Kilbourne, creator of the "Killing Us Softly" documentary series which explores how women are portrayed in advertising, these objections are important -- but the anger toward Dove is misdirected.

"I think that's a good reason to go after Unilever, or to go after Axe," she told The Huffington Post. "But I actually don't think the people at Dove have much control over that."

A second criticism sometimes leveled at Dove is that its cosmetic products feed into women's insecurities.

"For the most part, I think that Dove's products are innocuous," Kilbourne told HuffPost. "It's soap and body wash. I do have an issue with products like cellulite-firming cream [which Dove sells] -- it's just one more way to create anxiety for women. But it's not like they're selling feminine hygiene sprays."

Jennifer Pozner, executive director of Women In Media & News and author of Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV, believes that Dove's message is at odds with its products, and that the company is capitalizing on women's poor body images.

"[These products] could not possibly exist if women actually as a demographic believed the principles at the campaign's core," Pozner told HuffPost. "Cellulite cream would not exist if women believed they were beautiful and enough as it is."

Pozner also expressed surprise that Dove has not affected change within its parent company:

If the stated goal of the Dove Real Beauty Campaign is for girls and women to understand that their power and their beauty does not come from a tube or an airbrush or a cream, but rather from their own personalities and power, then the company would not sell certain products that they sell, and their parent company would not run some of the most misogynistic ad campaigns in the past ten years.


While Dove does not release sales figures, executives at Unilever suggest that the campaign has boosted sales.

"We believe that conversation leads to brand love, and brand love leads to brand loyalty," Jennifer Bremner, brand director of skin cleansing at Unilever, said in an interview with HuffPost. "That's obviously a positive for us not just in the power of the brand, but also ultimately in sales."

BRINGING "REAL WOMEN" INTO THE PICTURE

A few months after "Tick Box," Dove launched a billboard campaign that featured groups of "real," diverse women in their underwear. One of the women featured on the original billboards was Gina Crisanti, who was approached by a talent scout while taking out the trash at her job at a café. According to Crisanti, she wanted to join the campaign to help other women feel empowered and confident in their bodies.

"I grew up not being happy with my body shape and size at all," Crisanti told NBC News in 2005. "I hated being curvy. I hated having big breasts. And I hated having curly hair. In my 20s, I realized all those [ideas] were simply self-destructive. Once I started to develop an alternative definition of beauty, all of it started to fall into place."



According to Kilbourne, who has studied advertising since the '70s, Dove was -- and still is -- one of the only mainstream advertisers talking about how we define female beauty.

"There are so few commercials that in any way are different, that challenge the stereotypical images," she told HuffPost.

Some other brands have followed suit, capitalizing on the association of their products with a message of female empowerment. Commercials like Pantene's "Labels Against Women" draw on themes similar to the Campaign for Real Beauty's, like the snap judgments people make based on a woman's looks -- and why that shouldn't matter.

MOVING BEYOND "REBRANDING"

Knowing that the campaign would be criticized as a shallow marketing ploy, the team behind the Campaign for Real Beauty concluded that simply talking about these issues wasn't enough.

"[We were thinking], we have to walk the talk," Sharon MacLeod, vice president of Unilever North America Personal Care, told HuffPost. "We can't just be getting people stirred up; awareness and conversation isn't enough. We actually have to do something to change what's happening."

And so Dove created a fund in 2004 to partner with organizations like the Girl Scouts, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Girls Inc. to organize activities including discussions about online bullying and photography projects capturing the beauty girls see in the world around them.

"A product-based affair was never going to [affect change]," Janet Kestin, former creative director of Ogilvy & Mather Toronto who worked on "Evolution," told HuffPost. "The goal is to alleviate pressure on the next generation."

The team at Dove Canada created a series of short films to raise awareness about the fund and the larger campaign. Former creative leaders at Ogilvy & Mather Nancy Vonk and Kestin worked with directors Tim Piper and Yael Staav to create "Daughters," a series of interviews with mothers and their daughters; "Onslaught," a look at how the beauty industry targets young girls; and "Evolution," showing how makeup and digital alterations can make an average woman look like a supermodel, which quickly blew up on YouTube. (The video currently has 16.9 million views.)

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"Evolution" was the tipping point, turning the Campaign For Real Beauty into a household name. For many young women, "Evolution" struck a chord, opening their eyes to the narrow definitions of beauty they grew up with and the way images were manipulated to fit said ideals. Today, "Evolution" still has an impact, but seems almost passé. Women's websites like Jezebel, which launched in 2007, took up the gauntlet, making sure that women all over the world saw what unretouched magazine spreads and billboards look like.

Dove still feels like it has a role to play in ongoing discussions about beauty and body image. "We're going to try to change a generation," MacLeod told HuffPost. "You have to wait until they grow up to see what happens."

Dove plans to continue making videos like 2013's "Real Beauty Sketches." Currently, Dove Canada is working on a social media campaign, #DovePositiveChange, which posts encouraging responses to women tweeting self-deprecating remarks about themselves. And Dove's latest short film, "Selfie," was released on Jan. 20.

THE DOWNSIDE TO "REAL BEAUTY"

But is Dove's idea of change what we should be focusing on?

Not everyone agrees with the importance the campaign places on physical beauty. In an April 2013 piece for The Cut, Ann Friedman wrote:

These ads still uphold the notion that, when it comes to evaluating ourselves and other women, beauty is paramount. The goal shouldn’t be to get women to focus on how we are all gorgeous in our own way. It should be to get women to do for ourselves what we wish the broader culture would do: judge each other based on intelligence and wit and ethical sensibility, not just our faces and bodies.


Pozner acknowledges that the beauty message is problematic, but deems it necessary. "Until we get to a point in the culture where the dominant messages about girls and women are not focused on their physical bodies, then we do need to actually reaffirm a broader and more innate, internal definition of what beauty is," she told HuffPost.

Both critics and champions of the campaign have also pointed out that just because women are redefining beauty, doesn't mean they are actually feeling differently about themselves. Some see this as a call to change the conversation entirely, as Friedman suggests, others as evidence that Dove's message about beauty is important and necessary. An estimated 80 percent of American women feel dissatisfied with their bodies, and 81 percent of 10-year-old girls are afraid of becoming "fat." Can a series of ad campaigns really change institutionalized body hatred?

The Dove team feels strongly that the campaign will be around for a long time to come.

"The conversation is as relevant and fresh today as it was 10 years ago," MacLeod said. "I believe we'll be doing [this campaign] 10 years from now."
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Maternity Clothes That Are So Stylish, You'll Want To Wear Them Even If You're Not Pregnant

January 21, 2014, 6:36 am
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In the '80s and '90s, maternity clothes meant oversized t-shirts and loose-fitting dresses (a la Princess Diana), but not anymore. Today there are entire stores and websites devoted to delivering trendy clothes for expecting mothers.

Some are so great, in fact, we wish we could wear then even when we're not pregnant. To show all the leaps and bounds being made in the world of maternity clothes, we've rounded up 17 items we'd gladly wear, bun in the oven or not.



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Underground Fashion From Roundel

January 21, 2014, 8:55 am
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Love or loathe the tube, there's no denying the fact that London Underground has a truly iconic aesthetic. The world's first city subway is awash with classic design, from Harry Beck's topological Tube Map to the station signage and typography.

To celebrate the tube's 150th anniversary, Roundel - a 'contemporary youth brand inspired by London and designed for the world' - fuses a warmth and fondness for this quintessentially 'London' iconography with urban fashion to create a unisex range of clothing that embraces the capital's cool, street style edge in understated basics.

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As logo-heavy fashion continues to dominate, the simplified and historical London Underground motifs seen in the Roundel collection appear on trend, but in a more understated way. The laid-back clothing styles - hoodies, t-shirts, bomber jackets - combine with a clever use of prints for a vibe that draws on a variety of archetypal music identities from indie to ska and punk - well suited to a city whose fashion and music scenes are so culturally intertwined.

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The footwear element of the collection comes courtesy of a collaboration with Nike and is one of my favourite recent releases. Two classic shoe silhouettes make up the Roundel drop which comprises the Air Max 1 Jacquard SP and the Nike Air Max 90 Jacquard SP, feature the District Line's famous colour blocked fabric design, updated in Nike's modern engineered woven jacquard. I love the style touch on the tongue which features an embroidered monochrome roundel (the name of the strikethrough circle tube symbol). These sneakers are hot property with trainer connoisseurs and design fans alike, and have been selling out constantly so my top tip would be to look out on social media for restocks.

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Shop the full range of Roundel London clothing at www.roundel-london.com which offers free worldwide shipping.
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Cate Blanchett Calls Out Subtle Sexism On Red Carpet Like The Badass She Is

January 21, 2014, 9:32 am
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While many of us love to swoon over the glamorous floor-length gowns often seen at red carpet events, Cate Blanchett made us think twice about fawning over a woman's outfit.

Blanchett called out the red carpet media pool's casual sexism at the SAG Awards during an E! interview. As the cameraman attempted to capture her gown with a shot scanning up and down the actress' frame, Blanchett crouched down and asked him, "Do you do that to the guys?"



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While the camera is dubbed "The Glam Cam," Blanchett makes a very good point. Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks aren't seen in outfit-scanning shots or the "mani-cam." Instead, they are addressed foremost for their talents and achievements. Blanchett has won three SAG Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAS and an Academy Award however, many media outlets still honor her for her appearance first and talents second.

Blanchett is no stranger to speaking her mind. The "Blue Jasmine" star described herself as a feminist while promoting the film this past September. She told Sky News, "I'm reading a book by [Australian feminist writer] Anne Summers called The Misogyny Factor, and I feel that all of the steps forward that we've made... a lot of those have been rescinded."

To answer your question Ms. Blanchett: No, they don't do that to the guys. But we are so happy you asked.

Check out the full interview below.

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Nothing Today Can Match The Vintage Glamour Of Christian Dior

January 21, 2014, 9:59 am
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One doesn't have to dig deeper than Christian Dior's archives to know what glamour looks like. The designer launched his eponymous French fashion house with much-needed dose of elegance after World War II, debuting his "New Look" in 1947 when he was only 42 years old.

Upon first seeing the now-iconic silhouette -- nipped-in waist, protruding bust line and voluminous skirt -- Harper's Bazaar editor Carmel Snow happily exclaimed, "It's quite a revolution, dear Christian! Your dresses have such a new look!" Even though the cumbersome ensemble didn't stay in vogue past the 1960s, we can still see plenty of references to the trendsetting midcentury style in Dior's dresses today. (Hello, Jennifer Lawrence!)

In celebration of what would've been Dior's 109th birthday today (Jan. 21), we're taking a look back at the indelible mark he left on glamour back in the '40s and '50s with his "New Look."

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Kim Kardashian Rocks Tight Leather Skirt All Over Paris

January 21, 2014, 10:42 am
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Kim Kardashian joined Kanye West in Paris this weekend where she shocked us, ditching her now-signature all-white look. On Friday (Jan. 17), the 33-year-old reality star donned a black leather peplum shirt paired with a black pencil skirt for dinner with her fiance and some of the biggest creative minds in the world, including designer Azzedine Alaïa, Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, Vogue Italia editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani and designer Riccardo Tisci.

On Saturday, Kardashian hit the streets of Paris for some retail therapy dressed head to toe in designer threads, and she wanted everyone to know it. The reality star took to her own Instagram account to share that she was rocking a leather Givenchy skirt, Alexander Wang t-shirt, Céline coat and Tom Ford heels.

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'Stiletto Yoga' Can Make Walking In Heels Much Less Painful (VIDEO)

January 21, 2014, 10:59 am
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Most of us have taken the pain of high heels in stride (get it?), resigning ourselves to evenings unpleasantly teetering in stilettos.

But it doesn't have to be that way, says Yamuna Zake, a body rolling expert who stopped by HuffPost Live on Tuesday. Zake has built her "stiletto yoga" business teaching people how to walk in high heels by helping them build strength from the bottom up.

"I'm always staring at bodies," she said. "I started to notice that all of the young girls on Bleecker Street were struggling in stilettos and not doing it sexy. I started to think: We used to do it sexy, so what's going on here?"

By strengthening the muscles in your feet, legs and back, Zake says you can get the proper posture and healthy foot function that will make wearing stilettos relatively pain-free (and help you look sexy while doing it, apparently). Check out the video above to see just how it's done.

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Shia LaBeouf Blames All His Antics On Performance Art

January 21, 2014, 12:25 pm
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Shia "I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE" LaBeouf has an explanation for his increasingly erratic behavior -- he is an artiste.

According to LaBeouf, the plagiarism, the apology via skywriter and the head-butt brawl can all be chalked up to a grand piece of performance art. Yes, the 27-year-old actor is claiming all the world's a stage and we are all merely players, to paraphrase Shakespeare. On Saturday, LaBeouf posted two lengthy statements to Twitter, which have since been deleted.

"Performance art has been a way of appealing directly to a large public, as well as shocking audiences into reassessing their own notions of art and its relation to culture," the actor explained. "All art is either plagarisum [sic] or revolution & to be revolutionary in art today, is to be reactionary. In the midst of being embroiled in acts of intended plagiarism, the world caught me & I reacted. The show began. I became completely absorbed, oblivious to things around me."

LaBeouf, who stars in the upcoming film "Nymphomania," went on to write that his Twitter account is a work of "meta-modernist performance art" and asserted that his tweets have started a "broad cultural discussion that needs to be had about plagiarism in the digital age & celebrity/social media absurdity."

Basically, LaBeouf claims he's totally self-aware, and he's been risking his "public representative's skin to prove [his] platitudes." That might sound like a total cop out, but the precedent has been set before -- thank you very much, Joaquin Phoenix.

The former Disney star went on to post a long list decrying the definition of performance art before making reference to his bar fight at the Hobgoblin in South London last week, tweeting, "#StopHeadButting.”

All of this has since been deleted, and in its place, yet another tweet reminding us of what LaBeouf surely tells himself every time he gazes upon his own reflection:




Because the Internet is forever, you can read LaBeouf's now-deleted explanation below:
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Fashion Is Having a 'Senior Moment'

January 22, 2014, 4:21 am
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Fashion is about the clothes: past trends, what's au courant and predictions for upcoming seasons.

Style is about elevating the intent of fashion to another level; the body as canvas and clothes as a medium to achieve original expression. Style is the magic that makes fashion one's own: a reflection of attitude, confidence, flair - a special quality showcased in dress.

The fashion industry routinely spotlights youth-inspired interpretive as its style gauge. Yet in recent years a dramatic twist of directive has focused attention on senior style statement makers: the new millennium's fashion "it" generation. Their inventive dress translation - from the avant garde whimsy of the risk takers to the subdued simple elegance of the reserved - has captured the attention of fashion creatives and chroniclers.

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Fashion bloggers and writers pen books, articles, posts on senior style divas. Street photographers capture many images of these sartorial darlings and some designers have recruited seniors for catwalk shows, promoting their participation on the runway and adding a welcomed dimension of diversity.


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During Madrid Fashion Week, Spanish designer Juan Duyos enlisted senior models to walk the runway for his a/w 2011 collection. As Mr. Duyos states accurately and succinctly, "Beauty does not end at 40 or 50." Fittingly, four lovely ladies in their 60s graced his show.



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Western societal emphasis has held tightly to a perceived allure of youth as ideal. It seemed the recurring mantra was of 'young, young and younger still'. Yet, a quiet and steady shift has materialised as senior beauty has become 'of the moment', extensively displayed by the once narrowly youth obsessed fashion culture.


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Perhaps this senior inclusion is not singular, but part of a comprehensive response to recognising the multiplicity of beauty. Perhaps perceptions of seniors have changed. The so-called twilight years need not signal decline, but rather ignite a spark - as many seniors are vital, productive and integral to the collective dynamism.

The fashion industry is caught up in "a senior moment" ... no longer an instance of memory lapse but here re-defined as a celebration of life well-lived and life well-dressed.
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Fashion Blogger Jillian Mercado Stars In Edgy Diesel Ads, Wheelchair And All (PHOTOS)

January 22, 2014, 6:17 am
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Among his cast of 23 models featured in Diesel's new campaign, Nicola Formichetti tapped Jillian Mercado, style blogger and Fashion Week regular who uses a wheelchair.

Mercado, who was diagnosed with spastic muscular dystrophy, rocks Diesel's signature denim alongside artist James Astronaut in the brand's Spring 2014 ads, which were styled by Formichetti and shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. "It's never easy for her to move from point A to point B, but she's totally fearless and has really been an inspiration to me," Formichetti told Women's Wear Daily. "You don't have to be a conventional model type to represent a brand."

The inspirational 23-year-old grew up in New York's Upper West Side, where she gained a keen interest in fashion. She went on to study merchandising at the Fashion Institute of Technology and intern at Allure before starting her coverage of New York Fashion Week for both Patrick McMullan’s PMc Magazine and her personal style blog, Manufactured 1987.

"I knew I was throwing myself into the fire when I wanted to work in fashion," she told the Daily Beast back in February 2013. "I work equally as hard as everyone else does in this industry, and my chair doesn't give me permission to slack off. My passion is equal to yours -- I just come with a chair that moves."

With her Diesel ads set to break in the March issues of Vogue and Interview, we'd say the fashion world is more than ready for Mercado's passion and work ethic. Luckily, Mercado takes time to enjoy the fruits of her efforts. "You all have no idea how speechless I am right now," she wrote in her blog after seeing the Diesel shot. "Thank you for giving me a chance of a lifetime and believing in me. This is beyond everything."

Check out Mercado's Diesel ad as well as some of her personal style snaps below.

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THIS Is What Dancing To Beyonce Will Do To You

January 22, 2014, 6:48 am
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Dancing to Beyonce can make for a pretty good time (see: here). But it can also be dangerous, as proven by model Chrissy Teigen.

The Sports Illustrated swimsuit model posted a photo to Instagram on Monday showing us just what happens what you get carried away during a Bey song. "Tell me this isn't the worst bruise you've seen. #dancingtobeyonce," she wrote.

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Natalie Dormer Unveils Shaved Head For 'The Hunger Games' Role

January 22, 2014, 7:02 am
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"Game of Thrones" star Natalie Dormer is gearing up to play Capitol film director Cressida in the final two chapters of the "Hunger Games" series, which means she's prepped herself to fit the novel's description of the character: "a woman with a shaved head tattooed with green vines."

Dormer, 31, unveiled a partially shaved head on Saturday at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where she and her "GoT" castmates were nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. The actress revealed to Entertainment Weekly on the SAG red carpet that she first sported the new 'do back in October but was "waiting for the right moment" to debut it publicly.

“Francis Lawrence, the director of 'Mockingjay,' and I discussed it and I took the job on the premise that I would possibly [have to] shave my whole head. I’m actually really pleased that we went halfway because I think it’s more the Capitol … and that’s where Cressida comes from," Dormer said. “She comes from the Capitol, so she’s got a stylized thing going on and now she’s turned rebel. I think it’s right for the character.”

"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1" opens in theaters on Nov. 21. Dormer also starred as Anne Boleyn on Showtime's "The Tudors" and in the movies "W.E.," "Rush" and "The Counselor." Check out her "Hunger Games" hair below.

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10 Things Guys Can Wear To Win Over A Woman

January 22, 2014, 7:21 am
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Guys, listen up: Getting dressed is not that complicated. In fact, we can pinpoint certain items that will make you catnip to the opposite sex. Seriously.

Ditch your white socks, throw away your stained hoodie and start taking notes. We found 10 items that are so good, they are practically foolproof. If you're wearing one of these pieces of clothing in a bar, we can almost guarantee that she will start talking to you. But what happens after that is up to you.

Behold, 10 items that plenty of women love to see on men.

1. The perfect pea coat because freezing your ass off in the winter isn't chic.

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2. Expert layering because it requires time and skill and shows us that you pay attention to the details.

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3. A leather jacket because, duh.

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4. Sneakers that aren't 10 years old and full of holes, because you aren't 17 anymore.

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5. A well-tailored suit because nothing is more attractive than a man in a suit.

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6. Beanies because they will make your scruff stand out. (And on that note, scruff).

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7. Dark, straight leg denim. Extra points if you roll them at the ankle.

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8. A flannel shirt because then we can steal it.

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9. Aviators because they look good on practically everyone.

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10. Desert boots because, obviously.

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