Blonde Ambition

I guess you could say when it comes to my hair, over the last two years I have gone through an identity crisis.  I like any girl love to play around with fashion and makeup but my hair is a different story.  I was never great at styling it or taking very good care of it.  Naturally, I have mousey blondish hair and always resented the fact that no matter how vibrant my clothes or meticulous my makeup, I could never...

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Review of Cleopatra (1963)

Directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz. Running time: 248 minutes. Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison.  Hollywood’s Golden Age heralded new cinematic techniques unheard of prior to the early twentieth century. Movies were profusely fabricated by up-and-coming Hollywood studios, and gave a platform to actors who would benefit from the advent of sound into motion pictures. 20th Century Fox, one of...

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The Beauty of Bérénice

Since I loved the Bond theme of our last posts so much, I thought I would do another tutorial inspired by the lovely Bérénice Marlohe.  This look is dark and smouldering look.  It is very different look to Adele’s which was more classic, this has an edgier and more gothic feel to it.  Here I have taken a different approach and tried to show my techniques for this look step by step (apologies for...

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Review of Skyfall

                                  Directed by Sam Mendes. Running Time: 143 minutes. Cert: 12. Starring: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, Naomie Harris and Ralph Fiennes. It’s official. Bond is back. I will try not to let the fact that I am a huge fan of the iconic...

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Bond Girl for a Day

  Although she is not a Bond girl, Adele’s stunning look for the promotion of the new James Bond film ‘Skyfall’ was so stunning I felt compelled to try to recreate it. She may not star in the film herself but this classic winged liner with full red lips look would not look out of place next to James in a casino at a roulette table. In creating a similar look I noticed...

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