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Showing posts with label Marilyn Monroe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marilyn Monroe. Show all posts

Friday, March 9, 2012

Paris and the Avid Shopper

Louis Vuitton, Champs-Elysées Paris 2006. Auth...Image via Wikipedia By Nicole Bednarczyk


There are many different types of travelers. One type of traveler is the avid shopper. If you love to shop, then you are probably looking for the best travel destination to shop in. One great place to fulfill all of your shopping needs is Paris, France.
If you love high fashion designer items, the first place you want to check out of course is Louis Vuitton. Louis Vuitton is a very famous brand worldwide. The brand is most famous for their luggage and purses. However, they also have clothing and accessories. All of their products are truly exquisite.

Friday, July 15, 2011

Venetian gentlemen, once preferred them blondes

Cropped screenshot of Marilyn Monroe from the ...Image via Wikipedia
Author: Albapp

It is well known that beauty standards change. Marilyn Monroe's admired feminine curves have been replaced by the androgynous and thin Agyness Deyn and the big curly hairstyles of the 80's are now a distant (and often embarrassing) memory for women who now sport sleek straight hair like walls.
Italy has seen its perception of beauty change with the times too, while today's most desired Italian women are brunettes or black-haired with tanned skin and clear Latina traits, in the years of the Serenissima Republic, women worked hard on keeping their pale skin white as milk and their blond hair as rich as gold, both symbols of the high class delicate and prosperous women that attended the feasts, parties and events organized by the wealthy inhabitants of the city.
Women in ancient Rome started this tradition by brightening up their hair with a soap made of animal fat and birch ashes or with a mixture of chamomile flowers and the yellow of an egg.