Life Done Right™

Women dye their hair for most of their life. Baby Boomer men, on the other hand, are just reaching the egotistical age when they realize the game is running short of time and the genes are starting to show their weak hand in the game of longevity. George Clooney was recently asked if he would […]

Fashion week in New York is over, but Paris Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld’s advice for how to stay young lingers on…courtesy of designer Tom Ford: “I follow an advice of Tom Ford: When you get older, you have to get blonder. It is my surfer look.” There you go, my friends! Forget buying those $150 […]

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I suppose everything has there favorite hat. I spotted this man outside Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s apartment building on the Upper West Side of New York City. There’s something about his height and that hat that caught my eye. I also love how the tape on the ground forms an arrow pointing […]

Darka Jakymchuk woke up one day and decides after 45 years that enough was enough…it was time to cut her hair. I wonder how she celebrated after the big event. Did she require a smaller mirror? Who could make this stuff up!
After 45 years, woman gets haircut

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Fashion designer Carolina Herrera put in an appearance at Waverly Inn in New York looking glamorous and casual. There’s a certain set of manners that those of a certain generation possess that seems to have been lost on the younger generations. It has to do with a sense of graciousness and a dose […]

Us Weekly features a “Gray Pride” series on Hollywood men who are letting their follicles go gray, as in no hair dye, as in accepting reality for what it is. Will America be accepting of men what it won’t tolerate in woman, namely a sense of youth? Stay tuned to Jon Stewart, George Clooney, Anderson […]

Haute Couture, when done by a master like John Galliano for Christian Dior, transports you to a part of your mind that usually only exists up on the big screen. There’s an aesthetic in play here that is so refreshing to behold that we poured ourselves another glass of cold water just to remind us […]

Paris Hilton certainly understands one thing: how to parlay fame into an endorsement deal. Forget all that trash talking about this girl. She knows how to keep her eye on a marketer’s fire crotch and walk away with a fistful of buckeroos. If she’s smart and wisely banks all the money, then her can can […]

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Take a walk around Beverly Hills and you are bound to encounter a plastic surgery patient about every five feet. In New York, though, its presence is a little more off the radar. This woman was hanging around outside a wedding at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue one Saturday. Her only purpose […]

Some perfumers will do whatever it takes to hustle their scent. Guerlain decided exposing just a tad of a woman’s tush crack above a long silky dress, along with a point of view shot of her legs from inside the dress was the best way to grab eyeballs for their L’Instant Magic fragrance. Whether this […]

Pop quiz: After watching this Dove “film” should you rush out to buy Dove soap because you aspire to natural beauty? Hint: Answers may depend on how sensitive you are to advertising that attempts to be authentic so the marketer can then sell you something.

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Models who don’t eat have to stay thin somehow. Smoking apparently is the compulsive way. I saw plenty of models smoking outside the Bryant Park tents in New York City during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.
Still Too Thin, and Getting Younger

It takes a special marketer to refer to “these women” (over 50) as being “at harmony with themselves” so they can avail themselves of Lancaster’s new Differently Nutri-Dermo Skin. Got that: combine nutrition and dermatology and you get nutri-derm solutions to your anti-aging problems. In boxing a hook might get you knocked out; in cosmetics […]

Coco Chanel died in 1971 and yet the brand name, Chanel, lingers on as if Coco were a ghost inhabiting the body of Keira Knightly, who stars in a new commercial for Coco Mademoiselle perfume. There’s not an ounce of genuine feeling in this commercial but have a look for yourself. If this is […]

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Need to converse with someone, but don’t have a clue how to speak their language? You’ll love Babel translation on Alta Vista. All you have to do is type in words you want translated and Babel does the rest. I shot this model during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Bryant Park, New York […]

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Check one, two. Feeling stylish today? Writer Ionia Dunn Lee (L) and stylist Bill Boiz sure know how to have some fun on a bright sunny day. They were standing outside the Bryant Park tents during Fashion Week in New York City. Love the energy!

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We love our fashion week models, especially the ones who know how to ride the pony!!

True or false: skunks are ugly? That’s a trick question. Ugly usually refers to a visual sense, but in this case, ugly might better describe the scent of a skunk. A friend once suggested that every time I smelled skunk…just think of fresh roasted coffee beans. I have to admit, it works.
Brad Pitt took […]

Go ahead. Stand in an open field and scream at the top of your lungs. Think anyone cares? Probably not, as long as you live out in the country. Move to the city, though, and plenty of people will tell you to shut up. What makes sense in the country doesn’t always make sense in […]

What’s your feeling about gray hair? Love it? Can’t wait to dye it so everyone thinks you are much younger than your eyes reveal? According to one professor, “some cultures view white hair as a symbol of wisdom and maturity while others interpret it as obsolescence and reproductive decline.”
Self-esteem sure does make the human […]