Beauty & Fashion

Youmna Khoury Takes Fashion and Beauty to a Whole New Level

By George C. Mikkelsen 10 months ago
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Youmna Khoury is an up and coming name in the world of fashion and beauty especially in Lebanon, Dubai, and other Middle Eastern countries. Getting into the business by starting her own salon, Youmna is now running a successful online store called Youmi online shop. With clients pouring in from all over the world, her business has gained immense assets, success and popularity.

A lot of the online stores mostly sell shoes and clothes but Youmna took fashion to a whole new level by selling luxury lashes, contact lenses, and hair extensions. Thus, by selling these fashion accessories, she makes us understand about the importance of all these little things in fashion. Fashion, beauty, and style is not just about wearing good clothes. You also need to make sure that your other added accessories like hair extensions are on point too.

Youmna believes that one must focus on

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Precious Lee Models Area’s Spring 2021 Couture Collection

By George C. Mikkelsen 10 months ago

Area always gets us excited for sparkling dresses that celebrate showing skin with confidence. For the New York brand’s first couture show, designers Beckett Fogg and Piotrek Panszczyk tapped trailblazer Precious Lee and catwalk favorite Yasmin Wijnaldum to model a body-positive, 14-look collection that can be described as sexy, fantasy couture.

“Haute Couture originally started in Paris in 1858 but looking deeper into history and tracing back to ancient civilizations, there has always been a deep connection and appreciation for craft and beauty,” Fogg and Panszczyk said in a press statement. “It’s like Haute Couture has been ingrained into our souls culturally expressed in different ways. Whether it be for religious purposes, or simply the innate need to create something beautiful.”

“With this couture collection we want to showcase our ability and dedication to creating beauty by hand. Every look in this collection has been developed over an extensive time

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This Photo Series Turns Beauty Advertising’s White, Heteronormative Past on its Head

By George C. Mikkelsen 10 months ago

 

Ever since she was a child growing up in Sampaloc, a district of the Philippine capital city of Manila, Maria Rivera dreamed of walking runways. She idolized supermodels like Kate Moss and followed the exploits of Sex and the City’s troupe of stylish young women. But because Rivera was trans and had darker skin, she hardly ever saw herself represented on billboards or in the pages of glossy fashion magazines.

“It has always been my dream to strut in high heels while doing my catwalk wearing top fashion houses,” Rivera said recently. “But being a trans woman growing up in a country that is greatly influenced by a very conservative religion, it is really hard to find a decent job without being judged and criticized [for] the way I dress and carry myself.”

Rivera never stopped dreaming. And today, with the launch of “Prim ’N Poppin’,” a new photo series

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Great Outfits in Fashion History (Beauty Edition): Meg Ryan’s Overgrown ’90s Bangs

By George C. Mikkelsen 10 months ago
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There are perfectly good celebrity style moments, and then there are the looks that really stick with you, the ones you try desperately to recreate at home. In ‘Great Outfits in Fashion History,’ Fashionista editors are revisiting their all-time favorite lewks.

At this point, I’m a decades-long fan of Meg Ryan’s hair. (Meg Ryan, the person, too — but, really, her hair.) But for today, let’s focus in on a particular hairstyle she had going on back in 1995 at a charity picnic: wispy, overgrown bangs stretched slightly past the eyebrows, dropping down behind a pair of perfectly-1995-but-definitely-being-sold-now-at-Urban-Outfitters sunglasses. 

Shorter than a bob and verging on a mullet (but, like, in a good way?), the cut could have easily become soccer mom-esque, were it not for the disheveled, piece-y styling of it. Ryan’s dark roots and buttery, multi-tonal blonde highlights give it even less polish, making it

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