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This Museum Just Launched a Modern Native American Fashion Exhibit, and It's Stunning
There used to be a water park on the reservation where Jamie Okuma grew up, in the San Diego region. The park's water slides served as homes to swallows that would build their nests there before they would inevitably tumble down with baby birds inside.
Here's How Selfies Changed the Way We Did Makeup This Year
Debbie Reynolds was just 19 when she landed a leading role in the iconic film Singin’ in the Rain alongside Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor. It was a role that jump-started the ingénue’s career in Hollywood — a career lasting several decades — which included an Oscar-nominated performance for her role in The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Reynolds, however, was much more than an entertainer in Hollywood. She was also, in a way, Hollywood’s enthusiastic and self-appointed art historian, helping preserve costumes from many of the most iconic films in the industry after studios had long forsaken them.
There's a Reason Your Mannequin Is So Much Skinnier Than You
Think about the last time you walked into a store and were met by a silent, faceless figure. Maybe the mannequin was standing tall, its arms jutting out at the hips in the sort of cliched pose seen on runways. Maybe it was sitting, its fake legs crossed, appearing as though paused mid-conversation with other mannequins nearby.
Whatever the setup, there is one thing likely to be true: The mannequin staring back at you had a body unlike yours.
You wouldn't be alone in noticing that fact — nor would you be the first to get pissed about it.
What Our Responses to Photoshopped Images Really Say About Us
Khloe Kardashian is back in the news, posing in bikinis and short shorts for magazines including Complex. Given how great she looks, of course the critics came calling — and they were crying Photoshop.
So last week, the reality star posted an unretouched version of her Complex photo to shut up the haters, openly acknowledging that, yes, the original Complex photo was airbrushed, but only ever so slightly.
Plenty of media outlets and fans online cheered for Kardashian's honesty, praising her for being so real about how she looks sans airbrushing. Some also noted how little Complex had retouched the photo in the first place, another praise-worthy fact.
But if you read between the lines, what the chatter exposes is a new reality: how utterly accepting of "Photoshopping" we've become. Gone are the days of crying "Photoshop fail!" Instead, we shrug our shoulders — because we've all jumped on the airbrushing train ourselves.
This Kickass Blogger Is Celebrating the Natural Hair She Didn't Even Know She Had
Sunita V.'s hair is big enough to have its own personality, which means it can get temperamental. There are days when the wind blows through it and it expands, refusing to stay in place. There are also days when the rain kisses it and it falls gently to the side.
"It's funny, I think there's me and then there's my hair," the New York City-based style blogger told Mic. It explains why the description on her Instagram account, which has over 33,000 followers, begins with a simple declaration: "Big Hair."