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28 Oct

For so long as I can remember, I actually have wanted greater hair. Not Dolly Parton big — I knew there was no likelihood I’d hit those incredible heights and not using a wig assist — but even only a slight lift on the roots to separate my strands from my skull. While other volumizing products have left my hair feeling more weighed down, the Living Proof Full Volume & Root-Lifting Spray appears to be the answer I’ve been waiting for.This spray is a component of Living Proof’s newest line, which also features a blow-dry cream and texturizing foam, that uses the brand’s patented Thickening Molecule. (A fast glance at the total ingredient list suggests that a mix of commonly- and not-so-commonly-used...

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25 May

How Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” modified the course of

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Comment on this storyCommentBefore the 1989 release of “The Little Mermaid,” Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg desired to temper expectations. So he met with the movie’s writer-directors, John Musker and Ron Clements, to deliver a decidedly un-Disney-fied message: Don’t get your hopes up.“It’s getting there,” Katzenberg told the creative duo after screening a next-to-final cut of the animated fairy tale, The Walt Disney Company’s first since “Sleeping Beauty” three many years earlier. All right, cool, Musker and Clements could take that. But Katzenberg’s next comment stung slightly.“You already know this movie’s not going to do in addition to ‘Oliver and Company’ — and that’s okay,” said Katzenberg. Once they asked why, the studio chief was matter-of-fact.“It’s a lady’s movie,...

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17 Apr

How culture has modified since Christina Aguilera’s 2002 hit

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To mark its twentieth anniversary, the singer has updated her ‘Beautiful’ music video – here, we speak to the director to learn the way much, and the way little, beauty expectations have shifted Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” is an iconic music video. Released in 2002, the song was the second single from her image-shifting album Stripped, a raw soulful ballad which followed the attention-grabbing first single “Dirty”. With lyrics centred around insecurity, self-esteem and inner beauty, the video shone a highlight on the people affected by society’s strict beauty standards, and people outside of and rejected by the mainstream. Touching on themes from eating disorders and body image to sexuality, the video won a GLAAD Media...

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1 Jan