Julia Roberts has for years enjoyed being at the top or near the top of the list of highest paid female celebrities. What's the secret of her success? She was never the most attractive or most voluptuous of females. But nevertheless, she has "it". And whatever "it" is, she's used it to her fullest advantage.
She was born in an actor's family in Smyrna Beach (Georgia), in 1967. Her mother and father supervised her while attending an amateur school of drama arts, while her older brother Eric became a known film actor. Julia Roberts was one of the youngest cinema stars of the late 80's and early 90s. Tall, thin, with long hands, angular, with excessively sharp features, she did not meet the typical Hollywood standards. She might never become the one of the highest paid female celebrities and her name would be unknown if not for her eyes and sensuous, rather large eat-an-entire-watermelon-in-one-bite mouth. The dark, shining, expressive, big radiant eyes gave Julia Roberts a unique, fragile, almost innocent beauty.
The appearance of Julia would suite more a thoughtful student than one of the highest paid female celebrities. However, destiny has disposed so that exactly Roberts became the sensation of 1990. In Hollywood she became the star #1 and has named the "sexist film actress" by People Magazine.
Having left school at seventeen and firmly having decided to become an actress, Julia Roberts left her native small town and went to New York. She worked as a saleswoman in a department store and patiently waited for a break. The happy event turned up, when her brother Eric began to look for a partner for a role of the hero's sister in a western he was starring in. It is natural that dreaming about movies and cinema, Julia auditioned for more roles than she got. And though her brother's film was less than even a modest success, it provided her with the big break she sought. Critics noticed her and liked what they saw.
Lucky, you might say, but why not? Every one of the highest paid female celebrities has taken their chance, and Cameron Diaz is no exception. She was born on August 30, 1972 in Long Beach (California). The blood of almost all main ethnic groups of America - American Indian, English, German (on the part of mother), Spanish, Negro (on the part of the father, the emigrant from Cuba) flows in her veins.
In this unusual mixture, it is necessary to search for roots of that artistry which has been brightly shown already in her first film. They usually say about such girls - Not so beautiful, but nice. The round face, full lips on which continually there is a crafty smile, show her goodhearted and open nature and wins the hearts of audiences at once. Besides, she reminded many of a young Michel Pfeiffer. When she was 16, the photographer from a model agency noticed her and soon Cameron signed a contract, and for the next three years she traveled around the world. In 1994, while on location modeling for an advertiser, she got acquainted with the producer of "Mask" and was offered a small part it in the movie. It too, served as Cameron Diaz' big break.
The young model had to be serious to get the role of Ooze Carlisle, the singer from a night club and simultaneously the girlfriend of the gangster. The nice blonde decorated the film by the charm and virtuosity. After that she received the role in "Feeling Minnesota", but only second-hand, because fellow actress Gwyneth Paltrow refused it.
So one person's garbage was another's gold. And for Cameron Diaz she has been laughing hr way to the
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Hot New Beauty Trends - Celebrity Beauty Trends
With the many changes people are experiencing in the world, there has been a change in the beauty arena since people are always trying to look different and impressive. There has therefore been a change in beauty styles. These include changes in the hair styles, dressing styles, perfumes, shoes, make up and ornaments. Celebrities are taken to be role models of their relevant fields and since most people who admire a certain celebrity would like to emulate their beauty styles, celebrities are very conscious of their beauty styles and more often than not, they change their styles constantly to keep up with fashion.
Celebrities are known to have bought expensive clothing while they are staging a public appearance. This gives them an image that shows that they are rich. Most clothes that celebrities wear are designer clothing, which are expensive as exhibited in various magazines and reviews that offer information about clothing prices. In the past, celebrities did not have personal designers and they used to buy the clothes that were popular then. Recently, there has been a development in the clothes industry. Due to the many varying designs that have come up, celebrities are forced to get personal designers who advise them on the kind of clothing to wear, for particular occasions.
Some celebrities have come up with their own clotheslines, which are clothes designed with a logo that belongs to the celebrity. Some of these celebrities, especially men, have suits and shirts featuring the bulk of their clothes. Female celebrities are known to produce shoe designs and perfumes under their names since these are things that are related with the women. Some of the clothes designed by celebrities include inner garments like boxer shorts, under wears, bikinis and other lingerie for the women. The celebrities who have managed to produce their own clotheslines are known to have gained great sums of money from the sale of the garments. This is because most of their fans buy these clothes and this makes the celebrities more famous while at the same time the garments sell their image to their fans. Since most of these celebrities are music artists, they are known to have sold many records to people who have clothes with their names and logos since the fans feel a sense of belonging to the celebrity.
There has been news of how some celebrities have bought expensive clothing and shoes because they are role models and they always want to impress their fans. Another reason why they buy the expensive clothing is to look rich and wealthy to their fans. Most fans will look at them differently if they have an impression of wealth and success. The quality of the designs that the celebrity wears is also high and this is the biggest reason why these clothes are expensive. Clothing like linen suits are known to be expensive and they have a striking effect when they are worn hence the celebrities wear them to look striking. They need to make impressions that will last in order to maintain their fan base.
Major designers who are known to produce jewelry, clothing and shoes that have their logo set most new trends. This makes the attires and accessories more expensive. These designers are famous names like Chanel, Gucci, Christian Dior and others like Raybun. These designers have been in the design industry for long and they know and produce the best designs according to various celebrities. The celebrities hence prefer getting their designer outfits from these companies. They also advise the celebrities on what to wear to various functions. Celebrities are hence the standard setters of the beauty market.
Celebrities are known to have bought expensive clothing while they are staging a public appearance. This gives them an image that shows that they are rich. Most clothes that celebrities wear are designer clothing, which are expensive as exhibited in various magazines and reviews that offer information about clothing prices. In the past, celebrities did not have personal designers and they used to buy the clothes that were popular then. Recently, there has been a development in the clothes industry. Due to the many varying designs that have come up, celebrities are forced to get personal designers who advise them on the kind of clothing to wear, for particular occasions.
Some celebrities have come up with their own clotheslines, which are clothes designed with a logo that belongs to the celebrity. Some of these celebrities, especially men, have suits and shirts featuring the bulk of their clothes. Female celebrities are known to produce shoe designs and perfumes under their names since these are things that are related with the women. Some of the clothes designed by celebrities include inner garments like boxer shorts, under wears, bikinis and other lingerie for the women. The celebrities who have managed to produce their own clotheslines are known to have gained great sums of money from the sale of the garments. This is because most of their fans buy these clothes and this makes the celebrities more famous while at the same time the garments sell their image to their fans. Since most of these celebrities are music artists, they are known to have sold many records to people who have clothes with their names and logos since the fans feel a sense of belonging to the celebrity.
There has been news of how some celebrities have bought expensive clothing and shoes because they are role models and they always want to impress their fans. Another reason why they buy the expensive clothing is to look rich and wealthy to their fans. Most fans will look at them differently if they have an impression of wealth and success. The quality of the designs that the celebrity wears is also high and this is the biggest reason why these clothes are expensive. Clothing like linen suits are known to be expensive and they have a striking effect when they are worn hence the celebrities wear them to look striking. They need to make impressions that will last in order to maintain their fan base.
Major designers who are known to produce jewelry, clothing and shoes that have their logo set most new trends. This makes the attires and accessories more expensive. These designers are famous names like Chanel, Gucci, Christian Dior and others like Raybun. These designers have been in the design industry for long and they know and produce the best designs according to various celebrities. The celebrities hence prefer getting their designer outfits from these companies. They also advise the celebrities on what to wear to various functions. Celebrities are hence the standard setters of the beauty market.
What Makes You Feel Beautiful?(female celebrities on the red carpet)
Byline: Jeffrey Slonim PHOTOGRAPHED BY PATRICK McMULLAN
Depending on whom you askand whenbeauty either comes from within or is only skin-deep. We spoke to stars at a CFDA dinner, the CondA[c] Nast Fashion Rocks concert, and a Cinema Society screening of The Wackness about what makes them feel most attractive.
Many said that the right treatment can make a world of difference. "A haircut and a peel," said Lazaro Hernandez, one half of Proenza Schouler. "Visine," added Jack McCollough, his codesigner.
Others needed something more extravagant. "I have to have bling," said Miley Cyrus, while Hilary Duff said she enjoys the process of getting ready for the red carpet: "I guess you feel glamorous when people are working on you."
A number of stars attributed their own sense of beauty not to jewelry, clothes, or eyedrops, but to something more profound. Kim Raver felt radiant when her husband told her, "I love you for who you areall the good, all the rest of it." And Sir Ben Kingsley credited his wife with helping him feel his best: "She is the reward for all those years of therapy."
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Depending on whom you askand whenbeauty either comes from within or is only skin-deep. We spoke to stars at a CFDA dinner, the CondA[c] Nast Fashion Rocks concert, and a Cinema Society screening of The Wackness about what makes them feel most attractive.
Many said that the right treatment can make a world of difference. "A haircut and a peel," said Lazaro Hernandez, one half of Proenza Schouler. "Visine," added Jack McCollough, his codesigner.
Others needed something more extravagant. "I have to have bling," said Miley Cyrus, while Hilary Duff said she enjoys the process of getting ready for the red carpet: "I guess you feel glamorous when people are working on you."
A number of stars attributed their own sense of beauty not to jewelry, clothes, or eyedrops, but to something more profound. Kim Raver felt radiant when her husband told her, "I love you for who you areall the good, all the rest of it." And Sir Ben Kingsley credited his wife with helping him feel his best: "She is the reward for all those years of therapy."
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Ebony celebrity beauty of the month - singer Michelle Williams - Brief Article
As a member of R&B's best-selling female group Destiny's Child and an emerging solo artist in her own right, Michelle Williams' face graces the pages of magazines and television screens around the world. When it comes to makeup, Williams says she prefers the "natural look," that allows the "real beauty" of a person to shine through." Makeup should enhance a person's natural beauty," says Williams, who feels that bronzes and gold tones best complement her rich, caramel skin tone.
Williams wouldn't think of going out to promote her inspirational album, Heart To Yours, without mascara to lift her eyes, and lip gloss to add shine and color to her lips.
Williams wouldn't think of going out to promote her inspirational album, Heart To Yours, without mascara to lift her eyes, and lip gloss to add shine and color to her lips.
Kim Kardashian Becomes Ok! Magazine Beauty Editor
Ok! Magazine has announced that Kim Kardashian has become a new beauty editor where she’ll bring her latest and greatest beauty advice to share with Ok! readers. Kims exclaimed, “I’m excited to work with makeup artists I admire and for them to teach me new tricks so I can rely that and put it down on paper.”
Kim’s first article for the magazine focued on this year’s fashion week beauty trends; Nude Lips, Blue Eye Shadow, Chic Chignons, Gold Nails, Big Brows and Tousled Updos.
Kim’s first article for the magazine focued on this year’s fashion week beauty trends; Nude Lips, Blue Eye Shadow, Chic Chignons, Gold Nails, Big Brows and Tousled Updos.
Stiletto Stoners
Jennifer Pelham* kicks off her black Marc Jacobs pumps, slips out of her trim Theory blazer, and collapses on the couch. The 29-year-old corporate attorney for one of Manhattan's top law firms has just clocked another 12-hour day, and though it's over, she's having a hard time shaking off her frustrations. (A partner had eviscerated the contract she'd drafted, then left before Pelham had a chance to explain herself.) Still distracted, Pelham orders dinner—sushi, as usual—then reaches for a plastic orange prescription bottle standing on the corner of her coffee table alongside a glass pipe and blue Bic lighter, just as the cleaning lady left them. She twists off the cap, pinches off a piece of the fragrant green bud inside, gingerly places it in the bowl of the pipe, and lights up. Over the next 30 minutes, she takes three deep drags, enough to drown out the noise whirring in her head. Then she eats.
"I hate the term pothead—it connotes that I'm high 24/7, which I'm not," Pelham says, wincing. "I don't need it to get through my day. I just enjoy it when my day is over." Her nightly ritual costs only $50 a month, a pittance compared with the cost of her monthly gym membership or a Saturday night out with her fiancé, an investment banker, who occasionally smokes with her. At 5'4", slim and athletic—she ran three miles a day while in law school—Pelham insists that pot is the ideal antidote to a hairy workday: It never induces a post-happy-hour hangover and, unlike the Xanax a doctor once prescribed for her anxiety, never leaves her groggy or numb. "Look, every female attorney I know has some vice or another," Pelham shrugs, tucking her long brown hair behind her ears, her 3-carat cushion-cut engagement ring catching the light. "It's really not a big deal."
Most of us know someone like Jennifer Pelham, a balls-to-the-wall career animal whose idea of decompressing after a grueling day isn't a glass of Chardonnay but a toke (or three) of marijuana—not just every now and again, but on a regular basis—the type who stashes a pack of E-Z Wider rolling paper in the silverware drawer or keeps a pipe at the ready next to a pile of bills. According to a recent study by The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an estimated 8 million American women smoked up in the past year—a lowball figure that reflects only those willing to cop to it. Among them is the upper-middle-class Pottery Barn set: One in five women who admitted to indulging in the previous month lives in a household earning more than $75,000 a year. They cut a wide swath across the professional spectrum, including lawyers, editors, insurance agents, TV producers, and financial biggies, looking nothing like the blotto hippie teens of Dazed and Confused or the unemployed, out-of-shape schlubsters who are a staple of the Judd Apatow canon. By all outward appearances, they are card-carrying, type A workaholics who just happen to prefer kicking back with a blunt instead of a bottle.
"I love to have a glass of wine now and again, but going out and downing sugary cocktails isn't fun for me. And drinking is so much more expensive," says Debbie Schwartz, a 28-year-old reality-show production manager who recently moved to New York from Los Angeles. Her job is relentless—15-hour days spent coordinating a million moving pieces, managing expenses, setting production schedules, and mollifying gimme-gimme talent. Her company just slashed her budget in half, which has left Schwartz scrambling to cut costs so that she won't have to lay off employees. After work, she can't think of anything she'd rather not do than throw on a pair of heels and some makeup to hit the local bars. "I'll go to the gym for an hour, then come back home and smoke a joint while I listen to jazz and read a book—I just finished The Fountainhead. It's my moment for myself before I have to get up and do it all over again tomorrow. It's my bubble bath," Schwartz explains. She doesn't keep her illicit habit under wraps, either. There's no need, since several people in her office use the same "dealer"—a colleague who takes orders for their department.
If Schwartz's example proves anything, it's how ridiculously easy it is to procure pot these days. In some cities, it's as simple as ordering a pizza, delivered right to the door.
"I hate the term pothead—it connotes that I'm high 24/7, which I'm not," Pelham says, wincing. "I don't need it to get through my day. I just enjoy it when my day is over." Her nightly ritual costs only $50 a month, a pittance compared with the cost of her monthly gym membership or a Saturday night out with her fiancé, an investment banker, who occasionally smokes with her. At 5'4", slim and athletic—she ran three miles a day while in law school—Pelham insists that pot is the ideal antidote to a hairy workday: It never induces a post-happy-hour hangover and, unlike the Xanax a doctor once prescribed for her anxiety, never leaves her groggy or numb. "Look, every female attorney I know has some vice or another," Pelham shrugs, tucking her long brown hair behind her ears, her 3-carat cushion-cut engagement ring catching the light. "It's really not a big deal."
Most of us know someone like Jennifer Pelham, a balls-to-the-wall career animal whose idea of decompressing after a grueling day isn't a glass of Chardonnay but a toke (or three) of marijuana—not just every now and again, but on a regular basis—the type who stashes a pack of E-Z Wider rolling paper in the silverware drawer or keeps a pipe at the ready next to a pile of bills. According to a recent study by The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an estimated 8 million American women smoked up in the past year—a lowball figure that reflects only those willing to cop to it. Among them is the upper-middle-class Pottery Barn set: One in five women who admitted to indulging in the previous month lives in a household earning more than $75,000 a year. They cut a wide swath across the professional spectrum, including lawyers, editors, insurance agents, TV producers, and financial biggies, looking nothing like the blotto hippie teens of Dazed and Confused or the unemployed, out-of-shape schlubsters who are a staple of the Judd Apatow canon. By all outward appearances, they are card-carrying, type A workaholics who just happen to prefer kicking back with a blunt instead of a bottle.
"I love to have a glass of wine now and again, but going out and downing sugary cocktails isn't fun for me. And drinking is so much more expensive," says Debbie Schwartz, a 28-year-old reality-show production manager who recently moved to New York from Los Angeles. Her job is relentless—15-hour days spent coordinating a million moving pieces, managing expenses, setting production schedules, and mollifying gimme-gimme talent. Her company just slashed her budget in half, which has left Schwartz scrambling to cut costs so that she won't have to lay off employees. After work, she can't think of anything she'd rather not do than throw on a pair of heels and some makeup to hit the local bars. "I'll go to the gym for an hour, then come back home and smoke a joint while I listen to jazz and read a book—I just finished The Fountainhead. It's my moment for myself before I have to get up and do it all over again tomorrow. It's my bubble bath," Schwartz explains. She doesn't keep her illicit habit under wraps, either. There's no need, since several people in her office use the same "dealer"—a colleague who takes orders for their department.
If Schwartz's example proves anything, it's how ridiculously easy it is to procure pot these days. In some cities, it's as simple as ordering a pizza, delivered right to the door.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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