Lucy Liu is unique. Born in Queens, New York, from Taiwanese parents, the American actress is never the less very Chinese. She graduated in oriental languages and culture, speaks Mandarin fluently and even now her image seems inseparable from a certain cerebrality. After studying dance, singing and theatre, the exotic Lucy leaves for Los Angeles […]
Hedy Lamarr, glamour & trouble. Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler was born at the beginning of the First World War in a privileged family in what was still the Austro-Hungarian empire. At the tender age of 16, she was discovered by producer Max Reinhardt and started working in the world of silent movies. In 1933 […]
Born in 1915 in Boston, Barbara “Babe” Paley belonged from childhood in a privileged world. When she appeared in society as debutante in1934 during the Great Depression, her exceptional beauty already made great impression. In 1938, she began working as a fashion editor for Vogue, the magazine gave her an aura of glamour and […]
Born in Egypt to an Italian father and opera violonist under the name of Yolanda Gigliotti, the future Dalida participates in beauty contests in her homeland and follows a traditional way at the time to fame and glory. After winning the title of […]
Agnes Moorehead: style & spellbounding Agnes Moorehead was born just at the beginning of the previous century. She studied and gained a degree in literature which was quite an unusual asset in show business at the time. She first began a prolific radio career before joining the legendary Orson Welles’s group Mercury Theater. She acted for the boy […]
BOOTS BOTANICS CLEANSING BALM IS a quality budget dupe for other expensive cleansing balms, read on and find out why… I went on a fun shopping expedition with my daughter a couple of weeks ago in London to kit her out for Winter with clothes that fit her forever growing body 😉 . We were […]
A few days ago I was doing make-up & hair on a beauty photoshoot. The brief was to create a healthy & beautiful look focusing on creating perfect glowing skin using earthy, coppery & rusty warm tones. Our model Alice had wonderful skin with lots of freckles and I absolutely love these little speckles of colour. For […]
My little blog has been very quiet for a while and I need to explain why. At present much of my time has been taken by building a art section to my website. I am still quite useless in website making so it is taking me a long time to get all the work, text etc…online! […]
