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Tested: a $10 beauty-school haircut

In Williamsburg, where I live, it’s hard to find someone to cut your hair for less than $60 who doesn’t make you look like an eastern European club kid circa 1993. And so, when assigned to check out the $10 haircuts at Empire Beauty School in ...

From MARIA-MERCEDES LARA, Brokelyn,  5 Nov 2009
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Kelly Ripa: Just A Big Burst Of "Trying Too Hard" [Snap Judgment]

I kind of wish she'd stop trying, period. Oh please, you know this bish is actually just having a good time. She don't need to front! You keep this up, and some night she'll come sliding through the crack under your door and break your face with ...

From MARIA MERCEDES LARA, Jezebel,  30 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Kelly Ripa,  Marc Jacobs

Scarlett Johansson Tries Hard To Assert Indie Cred With New Album [Critical Mass]

Most every track filters Waits's sepia-toned, Charles-Bukowski-at-the-circus style dissolute folk through an echo chamber of 1985 shoegazer reverb, with Johansson's possibly quite lovely voice buried underneath, like an afterthought. The end result ...

From MARIA MERCEDES LARA, Jezebel,  20 May 2008
Related Topics: Tom Waits,  Scarlett Johansson,  David Bowie,  Jon Stewart,  Charles Bukowski

Cliques Push Brand-Obsessed Teens • Queen Of Hip Hop Soul Starts Foundation For Girls [Leftovers]

M J B YEEEAH. Just tell those ladies to listen to "Deep Inside". That grave robbing to make a bong story makes me want to throw up. And I don't care if Willie Simms died in 1921. Using his skull for a bong is just all sorts of wrong. If I had to deal ...

From MARIA MERCEDES LARA, Jezebel,  9 May 2008
Related Topics: Yves Saint-Laurent,  Natalie Portman

What Happens in Vegas: Almost As Bad As Ashton's Acting Skills [Critical Mass]

And thus a by-the-numbers rom-com is born. Alas, What Happens in Vegas ... limps through its first hour or so — where all the "com" is supposed to be — in a knockabout-slapstick mode for which director Tom Vaughan demonstrates no flair whatever. ...

From MARIA MERCEDES LARA, Jezebel,  9 May 2008
Related Topics: Cameron Diaz,  Ashton Kutcher,  Virginia Woolf,  Jason Sudeikis,  Jimmy Kimmel

Mom Saves The Day []

Seriously, do not fuck with mothers around their kids. That gun will not stop them. Everyone who cried at this, raise your hand. I cannot be alone in my tears. Never underestimate a momma whose kids are in danger. oh man, he killed his ex right in ...

From MARIA MERCEDES LARA, Jezebel,  9 May 2008

Having Kids Will Make You Sad • A 10-Year-Old Gives Birth [Leftovers]

After reading all that, I now officially hate humans. Lack of sleep, no money, no alone time, and no social life were the only things that sent us on a downward spiral after we had kid(s). Hmmm. On the other hand, I had a gurgly, fat little boy whose ...

From MARIA MERCEDES LARA, Jezebel,  8 May 2008
Related Topics: Harvard University,  Celine Dion

Hedgehogs Hatch Early For Spring • Sue Johanson Ends Sex Talk [Leftovers]

Nom nom baby hedgehog. It's not even Friday yet. Whose granny is gonna talk to me about cock rings now??? Ah, SUE!! A friend of mine is literally OBSESSED with hedgehogs right now - she's trying to convince her boyfriend that they would make a better ...

From MARIA MERCEDES LARA, Jezebel,  7 May 2008
Related Topics: Al Gore

Great American Exports [The Beauty Industrial Complex]

If it didn't involve nasty chemicals around my lady bits, I'd totally dye my pubes bright orange and make constant "burning bush" jokes, much to my boyfriend's dismay. Ah, America - what a wondrous thing it is to have such a global influence, right? Oh ...

From MARIA MERCEDES LARA, Jezebel,  7 May 2008
Related Topics: Joan Collins,  Google Inc.,  Paul Newman

Karl Gives Restrained Response To Critics Of Wintour's Costume Gala Gown [Snap Judgment]

I want him to be my adoptive grandfather. i feel like he's only a head attached to some Terminator-esque skeleton and that's why his collar is so high. Karl "I am here to terminate John Conner" Lagerfeld. Awesome. Neck braces as collars are in. I have ...

From MARIA MERCEDES LARA, Jezebel,  7 May 2008
Related Topics: MTV

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