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Sunday May 13th, 2012

Fashionista Week in Review: The Met Gala From Every Angle, Anna Wintour Will Wear Sweatpants with Stephen Colbert, and Dudes in Famous Fashion Ads
Week In Review

Fashionista Week in Review: The Met Gala From Every Angle, Anna Wintour Will Wear Sweatpants with Stephen Colbert, and Dudes in Famous Fashion Ads

Losing Vidal Sassoon: The world of beauty suffered a huge loss Wednesday with the passing of hair genius Vidal Sassoon. Join us in remembering some of his most iconic work.

We Love Photoshop: Now that Brad Pitt is the new face of Chanel, we put our photoshop skillz to work and came up with other ad campaigns we’d love to see fronted by dudes. Gosling for Dior? Hey girl, j’adore.

Anna and Stephen Colbert Make a Date: Proving that she does indeed have a sense of humor, Anna Wintour appeared on the Colbert Report to criticize his boring fashion and to make plans to eat fried shrimp in zebra pants.

Scrunchies and London 2012: Olympic hopeful Alicia Sacramone dishes to us about gymnast beauty and why scrunchies are still happening.

Au Revoir Carla, Bienvenue Valérie: There are big changes coming to the Elysée along with the first unmarried First Lady of France Valérie Trierweiler, but we will always have a soft spot for Carla’s “bling bling” style.

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Published at 6:30 PM

Tuesday May 8th, 2012

From Scrunchies to Colored Eyeshadow: Olympic Hopeful Alicia Sacramone Dishes On the Mysterious World of Gymnastics Beauty
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From Scrunchies to Colored Eyeshadow: Olympic Hopeful Alicia Sacramone Dishes On the Mysterious World of Gymnastics Beauty

It’s a summer Olympics year and we couldn’t be more excited. Gymnastics are by far the most interesting of all the sports (at least for us)–we love watching a bunch of powerhouse women make their bodies do superhuman things. We got to chat with one such wonder woman, 2008 Beijing Olympian–and hopefully a member of the 2012 Olympic team–gymnast Alicia Sacramone.

We had some very serious questions for Sacramone, which she was gracious enough to answer. Click through to find out why so many gymnasts wear hair scrunchies, the prevailing theory about eye makeup and leotards, why you won’t see crazy nail art on any Olympic gymnasts, and why Sacramone would love to become a designer.

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Published at 4:00 PM