Science says, yes, there is a link between long gazes into each other’s eyes and forming a love connection. –Model Tyrie Rudolph &-makeup by Leah Darcy – photos by Krish There are more neurons in the brain dedicated to vision than the other four senses combined – up to 80% of what our bodies take in […]
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Love At First Sight
Nevertheless, some people believe there can be a mystical experience of unity that accompanies the mere sight of the beloved for the first time. Perhaps there is a sense of déjà vu triggered by having known this person in a prior lifetime. Perhaps at first sight your “other half” pulls you toward him like the […]
Read MoreModel: SARAH LYSANDER
Nationality: British Ethnicity: Norwegian, English & Nigerian, West African. She has Brown hair with green eyes standing at 5’9 Ft tall. Sarah Lysander | IMG Models She has modeled for magazines such as Cosmopolitan and also been in various other publications. Seeing a large image of herself.
Read MoreThe Science Of Smiling Release Stress
SMILING is undoubtedly the world’s most powerful human gesture. It’s also a very strong act, as it is scientifically known to change your mood and increase your feelings of happiness. Experiencing this positivity sends signals from the cerebral cortex; which specializes in thought and action, to the brain stem; which functions in the control of […]
Read MoreLipsticks In Ancient Times
Modern fashion could not be what it is today without the presence of lipsticks. Lipsticks were with us for thousands of years, and they will remain with as long fashion exists. Since the dawn of prehistoric times, humans always had the need to distinguish themselves among others. Clothes, shoes, tools, jewelry and cosmetics were first of […]
Read MoreDNA & Your Unconscious Mind
Why do we find certain people more attractive than others? Have you heard it said “you can’t help who you’re attracted to?” while it might be true, your unconscious mind is making DNA level decisions for you. Why do we find symmetry to be more attractive? Dr.Gancstead says it may have to do with oxidative […]
Read MoreScientists explains why women of color ages 10 to 20 years slower
Do YOU have the younger gene? Scientists identify genetic recipe that knocks years off our age – and you’re twice as likely to have it if you are black. Harvard scientists led a study involving almost one million people with private genetic database 23andMe and found one in ten white and a fifth of black […]
Read MoreCARNIVAL QUEEN: CLARA PAIXÃO
Nationality: Brazilian Ethnicity: Mix Heritage Ms. Clara Paixão, has showed her powerful samba dance style not only in Rio, Brazil, but many other Brazilian states and countries, like Argentina, and presentations Japan and Europe to name a few. The ethnic and racial melting pot that is Brazil has led Henry Louis Gates Jr. to call […]
Read MoreNostalgia: Playboy Opportunity
Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. Model: Sola When I was a college student, I would go on commercial castings in my spare time. I was signed to 4 modeling agencies and 1 acting agency. I was over worked and overwhelmed. During that period […]
Read MoreEstrogen gives females softer skin?
Estrogen makes women have soft skin and curves, high lilting voices, and breasts. –Photography by Krishphoto. Model Tyrie Rudolph. In the skin, estrogens affect skin thickness, wrinkle formation and skin moisture. Estrogens can increase glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), such as Hyaluronic Acid, to maintain fluid balance and structural integrity. They can also increase collagen production in the skin, where […]
Read MoreModel: Kirby Griffin
Nationality: Georgia, American Ethnicity: African American She stands at 5’9 Ft tall with green eyes. Griffin was discovered in Miami Beach while vacationing. She joined IMG Models in New York City and has appeared in a multitude of advertising campaigns throughout magazines, billboards, storefronts, websites, music videos, and television commercials around the world. After attending […]
Read MoreModel: Candice Blackburn
Nationality: British Ethnicity: Mix Heritage Ms. Blackburn is 5’11 Ft tall with green eyes. She competed in the make me a supermodel competition and won. What is your favorite character trait? Openness – most of my closest friends are that because of how open they are. They don’t have to hide anything from me, as […]
Read MoreScience Explains The Attraction To The Hour Glass Shape
A common aim is to identify specific features that possibly evolved as signals indicating mate breeding potential. Several cross-cultural studies have already determined that men from all countries and from all races tend to find hourglass-shaped women more appealing. Even from ancient times, women with larger, curvier hips have been associated with fertility, and so, strictly […]
Read MoreAre Black & Mixed Race Women Considered Beautiful In The Media?
But what about women of color? Perkins study of television images showed that black females have been deeply and profoundly affected by the politics of skin color, hair texture, and facial features. Their feelings related to self worth, intelligence, success, and attractiveness are warped by what appears to the greater society as benign and arbitrary […]
Read MoreWomen Outperform Men When Identifying Emotions?
Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that females, because of their role as primary caretakers, are wired to quickly and accurately decode or detect distress in preverbal infants or threatening signals from other adults to enhance their chances at survival. –Models Ebony Anderberg, Malika & Chelsea Dleah. Women are better than men at distinguishing between emotions, especially fear and disgust, […]
Read MoreModel: Nianga Niang
Nationality: Netherlands/Dutch Ethnicity: Her mother is Dutch & her father is from Senegal, West Africa. She speaks English & Dutch. Ms. Niang stands at 5’9 Ft tall & currently resides in New York City. If you weren’t a model what would you be? Probably doing something with music or create some kind of art. Your personal […]
Read MoreModel: Isabella Peschardt
Nationality: American Ethnicity: Father is Danish and her mother is Ethiopian, African. She stands at 5’8 1/2 Ft tall. Ms. Peschardt is a Los Angeles, California based model. How and when did you start your modeling career? I started my modeling career at the young age of 5 years old. My mother was a model […]
Read MoreShrine Head from Nigeria, West Africa
She is a beauty queen and a favorite of many museum visitors, her tranquil demeanor and introspective gaze expressing what the Yoruba people consider a person’s inner spirituality. Crowned by a simple ridged headdress, this royal portrait head was part of a larger figure now lost. Her neck is creased as though with fat, a […]
Read MoreModel: Alicia Herbeth
Nationality: Guadeloupéenne, Caribbean Ethnicity: Mix Heritage Ms. Herbeth is 5’9 Ft tall, with green eyes and dark blonde hair. She speaks English & French. This beauty has been in international magazines like Women’s health, Elle, Glamour, Cosmopolitan and modeled for H & M, Desigual, Esprit & Fabio Salsa to name a few. The turning point came about […]
Read MoreAfrican Fencers in the Americas & Europe?
This image was published in Augsburg, Germany; ca 1542. As early as the late middle ages, people of African descent began appearing in European treatises on swordsmanship and the martial arts, such as the book of Hans Talhoffer (1467), plates of which are featured below: Colonists of African descent also undoubtedly learned from less savory […]
Read MoreScience: Women with higher levels of estrogen are more attractive?
Researchers at the University of St Andrews have shown for the first time that women with higher levels of estrogen do indeed have more attractive faces. The team photographed 59 young women’s faces aged between 18 and 25 and analysed their sex hormone levels. Women with higher levels of estrogen were rated as more attractive, […]
Read MoreHighlights for your skin tone
What is makeup highlighter for? The lightness on the inner crease will open up your eyes and the brow bone contouring will give you a brow lift effect. Applying highlighter to your lips is less common but can reap great results. Before applying your lipstick, blend some highlighter in the Cupid’s bow and underneath the […]
Read MoreAccessories to inspire
A fashion accessory is an item used to contribute, in a secondary manner, to the wearer’s outfit, often used to complete an outfit and chosen to specifically complement the wearer’s look. The term came into use in the 19th century. –Fatima Siad is a Somali-American fashion model. Raised in Boston, Massachusetts, she placed third on America’s […]
Read MoreScience wants to know What Makes You attractive?
Which physical features light the flames of passion when we see a stranger across a crowded room? And why do women’s faces subtly change over the course of every month? –Model Panii Shirazi What makes you sexy and attractive to the opposite sex? Everyday, attraction starts the same way for millions of people around the world […]
Read MoreMiss Haiti: Raquel Pelissier
Nationality: Haitian Ethnicity: Filipino & African descent. She speaks 5 languages: English, French, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and German. She stands at 5’11 Ft tall. She is pursuing Master’s Degree in Scientific Research in Optometry and Vision. One of her goals is to help find a cure for blindness. It’s an issue close to her heart as glaucoma […]
Read MoreScience explains curly hair?
We all have really different looking locks but what actually make our hair straight or curly? Hosted by: Michael Aranda If you like (or don’t like) your curly hair, you can thank (or blame), your genes, your shampoo, your climate and your hairdresser. –The Physics of Curly Hair—Because You Deserve to Know | TIME –Model […]
Read MoreModel: Kiana Alexis
Nationality: American Ethnicity: Mix heritage. She is 5’8 1/2 Ft tall with grey eyes. Quote: I was confronted by comments from family and schoolmates, taunting me for my low weight, my thick eyebrows, big hair, and my skin color (to some I wasn’t white enough, to others I wasn’t black enough) and after a while […]
Read MoreMichelangelo’s Image of Cleopatra
Drawing of Cleopatra made by Michelangelo between 1533 and 1534. –Wiki This is one of the few authenticated drawings of Michelangelo and was drawn for Tommaso de’ Cavalieri, a young artist that Michelangelo passionately loved. This is the only drawing, of what Michelangelo claimed many drawings presenting to Cavlieri, that we have left. The drawing […]
Read MoreCosmetics from Ancient Times
Vanity is as old as civilization, and the ancient Egyptians were no exception. Both men and women were known to wear copious amounts of makeup, which they believed gave them the protection of the gods Horus and Ra. These cosmetics were made by grinding ores like malachite and galena into a substance called kohl. It was […]
Read MoreModel: Elsabel Yemane
Nationality: British Ethnicity: Eritrea, African Ms. Yemane is 5’9 Ft tall. She speaks English & Eritrean language. A model who has graced numerous editorials, runways, represented brands like Adidas, Galaxy & Pantene to name a few in and out of UK. What’s the biggest misconception about Eritrean people in your opinion? That the country doesn’t even exist! Most […]
Read MoreThe Marriage of Theagenes & Charicleia Tapestry – Flanders/France (ca. 1620)
Aethiopian adventures: or, The history of Theagenes and Chariclea Ancient Aethiopia (Greek: Αἰθιοπία) first appears as a geographical term in classical documents in reference to the upper Nile region, as well as all certain areas south of the Sahara desert and south of the Atlantic Ocean. –medievalpoc.tumblr.com/post Illustration of the story of Theagenes and Charicleia […]
Read MoreThe Adoration Of The Magi
History of the depiction The Magi are popularly referred to as wise men and kings. –The art of Hieronymus Bosch, Adoration of the Magi, c. 1485-1500, Oil on panel Occasionally from the 12th century, and very often in Northern Europe from the 15th, the Magi are also made to represent the three known parts of […]
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