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The International Business of hair

All for the sake of beauty: Great Lengths hair extensions featured on MTV Fabulous Life  http://youtu.be/pYF7Flx7iwY How does a deeply spiritual offering from Indias poor become a must-have accessory in the salons of Europe? As fashion and faith collide, religious sacrifice is fuelling a multi-billion dollar industry. http://youtu.be/TGigLa23vuA Every year millions of Hindus shave their […]

Model: Peggy Dillard – Vintage

Model: Peggy Dillard – Vintage

Peggy became a model as the result of being a student, as she explains. Her career took off in a very uncanny way, without a portfolio or an agent. Preparing for shows as a student, she would visit many of the showrooms in the fashion district, and the designers would ask her to do their […]

Model: Wanakee

Model: Wanakee

   Before Vera Wang became a national symbol for creativity and success, she was a talented and spirited fashion editor for Vogue Magazine. In 1981 she began featuring a new face in her glamorous editorial pages. Today artist Wanakee Pugh credits Ms. Wang for giving her a tremendous start that launched a successful twenty-year modeling […]

Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch

She is Spanish Bolivian and English Actress, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She entered beauty contests as a teenager, and worked as a model, waitress, and television weather-girl before making her film debut in 1964. Launched as a sex symbol after her scantily clad appearance in One Million Years BC (1966), she was rarely challenged by later […]

Wonder Woman “Lynda Carter”

Wonder Woman “Lynda Carter”

She is Mexican and Caucasian. She is quoted saying; I grew up in a house filled with music. My mother, who is of Mexican and Spanish descent, used to sing to my English-Irish father, and between the two of them I was introduced to a diverse array of music… Source: http://www.lyndacarter.com/lyndaherstory.html Her daughter Jessica Altman    […]

Model: Jenny Boussaert

Model: Jenny Boussaert

Nationality: American       

African Tribal Dance

African Tribal Dance

From the movie “Coming to America”.   Choreography by Paula Abdul Her father (Harry Abdul) is of Sephardic Jewish background from Syria. Her mother is also Jewish and was born in Canada. Her parents have lived in Syria, Brazil, and Canada – and this varied background has contributed to incredibly different stories in the press […]

Micaela Reis

Micaela Reis

Angolan and Portuguese ancestry   http://youtu.be/inAoK4Qq8gk http://youtu.be/tSKXJWQ-bp4 the beauty pageant titleholder who was a Top 10 finalist at Miss Universe 2007 and placed first runner-up to Miss World 2007, becoming Miss World Africa. She was the highest placed Miss Angola at both Miss Universe and Miss Worldbefore the win of Leila Lopes in Miss Universe 2011 She was also named Miss World Continental Queen of […]

Ex-Model, Actress & Singer: Vanity AKA Denise Katrina Matthews

Ex-Model, Actress & Singer: Vanity AKA Denise Katrina Matthews

Nationality: Canadian Ethnicity: She is African American and German. Born Denise Katrina Matthews, Vanity is a glamorous Canadian ex-model and lead singer of the all-girl group “Vanity 6” of German and African/American , she specialized in playing sultry female characters often in trouble with the law. (CNN) Vanity fronted the group Vanity 6 but was best […]

Vanity 6: Susan Moonsie Rapping

Vanity 6:  Susan Moonsie  Rapping

Susan Moonsie is of Black and Indian heritage originally from Trinidad. She was one of Prince’s high school girlfriends. Moonsie became a member of Vanity 6 in 1982. Susan was given a “teenage Lolita” image by Prince, for shock value—Susan claimed she was only 16 years old at the time, although she was 18 years old […]

Model: Tsanna Latouche

Model: Tsanna Latouche

Nationality: (Ajax, Ontario) Canadian Ethnicity: Indian and Jamaican She is 5’10 ft tall. Quote: The craziest thing I’ve ever had to do on a shoot: Shooting at night in the sea with what I was convinced were baby sharks. I’m best known for my (eyes, freckles, hips, etc.): Cat like eyes. She has been jetting around the […]

Model: Nicole Murphy

Model: Nicole Murphy

Nationality: (Sacramento, California) American Ethnicity: British caucasion mother and African American father who was an Air Force pilot . She is  5’10 and has aqua eyes in-between blue and green. She is an American fashion model, television personality, designer, occasional actress and business woman. Nicole began her modeling career at age 13. Within a year, Nicole won […]

Model: Julia Ogun

Model: Julia Ogun

Nationality: Russian Ethnicity: Her mother is Russian and Her father is Nigerian, African. She speaks Russian, Spanish and English. She is 5’11 ft tall. Currently Living In Moscow, Russia. Education: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT) Research Interests: Mathematical Physics, Partial Differential Equations, MATH EDUCATION, Differential Equations, and Nonlinear hyperbolic equations. Orange Models […]

Model: Jasmine Sanders

Model: Jasmine Sanders

Nationality: American Ethnicity: German and African American. She was born in Germany. BIO/Interview below: When I was 13 years old, my mom was confronted by my mother agent, Sheilah Dixon of Millie Lewis South Carolina, to come to the agency to meet her. That meeting turned into a test shoot, which later turned into those […]

Brazilian Actress & Model: Débora Nascimento

Brazilian Actress & Model: Débora Nascimento

Nationality: Brazilian Place of birth: Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is 5’10 ft tall. Television Actress, Model and Personality. Débora Nascimento began her acting career as the lead character of the short film Cérbero, directed by Gastão Coimbra, and  making a guest role on a television show called Paraíso Tropical novel/soap, as Elisa.  https://youtu.be/Hu4kzd5WMeY?t=14s https://youtu.be/w2mdM7JoBGM Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. […]

My personal makeup vanity station

My personal makeup vanity station

“A picture can tell a thousand words, but a few words can change it’s story.” ― Sebastyne Young I’m usually quiet but I thought I make an exception today and post an original content of mine. This is my personal vanity station made by Drexel Heritage Furniture.  I’m not as brave as the other women, […]

Vintage Monaco Fashion Show

Super Security For The Super Rich

The world’s billionaires are becoming more concerned for their personal safety and the security of their families. This has led to a high tech, high cost industry aimed at keeping the mega rich safe and secure. CNBC gives viewers rare access to eye-popping security measures from million dollar panic rooms built to withstand bullets, bombs […]

A Choice Between School and Silicon Valley

Harvard student Connor Zwick thinks he can build the ultimate online educational tool. If he wins a Thiel Fellowship, he’ll have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to make that dream a reality. But should he really leave the Ivy League to launch a start-up?

Ripping Off the Rich

Did you know the world’s most valued treasures are vanishing in a multibillion-dollar black market business? From artwork and counterfeit wine to valuable pieces of history — we’ll take you inside the business that is ‘Ripping off the Rich.’ Bad is Big Business – Crime Inc.

Brands target nouveau poor

Record high unemployment in the EU has forced some of the larger consumer goods companies to shift marketing strategies. They target poverty-stricken Europeans’ demand for cheaper goods in the midst of an economic crisis –

Building the Oil Rigs

It has one of the world’s highest per capita GDP’s and is a global player in exports, in biotechnology and in tourism. http://youtu.be/b1igNMSU2JI

Science: Chinese African Ancestors

An international study has found that the Chinese people originated not from Peking Man in northern China, but from early humans in East Africa who moved through South Asia to China some 100,000 years ago, Hong Kongs Ming Pao daily reported yesterday in a finding that confirms the single origin theory in anthropology.

African Russian Perspective

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Afro-Russians Trailer

Black Russians is a feature length documentary that investigates the lives of contemporary Afro-Russians aged 10 to 65, born and raised in Soviet Russia. Their experiences chronicle two ideological currents that have shaped major international events in the twentieth century: race and communism. Intimate interviews with a poet, a film producer, a reggae artist, a […]

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