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Friday, June 15, 2012

Hair Mascara

By Y-Yen (Bambi) Nguyen

Twitter: @bambi_nguyen

Ultra Pink

Capri Coral

Hair mascara is nothing new, anyone growing up in the 90's probably used it or knows about it. Whether you were using it for crazy hair day in elementary school or just for fun to drive your parents crazy, this is not a new product that we are unfamiliar with. After disappearing for quite some time it seems that Sultra, a company known for selling, designing, and creating hair styling tools has just recently released their own colour hair mascara. Instead of constantly colouring and damaging hair or hair chalking, hair mascara offers a quick and easy way to get that "my little pony" esque desired look without the expensive price tag or damage.

Sultra Color Hair Mascara is being sold at Sephora for $24 and is available in four fun and vibrant shades. The colour is easy to apply as it is like applying mascara to your eyes but instead you're doing this to your hair. It can be used on any hair type, colour, or length and stays in your hair for 2 days and can easily be washed out with shampoo. My question is this, will other competitors begin jumping on this band wagon and releasing their own version of hair mascara? And will you be one to try out this revamped product and adding a touch of colour to your hair?

Lapis Blue

Royal Velvet

To purchase product online: http://www.sephora.com/product/productDetail.jsp?skuId=1417740&om_mmc=oth-fb-20120615-SultraHairMascara-su

Photos courtesy of: http://www.sephora.com

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Cartoon Style

Saturday morning cartoons played a huge part in my childhood. I woke up at the crack of dawn to absorb a solid six hours of animated goodness while I slurped what seemed to be endless amounts of cereal milk. I would spend the remainder of the afternoon playing in my own world of make believe. I wouldn't realize how influential these cartoon days were until my style evolved as a result of some of my favourite shows.

Exhibit A: Carmen Sandiego

I had this fascination with being a secret agent/spy as a child. I was always on some covert mission, writing messages in invisible ink and perfecting my dive roll to evade enemies. Carmen Sandiego fuelled this aspiration as well as my obsession with long locks, hats and jackets.

Exhibit B: Morticia Addams

At one point in my adolescence my father asked me, "Do you always have to wear blaack?". He would put this weird emphasis on the second syllable to make some point I have still ignored to this day. I loved wearing black. I could be harbouring a complete mess on my person without it being obvious. I have traced my personal justification of wearing all black, always, to Morticia Adams. In my eyes, she made black sexy and sultry in a dangerous black widow kind of way. Badass.

Exhibit C: Jem and the Holograms

These rockin fashionistas were awesome. It was this show that sparked the desire to have pink and purple hair much to my fathers dismay. And to start a rock band, even if we were playing air instruments.

Peace,

Victoria

Monday, May 23, 2011

From Old-School to New-School

by: Kristie Scott

"Round and Round it goes..." my fashion history teacher says once again, for what seems like the umpteenth time. Marker in hand, he emphasizes his point by scrawling and re-tracing a large set of black circles on the classroom's whiteboard. Sometimes he puts a large "$" sign right beside it.
Not that I'm complaining of boredom, I quite enjoy his discussions, but seriously, if I had a dollar for every time us fashion students heard about how fashion is a cycle, I could probably pay off ALL our student loans.
But--no matter how repetitive the statement, I have to agree it's the most basic and true fact of fashion there is.
These days especially, nothing is new, but just re-done with a new touch.
Here are just a few examples of some "modern" styles and what they were before they went "round" the block...