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Guess Who …

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Forty-four years after her death, Marilyn Monroe continues to inspire. Her sex kitten appeal (expressed by blonde hair, black eyeliner, and accentuated lashes) has shaped the look of entertainers from Nancy Sinatra to Deborah Harry (whose band Blondie was just inducted into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame) to most famously, Madonna. However, this is an amazing transformation of one of the most famous models in the world. Who is portraying Marilyn?

Hint: She recently came out of a drug rehabilitation program after a picture of her allegedly snorting cocaine was emblazened on a cover of a British tabloid. Allegations of drug abuse led to the loss of several modeling contracts, but she’s never been absent from either advertising or editorial content.

To see more, visit the W Feature Story on Style.com.

Barcelona Bath and Body – 17% off until March 17

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© Barcelona Bath and Body™

The Style Page is pleased to announce that Barcelona Bath and Body is offering a 17% discount off any purchase between now and St. Patrick’s Day, March 17.

Barcelona Bath and Body is a line of soaps, candles, and room sprays inspired by the Mediterranean. Fragrances incude Cinammon Sandalwood, Grapefruit Ylang Ylang, Vanilla Lavender, Lemongrass Fennel, and Coconut Bay Rum. The Style Page opted for room spray in Cinammon Sandalwood, a blend of two warming fragrances, and a candle in Lemongrass Fennel. I am impressed by the fragrances, packaging, and labeling.

To take advantage of this offer, visit Barcelona Bath and Body and enter voucher code “St. Pat” (without quotes) at checkout. This promotion only runs for two more days, so hurry!

Belen Echandia’s Golden Ticket

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Belen Echandia’s bag of the season – “Stroke Me”

Belen Echandia wrote to tell me about their Golden Ticket promotion:

Twice per year, someone on our mailing list will receive an email containing a Golden Ticket. This ticket will entitle its holder to receive the bag of the season (this year it is the ‘Stroke Me’ bag …) made especially to order, in the colour of her choice. The only thing we ask in return is that the recipient will send us a picture of herself using the bag and a little story about her for us to put up on our website, Polaroid-style.

To sign up, visit Belen Echandia’s website at www.belenechandia.com (Belen Echandia is also listed on our Bags page) and select the Golden Ticket button on the left hand navigation bar. The deadline for this season is March 31, 2006.

Now tag this! UPDATED 2006-03-07

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I’ve expanded the use of linkrolls (see here and here about linkrolls) to include noteworthy articles from sources other than this blog.

Check out our Books page for noteworthy features on poetry that I’ve discovered recently.

Check out our Cosmetics page for Beauty Addict’s post A Sure Sign of the Apocalypse on her blog.

I’ve also date-tagged (2005, 2006) promotions and web site updates using calendar date formats (YYYY, YYYY-MM, YYYY-MM-DD) specified in ISO 8601 – Numeric representation of dates and time.

If you have any articles you wish to refer to me for use in the linkrolls, tag them “for:thestylepage” (sans quotatation marks) in addition to any tags in del.icio.us that you use.

Our Second Anniversary

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Today marks the second anniversary of The Style Page blog. I want to thank all our readers, especially those who subscribe to this blog via Bloglines, Bloglet, My Yahoo! or other services, and the companies who extended promotions to our readers, for your support.

Just for grins, visit our first entry on this blog, dated March 7, 2004.

Now tag this! Part 2

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Web pages aren’t the only pages that can be tagged. Here are a couple of clever ways of marking pages in printed publications that I’ve found:

move forward sticky notes from Compendium Inc. This collection features 75 bookmarks for each of this headings: fyi. to do. priority. bravo. Compendium, Inc. also features bookmark assortments for be creative (imagine. dream. plan. create.) and have fun (go. see. do. enjoy.). You can buy these bookmarks from Compendium, Inc.’s eStore or at your local Franklin Covey store (consult our Stationery page for links).

Compendium, Inc. was previously featured in the entry What’s New: Papergasm! on this blog.

punctuation pagemarks from bob’s your uncle offer a lot of possibilities for marking pages for reference: for example, you could tag an extended amount of text using the opening and closing quotation marks or tag a part of a text you don’t understand with the question mark tag.

CG Queen Collection – Cover Girl launches collection for women of color

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I have never been a fan of Cover Girl. I resent Cover Girl for upholding the beauty ideal of the blue-eyed blonde for so long: Cybill Shepherd, Cheryl Tiegs, and most enduringly, Christie Brinkley have all been the faces of Cover Girl.


Christie Brinkley for Cover Girl, 1984

In the last ten years, however, Cover Girl has used models of color such as Lana Ogilvie and Tyra Banks (no, I won’t dish about Tyra’s talk show). Now it’s launched the CG Queen Collection, a line of powder foundations, lipsticks, lip glosses, mascara, eye and lip pencils, nail polishes, and eye shadow quads for women of color, named for its spokesmodel Queen Latifah.

The particular strengths of this line appear to be the shades of powder foundation and the variety of lip colors.

The CG Queen Collection is not widely available – consult the web site for store locations or shop online at Cover Girl’s eStore. Mostly, retail outlets are confined to those areas where there are high concentrations of potential customers – I browsed the collection at a KMart located in an area with a high concentration of Hispanic residents.

Update to Beauty pages

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I’ve recently completed an update of the Beauty pages on The Style Page website. I’ve added links for 30 cosmetics brands, including prestige brands such as Giorgio Armani Beauty and Chantecaille and various niche brands, to our already exhaustive list on the Cosmetics page.

Here’s a nice letter I received via Email concerning the web site:

thanks to your website I was finally able to find a website for rumiko the makeup artist and RMK the company

I totally appreciate your online resources on ‘the style page’
I look forward to checking out the rest of your website and links.

Here’s a quote from “Candeecake”, in response to the question “any fashion/beauty magazines you read online regularly? do share!” posed on CozyCot, a beauty discussion forum based in Asia (scroll down to Candeecake, 07/07/2005)

I’ve this bookmark but haven’t browse all the sites listed inside yet. http://www.thestylepage.com/

I’ve added brands including Roger&Gallet and Claus Porto (both famous for their soaps), cult fragrance brand IUNX, Barcelona Bath and Body, and Skin Milk to the Fragrance page.

I’ve extended the use of linkrolls to the Beauty pages, and already the linkrolls are driving traffic to this blog. Remember, you can use tags to create your own RSS feeds for blog articles relevant to your particular interests, for example Beauty Cosmetics.

Please support our website by shopping Amazon.com, Bag Borrow or Steal, Beauty.com, drugstore.com, and Sephora.com.

Ethnic rugs from Hazaad.com

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The Style Page is about more than fashion and beauty – we also have a major portion of our web site devoted to the home and design. Hazaad.com is a recent addition to our page on carpets and floor coverings.

Hazaad.com and Hazaad West on eBay are online shops run by John Geer. John grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico and one might assume that his interest would be in Native American rugs – Navajo rugs and Zapotec rugs, which are emerging as a more affordable alternative to Navajo rugs. John decided however to focus on other forms of weaving that are constantly reforming and reinventing themselves.

Hazaad focuses on Kazakh, Dhurrie, and Gebbeh rugs.

Kazakhs are pile rugs that have their origins in the nomadic people of the southern Caucasus, between the Black and the Caspian Sea. These rugs are characterized by their intricate geometric patterns and bold colors.


Detail of Kazakh rug

Dhurries are flat weave rugs that have their origins in India, and are completely reversible.


3’x5’ Refreshing Dhurrie with Southwestern Influences from Hazaad.com West on eBay

Gebbehs are the least known of the three types of rugs sold by Hazaad.com. These were originally intended for the personal use of the weavers. These long pile rugs are characterized by their spare geometric patterns.


5′ x 7′ Gabbeh from Hazaad.com

Ethnic rugs help unify furniture pieces in a space. They particularly look great on hardwood floors and under glass-topped dining tables and coffee tables. One thing that I’ve learned is that rugs that look garish on the racks can look surprisingly subtle on a hardwood floor. Make sure that the store has a good return policy so that you can see how a rug looks in your home – Hazaad.com offers a 6-week return policy.