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Make up artist – Loretta Davis – Shear Madness Hair Shoppe 
 

Brittnay – Team Canton Model 
Age: 18

Height:  5"2'

Weight: 115

Current Status:  Currently a college student working toward her BSN, Is engaged to a U.S. Marine.

Hobbies: Kick Boxing

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Classy Divas hosted a fashion show at Quaker square in Akron Ohio 23 April 

Complete coverage coming soon!

We’ve been led to believe that the surest way to impress the ladies (or the men, depending) is to have self-confidence: an inner assurance that you are a pretty datable person, all things considered. Not so! Equally—if not more—effective, at least these days, is to be truly, almost obsessively insecure.

We know this because of a new study co-authored by Claudia Brumbaugh, a young psychology professor at Queens College. She came to the research out of her curiosity about relationships her friends had discussed. “Just generally, I’m interested in relationships with insecure people,” she says. She set out to answer a basic but vexing question: How do insecure people attract others? After recruiting 146 single university students, she had them fill out a questionnaire on how confident they felt in their everyday lives. The students then watched video segments that featured an attractive man or woman they were told was looking for a lunch date. These good-looking people asked questions like: How would you get an attractive person’s attention? How would you talk to this person? And finally, and portentously: Do you tend to worry about the relationships you’re in?

The study participants were given the opportunity to flirt with their videotaped interlocutors. Brumbaugh scored the subjects’ repartee based on 26 different criteria, among them eye contact and flattery. When she combined this data with the pre-video psychological assessments, she found something surprising.

The students who had rated themselves as self-confident tended to bring to their courting tactics a hey-this-is-who-I-am approach that can come off as arrogant. The insecure, Brumbaugh found, are never that dumb. They seem to be acutely attentive to the other person’s needs. They share of themselves; they appear interesting, because they want desperately to seem that way. “Insecure individuals [present] themselves as warm, engaging, and humorous people,” Brumbaugh writes in the paper, published in the journal Personal Relationships. The self-confident may have these traits, too, but they’ll stop working so hard when their game’s not proving successful.

Insecure people don’t give up so easily. The same hyperawareness that attends their daily lives—always dressing of-the-moment, always listening to the right new band—also helps when talking with a potential boyfriend or girlfriend. It may be that the insecure are able to perceive how they’re being perceived, then mask their undesirable traits, or at the least counteract them with knowing jokes on the array of topics that their insecurities force them to stay up on. “There seem to be,” says Brumbaugh, “these interesting side effects of being insecure.”

The only problem is that the insecure are eventually found out. “Insecurity leads to problems like poor communications, and anxious people in particular are jealous,” Brumbaugh says. It’s worth noting that Brumbaugh’s fiancé, when they first met, was living in the city’s flannel-covered bastion of self-doubt: Williamsburg. But, she insists, “he has a more forceful personality.”

Article source: http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/70312/

Gossip Girl’s recent three-way raised the ire of the Parents Television Council, who called the scene “reckless and irresponsible.” The three-way (as distinct from the ménage à trois, technically only a living situation), has historically been the domain of artists and rebels, and is frequently portrayed by Hollywood.

A Short History of Three-Ways
As related by Barbara Foster, Michael Foster, and Letha Hadady (who have themselves lived as a threesome since 1981) in their book, Three in Love.

1742: Casanova loses his virginity, at the age of 17, to two sisters.

1882: Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ree, and Lou Andreas-Salome live together in Rome.

1926: “Ernvest [Hemingway] was sleeping with [wife] Hadley and making love to Pauline in [Antibes’] secluded coves; the three would eat breakfast in bed together.”

1930: Bonnie and Clyde recruit 17-year-old William Jones to assist in robberies and, allegedly, to service both of them sexually.

1940s: According to a biographer, sculptor Alberto Giacometti “sometimes liked a third person present at moments of physical intimacy.”

1952: Neal Cassady tries to persuade his wife Carolyn and Jack Kerouac to try “a three- way ball.” Kerouac is unable to perform.

Sometime between 1960 and 1963: “A brief, most unusual threesome took place during the painting of [Salvador Dalí’s] Venus Awaiting a Phone Call, whose model was Ultra Violet, an actress from Andy Warhol’s Factory. The third was a lobster.”

So How Common Are Three-Ways in Real Life?
Number of NYC Craigslist “Casual Encounters” threesome ads by gender breakdown during a recent seven-day period.

As Seen in the Movies and on TV

1994: Threesome. Stephen Baldwin, Lara Flynn Boyle, Josh Charles.
Results in: embarrassment, rueful laughter.

1998: Wild Things. Neve Campbell, Matt Dillon, Denise Richards.
Results in: murder, extortion.

1998 : Sex and the City. Kristin Davis, Sherri Alexander, Joseph Murphy.
Results in: a Charlotte-free twosome.

2001 : Y Tu Mamá También. Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Maribel Verdú.
Results in: awkwardness, later wistfulness.

2009: Watchmen. Malin Akerman and two versions of Billy Crudup’s character.
Results in: narrow aversion of apocalypse (indirectly).

*Oddly does not contain a threesome: 1997’s Two Girls and a Guy

According to the Experts:
“We just don’t have good data” on how many Americans have tried threesomes, says Jennifer Bass of the Kinsey Institute in Indiana. Kinsey may have made its name with a broad survey of sexual practices, but no such study has been attempted recently; it’s difficult to compile enough data on the “fringe” activity. But! In an 2004 ABC Primetime Live poll, 14 percent of respondents reported having had a threesome.

Article source: http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/topic/62056/

Sean and Seng capture Kendra Spears at her most bewitching for Numero. Clad in seductive designs chosen by stylist, Franck Benhamou and accompanied by a deadly serpent, Kendra shows a darker and sexier side than what we’ve seen from her before. The sultry shots manage to convey sensuality while creating an atmosphere that showcases the barely there ensembles perfectly.

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Kasia Struss joins Jaco van den Hoven and Jacob Dekat for Greg Kadel‘s stark Numero Homme story. A little black and white, a couple of chic poses and a few outfits expertly styled by Charles Varenne, the combination makes for a very cool series of shots.

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Paired with a cute pair of  tattered jeans and a plain white see-through tee, Bilson rocked this laid-back, weekend look,  still maintaining a dash of sophistication. Get jeans similar to the ones worn by Rachel with this DG pair. Bilson added a pop of color to the look by carrying a bright red purse, which was the perfect tote sized carry-all for the spring season. For a similar style, check out this Franzi bag. On her feet sporting a pair of orange-red clogs. Paired with a thin white belt, the actress’ preprster look was the perfect note to hit on a relaxed spring afternoon. Bilson topped off the style with a classic pair of Ray Ban Wayfarers, perfect for any occasion. For a similar pair of shades, check out these mod glasses by Derek Lam. Katie Holmes was also seen rocking this style.

For a more formalized version of this style, follow in the fashion footsteps of star Gwyneth Paltrow who paired her schoolboy blazer with kahki pants and heeled booties.  A more formal version of Bilson fashionable prep look can also be achieved by pairing the blazer with shorts or a cute skirt. For a blazer similar to Bilson’s, try this Libertine style.

Source: newyorkgirlstyle.com

Article source: http://www.ftv.com/look-of-the-week-laid-back-prep_530.html

In today's world of poor role models for young women a few women in our local community go unnoticed. One of them resides right here in Ohio's back yard, Angela Bellios! She is strong, resilient, confident and professional. She is an on air personality for Mix 94.1 in Canton Ohio. Angela a (graduate from The University of Akron) has not only followed her professional career but has spent much of her personal time raising money for great causes like Akron children hospital. It is a shame women like Lindsay Lohan and the Kardashians occupy our Televisions and litter our grocery isles when beautiful, intelligent woman like Angela Bellios should be occupying our daughters minds. What do we want our daughters to emulate? My daughter listens to Kathy and Angela from Mix 94.1 everyday! Even takes a radio to the shower after school to listen to Angela. I think more young women should focus on professional positive influences in our local communities.  The reason troubled women like Miss Lohan occupy on our "news" is because people focus on her! Our daughters and young people do as well.  We should focus on great positive people right here!  Angela Bellios is a great credit upon herself, her family, her community and Mix 94.1, we in the local community should be proud to have her locally.

Top Local Model Magazine Salutes her and wishes her a Happy Birthday!  

David Gandy.

Yachts.
Shirtlessness.
The concept sells itself really.
Jack Pierson and Anastasia Barbieri turn out a sleek story for Vogue Hommes International about a handsome man living the life; these shots are simple, aspirational and beautiful.

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