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Beauty Bytes: October 19, 2012

Be careful taking the bus today – Barbie Flu is catching! In Odessa, Ukraine, there are now three(!) young women who’ve self-recreated themselves as the iconic doll. First it was Valeriya Lukyanova (aka”Amatue“), whose surgical modifications helped create her own fairy tale reality (she also teaches astral projection). Now two more “Barbies” have emerged: Valeriya’s friend, Olga Oleynik (“Domenika”) has also had surgeries to accentuate her otherworldliness. And 19 year-old makeup and hair artist Anastasiya Shpagina (“Anime”, pictured …

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Beauty Bytes: October 12, 2012

Beauty pageants will never die. in Saudi Arabia, the third annual “Miss Congeniality” pageant was held on Monday. In a country where strutting on stage is forbidden, the practice of young women competing before a panel of judges lives on. Only the contest is based on piety and ambitions for social change – as well as confidence, literacy, charisma and theatrical performance. The winner, Maram Zaki al-Saif, who holds the title of Saudi “Queen of Ethics”, intends to help people …

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