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#8226; Amber Le Bon, the 20-year-old daughter of Yasmin Le Bon, landed the Pantene Pro-V campaign. [Daily Mail UK]/p
p#8226; A Florida woman caused a collision with a pickup truck and was subsequently arrested, reportedly because she was distracted: She was shaving her bikini area while on her way to a date with her boyfriend. More drama: Her ex-husband steered from the passenger seat while she groomed. /p
p#8226; Brazil is a huge beauty market. New research states the country is the biggest market for fragrance and one of the biggest markets for hair dye and conditioner. [Independent UK]/p
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#8226; Julia Roberts#039;s first commercial for Lanc#244;me is out. But it#039;s in French. /p
p#8226; Chanel#8217;s creative director of makeup, Peter Philips, created a paint-print texture for the eye makeup at the runway show yesterday in Paris. In terms of nails, he is re-releasing the Jade Rose pink shade for fall, which was originally released at the same time as the label#039;s green Jade hue, which became so popular that it overshadowed the other colors in the collection. [Beauty Counter/Style.com]/p
p#8226; The new CoverGirl LashBlast Fusion mascara, which promises to lengthen and add volume to lashes, will be available for preorder for $8.99 starting Friday. The product was first previewed during New York Fashion Week. [Spoiled Pretty]/p
p#8226; Dick Page showed up to do the makeup at the Yves Saint Laurent show in Paris, where he painted faces with pink eye shadow and indigo eyeliner. [Daily Beauty Reporter/Allure]/p
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#8226; The Kardashian sisters #8212; Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney #8212; are the new spokespeople for the PerfectSkin three-step skin-care system. It#039;s a new brand created by Dr. Ron DiSalvo, and the products haven#039;t launched yet. /p
p#8226; Biore launched a new product named Steam Activated Cleanser. It#039;s created to work for people who wash their faces in the shower. So it#039;s for all of us! /p
p class=blog_dateFriday, February 26, 2010/pbrp class=blog_title_holderspan class=blog_titleA Hidden Cost of the Health-Care Summit/spannbsp; nbsp;[Jonah Goldberg]br/pp class=blog_textIt seems that I wasn#039;t alone in finding Obama increasingly un-charming as the event unfolded yesterday. Even Dana Milbank notes that Obama ultimately came across as a bit of a condescending, well, jerk. Here#039;s Michael Gerson: President Obama, as usual, was fluent, professorial and occasionally prickly. Some are impressed by the presidentrsquo;s informed, academic manner. Others (myself included) find an annoying condescension in Obamarsquo;s never-ending seminar./p
pObama#039;s habit of deciding what is a serious point and what are mere talking points, started out seeming like an attempt at fairness but ultimately revealed itself to be one of the more grating aspects of his personality and his philosophy (It#039;s worth noting that many points embecome/em talking points because they are such good points!). After awhile, it seemed Obama deemed many talking points to be illegitimate simply because they were inconvenient to his argument./p
pThis is not news to certain people who have greater immunity to his charms. Obama has a very thin skin when it comes to disagreement. He has a Fox News obsession. At campaign-style events, Obama has insisted that he doesn#039;t want to hear any talk from the people who created this mess or some such. Remember his call for a new declaration of independence not just in our nation, but in our own lives mdash; from ideology and small thinking, prejudice and bigotry. Translation: Ideological objections to what I want to do are akin to bigotry and stupidity./p
pI think one of the great explanations for the mess the Obama administration is in mdash; the whole cowbell dynamic mdash; is that he, his advisers, and many of his fans in the press cannot fully grasp or appreciate the fact that he is not as charming to everyone else as he is to them (or himself). Hence, they think that the more he talks, the more persuasive he will be. Every president faces a similar problem which is why, until Obama, every White House tried to economize the deployment of the president#039;s political capital. The Obama White House strategy is almost the rhetorical version of its Keynesianism, the more you spend, the bigger the payoff./p
pThe hidden cost of this strategy is that the more he talks the more pronounced or noticeable this tendencynbsp; becomes for the average American. Eventually, it could come to define him. Presidents mdash; all presidents mdash; get caricatured eventually because certain traits become more identifiable over time. That#039;s one reason why parodies of presidents onem Saturday Night Live/em get more convincing and funnier at the end of their terms mdash; everyone can recognize the traits and habits by then. The more instances where Obama grabs all of the attention while acting like an arrogant college professor mdash; particularly as memories of Bush fade mdash; the more opportunities the White House creates where people can say, Hey, I finally figured out what bugs me about this guy. Not long after that, it becomes a journalistic convention, a staple of late-night jokes and basis ofem SNL/em parodies./p/pp class=blog_permalink02/26 09:32 AMSharebr/p/p