Little Missy's Beauty and Fashion Myth Busters for Women

 

Essie Davis as Miss Fisher from Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries Proves Missy's Point

Myth Number One

A woman should always go with a lighter hair colour as she gets older.  A darker shade will age her.

Fact:  A woman can look quite washed out with pale blonde hair as she gets older.  If she wants to go darker, use Miss Fisher as an example and rock that dark bob.

 

Myth Number Two

As a woman ages, she needs a little more meat on her bones to make her face look more full and youthful.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

Fact: A hefty gal doesn't get around as quickly as a more slender gal.  Dispute this fact.

 

Myth Number Three

A party lifestyle destroys natural beauty

Fact: Kate Moss is but one example that this is not always true.

Little Missy Further Remarks:  Make hay while the sun shines

 

Myth Number Four

Rock and Roll Women Always End Up Looking Like Old Hags

Fact: Tina Turner says "Excuse me?"

Are you starting to follow me?

Myth Number Five:

Hit the gym at least three times a week
Fact:  Jane Fonda had a very complicated relation with her body and hitting the gym did little to help her self esteem.  Jane's story is enough for me.  Little Missy has never hit the gym and never intends to.

Myth Number Six:
French women know more about beauty and fashion than American women

Fact: Mireille Guliano's high handed book "French Women Don't Get Fat" gave the secret---subsist on watered down cabbage soup.  She stopped looking good to me once I got her secret.

Myth Number Seven:
Red lipstick is tricky to apply and wear

Fact: Who could ever forget Scarlett Johansson putting on her lipstick without a mirror in the brilliant movie "Lost in Translation"?

Little Missy realises that myth busting is not always easy to interpret, let alone assimilate into ones regime.  But for heaven's sake, make it a little more easy on yourselves!  Happy Spring!  And watch out for Men's Grooming and Lifestyle Myth Busters, coming soon!




 

 

 

 

 





 

 

A Dream Come True!

Kim Kardashian Gets a Wedding Dress and a Vogue Cover 

Kim and Kanye, America's Sweethearts

Persona non grata by Vogue Magazine just one year ago, Kim Kardashian now graces the cover of this noble publication, proving that hindsight after all is only 20/20.  Little Missy isn't sure if Kim and Kanye actually have the date for the wedding, but they have little North West, the gown, and most importantly they now have Anna Wintour in their pocket!  Yes, As the World Turns!  While the rest of us are trying to pay our bills, stay healthy and keep up with the latest like Putin, the Ukraine, the missing jetliner, the new head of the Federal Reserve (more about her later!) the Kardashians have been positioning themselves for this great moment!  Well for heaven's sake, don't ever say Little Missy didn't tell you it was coming!  Yes, there was a terse moment in the history of Miss Wintour  and Kim Kardashian:  Kanye was performing at the Met Ball, but Kim was not exactly made to feel welcome.  I guess all is forgiven now! And what a beautiful cover, gold and ivory, black and bronze...so couture!  What else is left to say?  Only this:

Fashion Changes But Style Endures

May this issue fly off the shelves across the Americas and abroad.  May Anna have her greatest success to date. 

 

"Janet Yellen's Awkward Day"

Good call, New Yorker.com!  That was your headline.  Janet Yellen held her first press conference and one thing is clear...yes, Anna Wintour has a new assignment it seems!  Janet Yellen, the new Chairman of the Federal Reserve is now the most powerful woman on the planet!  Even more powerful than Anna Wintour or Kim Kardashian, if you follow Little Missy!  If Janet were a guy, no one would care!  Who cared what Alan Greenspan or Ben Bernanke looked like?  No one!  But Janet needs to rock a better American look than she is now doing, and she needs to take elocution lessons pronto!  Anna, step up to the plate. Figure this one out!  It may not sell issues of Vogue directly, but it sure will indirectly! 

For Heaven' sake!  Little Missy is for once in her life speechless!  What a world this is....flotsam floating to the top and the black box at the bottom of the sea.

 

 

 

 Little Missy Goes to the Movies

 

And you know Little Missy, there are only two movies she wants to talk about, Her and In a World...

Let's talk about Her.  How much do we love Spike Jonze?  Wouldn't it be fabulous to get inside his mind for five or ten minutes just to understand  how he thinks from point A to point B?  And Spike produced, wrote and directed this sci-fi romance, which takes place in 2025.  The main character, played by Joaquin Phoenix, writes for a company that produces personal letters from clients unwilling or unable to perform such tasks.  And he's about to get divorced from his wife, Rooney Mara.  OMG, there is still letter writing and divorce in ten years!  That's not much of a sci-fi!  And what about the high waisted pants the guys all wear?  And all the orange shirts and sweaters?  And the dress for success seventies looks the girls have to wear?  It's a look, all right, and Little Missy admires its cohesiveness!

 

Joaquin loves his orange shirt

 

Geek Chic

Rooney Mara gets a seventies stock tie blouse for the divorce talk scene!

And of course let's not forget the voice of the OS Joaquin has fallen in love with--Scarlett Johansson's!  What a tease!
Voices are all-important, not only in Her but of course in In a World...the brilliant peek into the voice-over industry written, directed, produced and starring Little Missy's new favourite Hollywood powerhouse, Lake Bell.  Style-wise, Lake is more about the eighties.  The eighties like Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears for Fears

Lake struggles in the same industry with her ego maniacal father

And wins!

In a World...is different in that it is not sci-fi.  It's a loving look at the industry of voice over, starting with the death of a real voice over mega star, Don Lafontaine, and takes place right now in Los Angeles with fictional characters in their thirties to fifties who look so familiar to me I swear I know them very well. And whether Lake is sitting in her plaid pyjama top eating peanut butter out of a jar for breakfast or surreptitiously recording unsuspecting voices for her voice archives (her speciality is accents), we want her to win--because in the real world, men's voices are still considered more sell able than women's.  Yes, that's a tough one for us girls, especially as Scarlett's sexy voice was such a hit in Her, when her off screen womanly wisdom and infinite grace stole the picture!
Well, you be the judges, Readers!  I thought both of these pictures were amazing, but Little Missy gives the edge to the slightly edgier In a World...everyone has an idea about movie genius and this was mine!