Mademoiselle Monday: Mlle Kwan
“I don’t have that [need] to prove myself. I have a passion to do good roles but luckily I don’t have to do it for economic reasons. I’m not a big spender and I don’t need a lot of frills.” -Nancy Kwan “It’s not that I don’t like reading about myself. But I get unhappy with the kind of things that are written about me. For instance, after Suzie Wong…, I was being written up as a kind of sex kitten. I’m not really at all like that.” -Nancy Kwan 0
Bump My Bouffant (…but wait…there’s more!)
Sex Kitten Bump. Beehive. Hair Bump. Bouffant. Bitch Bump. No matter what you call it, we’ll settle in the middle on “bump” for the purposes of this post. You’ve seen the infomercial for Bumpits. Promising to add instant hair volume, leaving you with the perfect “bump”. When I first saw the advertisement, I wanted them, but I wasn’t willing to pay the $20 + shipping for something that might not work. Then, the commercial became a household joke, because some of the “bumps” are so over-the-top that they look ridiculous. So, I never did fall for the “…and that’s not all” pitch. Long before a Bumpits commercial and the debut…