Celebrities Getting Tattooed

From the early 1990's on, there has been a huge increase in the popularity of tattooing among the general public in North America and Europe, a trend that has since spread around the world. Anyone who has taken even the most cursory glance at the mainstream media during the past decade or so could quite easily come away with the impression that the current popular interest in tattoos and other forms of body modification, such as body piercing, has arisen out of a cultural void and that there is scant evidence to suggest where the roots of the resurgence might lie. In point of fact, nothing could be further from the truth.

Tattoos have had a rich and colourful history in western popular culture for the better part of two centuries and nowhere is this better illustrated than by the rather extraordinary number of historical figures and modern day celebrities who, have sported or currently have body art.


The most popular tattooed celebrities are:
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, DAVID BECKHAM, KELLY CLARKSON, JOHNNY DEPP, EMINEM, 50 CENT, SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR, PARIS HILTON, NATALIE IMBRUGLIA, ANGELINA JOLIE

Charlie Chaplin And ‘talkies’

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr., whom we know on the silver screen as Charlie Chaplin, was born in Walworth, London in 1889. He grew up in a family of entertainers, and began singing at a young age. His parents had separated when Charlie was three years old, and he moved around quite a bit while living under his mother’s care. The Chaplin family was plagued with demons, as his father became a reclusive alcoholic, and his mother had fallen mentally ill and was eventually placed in an insane asylum. After all of this, Charlie and his brother became very close, and relied heavily on their performing talents to survive.

Above all else, Charlie Chaplin was a true cinematic artist, and took the work he did very seriously, because he wanted to entertain the masses. After the invention of the ‘talkies’, or movies with sound, he felt that cinema began to decline in artistic value, and that actors relied too heavily on dialogue rather than movement and interaction. Chaplin firmly believed that “silent film's message reaches the entire spectrum of ‘intellectual and the rank and file’”(Durham, Handler, Racusin & Simonian 1999). The motivation behind his early silent films was the extensive use of imagination, both by the actors as well as the audience. He had almost complete control of his work because not only was he an actor, but a director and writer as well.


Much of Chaplin’s fame has come from the conception of his hilarious and offbeat character, the Tramp. He had explained that it was a sort of bold statement against the status quo. Prior to shooting the film Mabel’s Strange Predicament, he was feeling indecisive about the wardrobe for the main character. As a result, he decided to play it over the top, and choose a look that defied the status quo. He wanted the ultimate contradiction in appearance. Chaplin felt that by dressing in baggy pants, a derby hat, a tight coat, topped off with a tiny mustache, he could exaggerate the movements and characterization on screen. He had studied pantomime when he was much younger, and brought a great deal of this art form to his films. He communicated everything onscreen through his actions, because he truly felt that they spoke louder than words.

Over time, Charlie Chaplin eventually succumbed to the trend of using sound in his films. Many of his fans felt that he was a hypocrite because of his public scorn for sound in pictures. But, he more than made up for this by incorporating subtle statements of his political views into his films. The new medium allowed him the opportunity to “include a critique of industrial working conditions in the United States during the Depression, and a strong critique of the Fascist regime of Adolph Hitler” (Durham, et. Al 1999). After doing this, Chaplin’s popularity remained quite strong during the 1930s, yet he worried that this brashness was not quite the image he wanted to portray. Despite avoiding full-length dialogue in most of his ‘talkies’, he decided to break down and insert speaking interactions for the characters of his 1940 film, The Great Dictator. Eventually, because of the extended length of films, and because dialogue was such an integral part, “an actor needed to move beyond constant slapstick” (Charlie Chaplin 2007). Chaplin’s films had to take on a more serious tone that was not as over-the-top as people had been used to seeing him.

Because sound in film allowed Chaplin’s messages to be heard the world over, this caused quite a backlash, particularly from the United States government. Though born in England, Charlie Chaplin lived in the United States for an extensive period of time, producing nearly all of his works here. During the McCarthy era, Chaplin’s activities were closely monitored, as the FBI noticed several communist messages in his works being transmitted on screen. In 1952, J. Edgar Hoover, the Director of the FBI during this time, saw to it that Chaplin was not to be allowed to return to the U.S. after making a long trip back to London.

Charlie Chaplin was truly a genius that will go down as one of the most influential people in the history of cinema. He truly loved the art form, and stayed true to his craft throughout most of his career. Though he had to adapt eventually to the usage of sound in film, he was still able to allow his statements to be heard, while remaining a powerful force in Hollywood.

Angelina Jolie Is Paris Hilton’s Idol

Celebutante Paris Hilton has confessed in a recent interview that she would like to become Angelina Jolie. She looks up to the sexy mom and actress a lot and believes that the both of them would get along very well. “I love Angelina Jolie,” Paris gushes. “She’s strong but gorgeous and uses her fame for good to make a big difference in the world. That’s a great quality. I’d have a lot in common with her.”

Paris adds: ““I don’t like it when people are liars or users - girls who are just trying to be my friend for the wrong reasons. I’ve had a lot of people in my past who were friends with me just to get publicity. When I was young, my mom or sister used to have to point out if someone was using me to make a name for themselves – you know, linking arms with me on the red carpet and trying to get in every picture. But now I can see for myself when someone is just hungry for attention.”


This seems to be a very strange sentiment, coming from the 27-year-old heiress. Considering that Paris has been traipsing around the world with her new BFF Brittany Flickinger, whom she officially befriended on-camera on her latest reality show My New BFF, she seems to be contradicting herself. My New BFF, as the title clearly suggests, is a drawn-out audition for Paris’s new best friend, chosen from a roster of applicants from all over the United States.

In an attempt to clarify things a little bit, Paris goes on to say: “I have this great test to see if a girl’s a real friend. When we’re shopping I’ll pick out an outfit that I know looks hot and one that is awful. If my friend says the bad one looks good, I know she’s not a good friend.”

Paris newest reality show project is My New BBF (British Best Friend), wherein she lets Brits take a crack this time at becoming her latest tag-along. There will be fourteen people who will vie for the title, taking on a series of challenges that will test their BBF potential.

Top 5 Tips On How To Look Like Those Shirtless Male Celebrities

Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Matt Damon, Zac Efron, Justin Timberlake, what do these people all have in common: they are all male, good looking, famous, but most of all, they are pictures of these people shirtless. Male celebrities, just like their female counterparts, are equally objectified as objects of sexual desire. And whatever a woman might say, they all find well built bodies attractive. Once I knew this girl who said she hated those over muscular macho types. She finds them scary. Now this is also true. A lot of girls in some cultures find muscular men to be scary, as if they might get too roughed up in sex. So does this mean that not all women life muscles? I don’t think so.

Just think about how male celebrities make it in Hollywood. At one point or another, these stars will have to pose Shirtless. Male celebrities ALL have some shirtless picture floating around in the internet. Good looks must come with a good body. This is the best formula to get famous and be a successful star because girls love a good body and men won’t respect you (as an action star) if you look pudgy. It’s endemic of modern society, sure, but if you want girls, the easiest way is to look like these shirtless Male Celebrities.


How to achieve the look of shirtless male celebrities

1. First of all, you need to look more closely at how these guys actually look like. Overcome the disgust or the fear that people in the dentist’s waiting room might think your gay. Pick up that magazine with that shirtless model in the cover and stare at it. Stare at it and pay attention!

2. Notice how they’re muscles look clean and toned. Notice how they never overly muscular. Except perhaps for Arnold Schwarzenegger, no one successful guy in Hollywood would work out to look like a freaking dinosaur. The overly muscular types are what women run away from. They tend to look like ogres. People would stereotypically assume that a guy that pumped up with testosterone beats his wife and kids (think of the late Chris Benoit).

3. Also notice how lean these guys look. They may be big, but their fat is down to a minimum. This is why those muscles look so well defined. If you’ve got a lot of muscles but also have a lot of fat, those muscles won’t show so clearly.

4. Now that the image of how you should look like shirtless male celebrities is burned directly to your neural cortex, start doing the hard sweaty work of, well of working out. There are a hundred million easy exercise and diet tips in the internet, Google them up. As if you didn’t already know that. Fyi, a lot of these exercise instructions are cheap and do not require expensive exercise machines.

Body Building: How To Look Like Justin Timberlake Shirtless

Have you ever seen Justin Timberlake shirtless before Nsync was in the top of the charts? The man is definitely skinny. But have you seen the man now? He’s got muscles! The stringy guy from Nsync was able to pump himself up. If this is any indication of anything, it is that anyone can be as buff as Justin Timberlake and this article will give you tips based on the exercise techniques Justin himself used so keep reading. If you are also kind of stringy like Justin, these tips are custom fit for your body type’s needs. Hollywood bodies are hard to achieve and you must be thinking that you need tons of time and money to get the same body of the likes of Brad Pitt. You’d be surprised. Here are the top tips on how to get the same body as Justin Timberlake shirtless.

1. Get all the right equipment.


Fitness awareness has boomed for the past couple of decades. There are so many gyms around nowadays. A lot of them are very affordable; you just need to look around. When you go to the gym, remember to bring the two most needed equipments: weightlifting shoes and chalk. After a few weeks, you may need to bring a lifting belt and or fractional plates.

2. Learn to do the most basic barbell weight lifting properly.

This is what’s so good about being in the gym: there are experts there to help you start out. Otherwise, go buy a book, there’s also lots of those. Learn from them these important barbell lifts – the full squat, overhead press, bench press, power clean, and deadlift. With these in your arsenal, you can already achieve your goal. Justin Timberlake, shirtless and pumping himself is reportedly using mostly these kinds of lifts.

3. Take advantage of the right training programs.

There is an appropriate training program for you, and these are all based on increasing the resistance or weights in the five basic lifts mentioned earlier. Consult your trainer for this. Or your book (most training books for beginners have this.)

4. Eat, eat, eat, and eat.

Get your dose of protein everyday from meats, eggs. Eat lots of veggies and fruits, and drink lots of milk. Multivitamins, fish oil, and most importantly, whey protein are very important especially for your body type. These will do wonders and are really worth the buy.

5. Finally, sleep well and do not over do your cardio workouts.

If you are already thin, doing too much cardio workouts will have an adverse effect since it might burn the nutrients you need to build muscles. Sleeping is also very important because it balances out your body and you tend to absorb more of the nutrients you need. In any case, getting enough sleep is ALWAYS important. Just follow these and you’ll be like Justin Timberlake shirtless and getting all the chicks in no time.

Celebrity Hairstyles: How To Make Their Looks Your Own

Celebrities are the most excellent supporting tools for hair styles and haircuts, they show all over and we see them at their top. You can choose any celebrity hairstyle according to your facial shape, hair type, and figure. Here represent some tips for getting celebrity hairstyle.

1. Face Shape


This one is most important thing for considering what hairstyle suits on you. Generally most of the hairstyles are suitable for people having oval shaped face. Here some hairstyles are suggested for other facial shapes.

Round Face Shape:

For round shaped face long and medium length hairstyle with layers is well suited. Avoid short hairstyle. You may follow the hairstyles of the celebrity Christina Ricci for round shaped face.

Square Face Shape:

Square shaped faces are consecrated with vast cheekbones and bone structure, so any hair length from short to long looks great. For looking more stylish you can add waves and curls at the bottom. You can follow the hairstyles of the celebrity Sandra Bullock for your square shaped face.

Heart Face Shape:

For heart shaped face it is best to follow the hairdos of Jennifer Love Hewitt. In this facial shape cheekbones are with thin jaw lines, so chin length bob haircut looks great.

Celebrities, Designers And Latest Fashion Trends For 2009

Designer Runway Forecast for 2009
Chic Tough Girl Looks, Military Influences, and Seductive Jumpsuits rule the Runway
The New Year is barely in the door and we are already looking to our favorite celebrities to show us how to make this our best year in Fashion yet.
Anne Hathaway is a celebrity style icon in the making already, with her raven hair and creamy skin. With her fashion break out role in The Devil Wear Prada, the public took notice of her expressive appearance. While recently in the pages of Vogue and InStyle magazines, she resonates in Versace, Thakoon, and Marchesa. Her casual side is appealing to many as well, having been photographed in a military influenced jacket. This Sergeant Pepper inspired look will be hot in 2009, and will be seen in electric blue, orange, and red, in addition to the more traditional look of black or olive. Pair with form fitting pants, boots, and a simple t-shirt. The fashion accessories can be pared down as shiny metallic buttons will festoon across the jackets. Piles of metal chains will be your ideal accessory choice for a plain shirt.

Love her or hate her, Victoria Beckham will continue to rule the fashion world, with the fashionistas waiting hungrily for her next hair style or statement. A fashion brand herself, she will continue to reinvent her own look of elegant flamboyance style. Look to Victoria to be the enduring face of high glamour, as anything worth leaving the house for should be dressed for. Body skimming, elegant dresses with an element of exaggeration are her forte, like the black Dolce dress she wore recently in Dubai. Look for Victoria to also influence the menswear look with her seductive take on wearing high waisted, fluid moving pants that are hot off designer runway. The new soft silhouette of pants will be worn in various lengths this year from chic cropped styles to the floor skimming variety, and topped with smart jackets, feminine blouses, and knits.

While it was recently reported that she hates the words “boho chic”, Kate Hudson is certainly an influence for it. Her laid back California way of dressing makes her look a favorite to women of all ages. She embodies comfort, with a fashion style. Kate’s take on combining patterns, color, and a an easy aesthetic will rule many closets this year – think dresses by Marc by Marc Jacobs, Prada, and M Missoni. Missoni knits feature an incredible weave of colors that give only a nod to the boho look and make knits the comfortable choice. Natasha Leratti offers an affordable knit look at her latest fashion designer collection website, in a citrus kissed yellow mini dress, accented by the ever popular black and white.

As a new celebrity who dresses the celebrities, Rachel Zoe’s own style has taken storm due to her reality show. One can’t miss the larger than life luxurious fur vests she favors, paired with skirts or skinny jeans. While she favors vintage, her look has an exotic flair that evokes a Russia meets West Coat influence. Strong prints in rich colors, chunky knits, and bold jewelry are the staple of her look. We will look to her to show us how to mix unusual textures and prints. Rachel is a perfect example of being able to dress high-low by taking a vintage $2000 Chanel gown and mixing it with a $98 faux fur vest from The Limited. Not only is her look fun and fresh, it inspires our inner designer to take risks in mixing styles.

Tough Girl or Biker Chic will edge its way back in, due to the strong women it evokes. The rock style looks of Rihanna and Pink brings their influence to a look that can be dressed up or down. Rihanna will be a style setter for this year with her stunning good looks and cutting edge fashion style. Her sweet smile accentuates her glam rocker appeal. Little black dresses are topped off with edgy fitted jackets that offer zippers, rips, and a sharper structure. While leather seems like an obvious choice, look for unusual takes on the jacket that include fitted knit sweaters over skinny black pants and boots. Leather pants and thigh high boots are creating a tough but glam look. Studded accents on designer handbags or boots are offset with shiny sequins to bring in a feminine touch. A Balenciaga Biker Bag may set you back thousands of dollars for this look, but consider checking out Leratti’s Latest Collection to find her take on new and vintage designer handbags to suit this look.


While it may take awhile for this trend to gain steam, many celebrities have been photographed wearing the new jumpsuit. Kate Hudson, Scarlett Johannsen, and Rosario Dawsen have been seen adding their touch to this retro look. Chunky belts, long chains, and miles of bangles add spunk and glamour to an otherwise simple style. Look for silky, flowy materials that accentuate movement, and show subtle glimpses of skin. Styles will be long or cropped, and will be set off with sexy high heels or boots. The jumpsuit can be dressed down for day, or up for cocktail hour, and may prove to have a versatile ability for the modern women. Look for spring neutrals to bring a safari –tinged feel to the style.

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