Not everyone can get away with it. But then again, not everyone has the versatility and appeal of Lara Stone. The bleached eyebrows trend is emerging, yet this shoot shows the model styled ahead of this trend back in February, in fact she can even be credited as one of the first to wear this 2010 fashion trend as it now becomes more prominent.
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2009 pictures
Behind the scenes at Victorias Secret 2009
Leighton Meester at American Eagle Outfitters flagship store preview party
Maryna Linchuk & Terry Richardson for H&M (NSFW)
Bar Refaeli for Passionata 2010
Jacquetta Wheeler in Amica December 2009
Rock-Bourgeois by Massimo Pamparana (NSFW)
Chanel Iman in H&M Magazine Winter 2009
Laura Kenner: Vanity Fair, October 2009
Tetyana Brazhnyk: Elle, December 2009
Alexi Freeman Autumn(Fall)/Winter 2010 Lookbook
Nadejda Savcova: Elle, December 2009
It seems that lately Leighton Meester has been doing everything in her power to break free of her Blair Waldorf chains. Clearly conscious of what life beyond Gossip Girl will hold, her new image is polar opposite to her preppy Gossip Girl alter ego; sexy, sultry, and bad-girl supreme.
Seen at the American Eagle Outfitters flagship store party, Meester wore a tiny black Paule Ka leather dress with a revealing neckline, matching leather bandeu, and vampish red lipstick.
Normally reserved for equestrians, the leather gaiter is adapted to a stiletto form in this fashion shoot for Velvet magazine, Italy. The super-high heel gives the shoe a distinctly fetish feel; a theme which is also carried across other elements of the shoot like leather catsuits and see-through lace tops.
As anticipation builds for the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2009/2010, the brand's "Angels" have been getting exposure in numerous places. Alessandra Ambrosio popped up recently in a photo shoot for M Guia Brazil.
The shoot is themed around night time and parties; and features ruffles, florals and short hems, perfect for balmy summer nights.
It's easy to forget that eyebrows have trend cycles of their own; albeit cycles that move much more slowly than other beauty, hair and fashion trends.
While the full and natural, yet still maintained, style of brows have been on-trend for quite some time, the 'in fashion' shape certainly hasn't trended towards pencil thin eyebrows. And that's not about to change. A natural style and shape remains the style to have.
What's changing is the colour. Look hard and you'll see that bleached blonde eyebrows are currently a beauty trend. While no one should go to the extreme of shaving them off and having no eyebrows at all, those bleached to be peroxide blonde are now amongst the growing list of 2010 fashion trends.
Very much a runway and editorial beauty trend, bleached eyebrows are slowly filtering through into street fashion. We say bleached, but we suspect that more often than not cutting edge fashionisers are simply masking their natural eyebrow colour with some clever make-up techniques.
Pictorially, model Lara Stone was one of the first to stand out with fair brows and, thus, popularise the look. More recently models Alla Kostromicheva, Ranya Mordanova, and Katlin Aas have followed suit and have been sporting the look.
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