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Naturally Colored Tresses

2018 might’ve been the year of technicolor tresses, but 2019 is about stripping away the unicorn-inspired looks and embracing your natural color — the one you were born with. In the last 12 months, Consumers are seeing reviews for hair bleach and lighteners decrease by 48 percent, permanent hair color decrease by 34 percent and even semi-permanent hair color decrease by 25 percent. If this doesn’t prove the rainbow hair colors of yesteryear are fading out, I don’t know what does.

And as if that wasn’t convincing enough, the data-driven platform also reported that reviews of hair color removers and faders increased by a staggering 538 percent. Just think of how much cash you’ll save when you don’t have to sit in a salon every couple of weeks to touch up your blue (or green, or purple, or orange) roots!

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This Includes 50 Shades of Gray!

If you’ve been on the fence on growing out your gray hair, this just might be the year to commit, since natural, silver locks are trending for 2019. Already rocking your grays? Keep your tresses healthy and shiny by using a sulfate-free shampoo,

Gray hair is a natural side effect of being human. Yet the drugstore aisles are loaded with DIY hair dye. If you’re someone that fears going gray, your first instinct may not be to flaunt it.

However, gray and white hair can serve as style accessories that slay. Older stars have paved the way for natural gray with stunning results, and some younger women are embracing gray with dye jobs in silver, white and every tone in between.

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Clothes Can “Pop” with Neon

Bold and bright neon is back and better than ever! But this isn’t about ’80s overload. Follow these simple style tips from Lilliana Vazquez and you’ll look right on trend for 2019.

Don’t pair it with black; it’ll look too harsh! Do pair it with neutrals, like camel or gray, to make it feel sophisticated. Don’t wear head-to-toe neon. No one wants to look like a highlighter.
Do wear one neon item at a time to add a fun pop. Do look for a variety of colors like pink, yellow, green and yellow.

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Big Color for Standout Pouts

Kiss your boring, clear glosses buh-bye! Vivacious, statement lips are gaining momentum for 2019, and why not? A colorful pout is a quick, stylish way to amp up a bare-faced look with a pop of color for the office or happy hour. Editors, Milk Makeup Lip Color ($22; sephora.com) promises a bold, punchy demi-matte kisser. If you’re color indecisive, then you’re still good because loads of companies are putting out lip color palettes in trios or more.

There’s also a plethora liquid matte lipsticks on the market, which can amazingly deliver high pigment color without drying out your lips. Brown lip color is also back. The ’90s had a lot of dark liner, and sometimes solely liner, looks but the 2019 version is all about natural and neutral. “Instead of flat browns that were so popular, it will be a hint of brown, earthy, but with a warmer undertone,” says Murphy. “Somewhere between a brown lip and your actual lip color.”

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Expressive Eyes

What’s next in beauty? The focus shifts to dramatic, bold eyes. Lashes and innovative mascaras are set to have a moment, too, thanks to trend-setting icon Pat McGrath, who majorly played up lashes at the Prada and Versace fashion shows. And perhaps more innovatively, highlights of white eyeshadows are cropping up. The secret of white eyeshadows consists of the amazing ability to radically change even the shape of the eyes. For these purposes, the eyeshadows were applied under the eyebrow, and now we move to the inner corners of our eyes.

We do this with confidence, without the fear of overcoming the contour, to the bridge of the nose – the brighter the eyes, the better. On the movable eyelids, you can apply golden makeup, and the lashes can be twisted with a special pinch and applied black mascara. The eyebrows remain as natural: it only needs a brush and a transparent gel fixer, but more about it later. Pinterest searches for foiled eyeshadow have increased by 169%. And into the new year, that percentage is expected to continue rising.

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Almond, Ombre Nails

There are at least three trends going strong. Between expensive salon services and DIY tricks, there are hundreds of ways to paint, shape, and style nails. But in 2019, ombre-colored nails are expected to be the most popular.

To achieve this particular trend, try a press-on manicure or ombre nail stickers. Not only will this give you a better gradient effect, but it could also save you time and money. For shape, there’s a new king in town, which is neither square nor super pointy. Almond nails are named as such due to their rounded off edges that resemble an almond nut. The nails come to a rounded point at the tip, and are smooth all the rest of the way around. The next time your manicurist asks if you want “square or rounded” nails, the answer is “almond, please.” Believe it or not, the new nail shape for 2019 is named for the soft, rounded shape of the nut. If you want to showcase the latest almond trend, hold off on hitting the nail salon until you’ve built a strong base.

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Twiggy Eyelashes

The legendary doll look of Twiggy is back to the beauty scene for this fall thanks to Gucci, Prada, Rochas and many other world-famous fashion houses, the shows of which were marked by the playful makeup looks of the models featuring super-long and thick eyelashes that could be spotted from afar. The dramatic and mysterious ‘1960s Twiggy makeup style comes to ideally match the romantic and melancholic mood of fall, spicing up your mainly minimalistic looks with a touch of extravagance. Perhaps no makeup ever looks as special and innocent, as the Twiggy doll-like look, which is yet another reason for you to embrace this chic beauty trend this fall (Check out our Sixties Inspired Twiggy Makeup Tutorial to be able to rock this look as skillfully as possible).

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DIY Facials With Cupping and Gua Sha Stones

“The trend of glowing bare skin will take-on more speed and be “the look” for the Spring and Summer. Don’t get me wrong, makeup is great fun from time to time, but waking up looking this good is heaven. All day, every day! Supplements targeted to support skin health will also take more traction as spring approaches. Nothing can replace a healthy, clean, diet as far as your skin is concerned, however, there is compelling research to support the benefits of ingested supplements such as collagen, Omegas, Biotin, and Melatonin (yes! Melatonin for skin, not just for sleep!) to name a few.

At home tools such as facial cupping, gua sha stones, light therapy will be more common in your favorite beauty retailers. Whether it is at home tools or ingested supplements, it’s extremely important to follow instructions, dosing directions and contraindications with other medications you may be taking. Here’s a tip: for at home tools, always practice on the inside of your thigh before using it on your face.” — Joanne DeLeon, Skin Therapist Heyday LA.

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Natural Eyelash “Lifts” with Castor Oil and Facials with Witch Hazel

People are giving their eyelashes a lift with natural solutions like castor oil, grapeseed oil, and aloe vera to draw attention to their peepers. A quick search on Amazon yields loads of options. While it may sound straight out of Hocus Pocus, using old-school products like witch hazel for skincare is going to be very popular for 2019. Calming components and antioxidants in witch hazel can help soothe bug bites and stings, and rashes from poison ivy or oak. It’s also thought to aid acne, oily skin, puffy eyes, and sunburn.

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More, More, Did We Say More? Mesonutrients!

Macro- and micronutrients have been part of our health vernacular for a while now, especially for those who record everything they eat (using apps such as MyFitnessPal). Macros are your fats, carbohydrates and proteins, and micronutrients are minerals and vitamins.

Mesonutrients are next level. These nutrients focus on what’s inside, ie. the active ingredients and compounds within the food that have direct health benefits. For example, the super-compound in turmeric is curcumin, celebrated for its anti-inflammatory and anti-aging properties. In order to extract the optimum dose of this active ingredient from the root (400mg), 10kgs of dried turmeric powder would have to be added to food. So beyond macro and micro-counting, a good knowledge of mesos allow us to carefully tailor our supplements too (if in doubt about what to take, ask a doctor to assess any deficiencies).

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Seth Rogen – For Alzheimer’s Treatment

We all know how much Seth Rogen loves marijuana and we have seen him smoke up in movies such as “Pineapple Express” and “This is The End”. There are some actors who fake being stoners, but Rogen is proud to admit that he is indeed a pothead.

Seth also believes strongly in the benefits of cannabis for Alzheimer’s prevention. In particular, Rogen’s passion circulates around the legalization of CBD for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Rogen’s mother-in-law, Adele Miller, had an early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. He saw first-hand the way how the illness changed her and left her unable to care for herself.

Appearing in front of Congress in 2014, Rogen documented these changes and the impact the disease had on his family’s life. He argued in support of legislation to increase federal funding for care and research of Alzheimer’s.

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Alessandra Ambrosio – For a Good Night’s Sleep

Victoria’s Secret model Alessandra Ambrosio swears by CBD to help her with sleep and anxiety. In an interview, she mentioned that it’s important to get eight full hours of sleep to be ready for a runway show. However, with the stress of an upcoming fashion show, it can be difficult to calm the mind enough sleep easily. When Ambrosio gets anxious, she uses CBD oil to feel more relaxed and peaceful. She also drinks CBD water for an extra cannabis-powered boost.

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Whoopi Goldberg – For Good Living and More

Whoopi Goldberg is a talk show host of The View, actress, performer, comedienne, and cannabis advocate. In fact, many would agree that she is an outspoken cannabis advocate. Goldberg proudly supports CBD as a health supplement.

Whoopi speaks highly of cannabis and its counterparts for various health issues not just feminine. She’s used a vape pen for years for pain, stress and glaucoma. Whoopi has also admitted to consuming CBD when she cannot get THC. She supports people consuming CBD at work as the compound is non-psychoactive.

Last year, she and Maya Elisabeth started Maya & Whoopi – which sells edibles, tinctures, salves, and more.

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Woody Harrelson – For Art and Commerce

Woody Harrelson, a marijuana advocate and actor, has tried and failed to gain a permit that would allow him to open his own marijuana dispensary in Hawaii. A hugely versatile actor, Harrelson has appeared in countless popular tv series and films such as Cheers, Natural Born Killers, White Men Can’t Jump, Zombieland, The Hunger Games, and Seven Psychopaths, to name a few.

Marijuana has even cropped up in his film career. He narrated a weed documentary named Grass and appeared in another documentary by the same director called Go Further. He co-starred with fellow marijuana enthusiasts Matthew McConaughey and Willie Nelson in the stoner comedy Surfer, Dude before popping up in another documentary called Hempsters: Plant the Seed.

Here’s betting Harrelson will get his dispensary in the future!

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Mike Tyson – It’s a Good Investment

Former boxer Mike Tyson is also constructing Tyson Ranch, a project to build a pot farm in California City, approximately 50 miles from Los Angeles. Rob Hickman, an investor backing Tyson Ranch, told CNNMoney that Tyson “doesn’t drink anymore, he’s a heavy CBD and a heavy marijuana user.” “The news of Mike Tyson setting up a cannabis farm caught many by surprise because he’s not necessarily a figure that you would associate with cannabis use,” said John Kagia, a cannabis industry analyst for New Frontier Data.

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Gene Simmons – Purely for Business

Aside from advocating the amazing benefits that CBD has to offer, many celebrities also invest in the cannabis industry. Gene Simmons invested $10 million in Invictus, a Canadian cannabis grower. Although he’s never smoked pot, he’s quoted as saying that he believes in cannabis. For Simmons, it’s purely a business move. “I’ve got $10 million wrapped up in the stock because I believe in it,” Simmons told CNNMoney. Invictus went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange last month with a ticker bearing his name: GENE.

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Montel Williams – A Veteran’s Recovery

Montel has been famous for years for his acting career, but in 2016 the cannabis community won a huge victory while he was travelling through the Frankfurt airport. Police found cannabinoids in his luggage, but after he proved that it was CBD prescribed as a medical use product by a licensed doctor, he was released. Williams suffers from Multiple Sclerosis and has been a proponent of legalization ever since he tried it and found relief. He has been an outspoken advocate since 1999.

Eighteen years ago, television celebrity Montel Williams couldn’t have imagined he’d one day be standing in a sleek Santa Ana dispensary chatting with fans about his new line of cannabis products. Long before California’s modern “green rush,” back when medical marijuana patients still risked having their homes seized for giving cannabis to needy friends, Williams was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. He was also in constant pain, downing a dozen opioids a day and battling depression that left him suicidal.

In 2001, a doctor quietly recommended that Williams try medical marijuana to ease the chronic nerve pain and muscle spasms that accompany his incurable autoimmune disease. Williams says he found immediate relief, and he’s taken cannabis products almost daily since.

He’s also become one of the most high-profile proponents of medical marijuana, supporting legalization initiatives throughout the country even as threats of a crackdown by the Trump administration are looming.

“I feel no one has a right to get into the middle of a conversation between a doctor and a patient,” he said. “If a doctor recommends cannabis, then everyone else needs to shut up and get out of that conversation.”

Williams is passionate about ensuring that serious medical patients such as himself – who need super clean, easy-to-consume products with precise ratios of particular compounds – don’t get forgotten as the more-profitable recreational marijuana movement spreads.

That mission led him Wednesday to Bud and Bloom dispensary in Santa Ana, where the trim 61-year-old in a bright paisley shirt was introducing the first two products available from his new California-based company, LenitivLabs.

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Melissa Etheridge – “Marijuana is Medicine”

Singer Melissa Etheridge realized that marijuana is medicine when she had breast cancer 13 years ago. She has been a recreational marijuana smoker since early adulthood.

After Melissa received her first round of chemotherapy 13 years ago, her whole viewpoint on cannabis changed. Whereas she has previously seen marijuana as something to use for fun, she discovered that it helped to alleviate the terrible suffering caused by chemotherapy. It helped with the pain, and it helped her with depression. Now she is fully recovered and even smokes pot with her adult children!

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Rihanna – For the People

Truly music royalty, Rihanna has won nine Grammy Awards, 12 Billboard Music Awards, and 12 American Music Awards. She has sold over 250 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling musicians of all time, and there seems to be no end in sight to her output. Rihanna is open about her use of marijuana and continues to advocate for its wider legalization and usage.

If there’s one thing that Rihanna doesn’t care about, it’s what people have to say about her. Her public display of affection towards marijuana has been publicized and criticized — even more so since the singer hopped on Instagram in 2011 — still instead of paying mind to the comments section, she rolls up a blunt for the haters. We can’t be mad at that. You love who and what you love, right?

Rihanna’s relationship with weed sparked rumors in 2010 of the singer being banned from a Barbados hotel for heavy pot smoking. Before we knew it, the singer was an advocate for greenery through countless Instagram selfies, showing her with a blunt either between her red-hued lips or between her fingertips.

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Michael J. Fox – Parkinson’s Relief

Best known for starring in the Back to the Future trilogy and the original Teen Wolf, Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991 at the age of 29. He has since begun using CBD as a means of alleviating his Parkinson’s symptoms. The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research has found that a high amount of cannabinoid receptors are found in the human basal ganglia, a group of brain cells responsible for movement and affected by Parkinson’s disease. Several studies funded by MJFF have found that cannabinoids, like CBD, may help to protect brain cells via antioxidant and anti-inflammatory mechanisms.

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Jim Belushi – Back to the Earth

Jim Belushi is an American actor, comedian, farmer, singer and musician. He is the younger brother of the deceased comic actor John Belushi.

Jim’s happy place is growing pot in Oregon. He describes a spiritual connection to the marijuana he’s growing on his 93-acre spread near Eagle Point. Belushi started his cannabis enterprise three years ago with a 48-plant medical marijuana grow that has expanded into the greenhouses, equipment and manpower to compete in an ever-changing cannabis industry.

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Morgan Freeman – For Chronic Pain

Morgan Freeman is an American actor, producer, and narrator. What many fans of his legendary acting don’t realize is that Freeman is using his voice to fight for cannabis legalization. That’s correct, Freeman has pushed for medical marijuana legislation, and arguably way before it was a popular social movement. His advocacy for cannabis use has helped normalize the conversation.

Based on his more recent interviews on the subject, we can safely assume that Freeman has been using cannabis, at least recreationally, since Woodstock. It seems as if the plant’s potential medicinal applications were suggested to him only in 2008, though, after a severe motor vehicle accident left him with chronic pain.

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Snooki’s Weight Loss

Motherhood looks good on Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi. She was a weight-loss machine after giving birth to her first child in late 2012. The pint-sized reality star shed 42 pounds. This past October, less than a year after her first baby, she and husband Jionni LaValle welcomed their second child. Her speedy slimming proved just as ferociously effective the second time around. She looks thinner than ever!

This is more about setting an example of health for her two young ones than it is about looking great in skinny jeans, though she undeniably does. But the reality star suffered from an eating disorder in high school and is all about health as an adult and mother.

“Even though I want to be healthy for myself and it feels great to be healthy, I mainly want to do it for my kids,” Polizzi, 30, has said. “I just really want to be a fit mom. I want to be able to keep up with them, run after them.”

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Snooki’s Kids Names

LaValle is the youngest. Both were graced with proud, Italian names. The Jersey Shore alum recently shared a video of her 5-year-old son Lorenzo and 2-year-old daughter Giovanna repeating their mother’s famous nickname along with the caption, “THE DAY HAS COME.”

In the clip, the former MTV star, who starred on all six seasons of Jersey Shore, asked her oldest child what exactly a “Snooki” is, and he adorably answered: “I don’t know.”

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Snooki’s Real Name

Snooki’s real name is Nicole Elizabeth Polizzi. She was adopted from Chile as an infant, and grew up an only child, with Italian American adoptive parents. Now a mother of two children, Snooki added:

“Eventually, when I was 21, 22, I got my dad drunk and was like, ‘Dad, can you just tell me what went on? Why was I up for adoption?’”

The reality TV star learned that her adoptive parents flew to Chile to pick her up after her birth parents gave her up because they couldn’t afford to raise her.

“I can’t even imagine because I have two kids, putting up a child for adoption, to give them a better life,” she said. “That’s so amazing for them, that shows how much they loved me. But also I could never do that. I can’t even imagine how they felt giving me up but thank you for that.”

Although she says her adoptive parents are her real parents, Snooki said she’d be interested to meet her birth parents.

“In the back of my head I’m always curious to meet my birth family,” she said.

Snooki’s father is a volunteer firefighter and auto-salvage supervisor, and her mother is an office manager. She received her nickname, Snooki, in middle school, when her friends named her after “Snookie”, a male character in “Save the Last Dance” because she was the first of her friends to kiss a boy.

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What Nationality is Snooki?

While she was adopted from Chile, Snooki is not actually Chilean. She took a DNA test to determine her genetic background: she is part Romani, Iberian American, South Asian, East Asian, Middle Eastern, and Jewish with roots in North Western Croatia, Macedonia, Slovakia, Russia, and Spain. She was surprised to learn that while born in Chile, she is not genetically Chilean.

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Snooki’s Age & Workout Routine

The 30-year-old star is determined to keep making health and fitness gains into her 30s. In her workout regimen, she focuses on plyometrics (like burpees or squat jumps) and isolating specific muscle groups to chisel out various sections of her petite body.

“I love that stuff because it burns and I know that I’m making a difference in my body – plus I can’t breathe,” she says. “I like my arms when they get nice and muscley. I’m in the process of trying to get that back.”

Peanut butter is Polizzi’s culinary vice, but she indulges carefully, by the spoonful!

“A scoop of peanut butter is actually good because it’s high in protein,” she explains. “I usually skip every other day, but I’ll do a scoop of peanut butter at night. But I’m addicted to peanut butter right now, I don’t know why.”

Judging by her fitness results, I’d say her discipline is doing just fine.

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Is Snooki Pregnant?

The newest Jersey Shore spinoff details more of the personal lives of the cast than it once did. Polizzi once addressed her want for a third baby, too. During one of the episodes, she felt nauseous and eventually got sick in the bathroom. Since that was unlike her, she revealed to Jenni Farley that she and LaValle were trying for a baby, and she might be pregnant. Farley took her to the pharmacy to get a pregnancy test, but the test was negative that time. Polizzi announced her third pregnancy on Thanksgiving Day.

The next photo Polizzi posted of her two tiny meatballs (OK, technically, there’s three tiny meatballs in the photos, if we’re counting the bun in the oven) is a lot less posed and a lot more real. Not that the first photo wasn’t real, of course. The second photo — which is in color — kind of demonstrates how tough it probably was to get that perfectly posed first pic.

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Snooki’s Net Worth

As of 2018, Snooki’s net worth is $4 million. Snooki debuted in the TV industry from MTV’s ‘Is She Really Going Out with Him?’ After that show, she became a cast member of the MTV reality show, Jersey Shore in 2009. This series helped her gain popularity and extend her career. She was identified as ‘the breakout member of the cast’ and was one of the popular celebrity Halloween costumes of 2010. She also has appeared in many other TV shows including MTV Music Video Awards, New York Stock Exchange, TLC’s Cake Boss, The View CMT Music Awards, and others.

Along with JS cast JWoww, she starred a show titled Snooki & JWoww. She won WWE Slammy Awards for ‘A-Lister of the Year’ in 2011. After getting success on TV Screen, Snooki launched her business of fashion accessories and beauty product. She also wrote a book A Shore Thing but couldn’t gain enough success. Polizzi’s net worth is estimated at $4 million and now earns $150 thousand per episode as of 2018.

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How Tall is Snooki?

Proof that good things come in small packages, Snooki is a diminutive 4 feet 9 inches tall and has a curvy body. She weighs about 98 pounds. Snooki’s eyes are dark brown, and hair is black. She is active on social media with 11.9 million followers on Instagram, about 7 million followers on Twitter and 10 million followers on Facebook to date.

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Who is Snooki’s Husband?

30-year-old Snooki is married to Jionni LaValle. They have been married for three years. She first met her husband in 2001 during a night out in Seaside Height’s fist-pumping headquarters. The pair fell for each other and tied a knot on 29th November 2014 after living being engaged for 2 years.

Born in East Hanover, New Jersey on March 20, 1987, Lavalle is an American reality Television star and a successful entrepreneur who owns several ATM businesses across the country. Jionni is one of four children born to Joe LaValle and Janis LaValle. He grew up in New Jersey and completed his higher education at Centenary College where he studied to become a teacher. His net worth today is nothing to sneeze at. It is estimated at about $200,000.

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Snook’s Future Plans

Snooki made her writing debut in 2011 with ‘A Shore Thing’ and has since pretty much penned a new book to welcome each new stage in life.

According to Elle, she’s also the author of Confessions of a Guidette, Baby Bumps: From Party Girl to Proud Mama and all the Messy Milestones Along the Way, Gorilla Beach, and Strong is the New Sexy. We have a feeling you definitely haven’t seen the last of Snooki and her literary pursuits yet — she probably has a few more novel ideas under her belt. We’ll say one thing — the woman definitely knows how to monetize her fame, from getting fans to buy her books, to slanging all sorts of Shore merchandise. She seems to know that reality television fame doesn’t last forever, so you may as well make the most of it while you’re in the spotlight.

We’re betting on more Jersey Shore, more books and maybe a fourth baby. We’ll be watching for announcements about New Year’s resolutions for 2019 on Instagram or elsewhere! And we’re sure she and JWoww will continue to organize playdates for their children. She and her Jersey Shore co-star have been close friends for over a decade. And the ladies seem to be passing on the good vibes to their daughters.

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The pivotal opening scene

It wasn’t filmed at Wembley Stadium! That’s because it no longer exists. The filmmakers had to recreate it on an airfield in London. Everything in this opening sequence was meticulously crafted to be as authentic as possible, from the band members’ looks and gestures right down to the little details. Anyone interested can find a plethora of YouTube videos like this, with side by side comparisons.

Even those Pepsi cups on Freddie’s piano weren’t a product placement!

It was part of this strict adherence to detail, which included the air kiss Freddie sent to his mother, during the performance. Speaking of trying to replicate this legendary performance Malek has said:

“That’s something we tried to get move for move, even just gesture for gesture perfectly. It felt like I had it in my bones and I didn’t want to keep going back to it. It felt like sometimes you would lose a little bit of the authenticity if you tried to nail it so perfectly.

Things won’t exactly always match up, there might be a hint of something that’s off, but I think that kept it feeling really alive and in the moment and it was better to sacrifice it that way, but yeah, I was watching it non-stop.”

Commitment to the character

Rami Malek was so devoted to understanding & portraying Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in the biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” that he flew to London to begin researching the rock star’s life and career before the movie even secured funding to go into production. He was obsessive in his study of interviews and performances of the rock legend, claiming he’s watched Queens 1985 Live Aid performance over 1,500 times. It was important for Malek to “understand the [different] sides of him,” from his brash entertainer persona to his more “reclusive” side behind closed doors.

“It was a challenge just to correlate who this person was,” Malek said, someone who had grown up in Zanzibar and got shipped off to school in Bombay, and upon his return to Zanzibar, fled a revolution with his family and went to London. That type of childhood is emblematic of someone who is starving for identity.”

Malek’s movement coach, the London-based coach and choreographer Polly Bennett, spoke to Billboard about the complex process that she and Malek went through for the film. “Freddie was a long-distance runner at school and a boxer,” Bennett explained, referring to Mercury’s kinetic stage presence. “This gives us a reason why Freddie ran across the stage and punched the air, and allows me to explain to Rami, This is why that character moves the way that he does. It’s interesting that Freddie only did solo sports, rather than football or rugby or any sort of team sport. In itself, that creates a physical attitude.”

Some of the details were changed to suit the storyline

For instance, in the movie, the members weren’t sure about performing in LiveAid, because they were estranged and hadn’t performed together in a long time. The time in between their work didn’t last for more than a year. They released The Works in February 1984 and then completed a major tour. They’d had some difficulties and disagreements in the past, but they weren’t unprepared. Playing such a short set, during daylight, without a regular warm-up and opening however was a whole, new challenge, to which they rose majestically.

Also, Queen didn’t actually break their contract with EMI / Elektra, though they did indeed have to push to get Bohemian Rhapsody played on the air, and Freddie did appear on the Kenny Everett show in order to get the ball rolling. Queen stayed with EMI and in fact recorded eleven more albums with the label.

Rami was initially as terrified of the costumes as he was of performing as Freddie!

“There was one thing I was concerned wearing, and that was the leotard. There’s a harlequin one, but the one I was worried about the most was the sequin one because it really leaves nothing to the imagination. Not only are you walking out there basically naked, but then you have to strut on stage with the utmost confidence.”

He was probably happy there were no scenes featuring that black lightning bolt costume!

Malek dove in, embracing the flamboyant expression the role required. “At one point, you just have to say, ‘Well, you gotta do it. If you’re going to emulate him, there is no fear on stage.” By the end of shooting Malek had formed such a connection to the stage fashions that he asked the costume department to make him a copy of the sequin leotard in red. (We know what Rami is wearing to next year’s Halloween parties!) He also had his Freddie teeth cast in gold, saying he thinks Mercury would’ve been amused.

Some of the singing was recorded by Marc Martel

While some of the concert scenes were recorded with a blend of Rami’s and Freddie’s voices for an authentic feel, Marc was heavily featured. He’d sent recordings of his covers to Brian Mary and Roger Taylor and they were impressed enough that he performed in a tribute, The Queen Extravaganza in 2012. They hired me to do some of the singing in the movie and give the audience an immersive experience and not be able to tell where the singing is coming from. It is the make the audience believe they are really watching Freddie Mercury sing.”

Marc laid down his vocals at the Abbey Road studio before Malek started working on the film. The music was prepared before shooting so that it could dictate the action.

Mike Myers makes a full-circle appearance

Unrecognizable with curly hair, sunglasses and a beard, Myers cameos as a EMI Executive Ray Foster. “No-one is going to be head-banging in the car to Bohemian Rhapsody,” he’s dead pans. Myers already listened to, and sang, Bohemian Rhapsody in character, in opening of the 1992 comedy Wayne’s World. Wayne and his friends head-banged to the tune in their flame decorated AMC Pacer. This pivotal and hilarious scene reintroduced the iconic track to a whole new generation. The song returned to the chart at number two in 1992 and Queen’s music experienced a resurgence in general.

Queen guitarist Brian May revealed that while filming Wayne’s World, Mike Myers contacted the band to see if they could get approval on the “Bohemian Rhapsody” sequence from Freddie himself. According to May: “I didn’t know Mike Myers, but he rang me up out of the blue and said, ‘We’ve done this amazing sequence in our new film—can we have your approval?’ I took it around to Freddie, who was not in a good state at that time. He was confined to his bed, but I took it around and played it to him and he loved it. Strangely enough, the humor in it was quite close to our own. Because we did that kind of thing in the car, bouncing up and down to our own tracks!” Mercury died three months before the movie was released, but he did see and approve of the scene.

The film had more than one director.

Bryan Singer (img) was initially hired and worked on it almost from the beginning to weeks before production was set to wrap. 20th Century Fox fired him over reported clashes with Rami Malek and others involved in the movie, as well as sudden press attention to some problematic legal issues with Singer in the US. Dexter Fletcher finished the biopic, though Singer received sole director credit.

Even if the critics were less than initially kind, the movie has done quite well at the box office & with some critics

Time Magazine critic Stephanie Zacharek is one of the first major critics to name her favorite films of 2018, and Bohemian Rhapsody is on the list. “It may be a bit of a mess,” Zacharek writes of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “but it’s a glorious one, a polychrome anthem about what it means to live for love and sex, rock ’n’ roll and beauty—the very opposite of sticking to an agenda.”

The immense popularity of this film has begun to carry over to awards season glory. It’s scored two Golden Globe nominations, one for best motion picture drama, and another for best performance by an actor in a motion picture drama. Malek has said he was aware in the beginning that playing an idol of so many could be a make or break proposition, and now he’s ready to celebrate. “It’s great to be recognized in this way. It’s been so many years in the process and to have it culminate in not only myself but the film being recognized is such a tremendous honor and speaks to the level of work that everyone who was a part of this film brought to it. It was a troop of people who were dedicated and committed on such a high level. I’m so proud of all of them.

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