@aliasmisskat is an old married lady: I use L'Oreal Elseve (in Europe, I think it might not exist in the US) or John Freida serum when I heat style it.

@prestocaro: Thanks! It didn't even occur to me that it would seem like more since each strand is so much longer. Duhhhhh.

@Edie Spencer: Well not actually straightening actually, I use one of those hair dryers that are shaped like brushes and blow hot air through a ceramic comb type thing. It's not great but gentler than straightening and just smooths out the (very tightly would) curls. I know I should do it less though :/

Question: I have long hair for the first time in my life recently. It's very curly and thick but I straighten it two or three times a week. How much is too much when it comes to hair loss? Sometimes in the shower a good 5-15 strands will slide off and I'm wondering if that is weird.

I think it is supposed to be (or is) another, possibly male, figure reclining flat on the rocks. That would explain the extra fingers too.

@pssshwhatever: It's just like Italians making fun of Germans making fun of the French making fun of the British and vice versa and so on and so forth. Latin America is just like any other place, it's not one big block of solidarity and people loving each other.

Did somebody hire the editors of The Onion to fill in over the weekend today?

@RhapsodyInWhite: Thank you so much for that. I just watched every second here at 4:40am in Paris, France and, yes, cried.

@Sukie: Sea Gangster: It is definitely possible, but this looks intentional. To be fair though, that picture on the right (of darker skinned Gabby) seems to have been taken in low indoor light which can cause dark skin to trend way, way darker. The ELLE cover though must be intentional, they seemed to have removed her…

@armadillo: Interesting point, I see both sides of the argument. I just don't think that "Where are you from?" should *automatically* be seen as offensive and a taboo topic. I mean, what are we if not where we are from?

I might see this for the simple reason that I really, truly, metaphysically enjoy watching Angelina Jolie look pretty on a movie screen.

@divinelioness: To each their own I suppose but I find it interesting. I don't particularly identify with a certain one of the ethnic groups that make me up but it fascinates me to think that the climate and migration history of a particular piece of land where people related to me used to live has a noticeable effect…

Neutral observation:

@ZemarSea Urchin: You lost me at "this woman needs to...."

@sandy79: Bullshit! Real Italians (like, actually from Italy, not those clowns from Jersey who say moozar-elle and pasta fay-ul) most definitely eat rice and polenta.

The most important point of this article that is either deliberately misleading, poorly reported or just plain vague.

@divinelioness: I'm not a model, but I am white and people ask me my ethnicity on the constant.

@tacotico: Why not? I'm white and people ask me what ethinicity I am all the time (Irish, Italian, German, French and Spanish for the record).

@Damien Lavizzo: Umm, what is inaccurate about that? The Bell Jar is indeed only one novel, not two or three or four novels, but one singular novel. And it is the only one that Sylvia Plath wrote. The point I was trying to make is that she is more well known as a poet so including her on a list of great and prolific…

@MissBuckyC: I submit that Joan Didion is rather the Great American Essayist and for that she has no competition.