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Jessica Stam: Uptown | Downtown Beauty

Jessica Stam

Jessica Stam. Photos: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images | Jemal Countess/Getty Images

Uptown: Tommy Hilfiger Prep World NYC Pop-Up House
Look: The 25-year-old print and runway model, who's known for her piercing blue-gray eyes, embodies all-American beauty with a fresh face, natural brows, straight strands and bubblegum pink pout.

Downtown: Summer With Off Duty Party 2011
Look: Stam appears lit-from-within in illuminating eye makeup, dewy skin, rose lip gloss and naturally wavy hair accentuated with a braid at the crown.
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Kerry Washington: Uptown | Downtown Beauty

Kerry Washington

Kerry Washington. Photos: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images | Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for V-DAY

Uptown: ESPY Awards 2011
Look: The 34-year-old actress, who will star as a public relations consultant to the President who leaves to start her on crisis management firm in the ABC drama "Scandal" this fall, rubbed shoulders with super athletes like Serena Williams and Brian Wilson donning an elegant updo, shimmering eye shadow and glossy nude lips.

Downtown: V-DAY's Viva Vevolution! Fundraiser
Look: Washington is a vision in voluminous curls, perfectly arched brows, subtle blush and fuchsia lipstick.
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Charlotte Ronson Launches Beauty Collection This Fall

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Charlotte Ronson has long been known for a sort of effortless, laid-back kind of cool, and the same applies to her girly meets downtown clothing lines. Now all of that has been translated to beauty, as the designer is set to launch her first hair and makeup collection exclusively with Sephora this September. The small, edited line -- inspired by family and friends -- includes six items: A beachy salt spray named 'Ann' (after Ronson's gorgeously wavy-haired mother) and a sheer, nude lip gloss called 'Samantha' (for her DJ sister). Then there's 'Nicole,' a shimmery, earth tone-hued eyeshadow palette (dedicated to close friend Nicole Richie) and 'Rashida' (as in Jones), a subtle finishing powder aimed to recreate her other pal's no-makeup makeup look. The collection also includes a liquid bronzer and blush trio.

While the line wont be able available until September 15th, you can preview everything on sephora.com right now.

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Nicole Richie: Uptown | Downtown Beauty

Nicole Richie. Photos: Kevin Mazur/WireImage | Michael Buckner/WireImage

Uptown: "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" Costume Institute Gala
Look: The 29-year-old socialite and House of Harlow designer channels Old Hollywood glamour in cascading blond curls, gray smoky eye makeup and ruby red lipstick.

Downtown: Ella Moss 10 Year Anniversary Celebration
Look: Richie rocks a pretty summer look that starts with a French braid, black mascara atop her lashes and hot pink pout.

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Alfred Hitchcock's Beautiful Blondes

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Alfred Hitchcock has long been revered as the master of suspense. Each of his sixty-seven films are marked with Hitchcock's identifiable flair: a mind-twistingly clever, yet unnerving plot; a cameo (only spanning a few seconds) of the portly director himself and last but not least, a magnificently blonde leading lady. But as it always goes, Hitchcock's genius came with consequences. Recently, several books have been released exposing the director's issues with women. In celebrity biographer Daniel Spoto's Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies, the author quotes Hitchcock as saying of his heroines, "Nothing pleases me more than to knock the ladylikeness out of them." According to Spoto, Hitchcock fell helplessly in love with a number of his lead actresses, one of whom - Tippi Hedren - he sent into clinical shock after having her be attacked by real birds for a full week during filming of (what else?) his 1963 classic The Birds. He then reportedly demanded she be at his "sexual beck and call" during the filming of Marnie that same year.

Nonetheless Hitchcock's films remain some of the greatest cinematic experiences in recent history. In honor of what would have been Hitchcock's 111th birthday, we gathered some of the director's most memorable leading ladies - all blondes, all beautiful and all equally alluring.


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