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What Is the Jellyfish Haircut?

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2 years ago

August 29, 2022

Pop quiz: What lives within the ocean, sports activities a mushroom high, radiates a path of angel-hair tentacles and lends its identify to a stylish web haircut?

Final week, a placing photograph shoot that includes Nicole Kidman ignited dialogue of the so-called jellyfish haircut on social media. Some debated whether or not Ms. Kidman’s look was a real jellyfish lower, whereas others discovered of the type for the primary time.

‘It’s nearly punk’

So far as animal-inspired haircuts go, the jellyfish definitely will get factors for creativity even when put next with its cousins wolf hair and the octopus lower. However was Ms. Kidman’s coiffure a real jellyfish lower?

Not precisely. As with many issues on the web, the definition of the jellyfish lower appears to be in flux. Evanie Frausto, who did Ms. Kidman’s coiffure for the brand new problem of Good journal, stated he didn’t got down to give the actress a jellyfish lower however acknowledged that the ultimate consequence shared a lot of its traits. “I actually didn’t even comprehend it was known as ‘the jellyfish,’” he stated in an interview.

Within the photographs, the actress has a blunt pink bob that frames her face, with longer tresses descending towards her torso. Mr. Frausto stated he created a number of seems to be for Ms. Kidman, impressed by the hairstylist Vidal Sassoon’s exact type and Sixties fringe haircuts (Cher’s, particularly).

He selected pink as a nod to Satine, Ms. Kidman’s character in “Moulin Rouge!” And since working actresses like Ms. Kidman can’t drastically change their actual hair, Mr. Frausto stated, “I do convey wigs in for these form of conditions.”

Some folks instructed that Ms. Kidman’s look extra intently resembles the Japanese hime lower. Based on W journal, the hime lower will be traced to the Heian Interval in Japan, starting across the ninth century. Megumi Asaoka, the Japanese pop star, is credited with popularizing the hime lower within the Seventies. In recent times, the look has been related to many anime characters.

Visually, the jellyfish haircut lands someplace between a mullet, a shag and a hime lower: a 360-degree bob with longer hair beneath, near the nape of the neck, with strands of various size to create a layered look.

Based on the superstar hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai, the jellyfish haircut is a “up to date, creative, cleaner” model of a mullet. He stated it reminded him of Mr. Sassoon’s groundbreaking work with daring and asymmetrical hairstyles.

“It’s nearly punk, in a way,” Mr. Fekkai stated. To him, the jellyfish lower says, “I don’t care what you assume.”

Anime was the inspiration for Mari Trombley, a 23-year-old artist in Portland, Ore., when she determined to offer herself a jellyfish haircut in Could. Ms. Trombley is a giant proponent of the look on TikTok: The hashtag #jellyfishhaircut has racked up 10 million views on the platform, and most of the high movies are Ms. Trombley’s.

“I had a personality, Yuna, from ‘Closing Fantasy’ rising up, and I all the time fancied her hair,” Ms. Trombley stated. “She has, like, a blunt bob and an extended braid that goes right down to her ankles. Being half-Japanese and rising up in Japan half time as properly, I grew up seeing the coiffure pop up on different anime characters.”

When she first lower her hair within the type, Ms. Trombley didn’t know there was a reputation for it. It was simply an “over-the-sink, kitchen-scissors haircut,” she stated. When a commenter on TikTok advised her the look was known as the “jellyfish haircut,” she embraced the time period.

Ms. Trombley stated the jellyfish lower differs from the hime lower as a result of that type is brief solely within the entrance, across the face. The jellyfish lower is a bob throughout the pinnacle. So from the again, the jellyfish lower resembles, properly, a jellyfish.

‘Get inventive with customizing your avatars’

TikTok and Instagram are mighty engines in relation to hair tendencies, however they’re as fickle as they’re quick. Mr. Fekkai stated that TikTok each accelerates and exaggerates hair tendencies, favoring whoever can create the wildest, most eye-catching seems to be. However hair tendencies just like the jellyfish usually disappear as shortly as they come up, he stated.

One cause the jellyfish haircut has caught some folks’s consideration is its versatility. It may be styled one method to recommend quick hair, or one other to emphasise the lengthy components with curls, extensions, colour, charms or experimental braids. (Ms. Trombley has braided her lengthy hair into star shapes.)

For her half, Ms. Trombley stated she was simply having fun with the enjoyable and individuality of her look. She added that she will get many messages from strangers on-line saying they’d lower and dyed their hair to appear to be hers. And in individual?

“I’ve gotten unusual seems to be from, like, older girls, and plenty of compliments from youthful folks,” she stated.

In one in every of her hottest TikTok movies, Ms. Trombley emphasizes her predominant piece of recommendation: “Get inventive with customizing your avatars.” She echoed the message in her interview.

“I dwell my life day-after-day prefer it’s a online game,” she stated. “Working my server job and issues like that, I’d costume up and do my hair and make-up simply the identical.”

“You won’t see different folks doing it, however why not break these boundaries the identical means you could change your avatar in a online game?” she continued. “You’ll be able to change what you appear to be tomorrow in case you needed to, and it’s totally as much as you.”

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Ina Garten shares her secret for a great dinner party: 6 people and round table

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10 mins ago

September 30, 2024

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Ina Garten shares her secret for a great dinner party: 6 people and round table

“I love cooking for people I love,” Ina Garten says. “And the cooking is just the medium; the thing that I care about is the connection.”

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Ina Garten, the host of the Food Network’s Barefoot Contessa, still remembers a disastrous party she threw when she was 21. She’d invited 20 guests, with the intention of making an individual omelet for each person — except she barely knew how to cook an omelet.

“I was in the kitchen the entire time,” Garten says. “It was such a bad party, I almost never had another party again.”

Garten says she learned a few things from the experience — not the least of which was to keep things simple. Her ideal dinner party is six people sitting at a small, round table. And, yes, the shape of the table matters.

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“Very often people have long, rectangular tables that are way too wide and people are seated too far apart,” Garten says. “I like when everybody’s knees are almost touching and it feels very intimate, with a dark room and a candle in the middle.”

Garten’s relaxed approach to entertaining is the hallmark of Barefoot Contessa, which debuted in 2002. Filmed in the kitchen of her home in East Hampton, N.Y., the show follows Garten as she shops for ingredients, tests recipes and sits down to eat with her husband Jeffrey and their friends.

“When you cook for people you love, they feel taken care of, and you make great friends and you create a community for yourself,” she says. “And I think that’s really what we all need, and what we all kind of hunger for.”

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An Emmy and James Beard Award winner, Garten has also penned 13 cookbooks. In the new memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens, she details how she went from working in the White House to becoming a beloved culinary voice, with fans from all walks of life.

“One of the things I love about what I do is that everybody cooks,” she says. “I was walking up Madison Avenue one day and a woman in a big fur coat … said, ‘Darling, I just just love your cookbooks.’ And a block later, a truck driver pulled over and said, ‘Hey, babe, I love your show.’ And I thought, That’s food. Everybody’s interested in food.”

Interview highlights

On how working for the federal government in the 1970s connects to her love of cooking

I worked in a group called Office of Management and Budget, and what we did was write the president’s budget that was sent to Congress. And I worked in nuclear energy policy. … I’ve always been very interested in science, and the way I feel about what I do now is it’s science, but you end up with something delicious instead of enriched uranium.

On buying a specialty food store in Westhampton, N.Y., when she was 30

I walked in and they were baking chocolate chip cookies. And I just remember thinking, Wow, this is where I want to be. … So we met with the owner and I made her a low offer. She was asking for $25,000, which was more money than we had in the world. And I just, on a whim, offered her $20,000, thinking, Well, we’ll go home, we’ll negotiate, I’ll have time to think about this. And we drove back to Washington [D.C.]. And Monday morning, I was in my office and the phone rang, and … [the owner] said, “Thank you very much. I accept your offer.” And I remember thinking, s***, I just bought a food store. I remember going to my boss and going, “You’re not going to believe what I just did.”

On the store’s name, Barefoot Contessa

The name really related to Diana [Stratta, the previous owner], not me. But then as the summer progressed, I realized it actually had a resonance. … It was about being elegant and earthy at the same time. And I think that really was what the store was about.

On a time when she separated from her husband Jeffrey

This was the ‘70s and we both assumed that he would be the husband and I would be the wife and that he would take care of the finances and I would have dinner on the table. I mean, we had prescribed roles, but it was a time when women were becoming aware that just because we were women didn’t mean that there were things that we had to do. I really credit Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan for making us think about it. And it may be that you want to have dinner on the table, but it doesn’t mean that because you’re the woman, you’re the only one who should have dinner on the table. So I was becoming aware of this, and Jeffrey, who had no reason at all to change his mind, wasn’t. And so I found some frustration with being in a prescribed role as the wife. …

One weekend in Westhampton, that first summer, we took a long walk on the beach and I said, “I feel like I need to be on my own for a while.” And Jeffrey said the right thing. He said, “If you feel you need to be on your own, then you need to be on your own.” And he went back to Washington and didn’t come back. And it was a tough time, but it led us back to a different kind of relationship.

On writing about her unhappy childhood

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Remember, this was the ‘50s. It’s not the era of helicopter parents who are encouraging their children to do extraordinary things. This is an era where you did what the parents told you to do. And my parents were particularly harsh about it. … [My mother] dealt with it by pushing us away and making sure that she didn’t actually have to spend time with us. So I spent most of my time in my bedroom, and my brother spent time in his. And then my father was a really, really harsh authoritarian figure. If you didn’t do exactly what he wanted you to do, it was met with pretty serious anger and sometimes … hitting. And it was a very difficult way to grow up. … The only thing I remember is just total disappointment, because I wouldn’t do what they wanted me to do. They never gave me an opportunity to do what I wanted to do.

I talk about this in the book, not so much because it was such a terrible childhood. It certainly wasn’t a happy one, but there were so many worse childhoods. But I wanted people to know that the story of your childhood doesn’t necessarily need to be the story of your life.

Therese Madden and Anna Bauman produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz and Beth Novey adapted it for the web.

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L.A. Crafted

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51 mins ago

September 30, 2024

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(Textile sculpture of crafting materials and tools made by Los Angeles artist Mashanda Lazarus; photo by Robert Hanashiro / For The Times)

Los Angeles’ creative class extends far beyond Hollywood. In this series, we highlight local makers and artists, from woodworkers to ceramists, weavers to stained glass artists, who are forging their own path making innovative products in our city.

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HBO's 'Industry' is nasty, stressful, and irresistible : Pop Culture Happy Hour

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September 30, 2024

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HBO's 'Industry' is nasty, stressful, and irresistible : Pop Culture Happy Hour

Marisa Abela as Yasmin Kara-Hanani in Industry.

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Marisa Abela as Yasmin Kara-Hanani in Industry.

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The latest season of HBO’s Industry was over the top. The drama is about backstabbing, morally compromised investment bankers. But it managed to make its characters even more backstabb-y and ethically dubious than ever before. Frenemies fought hard. Buried vices and addictions came to light. And death hovered over the entire season in shocking fashion.

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