Inside the head of “real life” Barbie Valarie Lukyanova

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Mercedes Chloe

Valeria Lukyanova has courted international controversy by transforming herself into a human Barbie using plastic surgery and dramatic make up to become “the most perfect woman on the internet”.

With currently 876,000 Facebook Fans and 7,484 Twitter followers, her tiny waist, skeletal arms and enormous blue colored contact lenses, have continuously made headlines around the world.

Ukraine’s Valeria believes that being Barbie is the embodiment of perfection, and at only 23 years of age, is determined to transform herself into a human doll. Martha De Lacey, a writer for the Daily Mail shared that a vice.com documentary-maker has gone behind the scenes with Valeria to capture her “idiosyncratic life” on film.

Valeria Lukyanova

Vice director, Will Fairman shared with the MailOnline that he had been interested to learn more about Valeria, once she popped up in “bewildering and bizarre images and videos” on the internet. “I followed it up and discovered she was a new age opera composer and gave seminars on spirituality, so she obviously had a few more strings to her bow than just being a Tumblr girl.” He said.
Apparently Valeria was skeptical to say yes to the interview, but once Vice.com agreed to do the documentary on her “spiritual and astral theories” she said yes.

Valeria genuinely believes that she is from a completely different planet (possibly Venus) but isn’t 100% sure. “She’s not a fraud” said director Will Fairman. “She genuinely believes she’s from another planet. 100 per cent. She’s not making any money from her life – not even from the seminars she gives – which is originally why I thought she was doing this.”

Human Barbie

So how on earth does she get the money to pay for all of this surgery? She is supported by her husband (a construction worker) who labels himself as her manager. Throughout the documentary he spends time discussing “theories” about her pre-earth space life.

“I come from a place where only love and joy exist..but I noticed the media is only interested in negativity: show someone in a bad light, show someone’s mistakes. There are hate blogs and communities about me who post bad pictures about me and try and worsen my mood. Perhaps at some point I was an energy vampire, because I constantly received their negative reactions and enjoyed it. Specifically for them I created posts that would make them angry.But people who think badly of me just aren’t happy in their own lives. When they are happy they will forget about me.” She says.

Valeria also added in that she only has a small group of friends who accept who for exactly who she is. “I asked myself if everything was alright with my head. I hear voices all the time and see different beings. One day I decided to visit a psychiatrist. I told him everything-He listened to me carefully and said it was very lucky it was him because with another doctor I definitely would have been taken to a special place. But he said, “I’ve been studying esoterism for years and can see you are psychic”.

Valeria Lukyanova in Vice documentary

The director added in that Valeria was kind of like the “really pretty, popular girl at school who you’re completely blown away by. She’s like a little queen, and she carries herself like that all the time. She never breaks. It’s not like the camera turns off and she whips out a cigarette and gets into a tracksuit. She’s naturally like that: a girl who has been getting attention ever since she was a teenager and gets crazy attention wherever she is. And she is paranoid about not looking perfect. I don’t know exactly where it comes from, but I suspect really it’s down to… she seems to have a quite a lot of issues about her physical self, and is incredibly fixated with her image. She manages it down to the finest detail, which is why something so much as a missing belt can trigger a stroke.” He stated to the Daily mail. What’s your theory?

Kissed By A Rose

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Mercedes Chloe

Kissed By A Rose by mercedeschloe featuring christian louboutin shoes

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Juice Cleanse

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Mercedes Chloe

When first looking into companies that offer juice cleanses, I was sure to look up reviews and ratings before jumping into one. While I have heard that they are good for you, Laura Argintar a writer from refinery29 confirms that the “jury is still out on whether juice cleanses actually detox the body”.

So it took me months before realizing that a juice cleanse is something that I really want to experiment with and actually do wholeheartedly. The top three companies that interested me the most were: BluePrintCleanse, CoolerCleanse and OrganicAvenue. I made sure to research the taste, calorie information and sugar level of each drink.

To sum it up, I learnt that BluePrintCleanse offers three different levels. Renovation, Foundation, and Excavation. Renovation was designed for beginners (like me)! Which is designed to gently rid the body of impurities by using 100% organic, raw, and fresh pressed fruit and vegetable juices in replacement of meals. The juices are also numbered in the order that you should drink them in, and one days worth of juice is made with approximately 20 pounds of freshly pressed fruits and vegetables. BluePrint founder Zoe Sakoutis says that “The nutrients go directly into your blood stream, feeding your cells within 10 to 15 minutes to help you regain an alkaline balance while normalizing your digestion and metabolism.” Fans of the BPC include Blake Lively, Sarah Jessica Parker and Olivia Wilde.

Blue Print Cleanse

Then there was cooler cleanse which offers a 24 hour cleanse, opposed from a 3 day cleanse like BPC. For first time cleansers, this seems like the most compelling way to experience the “invigorating power” of raw juices including “yummy” (sarcasm is getting the best of me) ingredients like kale and spinach. Similar to BPC, it contains of six juices that you drink every two hours but my research shows that it’s calorie count is much less than BPC (less than 1000 a day), so I questioned weather this would be right for me once I started to introduce food again. “The Juice For A Day program provides the benefits of juicing, without letting people feel like they’re in over their heads,” says Eric Helms who is the co-founder of Cooler Cleanse. “Just replace your regular meals with six fresh-pressed juices for a day-long mini-cleanse that will leave you feeling like a brighter, lighter, more supercharged version of yourself.”

Last but not least: Organic Avenue. These adorable little chubby bottles and passing the store on Lexington Avenue (each and every morning) made me intrigued to research. I found an article written by glamour editor: Mariana Khidekel, and read about her first experience “cleansing”. With fans like Gwyneth Paltrow, and being New York City based, I decided to find out more about this company realizing it was founded by Denise Mari who started the company on the belief that “you are what you eat, beauty comes from the inside out and healing happens naturally via a fresh food, plant based diet”. This was another confirmation as to why I wanted to try a cleanse.

Similar to health editor Mariana Khidekel, I am also someone who wants to do it all or nothing. So the verdict for me was picking BluePrintCleanse. After all it is available via website, or FreshDirect (a website I use way to often)! And I could start it as early as tomorrow without hesitation. The only downer to ordering my cleanse via freshdirect and not the actual website itself is that I don’t get motivational emails or an instruction booklet-but I found this as a positive thing, realizing that I could better understand it via internet and reviews.

So the cleanse came mid afternoon and after a night of drinking yesterday at 230 fifth avenue (which I will review in an additional post) I felt like it was much more appropriate to start the cleanse tomorrow when I would feel better from drinking my weight in vodka (not literally). Once the box arrived, I unpacked the sparse design containers and hoped that I could stomach the $70 per day drink.

I then read that NY times writer Judith Newman compared the green juice to “drinking everything bad that ever happened to me in high school.” Gasp! Anyway I will update tomorrow, and in the meantime eat up on the food that I can. In other words that means ordering $68 worth of food for two people from seamless. Wish me luck!

Valentino

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Mercedes Chloe

Lots of Luck needed for my first BPC!

Mr Barnby

NYC skyline

Secret thin mint Starbucks and butter beer frappachino

Donating clothes to charity

Beautiful pink roses

The best present ever<3!

Eating up on fruit before my BluePrintCleanse starts tomorrow!

Kate Middleton in Labor

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Mercedes Chloe

It seems as though my predictions for the royal baby might be right. Aside from being my “half” birthday today (21.5) and intuition, the web is overflowing with news.

Clarence House

It has been released that the Duchess of Cambridge is in the early stages of labour and was admitted to the hospital around 5.30 AM (UK time) this morning as she prepares to give birth to the future king or queen of England.

The Duchess travelled by car from Kensington Palace to St Mary’s hospital, without police escort. However this morning there is a strong police presence around the hospital and two police offices are guarding off the entrance to the private Lindo wing.

Experts seem to believe that the Duchess of Cambridge could be in labour for up to a day and a half, however consultant obstetrician Patrick O’ Brien said the average length of labour for first time mothers is about 12 hours long. That means that the royal baby could be born later this afternoon or early evening.

Palace officials chose to make the announcement that the Duchess has gone into labour, in an attempt to balance her dignity with the fact that social media makes it close to impossible to keep her baby’s imminent arrival a secret.

Clarence house sent a press release and then tweeted when they were able to confirm that the royal baby was on it’s way.

Dickie Arbiter, a former press secretary to the Queen said that the birth will be a historic first, as “there will be three heirs in waiting” also adding in that while William will be by Catherine’s side supporting her, the Royal Family will not visit once the new addition arrives.

The Lindo Wing where Kate Middleton will give birth

Former solider Terry Hutt a 78 year old royal fan from Cambridge, has been camped outside St Mary’s hospital for 12 days straight. “I have the best royal bed in town-I have lost my voice with all the excitement. At night we’re watching the hospital in two-hour stints like the army-the health of the abby and kate is the only important element” he says. Mr Hutt is proudly wearing a union flag suit and tie which a Dutch firm donated to him. He laughed off that his trousers (pants) were 10 inches to long for him and that his wife of 51 years thinks he is “a bit mad”.

The Royal Princess?

But he certainly isn’t the only fan camping outside, along with the thousands of people and press waiting outside the hospital from around the world. A “Diana Super fan” known as John Loughrey from south west London said that he was so excited that he was like a “washing machine-full of spin”. He also predicted names, saying that if it’s a girl he thinks Diana will be the middle name, but if it’s a boy he believes Charles will be the name because of how he has “nurtured William and Harry”.

Princess Diana and William

As soon as the baby is born, a proclamation which is signed by the doctors who delivered the baby boy or girl will be rushed from the ward and the sheet of creamy A4-size Buckingham Palace-headed paper will be brought out of the Lindo’s front entrance by a press officer “It will then be handed to a waiting driver and driven through the streets of London – escorted by police outriders – to the Privy Purse Door at the front of Buckingham Palace” Quotes Rebecca English who is a royal correspondent and Martin Robinson.

The Royal Baby

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Mercedes Chloe

The Royal Baby

For whatever reason, I have a feeling that the Royal baby will be born tomorrow. As the media depicts the duchesses actual due date, along with the sex of the unborn baby-I’m going to guess that it is a boy. Royal watchers all over the world, are eagerly anticipating the arrival of the child, that will be heir to the British throne.

The Duchess of Cambridge is expected to give birth in the private Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital, which is next to Paddington Station in London. What’s special about this hospital is that it’s where both prince William and Harry were born.

But as the days go on, people are starting to speculate that the world’s media is camped outside of the wrong hospital. The telegraph reported that a contingency plan is in tact for Catherine, to give birth at the Royal Berkshire hospital located in Reading, if she happens to go into labor while staying at her parents home in Berkshire.

The days long vigil outside of the hospital has inspired a spew of #GreatKateWait tweets from the waiting media, as rounded up by New York Magazine.

Queen Elizabeth II is also keen to meet her new great grandchild. On a visit to northern England on Wednesday, a little girl approached her and asked if she wanted the royal baby to be a boy or a girl. The queen replied that ” I don’t think I mind. I would very much like it to arrive. I’m going on holiday.”

However once the baby is born, it can take as long as ten days before the name is announced. Those who are also born on the same day as the royal baby in Britain, will receive a special coin from the Royal Mint. It will be a silver penny, dated 2013 which comes in either a blue or pink pouch, dependent on their sex.

The first ones to know about the royal baby’s birth will be Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister David Cameron and the governors general of each of the commonwealth nations, along with the remainder of the royals and Middleton families.

With that being said a writer for CNN said that “If the baby arrives in the middle of the night, it’s unlikely the queen will be awoken” which means that there is the possibility that a formal announcement will not be made until the following morning.

Royal sources insist that William and Catherine didn’t want to know the sex of their baby beforehand. However since March, there has been speculation that it is a girl ever since the dutchess almost uttered the word “daughter” while at a public event in Grimsby.

The baby will be third in line to throne after Prince Charles and Prince William, regardless of its gender. This is due to a rule change that took place in 2011, which ended centuries of male primogeniture.

Any other guesses on when the new royal will finally be born!?

why men hate blondes

Posted on July 20, 2013 by Mercedes Chloe

Typical example of a “dumb blonde” joke

Honestly this topic has been pondering around my head for a while now. The older I get, the more that I realize that some men are just sheerly attracted to brunettes, or those with darker hair.

So why exactly is this?

While my theory exonerates far from my ex boyfriend persuading me to dye my hair brunette (and looking terrible after making the RIDICULOUS mistake of complying) I decided to investigate into the matter (the best that I could).

As for the women out there reading this, I would like to clarify ahead of time that one of my best friends in the world is brunette and is absolutely stunning! (along with my two younger sisters). So it’s far from my mind set that something as ludicrous as hair color can make you attractive or unattractive.

So, lets investigate more into the matter. After using google to my advantage, I wasn’t shocked that when typing in “why men hate blondes” into the search bar, 20,400,000 results came up in .29 seconds. Yet when typing in “why men hate brunettes” only 8,520,000 results were found. Thats almost three times as many for blondes, which only clarifies my point even more.

I was also disgusted at some of the comments that I read. For instance one British website “The Student Room” had a thread started by men, simply slagging off blondes-in many different ways.

One man had multiple paragraphs on the matter, saying that he felt that he was being “force fed” blondes to the point where blondes were invisible” to him (GASP!). But his rant did not stop there. He also continued on that “less, I recognize one that used to be an attractive brunette, in which case I can’t help but wince, and think “There goes another one.” Also there’s all the hype for blonde women. Blonde ambition. Legally blonde. Blondes have more fun. Gentlemen prefer blondes.” All whilst hiding behind a user name. Thankfully there were both men and women arguing against his ill words, but one male seemed to agree adding in that “There is some good news! Blondes will soon be extinct!”.

So then I decided to look for some real articles published on the matter. I passed through blog posts, poems, physcfourms, and youtube videos, until I finally reached the fourth page and clicked a blog who wrote that“blondes should be perceived as Exotic sex toys”. Disgusted, I scrolled down hoping for some comments that back lashed the “anti racial” male blogger and his despicable comparison.

Finally I found a Huffinton post article written by “Simone Kitchens” explaining why she decided to make the switch to brunette, adding in that when she walked around with straight blonde hair, she got asked if she was in high school. “It’s a little bit easier to not feel as self-conscious about it now” she said.

So my opinion on this is that it is nothing short of pathetic. To judge a man or woman by their hair color. While I do believe that people can have a “type” of person that they are prone to “liking”- I’m hesitant to believe that if you met the man/woman of your dreams (with everything on your checklist except the correct hair color for you’re liking), I doubt it would stop you from pursing them.

Your intelligence level is by no way shape or form determined by the fact that you were born with a blonde gene, spent too much time in the sun, or felt like dying your hair. Nor is your personality defined by it. Oh and if you have a boyfriend that ever tells you to dye your hair (to what ever he want’s it to be-don’t walk away….run!).