I would have watched a whole movie just of this version of the prince. The wig, costume, and makeup were GORGEOUS! I adored the half up/half down wig – it utilized the sausage-curls and hairbow without going full-on George Washington ponytail, while the loose curls are so much softer than those tight Charles II-style peruques.
For the makeup, the fact that they fully embraced the rococo men’s powder & rouge was fabulous on its own, but adding that blue butterfly bit around the eyes really brought it to the next level of beauty and exoticism.
The clothing – wonderfully excessive ornamentation here, perfect for a decadent prince. And I loved how they did a closeup of his beautiful heel-and-buckle shoes at one point.
A++ to the costumers here. A spectacular look.
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if you make the pasta in italy, they kill you
From the excellent account Italians Mad At Food, which you should follow – I can’t decide which of these is my fave but it’s probably “what’s next? Killing some infants?”
I like that almost all of them mention their grandmothers. I thought that “Italians: if you don’t use the left leg of a pig from this one village in Tuscany my grandma will haunt you” thing was a joke but apparently not.
NONNAS ARE NOT JOKES. NONNAS WILL BEAT YOU WITH A WOODEN SPOON FOR NONSENSE BULLSHIT PASTA MAKING.
Italians are purists regarding their cuisine. You KNOW it.
You admire us for this.
If you bastardize it and have the gall to call it Italian in any way, and then receive vehement insults and threats, you had it coming.
(PLEASE REMEMBER THAT ITALIANS CAN SHOUT AT YOU AND EACH OTHER AND STILL CALL YOU A PAL. I WOULD NOT TAKE THREATS SERIOUSLY. BUT I WOULD NOT CROSS THEM AGAIN ON THE SUBJECT, JUST IN CASE).
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