updo
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“I was very disillusioned,” he says, headphones crowning his dreadlocked updo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
Escola sported a curly updo and a gown that was an homage to the costume Peters wore accepting her Tony in 1999 for “Annie Get Your Gun.”
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025
Later, Parton — glamorous in a skirt, high heels, her signature blonde updo and hot-pink nail polish — picked up a rhinestone-encrusted black guitar and played a miniconcert, including “Coat of Many Colors.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
She’d packed a blonde updo and shimmery red gown — the perfect look, she thought, for lip-syncing Christian music singer Sandi Patty’s ultra soprano, five-minute rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2022
It’s styled in a conservative, yet sophisticated updo.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
While the popular girls strutted through the halls with their effortless Pinterest-inspired updos, I was applying brown eyeshadow to my scalp to disguise the sparse spots.
From Slate ● May 23, 2026
Today, she is a pop-culture icon whose indigenous fashion, famous unibrow and braided updos are as commercialized as her artistic output.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Participants dip their heads underwater, emerge into the frigid air, then employ their creativity in styling updos that vary in appearance, including crazy spikes and tangled mops.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023
There were gowns and suits and bow ties and diamonds, clavicle bones and updos.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2023
Alternating lacquered bouffant updos reminiscent of the 1960s with dyed Marine crew cuts, Mr. Palau, in concert with Mr. Jacobs, playfully undercut the tropes of masculine and feminine presentation.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2018
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