updo
Americannoun
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updos
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Then the director introduced Megan, regally dressed in a royal blue silk gown and sporting an updo.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2024
“Maybe it’s just the way I am,” she said, sitting in her office wearing an immaculate white dress and her hair styled in an elegant updo.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2023
She emphasized Hedwig’s insecurity about her class and her appearance, with her severe updo and unflatteringly oversize dresses.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 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
I read the term dramatic updo in a magazine once.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
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
Her hair is done in a series of complicated 1930s updos, braids and buns, the occasional tendril just escaping its bonds.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2022
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