Poppy Miller, a 12-year-old girl scout, held her mother’s oversized iPhone 6 in her small hands, punching in the letters of a UCLA student’s Venmo username. She took orders and distributed Thin Mints and Samoas to the people who had stopped at her troop’s booth on Bruin Walk, busily working to help her new customers. […]
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Twins model dynamic work bond for Brandy Melville
Twin sisters Daphne and Marielle Meyer do everything together. Their sibling dynamic is always present, whether driving to a hidden beach, squabbling in a hardware store or play-fighting between the camera flashes of Brandy Melville photographers. Daphne Meyer, a second-year world arts and cultures student at UCLA, and her twin sister, Marielle Meyer, a second-year […]
Q&A: Alumna shares three-year path to graduation, career building
Three was the magic number for Jenée Dana. Dana graduated from UCLA in 2005 as a third-year geography and environmental studies student, rather than completing the traditional four-year undergraduate track. Since then, Dana has checked three boxes. The first was opening her paper-planner company, “My Focus Book LLC,” a tool she created to stay organized […]
Love | Hate: Is Kanye creating fashion or a fiasco?
This just in: Kanye West announces the beginning of Yeezy Season 4. Though it’s been just over a year since the premiere of Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 1, the hype is as strong as ever. The secrecy and celebrity appeal surrounding the highly anticipated fashion shows of Yeezy Season 2 and Yeezy Season 3 completely […]
Alumna uses MAC, New York Fashion Week as foundation for career
Andrea Tran dabbed an eyeshadow brush in a light shade of eyeshadow and spread it on her eyelids. She then applied a darker shade to the outer corners and blended the colors together with a blending brush to fade the colors in the popular smokey eye look. “It’s an obsession,” Tran said. “It’s kind of […]
UCLA student displays self-taught, YouTube-inspired makeup skills
Samaria Hudson has transitioned from dancing on stage to working behind it over the course of 2015. Third-year psychobiology student Hudson and two other students will be makeup artists for the UCLA Cultural Affairs Commission’s fashion show, “So Fresh and So Clean,” Thursday. A budding makeup artist, Hudson was chosen because she can craft natural […]
Party Flavors: Zucchini-walnut loaf
The party food landscape has become increasingly homogeneous, with its ubiquitous bag of Doritos rather than homemade fudge or stuffed mushrooms. Columnist Erin Nyren would like to bring back the house parties of yore, in which everyone cooked or baked something to share. In a “Parks and Recreation” episode, characters April and Andy throw a […]