Showing posts with label buying power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buying power. Show all posts

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Men Around the World Seek Cosmetic Surgery

Hot topic of the day -- do men need to care about beauty rather than just being neat, properly attired, and clean? According to a new article and poll released by the Dubai Congress on Anti-Aging, men now account for one in every five plastic surgeries in their country. Seriously.




"Men in increasing numbers around the world are using cosmetic surgery, driven by the credit crunch and 'man boobs.' The number of male breast reduction procedures carried out is growing rapidly."




Now that the stigma attached to having plastic surgery has all but disappeared in most major metropolitan areas, the meterosexual males are stepping into the waiting rooms of cosmetic surgeons offices everywhere.




Men Around the World Seek Cosmetic Surgery



So what's your thoughts on guys getting a little nip and tuch here and there? Leave your comment below right here.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Michael Jackson: Wonderland VIDEO TOUR of the Las Vegas 'Wonderland Estate' dream home that MJ wanted to buy to replace Neverland

Michael Jackson never wanted to return to Neverland Ranch. He's been repeatedly quoted as saying so to credible sources and reporters. Now that he's dead, his family is split about where to bury him -- should he be give a memorial plot at Forrest Lawn cemetery, taken back to Neverland where the location could become a tourist destination, roadside attraction, and celebrity shrine -- or, one better... could the family purchase Michael Jackson's dream home estate just outside Las Vegas and erect a burial monument there where the star's ghost could relax in the afterlife in a place with no bad memories and a convenient location to visit other celebrities (alive or dead) who have ongong acts at local Vegas reviews?




MJ wanted to call the sprawling estate "Wonderland".
Here's the celebrity shopping news.





MICHAEL JACKSON SOUGHT TO CREATE WONDERLAND AS REPLACEMENT HOME FOR NEVERLAND



The details of the scoop about the Wonderland Estate and Michael Jackson's home shopping experience are being released slowly but surely. According to Splash News, "Michael Jackson desperately wanted to buy a sprawling Las Vegas estate that he planned to call 'Wonderland', it has been claimed. The cash-strapped singer is said to have fallen in love with the 10-acre property, which boasts secret tunnels, a 20-car garage and a waterfall in the garden."



However, rumor circulating through the real estate offices in the neighborhoods back then indicated Jackson couldn't yet afford the $25 million property's high market value price tag. According to the report, MJ he hoped his comeback gigs at London's 02 Arena would leave him with enough cash to snap it up - after he abandoned his beloved Californian Neverland ranch.



In a feature interview, real estate agent Zar Zanganeh, the person who actually took Michael Jackson on a tour of the ultra-luxe Vegas grand palace-like home said: "He loved it. He said he could do anything he wanted there, like in Neverland." Zanganeh added he gave Jacko and his children a tour of the 10-bedroom, 19-bathroom home in 2007. He said that his kids, Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11 and Blanket seven, were especially fond of the 1,000-square-foot secret play area tucked under the waterfall.














According to the real estate files from and about the house's previous residents, the play space was built by the owner, casino developer Gary Primm, for his own children.



If you want to know more about the house itself, here's the amenities specs from SPLASH's Gavin Wilson, celebrity news writer: The house also features a cinema, an indoor pool and a barber's chair in the master bedroom, as well as a horse stable and an air-conditioned "doggie hotel." There are also two underground tunnels - one leading to the garage and the other to a shooting range that Jackson hoped to convert into a music studio.








We think the recently deceased star would have been quite happy there... what do you think? Leave your comments and share your thoughts on MJ moving -- and more... should the family now consider buying Wonderland and burying the celeb pop king there instead of Neverland Ranch or Forrest Lawn Estates and turn the location into a tourist attraction and memorial shrine like Graceland to being more money to help support the family and children and to bring much needed dollars and visitors to the Vegas area on travel vacations?

Friday, July 24, 2009

Celebrity OOPS: Big boy ‘Terminator’ Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger buys tiny Tesla Roadster

In my opinion, the hottest sports car making headway in the green exotics market right now that is the most fun to drive is the newly converted Lotus Elise being retro-manufactured by the inspired and inspiring car company Tesla. However, the car body itself presents some serious ergonomic and spacial challenges to many individuals who would otherwise love to drive a hot little exotic.


Take the "Terminator" California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, for example. He, who is proud to support Tesla manufacturing in the celebrity-rich state, may be one shining example of a person making poor consumer spending decisions… as a man who may have bought something that does not fit.


The Tesla Roadster is a little too little for Mr. Maria Shriver. Had he endorsed the product and bought the tiny exotic sports car model for her to zip back and forth solo to Tennis games, we would not have anything to say. However, as big as he is, the celebrity action hero needs to use his entire cinematic stunt repertoire of postural athletic training to get in and out of the low and "unforgiving access" vehicle. [Picture in your head the Cyborg running man trying to squeeze into a clown car or to perch atop a roller skate and you'll quickly understand why we think the car choice, though noble, was a celebrity OOPS to make.


It might have been a better fiscal decision to wait for the right model fit for his frame to be made, like the new Tesla S coming in 2010. As the new sedan will offer seven passengers seating, the way we measure, it will probably hold Arnold, his Kennedy gene bride, and maybe three suitcases (or another couple if they are heading out on a double date).


Could this shopping blunder give us all a glimpse of why the great state of California is going broke today? Because they bought that size 2 when they really wear a size 8?


To read more about the Tesla Roadster (a truly wonderful car from an American auto manufacturer we support all the way), click the following link to the rest of the story:


Terminator Governor may want to terminate his eco-friendly Tesla Roadster -- but why?