In the early days of its inception, a pompadour comprised of short hair at the back and the sides. The hair at the top was swept to enhance height, and it was slicked or swept back. However, since ...

Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, between 1748 and 1755, currently at the Louvre Museum. Public Domain Madame de Pompadour is perhaps most associated with the ...

The mystique and allure of Madame de Pompadour’s partially mythic legacy has attracted the attention of generations of historians and the public. But her full legacy includes more than just being the ...

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Have you ever wondered how to achieve singer Janelle Monae’s signature pompadour hair do? I know I have. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this style, a pompadour is a hairstyle that is big on ...

Check out these pompadours! It takes a lot of guts to rock such a huge hairdo, in all senses of the word. In case you aren't familiar with this hairstyle, "pompadour" basically means short on the ...

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Doctor Who Magazine writer and BBC Radio producer Emily Cook was back on Wednesday with another edition of Doctor Who Lockdown, putting the 10th Doctor's modern classic episode, "The Girl in the ...

When Louis XV, King of France, first met the woman who would become his chief mistress, she was dressed as a domino, and he was dressed as a plant. It was 1745, and Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, the ...