Michelle Obama's hairdo

Maybe not, but she is very stylish and smart woman and the best asset Obama has.

Looking back on some of her older pictures in the media I do think this new cut makes her face look softer and it takes a few years off her age. I'm not really bothered what she does fringe no fringe but I have to admit she is very good at what she does for her charities and womens causes.

I think fringes are good as you get older they soften the face, but they have to be just right, too short or sticking out are not good looks. I'm glad you explained what bangs are Riverwalk, I'd always wondered, I did think maybe they were what used to be called flick ups. The Americans have a lot of strange terminology.

Nothing worse than a too short fringe Bananas!

Michelle's is too blunt - needs to soften it up a bit, in my expert opinion.

When I first heard an American talking about re-styling her bangs I thought she meant breasts

Riverwalk I think that could have been a potentially embarrassing conversation! You have given me the inspiration to start another thread!

I saw her on t.v today and I thought she looked lovely, younger somehow.

I thought so too, POGS. She looks less matronly.

I've already posted this on the Americanism thread but, if it helps, here it is again. Bangs comes from bang-tails – docked racehorses.

Riverwalk Why on earth would you think it had anything to do with breasts?

I liked her new style thought she looked younger and more trendy like an older sister to those two beautiful girls..

I immediately thought, "Jackie O" ! A very stylish and elegant lady is Michelle - loved the mauve gloves which linked her colour scheme to her daughters'. As far as the hair is concerned, how does she get it so straight?

She probably has it straightened daily, specki. When I taught in Kenya, the girls used to straighten their hair with tongs heated in a charcoal brazier, first putting oil on the hair, so when we went up to the dorms, the predominant smell was of frying hair. However, I assume that the Obama family has a rather safer method, involving something akin to perming, but the opposite, if you see what I mean.

I think it's called 'relaxing'. They offer the process in most hair salons - she probably has her own personal hairdresser.

I'm never sure about using wives as window dressing for politicians. I long for a really successful politician to have a wife like Mamie Eisenhower or Eleanor Roosevelt or pres Coolidge 's wife whose name I forget. Or in theUk lady Macmillan . They always struck me as women in their own right.

Stansgran Can't turn the clock back. FLOTUS is an important role in American politics these days.

She is a beautiful woman but sometimes she succumbs IMO to too much of a good thing. e.g. when she visited the UK she was all false eyelashes etc and looked more like barbie than a FL. A pity that she feels pressured to do this.

I loved it when they paid their first visit here after Obama was elected, and at Buckingham Palace she put her arm around the Queen, completely ignoring protocol, I thought it looked much more friendly and informal. She`s a lovely looking woman.

number I agree. And thank you for the super email. I loved it.

Talking about wives as window dressing for their husbands, it should be ignored. Michelle should be allowed to continue with her legal career.
Angela Merkel has been married twice and her present husband is a rather handsome Physics professor but apart from the Pope*s visit or similar he is never seen.

From the start he made it clear that being Mr Merkel( which is not his name) he wasn't going to part of the political scene.
I feel sorry for those daughters of Obama. they looked like no teenager that I know.......

The girls are beautifully dressed!

I don't think they need anyone's sympathy. They seem a very happy family.

Maybe Michelle Obama does it just to provoke silly comments from critical people. It must be quite entertaining.

Or maybe she just likes experimenting, like so many other people do with their appearance. Fancy being ordinary like that

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