Archive for December, 2009

When black spandex feels too chilly, too Twilight, for brighter days at the beach, flip to the opposite end of the color spectrum and take out the white bikini.

As long as it’s lined and well-made, you can avoid the looks-like-you’re-wearing-your-knickers-at the beach comment, or your skin looking like Edward’s diamond armor.

There’s a kind of simplicity and (equally) pristineness to the glistening white high-beam effect of white against untanned or bronzed skin.

Here’s Sienna Miller looking fresh as a daisy in Ibiza in a classic textured string.  After her dark prints and denim with checks, she’s bound to bring on another white one during her hols with Jude Law in Barbados this week.

Another lithsome babe, down-under Aussie model Miranda Kerr also looks fetching in white. She walked the Victoria Secrets catwalk for the latest Angels show, and has modelled for Balenciaga in Paris. She looks like a lovely creme cake in this frothy confection.

Cougar Town star Courteney Cox is white heat in this bikini, looking smoking on set. She puts the younger starlets to bed with her toned and honed physique.

Two typically ’bad girls’, Brittany Spears and Lindsay Lohan, almost look coy in their white 2 pieces.  Amazing how a change of color can ‘clean up’ the mean girl look better than a Mr. Magic Eraser!

After the muss of the holidays, Kikidoll has spent the end of 2009 pouring over photos of all of the beautiful people in the world sporting a bikini on a beach, toasting up from winter’s frosty chill.

No disrespect to the luscious Rihanna seen this past weekend in an eye-popping hot pink frilled number. She looked absolutely delicious like candy from Dylan’s.

And no dissing another glamazon nearby holidaying in Barbados, Sienna Miller, who has been papped in not one but two fetching boy short/strapless bandeaux numbers with navy print, or navy denim and gingham themes. Adorable.

But the overriding choix du jour appears to be a girl’s old classic standby–the basic black bikini, or what Kikidoll lovingly has labelled for her swimwear collections as the LBB–’little black bikini’.  Like an icon from a Fellini film, as elegant as Sophia in Sicily or Mamie in the fountain, the LBB is worn by the chicest, trimmest and most svelte.

Take Demi here. Flawless and timeless. And with Ashton!

Or, stroll with insouciance like the uber cool Chloe Sevigny, on break from Big Love. Big heart to this Big winning black bikini.

Look fresh as a starlet like Kristen Cavallari of The Hills, proving black is back as the new black on the beach.

Just as the ubiquitous black turtleneck is a staple in every girl’s cache, the LBB should be in her beach arsenal, especially in these post-indulgent holiday days (too many cookies)!  Kikidoll knows how flattering black spandex can be as it flattens the bulges and trims the dimply bits by its sleight-of-hand tricksy depth of color, or lack therein! An added plus is that it ‘goes’ with everything!

So forget those day glo neons and traffic stopping brights at the beach–for year end 2009, and for the start of those well-meaning new year resolutions in 2010 it’s all about trimming back.

Go for black, like Kikidoll– here in her LBB Black Coral bikini.

December 21– the Winter Solstice–the shortest day of 2009, and the one that has the least numbers of daylight. Er, that is, the least number of hours to grab those last minute rays of sunshine before the Christmas hols are upon us.

There may be 12 days of Christmas, but they are going to be dark ones, unless you are in the tropics.

With the Eastern cities socked in by unseasonably high piles of snow and coldy temps as far south as SoBe, any beach-bound lass is grateful for the tingly warmth of winter sun, and the light it brings.

Best place to head is for any tropical latitudinal band, or any land, that sits squarely near the equator.

Hop over to Hawaii and sing ‘Mele Kalikimaka‘ a title that roughly means Merry Christmas in Hawaiian (their 12-letter langauge does not have English phonemes like ‘r’ or ‘s’).

The song written by Robert Alex Anderson in 1949 is a prime example of a style of Hawaiian music known as hapa haole, or half-foreign, meaning in common vernacular, of mixed Hawaiian and Caucasian blood.  Many crooners have made covers of this song, like Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in 1950 for Decca on 78 rpm’s, Bette Midler, herself a Hononlulu-born honey, and even at one time, The Beach Boys.

Top up the tan, bask in the glorious sun, and count those hours of this shortish day. It won’t be long before the Christmas star shines brightly!

Wear these Hawaiian-print bikinis in Hawaii

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Kikidoll has to confess to an unhealthy obsession with all things Stephenie Meyer-ish when it comes to her runaway-hit Twilight trilogy (quartet, if you count Breaking Dawn????) comprised of best-seller books Twilight, New Dawn and Eclipse, and two films, soon to be three, by the same titles.

The saga follows the travails of tortured teen lovers, mortal Bella Swan and her immortal vampire boyfriend Edward Cullen in spooky, sunless Forks, Washington, about as far away from a tropical beach (and sunshine) that the walking dead can get.

You’d have to be as dead as the ‘cold ones’ or as old as the Volturri not to know about the success of these books and films–the third film due out next summer 2010–and to have not picked your side on Team Edward or Team Jacob yet. Already a smash at the box office, the series has made cultish stars of all its actors with impressive and devoted followings on Twitter and Facebook.

One new supernova is gorgeous Christian Serratos–19 years old, a native Californian who plays a somewhat geeky and awkward Angela. Despite the glasses and weird-kids lunch table antics, no costume or act could mask her svelte loveliness.

No stranger to acting, Christian previously starred in Zoey 101 and in Hannah Montana. She will reprise her role as Angela in the third film Eclipse.

At a shoot today Christian donned pieces from Kikidoll’s new 2010 collection and was photographed wearing Kikidoll’s Lava Leaf bikini. Watch this space (er, blog) as more pieces are soon to follow from the shoot.

After all, today, December 16, 2009 marks the last new moon of this year!

Go, Team Christian!

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Every once in a while a beach girl grabs the world’s canvas–one day you’d never heard of her, let alone seen her–the next day she is the cover girl of your dreams, on every newsstand.

One such dream girl is Bar Refaeli.

From Israel, and gorgeous in the extreme, Bar has graced the covers of Cosmopolitan, Maxim and Elle as well as the coveted cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 2009 and its subsequent books and calendars.

In July, she was bodypainted with the title and wording from the new Stephen King novel for the cover of Esquire.

Having been squired by Leonardo DiCaprio at the time, she was catapulted into bikini hyperspeed. Seen with Leo at Bakers Bay, Bahamas late last month, there are inklings that the two may have reunited again.

Combining an almost feline set of blue eyes and a lion’s mane of tawny golden hair, she is curvy and womanly, no stick figure Bar. Her freckled, sunny naturalness is the antidote to near perfect proportions.

At 24 years old, she now commands the ranking and fees of a super model. Her image is known around the world in fashion. She has hosted television. She has even graced an airline side when Southwest Airlines painted an image of her on its 737 Boeing carrier.

In March this year Refaeli received the “World Style Award,” presented by the Women’s World Awards, for her “natural elegance, sense of style and compassion.”

In a controversial move some years ago Bar married (and just as quickly divorced) a family friend to avoid the mandatory military sevice to her country for all men and women 18 years or older.  Sidestepping khaki, Bar relocated to Los Angeles and has never looked back, saying, ‘I really wanted to serve (in the IDF), but I don’t regret not enlisting, because it paid off big time,’ she said. “That’s just the way it is, celebrities have other needs. I hope my case has influenced the army’

Now in LA, Bar is the new face of hip street and beach clothing line Hurley in a sizzling campaign that showcases her edginess and beauty.

Having done the 2010 photos already for Sports Illustrated Bar should be joyful and exuberant as she has a great year ahead it seems.

Beautifil bikinis like Bar’s

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