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French islands and foreign lands are nice, but this summer, we're finding inspiration a little nearer to home—in California. Because when it comes to blondes, beaches and box-office bombshells, nowhere comes close to the Golden Coast.
Golden Girls
Good genes come from California; see: Gigi Hadid, Blake Lively and Jennifer Aniston.
Valley Girl
Cher Horowitz may have rather been caught dead than on the other side of the hill, but she'd be impressed by her own shaping of the Valley Girl lexicon.
It Clique
Kelly, Brenda and Donna ruled high school, the beach and Beverly Hills' most coveted zip code.
Wave Rider
Alterna Bamboo Beach Summer Ocean Waves Tousled Texture Spray, $22, sephora.com.
Screen Siren
Proof that Hollywood is, literally, where stars are born: Marilyn Monroe.
Blonde Moment
Dessange Paris California Blonde Illuminating Elixir, $12, target.com; John Frieda Sheer Blonde Go Blonder Controlled Lightening Spray, $10, ulta.com; Redken Blonde Idol BBB Spray, $20, ulta.com.
Beach Patrol
Pamela Anderson played C.J. Parker, Los Angeles' hottest fictional lifeguard in the '90s.
Bronze Ambition
Bareminerals California Bronze Palette, $29, bareescentuals.com.
Suit Up
Gisele Bündchen is Brazilian and Chanel is French, but put the supermodel on the brand's surfboard and all we see is California cool.
Surf Essentials
A Beautiful Life Surf Wax, $14, abeautifullife.com; Baxter of California Surfrider Candle, $40, baxterofcalifornia.com; Sun Bum SPF 30 Pomegranate Lip Balm, $4, shop.trustthebum.com.
West Coast
Breezy whites and big hats just work better by the beach.
Magical Thinking
"California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent," wrote Joan Didion, preeminent authority on California culture.
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