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1Golden Girls
Media Platforms Design Team Good genes come from California; see: Gigi Hadid, Blake Lively and Jennifer Aniston.
2Glow On
Media Platforms Design Team 3Valley Girl
Media Platforms Design Team 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.
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4It Clique
Media Platforms Design Team Kelly, Brenda and Donna ruled high school, the beach and Beverly Hills' most coveted zip code.
5Wave Rider
Media Platforms Design Team Alterna Bamboo Beach Summer Ocean Waves Tousled Texture Spray, $22, sephora.com.
6Screen Siren
Media Platforms Design Team Proof that Hollywood is, literally, where stars are born: Marilyn Monroe.
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7Blonde Moment
Media Platforms Design Team 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.
8Beach Patrol
Media Platforms Design Team Pamela Anderson played C.J. Parker, Los Angeles' hottest fictional lifeguard in the '90s.
9Bronze Ambition
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10Suit Up
Media Platforms Design Team Gisele Bündchen is Brazilian and Chanel is French, but put the supermodel on the brand's surfboard and all we see is California cool.
11Surf Essentials
Media Platforms Design Team 12West Coast
Media Platforms Design Team Breezy whites and big hats just work better by the beach.
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13Magical Thinking
Media Platforms Design Team "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.
Alexandra Tunell is the Senior Digital Beauty Editor at Harper's BAZAAR, where she writes beauty features and covers industry news, health, fitness and wellness trends. She began her career in the Lucky beauty closet, then went on to work at Allure. When she's not testing the latest skin care treatments, the Los Angeles native is searching the city for the best Mexican food, binge-watching Bravo and escaping to the beach as often as possible.
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