Picture Perfect Wednesday with Sydney Sweeney

Actress Sydney Sweeney was the central figure in the dumbest "controversy" of 2025. It involved her appearance in an ad for jeans and whole bunch of truly stupid and demented people deciding it was Nazi propaganda and a pro-eugenics dog whistle.

Today, you can enjoy pictures of Sydney Sweeney and her good genes without any jeans. 

 

If you're in the crowd who thinks Sweeney's ad for jeans is actually some sort of propaganda piece promoting eugenics and Nazism... well, then you need to consider the benefits of eugenics, because you have bad genes. Or, at least, the Stupid Gene.

The Year of Mucha's Mother Nature

Mother Nature in August

 "Oh, the heat!"

Michelle Trachtenberg passes away at 39

Former child actress Michelle Trachtenberg--perhaps best known for her roles in "Harriet the Spy", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", and "Gossip Girls"--has died at the age of 39, The cause of death has yet to be announced as of this writing, but she had been struggling with health issues in recent years and had received a liver transplant not too long ago.

Here are a few photos in remembrance.

 

Trachtenberg's passing was first reported in the New York Post. Click here to read that article. 

Christmas is here!

 Here's an artist's impression (Barney Steel, specifically) of what's going on at Shades of Gray HQ in celebration of Christmas!

Halloween is coming...

... and Vanessa Hudgens is undergoing the mysterious transformation she goes through every year, turning from spunky to spooky!

Tara Nichol Caldwell is Picture Perfect!

Tara Nichol Caldwell is a model-turned-actress whose high level of talent is on full display in the chilling horror mystery film "Lyvia's House" (2023). 

"Lyvia's House" had a successful festival run during 2023, and Stonecutter Media will release it on streaming services (such as Vudu/Fandango at Home and Amazon Prime) and local cable & satellite providers on October 1. You can read a review of it, as well as watch a preview, at the Terror Titans blog by clicking here.

But before you do--please enjoy these photos of Caldwell doing her photo model thing!

 
 

Times are changing

For the past few decades, trolls have increasingly been moving from their traditional lairs below bridges and into basements and coffee shops with free WiFi so they can go online. Meanwhile, there are empty spaces left under bridges and ballerinas and other dancers have been leaping at the chance to fill those voids.

But are they going to be successful in the role of bridge trolls?

 

International Bikini Day Warm-Up

This coming Friday is International Bikini Day. Today, Brigitte Bardot is here to get visitors in the right frame of mind, sporting different bikinis during her younger days in the 1950s and 1960s.
 

 

In that picture right above, Bardot is modeling one of the most famous bikinis in the world. It's the same design that a woman was ticketed for wearing on an Italian beach in 1957.

Come back on Friday and you'll find a celebration of bikinis and the beauties who are wearing them!

Between International Days

This year's International Dance Day is behind us, and International Nude Day is roughly a month away. With this post, we look both forward and backwards.

May is going swimmingly!

Mermaids continue to frolic in celebration of Mermay here at Shades of Gray!

 

Nylon Stockings on a Picture Perfect Wednesday!

There seems to be a day in honor/observation of everything you can think of. We've discovered that May 15th is National Nylon Stockings Day... so here are some pictures of ladies and their nylons. (And not much else in some cases.)

 
 
 

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It's Mermay!

So here are some drawings of mermaids for you to enjoy!