Style Evolution : Nicole Saba

Lebanese star Nicole Saba is one of the most beautiful daring women in the Middle East. She went far from being that hot blond chick in 4 cats. Nicole has debuted her very first modeling career when she was 23, Now loving wife, successful singer, actress and mother she is 39. Her new hit song with Abdelbaset Hamooda became the talk of town, because of the strange yet beautiful collaboration. Her style has always grabbed everybody's attention, she's always changing with the same sexy attitude. Let's take a look on Nicole Saba's style evolution. 

Born in 1974, Nicole Shaba Elias was the younger of 2 sister. Growing up in Lebanon with Armenian roots, Nicole was always the cute little sister who grabs attention.






In the late 70's and early 80's, she was the blond kid who sings in school and dances in all family parties.

Nicole Saba in a diet commercial

Nicole Saba in Hesham Abbas & Hamid Shaery video clip 

 Starting as a model, Nicole had the same slim physic and a hip 90's style. Her big modeling break was in 1997 in the video clip for Hesham & Hamid duet. Nicole showed off luscious thick long golden locks with 90's sexy makeup. The whole flawless powdery skin and dark lips were so in, and people actually thought she was not Arabic. She showed off great legs with a velvet maxi dress and fish knit stockings underneath, floral maxi button up dress and satin conservative suit in black. 

In 1998 Nicole joined the 4 cats. The whole concept of girl band was new, so as how they looked and dressed. Nicole had a clean cut with even more blond locks than before. She started the whole black smokey eyes with nude lips. The crop top trend was the thing in the 90's and Nicole aced it. She was the cute next door girl.

In 2000, all millennium chic the 4 cats released another album with an even more daring look. Copying girl bands from the western world, it was still new to the Middle East what they got. In the Era before internet, what was presented on TV was the trend setting.  The all white skin tight outfits suited nicole, with her new curly blonde locks she looked less next door and more sexy. The big lashes with glittery eye shadow was also started by this video clip at least here in the Middle East. The skin tight simple clothing were her thing, lots of simple early 2000's colors. 

In 2003, Nicole had her real big break. Starring in an an Egyptian movie in front of Adel Emam. Just to be clear I hate that movie, and If I wasn't 11 back then I would probably have never watched it. Nicole played a dutch girl, her features helped portray the image really well. We can see some work done to her nose already. While regular Lebanese style was much more revealing than Egyptian style, Nicole took it a notch higher with bikinis, hot shorts and crop tops. Her makeup was neutral sultry, however the black roots were too obvious *Hello can't you afford a good dye job* 

Nicole Saba's first solo video

In 2004, Nicole went solo with her music career when she finally got a record deal with Mazzika. She went for the Platinum blonde look which classed up her look. The look she encountered in her videos was much more conservative inspired by 70's, with the office look with polka dots shirt tucked into a simple pencil. The 70's came back in 2004 and Nicole opened the door wide open. 

2005 and 2006 Nicole was jumping between sultry look and sweet look. She debuted a layered shorter hair cut in 2005, when Jad Shewary recreated her look. She appeared with skin tight golden dress and her skin was has a golden tan glow. A jump back from the conservative side she acquired in 2004. While she released another look with a another new look in 2006, she has got -some hard not to notice- work done in the chest area. She went back to having a next door look with more mature choices like florals and A line skirts. 

The blonde bombshell had another major film role where she completely changed her style in late 2006. The movie started with Nicole in a Barbie like look. Obviously a platinum blonde wig *this time no black roots cause it's a wig* bangs suited Nicole. A line dresses and pearls were just a start for the movie, she ditched the bangs later *AKA the wig* and went full on Egyptian belly dancer. With her fit physic, Nicole looked sexy but vulgar. 

Nicole decided blonde was limiting her career, in 2007 she shocked everybody with a brunette look AKA a good Dye Job. She finally put her boob job into good use with cropped tank tops and sexy moves. 2007 and 2008 witnessed Nicole transforming to Brunette Barbie. The perfect LA tan, hot colors, full lips and big hair. The juicy couture, sexy sporty chic was new to her and new to the Middle East style in general. She got the leather jackets back in business and everybody forgot about that awful black roots trend. She didn't even change her hair for her roles in "Baby doll night" 2008 and "Privet Operations" 2007. 

Focusing on her acting career, 2009 Nicole starred in a series and a movie. She went down with her style for the comedy series with darker hair and natural waves. The style she debuted included maxi and midi skirts, minimal makeup, baggy clothes and button up shirts. It was slightly unbelievable for me at least that this blue eyed beauty would dress like this. Her movie "The serial killer" was occurring in 70's and 80's where she has the same natural darker waves, however this time she had the biker chick look with sultry makeup and sexy practical outfits. 

2010, Nicole was back to being the LA brunette barbie was lighter hair and stronger makeup for the release of her 2010 single. This year she added a piece of permanent style to her, she got a unique tattoo that covered the area from her wrist to her elbow. Not your average girly butterfly, she got an eagle face shaped as a question mark. She started losing her ultra thin light brows for thicker brows that were starting to be in.

There no better arm accessory any stylish lady can acquire other than is man candy. Nicole and Youssef have allegedly been on and off dating for 10 years before they went public with their wedding announcements. These two sure will have some beautiful babies, everybody was waiting to see how the sexy star will dress on her big night.

They tied the knot later in 2011 and nobody was disappointed in Nicole's wedding gown, maybe a little bit shocked. She didn't meet the stereotype of having a sultry dress, the gown was more angelic and unique. The decoration of the wedding were very stylish, lots of candles and flowers. The creamy dress with gold lace details paired with purple flowers bouquet was designed by Lebanese designer Mosbah Baalbaky. Hair was simple and down, makeup was amazingly neutral and beautiful, Nicole looked like a billion dollars.  

Happily married Nicole, her style changed to be calmer and more mature. She is still a brunette with lighter highlights and natural big waves, and she finally got herself natural looking brows after years of having brows that look too fake. I really liked that she still adds fierce touches to her looks, for example this Sabrina loose shoulders flowy gown paired with leather tights and spiky waist belt. 2012 witnessed maturity and class to the bombshell style.  

It's 2013 and Nicole got her pregnancy in style. Unlike lots of Arab female celebrities, Nicole had an amazing pregnancy glow and a fit body. A baby bump sure suited her, she didn't shy away from cameras and she actually did magazine covers with her pregnant belly. A mix between calm and mature pastels and her fierce signature tank tops were added to beautiful skin tight gowns to show off her pregnancy. 

Nicole have actually given birth and I think that her Picture for Pepsi sponsored duet with Abdelbaset Hamood was Photoshoped to hide a lot of her pregnancy, The style was too simple and baggy for Nicole. Her hair looked better than ever, I don't think she should ever go to that bleached blonde. Waiting to see more and more of that bombshell. 

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