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If you are looking for an easy card trick to perform with your friends or family members, you’ve come to the right place. I have one of the easy card trick to teach you. Don’t worry, there is no sleight-of-hand techniques or any special designed card. All you need is just a normal deck of playing card.

Allow your spectator to shuffle the deck and cut it in half. Then, he will give you one half, keeping the other half for himself. You then say: “We will each shuffle our cards to mix them thoroughly.” Each of you does this. You say: “We will each take out one card, look at it, and remember it.”

Then, you pull a card from the center of your half, pretend to look at it and put it on top of your pile (you don’t have to remember this card at all.) Actually, you will peek at your own bottom card, and remember it. Then, you tell your spectator to place his selected card on top of the pack.

After your spectator place his selected card on top of his pack, you add the cards in your hand to the top of his cards. This puts your card (bottom card that you already remembered) on top of his selected card. Ask him to cut the deck a few times in order to lose both cards in the deck (just cut the deck, don’t shuffle.)

You then say: “My card was the [name the bottom card you remembered]. What was yours?” After he names his card, you say: “I will now perform a bit of magic without touching the cards in your hand. I will send my card to meet yours. They are now together in the pack. Please look through the cards and verify that I have accomplished this amazing feat.”

Audrey Hepburn is already dead. And yet, her influence on the fashion world continues to grow until now. “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “Audrey Hepburn” are two familiar phrases. They had impact on the fashion world. An impact Audrey made through her elegance unlike icons in her time like Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall who attracted everyone’s attention through their curves and barely the dresses they wore. Aubrey was iconic but wasn’t even that into fashion. She is still regarded by top fashion designers as of their greatest influences.

The over-sized sunglasses she wore in that film started the trend. Aubrey wore those sunglasses in that movie and then everyone were already wearing them. Such was her influence. And to think before that, wire frames were in fashion. Without her, those wire frames would have been still in vogue.

And what those little black dresses? Aubrey wore that in the film. Now those little black dresses are essential to everyone’s wardrobe. She is a pillar of today’s fashion. She did it in an unobtrusive way without trying to draw attention to her. The outfit was just so natural on her that people wanted to be like her.