Posts Tagged ‘Celebrity’

Lover’s Quarrel

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

by Lauren

So I’m feeling a little conflicted. Part of me liked the movie Valentine’s Day while the other half didn’t—even with a celebrity studded cast. I understand that it is a romantic comedy and everything that goes with the territory, but the bad lines, weird cuts to shots of impertinent objects and a desperate Jessica Biel (no one that hot, smart and connected is single with no prospects) overshadowed the cute moments.

I actually thought the acting was great (expect for the little boy)! I took the bad script into consideration. My favorites were Anne Hathaway (amazing!) and Taylor Swift (cute!). Jennifer Garner had the main female role and she was adorable—her character seemed the most normal and relatable. And then we have Ashton Kutcher as the male lead playing a hopeless-romantic florist (shocking!). Case in point: when Garner’s character is debating whether to go surprise her man in San Francisco Kutcher enlightens her, “It’s Valentine’s Day, you don’t think, you just do!” I mean, REALLY? And no, I’m not some love scorned single—I have a very cute boyfriend. However, if you made me from one of the many sexy males stars to end up with at the end of the movie I’d choose Jamie Foxx and then Bradley Cooper (see the movie and you’ll know why he is my second choice).

I didn’t hate the movie, but I wouldn’t see it again and I don’t think you would be throwing away your money if you saw it, unless you took your beau, then I guess you would just be throwing away his money because he definitely won’t like it—use personal discretion on that one.

Basically, this is what you should expect: some smiles, some uncomfortably bad scenes and a little sweetness.

Getting Glammy at the Grammys

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
By Jenna

The life of a celebrity is good. Especially when you get to not only go to the Grammys and see it live, but you can come to the style suite beforehand and get pampered. What is the styling suite? The suite is there for the talent and attendees of the Grammys to come and pick up designer clothes, gorgeous jewelry, shoes, and accessories to wear to the show. The pampering continues with expensive champagne, martinis, cocktails and getting your hair and makeup done by the pros.

I was lucky enough to enjoy this lavish suite and get my makeup done by the fabulous MAKE UP FOR EVER team before a night out. By the way, if you have never gotten your makeup done, and don’t consider that pampering, STOP, drop and roll over to your local mall or spa, get your face put on and experience the exquisiteness. MUFE’s makeup team houses makeup professionals that have a range of celebrity clientele and expertise. This year MUFE celebrates 25 years of exciting and groundbreaking makeup. My makeup artist for the day was Mr. -I’m so fucking fabulous… What?- David Hernandez. With 17 years of experience and a celebrity clientele ranging from the girls of Silversun Pickups, India Arie to Pamela Anderson, he’s truly a makeup genius in his own and will provide a great time as an added extra.

Also lending their brand expertise to the new movie starring Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart, The Runaways, they’ve made the young starlets into replicas of Joan Jett and Cherie Curie. In genuine excitement of the movie release, I asked David to give me a Dakota Fanning rocker chic look. Using an electric blue for a smokey eye, recreating the look for him was a snap. He started with eyebrows as they are very important to a look, the best way of creating a good brow is starting out with a good shape and contouring them with shadows and pencils. Don’t be afraid to try different things, a strong brow can be gorgeous with the right look as can a soft one. Aqua Eyes eyeliner and mascara accompanied by lavish lashes by MUFE, and a hot red lip completed the look. If there’s one thing I learned from this makeup adventure, it was have patience with using fake lashes. David’s tips: “Have PATIENCE!!! If you don’t have patience with lashes you’re going to frustrate yourself and ruin the lashes. If you don’t’ have patience for it then don’t put them on. Start with putting down the middle of the lash as close to the lash line as possible and work your way pressing out.” The trend to look forward to this year: colorful lips and colorful smokey eyes. To have makeup done by such an amazing professional is quite the dream but the look was yet to be complete.

Making our way over to hair, Raina from Cutler Salon was ready to style. Cutler Salon is a leading salon in New York, has amazing  hair cuts and an emphasis on training programs and education in the industry. Using a curling iron, hair spray and not too much conditioner was required to get the feathery rocker hair style. After curling, roughing it up is key.

Tada! Look completed and very Cherie Curie. Hat’s off to my fabulous makeup artist and hairstylist. Leaving the suite and luxury is definitely a hard thing after such a pampering day.

While at the suite, celebs that stopped by were: Sean Paul, Zac Brown Band and the gorgeous India Arie. (She’s a huge fan of MAKE UP FOR EVER as well.) Her favorite product she uses is the HD Foundation. Beautiful!

Jenna is a social media marketing maverick and frequently covers events in Hollywood.

Hot or Not? Grammy’s Friends and Family Party Breakdown

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
By Jenna

Oh the Grammys. The extravagant, exciting, electric Grammys are in town and what that means is time to party. As the music industry’s Oscars, this star studded event is nothing to take lightly, especially the nights of debauchery that go along with it. Grammy weekend is a huge weekend not just for the music industry, but for fashion, and beauty. Celebrities and people alike fly in to Los Angeles from all over the world for this exciting show and the week before is full of pre-Grammy events. Attending the 13th anniversary of the Friends and Family Grammy event at Paramount Studios, we got just a taste of what was to come for Grammy weekend.

Entering into Stage 18 at Paramount, tons of people rushed in for appetizers and drinks surrounded by an ambiance of flashing lights, LA city projections on the walls, playable The SIMS 3 station, photo booths, dazzling outfits and the who’s who of the music industry. Definitely a great way to start off the weekend. With performances by Kevin Rudolf, the fabulous Estelle, Jay Sean, Kevin Rudolf, Mayer Hawthorne, Theophilus London, with DJ sets by: ATRAK, Junkie XL, Benny Blanco, and Classixx, attendees were in a trance by the end of the evening.

Katy Perry arrived without her soon to be husband Russell Brand (who arrived later in the night), looking absolutely stunning as always. What makes her blush? You don’t even want to know (wink). Hot. George Clinton rocked the red carpet with hair reminiscent of Christmas. Silver was the metallic of the night.  Estelle wore a chic high waisted belt with a glimmering silver long sleeve top, as some others didn’t quite get the metallic trend right. If there’s one thing to be learned, it was about funky fashion. Just a little tip to the Hollywood wanna be up and coming: Don’t channel your inner tin man or copycat Lady Gaga, there are tons of other trends that’ll have you stand out and not make you look like a jack. Here’s a few silver “DON’TS” that were quite amusing and almost night ruining. Icky. Not Hot.

Actress Lolene butchering our beloved Lady Gaga:

And Bonnie McKee parading around as the Tin Man. Not Hot

Other Marvelous celebrities who attended: Carolina Liar, English musician Dhani Harrison, Cory Feldman and his bimbo, Fefe Dobson, Quinton Aaron from Blindside, Howie Dorough, The Stunners, and Jurnee Smollett.

Jenna is a social media marketing maverick and frequently covers events in Hollywood.

Ladies Night at the 2010 Grammys

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Pink lead the pack last night with her aerial performance of  “Glitter in the Air.” I mean, we were in tears. It was GORGEOUS. Do you want to run off and join Cirque du Soleil today or what? We do. Beyonce‘s “If I Were a Boy/ You Oughta Know” mash was so strong (and, ok… fierce) and Lady Gaga’s medley (“Poker Face/ Speechless/ Your Song”) with Elton was a classic. Did you watch? We think Taylor’s gonna lose her humility if she keeps winning big so young, and we thought her performance with Stevie Nicks was off tune and ruined a classic Fleetwood Mac jam in the process. Are we being too harsh? What’d you think? (more…)

Weekend Update: Silly Gossip

Monday, January 25th, 2010

not dead

Just as Brad and Angelina are by most accounts, still totally together and fine and moving on with their perfect lives, Johnny Depp is not dead either people (that’s a FAKE CNN page). But what a crazy weekend for gossip! While we’re not feeling some overwhelming sense of relief that Brad and Angie are still Brangelina, we’re happy to hear Johnny Depp is alive and well and probably swilling red wine in the south of France with his long-time love, Vanessa Paradis.  By the way, this stab at a celeb death hoax brought us back to when everyone tried to break our 13 year old hearts by saying Zach Morris was dead. Not buying it! Didn’t enough celebs die in ’09? Who needs a death hoax!

Brad and Angelina Break Up?

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Happier Days?

Do you guys believe the rumors swirling today, that Brad and Angelina have decided to separate? Allegedly, they’ve signed separation papers with a divorce lawyer, and apparently the “documents” state they”ll share joint custody of the children — all 6 — but they’ll live with their mother full time.  Maybe this is why Brad was a no-show at the SAG awards last night, and why Angelina didn’t accompany Brad to the “Hope for Haiti Now” benefit? During Golden Globes weekend, Angelina and Brad (noticeably absent from the awards) spent their time in separate parts of the country, Brad with Maddox in New Orleans, and Angelina was in LA with her daughters.

Do you think Jennifer Aniston is popping champagne right now?

At this point, it’s all conjecture, and we’ve heard these rumors (though not so detailed) before. Besides, the couple was spotted together all of December. So consider us cynical! Stay tuned…

Hope for Haiti Now Benefit Breaks Records

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

If you tuned in and gave on Friday night to the Hope for Haiti Now Benefit Telethon, you should feel good today. Word is the telethon broke records, beating out any telethon ever– to raise $ 57 Million so far for relief for the ravaged country. That’s even excluding the money brought in for the performances available on iTunes. That sure does offer a small bit of hope– but it’s far from over– and of course, all major organizations are still welcoming your donations. Please continue to help here.

Watch Justin Timberlake and Matt Morris’ stirring rendition of “Hallelujah” here:

Watch Tonight: Hope for Haiti Now Benefit Concert

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Before you go out tonight, don’t forget to tune in at 8 pm E.T./P.T. (7 pm C.T)  as Brad Pitt, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Clint Eastwood, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jon Stewart, Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman, Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks and Will Smith join George Clooney (in Los Angeles), Wyclef Jean (in New York) and CNN’s Anderson Cooper (reporting from Haiti) for the “Hope for Haiti Now” Telethon. The show will air commercial-free across ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, the CW, HBO, MTV, VH1 and CMT.

The benefit has created the easiest, most enjoyable way to contribute… you can call and give whatever you have, and starting today, Friday the 22nd, iTunes customers will also be able to exclusively pre-order the “Hope for Haiti Now” full-performance album for $7.99

Among the performers tonight: Jay Z, Rihanna, Springsteen U2, Beyonce, Coldplay,  Justin Timberlake, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Dave Matthews, Stevie Wonder, Wyclef Jean, Mary J Blige, Taylor Swift, Madonna and SO MANY MORE.

More information on “Hope for Haiti Now”: the benefit will begin accepting donations at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT on Friday. “Hope for Haiti Now” will benefit Oxfam America, Partners in Health, the Red Cross, UNICEF, United Nations World Food Programme, Yele Haiti Foundation and the newly formed Clinton Bush Haiti Foundation. Proceeds from the telethon will be split among each organization’s individual funds for Haiti earthquake relief. With the exception of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, each partner organization was selected for its history of operation and collaboration within the NGO community in Haiti.

Sweet Comic Relief

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Everyone deserves a little comic relief, and we, personally, are stoked for “Hot Tub Time Machine”... So fun to see John Cusack, Chevy Chase, and Clark Duke from “Clark and Michael” together in it, too….

Stars Get Set for Sundance

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

A look from Bobi

This week, my town here (L.A.) will empty out a bit as folks head north to snowy Park City, Utah, for a little film festival called Sundance. This festival, started in 1978, is still all about the movies, but it’s turned into a scene (for better or for worse). And we all know that a scene requires fabulous fashion and beauty, so some lovely publicity ladies I work with put together a gifting suite for celebrities to get themselves decked out for Sundance. Stars that stopped by the W Hotel‘s ice skating rink to pick up goodies included Malin Ackerman, Stelle Maeve (The Runaways, CSI, Gossip Girl) and Christian Serratos (Twilight and New Moon).

Here are a few highlights of what people picked up:

Too Faced Walk of Shame kit

- Kipling bags, Moods of Norway T-Shirts, Pop Beauty‘s new petal jam lip balm, T-Shirts and dresses from Bobi (I’m obsessed with these T-Shirt fabric dresses that are sexy and stylish but oh-so-comfortable; fans include Hilary Swank, Beyonce, Nicole Richie, Madonna and Lourdes), Too Faced cosmetics’ Walk of Shame kit and Lashlight mascara (it has a flashlight!), KARMA California Brut (single serve sparkling wine–DE-Lish!), nail polish from Np2, Fierce jewelry, Country Life vitamins, cozy wonderful Emu boots and vintage goodies from clothing store What Goes Around Comes Around. So now all the lucky starlets who visited this fantastic gifting lounge are set to rough the chilly temps in Park City, but still look stylish, beautiful and healthy doing so!