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Category Archives: Celebrity Beauty
Hair Hero: Christie Brinkley’s bombshell curls
Despite the best of intentions, I’ve had so much on this week that I’ve been struggling to keep up with product reviews… I came across this photo of Christie Brinkley at the Ides of March premiere this morning, though, and had to share, mostly because this is EXACTLY how I want my hair right now: if my Fairy Godmother could please just fix it for me to wake up every morning with my hair like this, that would be great, thanks!
Of course, in theory, this look is pretty easy to achieve as there’s nothing too complicated about curls. In practice, however, my curl-resistant hair would look like this for approximately 2.5 minutes, before reverting back to being poker-straight. I recently invested in a couple of different products to see if I could encourage the curls to stick around for longer, so I’ll post about those soon. In the meantime, don’t you think Christie Brinkley looks absolutely amazing? I was going to add the patronising “for her age” to that sentence, but actually, she looks better at 57 than I did at 21, so I’m just going to end the sentence at “amazing” and be done with it…
Emmys Beauty 2011: Christina Hendricks
When I look at celebrity beauty photos, I’m always most interested in seeing what my fellow redheads are wearing: mostly so that I can shamelessly copy, I mean take inspiration from, their looks.
With that in mind, here’s Christina Hendricks at last night’s Emmy Awards. Christina went for a real bombshell look on the red carpet (You can see her full outfit here) and matched it with a very classic, old Hollywood makeup style: red lipstick, flawless skin, flicked eyeliner, big hair. I love it, and not just because it’s essentially the same makeup I like to wear myself!
What do you think?
[Image: Fame Pictures]
Celebrity Hair: Leighton Meester’s new fringe
[Image: PRPhotos.com]
Leighton Meester showcased a new fringe at Fashion’s Night Out last night. I really like this look on her: I’ve become a big fan of the long, soft fringe lately (think Brigitte Bardot, with tousled hair and a mussed-up fringe), which frames the face without looking too harsh, and gives a rock-chick look when left down, and a retro, 60s vibe with the rest of the hair swept into a beehive.
Leighton’s new look didn’t get a great reception from my Twitter followers, though, so I’m interested to hear what you Dollfaces think: yay or nay?
Beauty Inspiration: Bonnie Wright
Hasn’t little Ginny Weasley grown up gorgeous?
[PRPhotos.com]
The secret of Kylie Minogue’s youthful looks? Pond’s Cold Cream!
I’d imagine the people at Pond’s are feeling pretty happy around about now: their sales have apparently risen by 120% since Kylie Minogue announced she’s given up Botox and is now relying on Ponds Cold Cream to keep her skin looking its best!
The “Kylie Effect”, as they’re calling it, came after the singer spoke about the difference the cream has made: “It’s really changed my skin,’ she said. ‘It’s all I really use to look after my skin. It’s such an old classic. My mum uses it and it really does work. It’s made such a difference.”
Kylie also said she’s stopped using Botox, and would never have plastic surgery, as she wants to “embrace the wrinkles”. Is Pond’s really that good, though? I used the brand briefly in my teens, lured in by the low price (A jar costs just £3.99 at Boots) and what seems to me at the time to be the old-fashioned glamour of using “cold cream”, which I’d heard my mum and grandmother talking about, and which seemed very grown up to my much younger self! I don’t remember noticing a dramatic difference in my skin, but then again, I was only thirteen or fourteen at the time, so lines and wrinkles were the very least of my worries.
Do you use Pond’s? Will you be joining the women who’ve rushed out and bought it in the wake of Kylie’s amazing PR job for the brand? The jury’s still out for me, but I must admit, it’s nice to hear a celebrity reveal that she swears by a product that’s accessible to the rest of us, rather than the usual caviar-and-unicorn-hair creams they normally seem to use, which cost more than I spend on shoes in a month!
Celebrity Beauty: Jennifer Lopez wears a beehive to the premiere of The Back Up Plan
Ever since my experiment with the Bumpit, I’ve been obsessed with big hair and beehives, so I was interested to see Jennifer Lopez turn up to the London premiere of The Back Up Plan last night with her hair in a massive ‘hive. Although the dress and hair were competing for attention a little bit here, I do love this hairdo, and there’s a little part of me (OK, let’s be honest: it’s quite a big part of me) that wishes this kind of style would make a full-scale return to popularity, and it would suddenly become totally acceptable to walk around with a giant head of hair, even if you were just going to the supermarket or office.
Of course, I suspect I’m far too lazy to want to go to this amount of effort every day (and wow, but getting all that backcoming out would be a PAIN, wouldn’t it? Unless, of course, J.Lo’s wearing a false hairpiece here, which she very well may be.), so my big-hair dreams will probably never come true, but what does everyone else think? Do you love this look?
Celebrity Beauty: Nicole Richie at the 2010 Oscars
One of my favourite looks from the 2010 Oscars so far: Nicole Richie always looks effortlessly stylish, and her high-necked gown, up-do and flicked-out eyeliner gave her a bit of a retro look which really suits her. What do you think?
(See her dress here.)
Celebrity Beauty: Deborah Ann Woll at the 2010 Oscars
I love to see my fellow redheads on the red carpet, although I must admit, it’s not often I look at ANY celebrity on the red carpet and think how easily I could replicate their hair and makeup! True Blood star Deborah Ann Woll, however, went for a super-simple look at this year’s Oscars, with her hair pulled back into a low pony tail, and her makeup fairly neutral, other than the red lipstick. Simple, but stunning.
Celebrity Beauty: Kelly Brook at the 2010 Oscars
I really love this photo of Kelly Brook heading off to the 2010 Oscars: doesn’t she look beautiful? I’ll have lots more celebrity beauty shots from the ceremony for you soon, but in the meantime, head over to The Fashion Police to see what the stars are wearing on one of the biggest nights of the year!
Paloma Faith’s makeup at the Cervical Cancer Charity Concert
Ahem! Looks like I have some competition in the “Dollface” stakes, in the shape of UK singer Paloma Faith, who seems to have taken the word “dollface” literally for her appearance at the Cervical Cancer Charity in London last night.
Paloma isn’t really one to play it safe, either with what she wears, or with what she chooses to put on her face as this look proves: she’s gone for a “tear” effect on the eyes, and what I think of as “Aunt Sally blusher”, worn with false eyelashes, red lipsticks and heavy brows.
She’s as pretty as always, but what do you think of this look? Delightfully different or just a little bit too much?
