He'd be 6 In Leap Years
Happy
24th Birf, Little Bro. And stop drooling on my
shoulder, please...
Are you linked in yet?
Can you get on it, please? Pretty soon, you won't be
able to get a job without a profile. For realz.
(NY TIMES)
How bad were the Idol girls last night?
Apparently, bad enough for EW to use the
word "outrage." (EW)
Like most quarter-lives, Quarterlife is a
bomb for NBC. Welcome to the club. (Reuters)
Men's Health highlights four fights that
guys avoid. Four. Ha.
(Yahoo!
Health)
Speaking of Idol, did you see the debut of
the new iPod Touch commercial
during the last half hour? (TUAW)
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The Oscars Were Boring
With
a capital 'B'.
I'll talk about the clothes and stuff later... I
watched the whole show and couldn't describe one
makeup or hair look off the top of my head right now.
Thats how bored I was.
And I'm not the only
one!
Are we believing this JT/
Kate Hudson rumor? I'm having trouble deciding on
this one for some reason. (Page Six)
Leave Bono, Ali and Helena (she eats?)
ALONE! (Page Six)
SNL's writing staff apparently used the strike as an
incubation period for liberal knee slappers — and it
paid off. (Hollywood
Reporter)
In case your wireless was down this weekend: Angelina revealed her baby bump
the other night, and Brit got to see her
kiddies for the first time in almost two
months. Fascinating stuff.
EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! The new, full-length Sex and the
City trailer!!! (Buzz Sugar)
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Customize Your Happy
Look what you
can do with your Happy now!
Talk about getting personal. Clinique's cheerful
floral scent is now available in a one-of-a-kind
bottle that you can design yourself. It's so easy —
just upload a pic of your choice to their site and they'll take
care of the rest. This was a great gift idea for
Valentines Day (ha... ooops, sorry about the
timing) but it's also perfect for a birthday or if
you feel like sending some random mid-winter
happiness. (Lets face it — who doesn't need
that?)
JT: More Hospitable, Fragrant Than Ever
So we went for a few drinks, and it was aiight — the music was really fun and the bartenders did this Spring Break-ish fire show with bottles of whisky. Interesting. At one point, J and I felt very 1) old, and 2) under dressed. We agreed that every 24-year-old Jane from Kansas who moved to Manhattan within the last month was there, dressed to the nines, in the hopes of scoring bragging rights to a JT sighting.
HA! Us New Jersey/ Westchester natives are so much more savvy than those star-thirsty hicks. I mean... duh... JT doesn't actually go to his own restaurant, right? Wrong. We are such freaking losers.
BTW, JT also has a Givenchy fragrance coming out this fall. I'm psyched to check out that ad campaign. (WWD)
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Where Have I Been? In The Heights.
Have you ever left a
movie, concert or a play wishing the show would start
over again immediately? Like, you need to
see it again? You just can't get enough of it?? Thats
how I felt the other night after the Broadway opening
of In The Heights.
Check out the above widget (you have to
pump the volume up manually). Those of you in the NYC
area may have already seen this on T.V. — it's the
opening number and is such a fun representation of
the entire score. Lin-Manuel Miranda (the cutie
rapper/ lead singer) wrote the first draft of the
play during his sophomore year at Wesleyan
University. How insane is that? [Insert sarcastic
comment here about what I accomplished
during my sophomore year at Siena College.
Ahem.] Now, he's made it to Broadway and will surely
snag himself a few Tony Awards for his work. I love
absolutely everything about that story.
Go see In The Heights while it's still in
previews. I predict you won't be able to get tickets
come March!
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Love 2 Love Ya Baby
Beyonce + Tina = Hottest 'Proud Mary' To Date
Tina Turner is almost 70...whaaa? This
was amazing.
I also loved the Beatles
tribute -- talk about chills.
In case you missed it last night, here's a complete list
of winners!
Here, the list of BAFTA (England's Oscar equivalent)
winners, which were also held last night. (Bafta.org)
Finally, that pesky strike is over and we can find
out what happens next on Grey's. (NPR)
Apple has reportedly applied for a gaming trademark,
which means that maybe our next iPod might double as
a Gameboy. Sweet. (Engadget)
The Crips and the Bloods wanna piece of Britney now,
too. (NY Daily News)
Breakfast at Bendel's
Image
via HenriBendel.com
A few weeks ago, I hit up
my favorite breakfast soirée of the year... or, at
least, the only breakfast soirée worth trekking
through midtown pre-first-cup-of-coffee for:
Bendel's beauty breakfast.
The BBB is pretty
much every girly-girl's pink dream. Remember how,
when you were little, you would fantasize about how
cool it would be to hang out in a toy store after it
closed, when there were no other customers there?
Well, picture that... except instead of a giant foot
piano, it's a ton of beauty industry V.I.Ps wanting
to show you the newest additions to their brands.
Cool, huh?
I've been lucky enough to attend the event in years
past, when I worked at Cosmo. This year, I
was thrilled to be invited as a blogger in the
Total Beauty community.
After carefully testing my new finds, I came across a
few favorites that I'm dying to tell you about.
Here's one of them:
Beauty Rehab Spearmint Lip Balm,
($12, beautyrehab.com
or at Henri Bendel), is a British import
-- David Beckham and the wife are reportedly big
fans.
What have you been using
to treat your chapped lips this winter? Do yourself a
favor... go get it now, and throw it away. Because
it's not working as well as this does.
Beauty Rehab is, quite ironically,
my new addiction. It's one of those products you
think you love because it smells delicious enough to
eat, but then you realize its actually working and
you feel like you made a new BFF. The intensive lip
treatment is made from Sweet Almond Oil and Shea
Butter, which soothe and soften dry lips (in about
five seconds, I might add) and also has Lemon and
Spearmint to nourish your skin and freshen your
breath. I love its slick consistency, too -- it feels
kind of oily at first (not sticky at all),
but once you feel it sink into your dry crevices, all
you'll want to do is an instant reapply.
Since BR is the only rehab program with one step
instead of twelve, there's no excuse for pulling a Kenickie and
falling off the wagon. (Sorry... had to do
it!)
Happy Super/Fat/Tickertape Tuesday
Is anyone else totally psyched to hear that JLo's expecting
twins?
I can't wait to see the babyglam getups!
YouTube took down
Eli's "I'm going to Disney World" commercial,
but I absolutely cried when I saw it for the first
time today. Here's an interesting chronology of
the brill advertising campaign. (PR Newswire)
An interactive Super Tuesday love-o-meter. (BBC)
My favorite Mardi Gras costume: "[A sign depicting]
Sen. Clinton dressed up as George Washington [which]
read, "Monica Lewinsky's X-Boyfriend's Wife for
President. 2 for 1 Sale." (AP)
Disorderly conduct at a parade full of Giants fans?
Get outta town. (NY Times)
An official copy of the Declaration of Lynne Spears.
(The Smoking Gun)
So What did the Groundhog Say, Anyway?
Above: Bill
Murray and P. Phil in Groundhog
Day.
With all the excitement
of Superbowl Sunday, I totally forgot to check out
what Punxsutawney Phil had to say on Saturday. Now
I'm sorry I looked. Apparently, we're in for a long,
cold winter. Ew. (Reuters)
Did you see Paula Abdul's performance at the
pre-show? I was actually trés impressed. For someone
who makes it look like a major struggle to sit still
in her judging chair, she seemed to move around the
stage with grace — like no time has passed since
1988. Here's what the ladies at Jezebel had to say
about the performance, along with a clip. (Jezebel)
Check out this headline from The Boston
Globe this morning: "In the end, it was all for
naught..." Boo-freaking-hoo. Go Giants! (The Boston Globe)
The Writers Strike is expected to end within three
weeks, experts say. (Bloomberg.com)
Google is "troubled" by Microsoft's bid to dominate
the internet by teaming up with Yahoo. (CNN)
Best Superbowl Commercial?
Did you miss some of these? Check them out now on the
Superbowl Ad Myspace Page.
Sick! Sick! Sick!
Congrats to
the New York Giants
on
an AMAZING Superbowl win!
YBLAG Love-O-Meter Update
Guess what? It took about five
months... but YBLAG officially has loyal
readers in all 50 States. I'm SO PSYCHED and
beyond thankful.
New York, New Jersey and Cali are my biggest fans.
I'll keep you posted on a YBLAG Love-O-Meter
International in the coming months.
Hear, See, Experience Bono
Grab this widget from U23Dmovie.com for your
Myspace & Facebook profiles. I'm going to see
it this week -- I can't wait to see Bono in 3D!
The site also has other cool features like red
carpet interviews with Bono and Edge at last
week's Sundance premiere. Here's Entertainment
Weekly's review of U23D. (EW.com)
Olay! Olay, Olay, Olé!!!!!
Above:
Me, midway through my personal skin care consultation
at
OlayforYou.com
As you know, I love,
love... LOVE to hear about web-savvy beauty tools.
Let's face it... anything that combines the internet
with beauty products? I'm all over it.
You can imagine how thrilled I was to find OlayforYou.com, Olay's
personalized skin care consultation web service
for confused beauty junkies. It takes all the
guesswork out of choosing the best ingredients for
your biggest skin concerns — whether they be fine
lines, wrinkles or brown spots. The intuitive
program takes about five minutes from start to
finish, and gives tailored product suggestions
that you can save to your desktop, e-mail to
yourself, or buy at an online drugstore (but only
if you want to — there's absolutely no pressure to
buy anything, which is refreshing.)
The site is DEF worth checking out if you've always
been lost while perusing your drugstore's beauty
aisle, or if you're curious about how to tackle those
newly emerged smile lines you've been desperately
trying to ignore.
OlayForYou, FTW!!
Beauty Blogs are Blowin' Up
By far, the most popular
question I've received via e-mail, text, twitter, IM,
or even phone in the last 24 hours has been "Have you
seen The Times Style Section yet?"
Yes, I have. And Holy awesome.
In case you haven't seen it yet... here's the article
my fam and friends are referring to. Check it out!