Pre Oscar Beauty- Age-Appropriate Celebrity Glam, Your 30′s and 40′s, Part 2 of 3

The Oscars are coming! Are you ready for a heady source of fresh celebrity style inspiration direct from the red carpet?

Pre-game your Oscar beauty on day no.2 with makeup & hair stylist Gad Cohen as we look at top Hollywood actresses while helping you up your own beauty-regime ante with a three-day series on Oscar worthy style through the ages! –N.H.

Our first day’s

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Kate Middleton Looks Dowdy, Samantha Cameron Goes Glam

As we’re focusing on the close of London Fashion Week, we can’t help but take a look at what the royals and pols are wearing, specifically yesterday.

There’s no doubt that Kate Middleton can make almost anything work with her gorgeous smile and slim figure.

But even pretty clothes-horses can look dowdy.

Case in point: The brown princess-cut coat dress with the fuddy-duddy print that even a Princess

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Pre Oscar Beauty- Age-Appropriate Celebrity Glam- Your Twenties, Part 1of 3

The Oscars are coming! Are you ready for a heady source of fresh celebrity style inspiration direct from the red carpet? Pre-game  your Oscar beauty with hair & makeup stylist Gad Cohen as we look at top Hollywood actresses while helping you up your own beauty-regime ante with this start of a three-day series on Oscar worthy style through the ages! – N.H.

As we

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How I remember Whitney Houston

As we learned of Whitney Houston’s passing last weekend we like many of you out there felt an overwhelming shock and genuine sympathy for the fallen star for her voice was like no other. And although we got to see her through her turbulent years and were faced with an explicit reminder of the devastation drugs can take on one’s life, we will miss her

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Kate Middleton wears a very Mad Men dress & makes it NOT look stuffy

Styling Tips how you can too…

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge stepped out solo last night in London for the opening of the Lucien Freud Portraits Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

MORE: Kate Middleton Style 

Her VERY 1950′s Mad Men style dress referenced the open portrait shawl collar dresses that Queen Elizabeth wore in the 1950′s. The full-skirt, elbow-length sleeves, and shawl collared styling of Kate Middleton’s Jesire number,

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Celebrity Watch- Style inspiration from Thandie Newton on how to make a one-shouldered dress look modern and sleek

I’ll Have What She’s Having: Clean, timeless figure-flattering lines

One-shoulder dresses are not so easy to wear and after having a huge fashion “moment” a few seasons back, can look dated if not styled correctly. But when worn, right, a one-shoulder dress is a total WOW.

Thandie Newton made a chic red carpet statement in an elegant, minimal one-shouldered column dress from Osman that made for

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Celebrity Watch- Rooney Mara Shows You How To Pull Off Sculptural White

While Cate Blanchett made a stunning recent appearance in the black version of the sculptural white Givenchy dress Rooney Mara wore last week in Tokyo for the premiere of The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo, Mara made a case for alternative red carpet dressing in winter white and looked all the more memorable for it.

Consider white as a fresh alternative to party dressing and

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Here’s How Michelle Obama Makes Pastels Look Chic

I’ll Have What She’s Having : Sophisticated & pretty pastel shades oozing with daytime elegance.

Pastels can be tricky to pull off if  you want to look more refined rather than youthful. Even with the best intentions, a grown-up woman can instantly look like a cast off from the sherbet scooper.

Last week First Lady Michelle Obama made a case for daytime elegance in an easy

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Gratuitous Afternoon Eye Candy- Madonna’s Super Bowl Gladiator Studs in Calvin Klein Skivvies

I see Paris.

I see France.

I see Madonna’s Gladiator’s underpants.

And they’re Calvins!

We cannot lie. There is no point to this post.

Well, other than a completely gratuitous & exclusive look into Madonna’s Super Bowl Half Time dressing room and her hunky gladiators.

MORE: Madonna’s Half Time in Givenchy & performance video 

Madonna herself sent these behind the scene dressing room images of her dancers including Adrien, Brahim, Lilou and Maxime to the

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Madonna’s Half-Time in Givenchy was THE Superbowl of Costume

Lady Gaga who?

53 is the new forever.

Madonna shut the door as the Queen of Glam Pop in a Super Bowl halftime performance that included songs dating back to the Walkman days and right up to future present with the (like she needed it) help of Nicki Minaj, M.I.A., Cee Lo Green, and LMFAO. (Update: Watch the video below)

SEE: Dressing room photos of the Gladiators

One smart cookie

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