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Kesha - 2011 Billboard Music Awards

Like I mentioned in Friday’s vid, it’s a long weekend here in Canada—so while all of us Canuckis were cottaging, sunning and patio-ing, a little event called the Billboard Music Awards happened. And I am happy to report that our wee Bieber picked up five awards, including Top New Artist. (Is now a good time to ALSO report that he’s launching a women’s fragrance? And hot damn, that rosette on the top really resembles Lola.)

Anyway! I wasn’t really paying attention to the 17-year-old Biebs. I’m way more interested in his girlfriend, Selena Gomez, and all of the other fabulously beautified female celebs in attendance, including Taylor Swift, Fergie and yes… believe it or not, I even have praise for Ke$ha.

Not that the night was a total beauty success, of course (it never is). So for educational purposes—both instructive and preventative—here are 10 beauty dos and don’ts from the night. Keep reading »

Taylor Swift 2010 AMAs bangs straight hair

Taylor Swift reads here. (No? Okay, maybe I’m mixing her up with Jessica Alba. No really. Somewhat inexplicably, she followed me on Twitter.) Anyway, I am almost certain that somebody alerted Taylor to my post the other day about how she’s in a beauty rut and I wish to see her in straight hair and less makeup immediately.

So the makeup thing might take a while—fine, I can live with that. But at the American Music Awards the other night, lo and behold, the T-Swizzle turned up with not only the straight hair of my dreams (because people with naturally straight hair can never get this much body) but also eye-grazing bangs. Keep reading »