Lupita Nyong’o looked stunning at the LoveGold event last night. She’s so beautiful, she even makes a Stella McCartney dress work. [I’m Not Obsessed]
Adam Driver is going to be in Star Wars VII? Hm. [Dlisted]
Gisele Bundchen posts a wedding photo for her anniversary. [LaineyGossip]
Michelle Duggar reveals: she’s struggled with bulimia. [Wonderwall]
A GOP Texan’s hilarious Twitter “mistake”. [IDLY]
Kim Zolciak is crazy-broke! [CDAN]
Leah Remini is still talking about Xenu. Go for it, girl. [Starcasm]
Tara Reid on the set of Sharknado 2: The Sharkpocalypse. [Celebslam]
Annalynne McCarod & Dominic Purcell are still together. [ICYDK]
Spain has just banned abortion. Ugh. [Jezebel]
Wow, UCLA law students sound really racist. [Bossip]
Jay Leno made an appearance on Arsenio Hall’s show. [Seriously OMG WTF]
Dolly Parton is headlining Glastonbury!!!!! YES. [OMG Blog]
Kanye West reveals how IgNori inspires him. [Life & Style]
No just no, it’s so wrong it can’t be right. Why must they insist on matching this woman’s eye shadow to the color of whatever dress she is wearing. She is pretty but the make-up is not good. Are they doing this to her on purpose.
The red lip stick wouldn’t look so clownish if she got rid of the eye shadow.
I know!
Seriously they do this for every single event just stop already
I’d like that dress a lot more without the weird cutout in the middle. The color is nice.
I don’t even know what she is famous for, I have only seen her covered on this site but I am out of the loop. I just don’t know why she is getting so much coverage. Im already sick of her.
I’m just sitting here, waiting for the inevitable backlash; you know it’s coming. Not only are her looks vastly overrated (the more overexposed she becomes, the less attractive she appears), she’s also extremely phony and insufferable. Everything about her just comes across as contrived. I don’t know why people are willingly buying into her ‘act’.
The dress and make-up are just a throw back to 1985. I’m indifferent to her styling really. She’s everywhere at the moment but it’ll fade some after awards season.
I still like her and think she’s refreshing because, to be frank, I think she’s the prettiest actress I’ve seen in a while. Most everyone that Hollywood puts on a pedestal is made out of plastic, injectables and other people’s hair and Lupita seems naturally beautiful (for now). And unlike a ton of actresses she also doesn’t seem to be relying on her T&A for her career trajectory or at least if she is she’s keeping it discrete.
Peetalimbs
The more she’s around and over exposed the more her actions seem like an act, absolutely.
At first she was sweet, humble actress in an Oscar baity film. Her body, skin, fashion sense were all praised endlessly along with how humble she came across in interviews.
It was refreshing to see a woman of color own her image. Never trying to lighten her skin or alter her hair. She was simply gorgeous as she was. Now it seems boring and forced. And to be fair. It might be that we’ve had enough of her. Award season can drag on forever.
I feel like the backlash is already starting and I feel bad for her because it’s come quicker than most.
An act? How does it feel like an act?
The Oscars are too late this year, they should have been sooner.
I agree. Being from Africa myself, I see 100’s of African women a day that are just as pretty or even more beautiful, so for me she was overrated to start off with. I’M SO GLAD we are allowed to say this now. I thought people were going to be falling over her for a few more months, but luckily you guys are as sick of her as I am.
The eyeshadow matches the dress which matches the shoes. Why does everything have to match?
I had mentioned the problems with Lupita’s eyeshadow last month when she wore that turquoise Gucci at the SAGs (here: http://www.celebitchy.com/344972/lupita_nyongo_in_gucci_at_the_sags_fashion-forward_or_totally_80s/)
I wrote that her eyeshadow cheapened her entire look. She needs to stop with the eyeshadow the same way Kate Middleton needs to put down the eyeliner. Too much makeup can really be a bad thing, especially for naturally attractive women who don’t need to mask their faces in cosmetics. I hope Lupita goes for a more natural and classic look for the Oscars.
I think soft gold and pink eye shadows would look amazing on her. NO ONE looks good in that shade of blue eye shadow!
Here’s to hopes and wishes! I love the color of the dress, but Lupita isn’t some fashion goddess that can make Stella look good.
Littlestar
I wish they would stop selling that shade. I always want to wipe down her eye makeup.
I know and red lipstick is tricky. I use to wear it ages who and I black but I find now its hard to get that right shade depending on your complexion also
Not sure about the glossy. The dress I don’t mind
Thank you, I am not a fan of this look. The blue is great on her but everything else is a no.
That color is STUNNING of her but I too hate the matchiness. Why couldn’t she do a bare/subtle eye and keep the red lip with that dress? She would have looked amazing…
I love the colour of the dress (and shape – wow!) and even the matching eye shadow. However I would have much preferred black/neutral shoes + bag and THAT LIPSTICK HAS TO GO. The blue is a great colour, but also overpowering. With such a strong red it’s just too much.
@peetalimbs can you point out when she has been completely ‘phoney and insufferable’? She has an inate grace and that’s something you can’t fake, besides that she had two interviews with CNN years ago way before her breakthrough and she seems the same as today. So it isn’t just an act.
Anyway I hate everything except the dress, with her being everywhere I doubt she’s going to win now. Can her stylist give her sandals? Ugh
Yeah those comments baffle me too, what’s up with that?
Yeah, seriously! What’s up with the extremely bitchy comments?? She’s been getting exposure (deservedly so) because it’s awards season and she just so happened to put forth an amazing performance in one of the better films of the year. So is that a reason to hate on her? Are you people seriously hoping for more Brandi Glanville/Leanne Rimes posts? Because I’ll take this chick over them any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Every since someone pointed that out before, it bothers me too. The dress looks nice. Those shoes tho. No.
Yup!! The eyeshadow is competing with the lip color. I think if that if you are going red lip, natural eyeshadow, IMO!!
I love the color of the dress but don’t care for the mismatched shoulders it makes her posture look off even though she’s standing straight and the eye shadow is to heavy
Don’t like the dress or makeup. Lupita is nice
looking but I would not call her a beautiful
woman.
Really? I could look at her face for ages. She’s stunning. If only her eyeshadow wasn’t bright blue.
Have you seen her onscreen? I honestly think she’s breathtaking on film…..
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agreed
I completely agree! It makes her look unbalanced in a very funny way. And as soon as I saw the eyeshadow in the first pic, I knew exaaaactly what color her dress was……without scrolling down. She seems like a perfectly nice person, but maybe time to change up the makeup?
I shall buy a royal blue dress soon. We have the same skin tone so I’m just gonna say it wwill look good on me too. 🙂
You know it 😀
OOOOh. Yes! That colour looks amazing on her. I dislike the dress itself, but the colour is divine on her beautiful skin.
Queen Lupita could make a Hefty bag look like haute couture. But the girl can’t resist matching her eye shadow and shoes to the exact shade of her dress.
No, no she didn’t. She’s a beautiful woman, the colour is lovely, but the dress is early 90s awful.
The colour is pretty. The dress is gawd-awful, and even Lupita can’t fix that. Stella is an epically bad “designer”.
Yeah, that’s the worst thing I’ve seen Lupita wear.
Yet another Stella design that takes a woman with no fat folds at all and makes her look “pudgy” around the belt.
It’s skill to make a thin woman not look thin.
And the dress doesn’t even fit her! How can it not fit her??? She has a perfect figure, so the problem can’t be her…the color is beautiful, though.
yikes, that makeup is in clown territory.
Am I the only one who never found the appeal of Lupita Nyong? In my opinion, she is not unattractive and has a good body, but very average at best, definitely not stunning so it boggles my mind when people over exaggerate her looks because she happens to be “It” girl of this month.
I’m indifferent towards her and confused by the hype. I just don’t get it but whatever.
I only get annoyed when other women are bashed for their success because apparently lupita is the only deserving woman.
That’s pretty much how I feel.
If you have to ask if you’re the only one you’re probably not. I can’t imagine how you’d be the only one to feel that way. I’m so tired of these types of questions.
Relax Side-Eye, it is just a rhetorical question then anything else. No need to take it literally.
@Side-Eye:
Sometimes the sycophancy can get ridiculous, and it seems like everyone around you thinks one thing (like loving Lupita no matter what). And when it feels like everyone around you is saying one thing, it feels like you are the only one to not feel that way. Clearly, logically, there would be other people on the planet to feel the way you do, but emotionally, in a select group, it might feel like you’re alone in how you’re feeling.
For the longest time I never understood the sycophancy over Lupita, but whenever I said anything negative about her, my comments would get deleted or I’d get bashed. For a long time on this site, it seemed like every comment about Lupita was positive and fawning, so it really isn’t that big a stretch to wonder if you are the only person to not get the fawning.
Good for you being completely logical all the time and never feeling like an outcast, but don’t be rude when someone merely asks a question.
Simmer down, Jessica, we didn’t need an essay.
Different strokes for different folks.
I had never seen her on the red carpet or anything and then I saw 12 Years a Slave and was blown away by her beauty in the movie.
In my opinion, she is one of the THE most beautiful women I have ever seen.
But beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it’s okay to not find someone as attractive as other people 🙂
I think she’s pretty. However, she is not an ethereal Goddess like some posters are saying. She is not a head turner. I bet if Lupita wasn’t up for an Oscar and was on the same scale as lesser known actresses she wouldn’t have this much hype.
I actually think she is very pretty and comes across like a sweet, smart girl. But sartorially speaking, she never excites me the way Blanchett and Swinton have this award season. I think her fashion choices are nice but nothing groundbreaking or special so I don’t get the fuss about her in that aspect.
I have not seen 12 Years a Slave, so I only know her from photographs but I find her to be stunning. Her skin and features are just gorgeous.
She looks like a stretched out Gary Coleman in drag.
“Average at best”??? Seriously, your standards must be astronomical.
I think Lupita’s gorgeous, but the way an awful lot of people make such a fuss over her body and her skin…it makes me a little uncomfortable. Have some people never actually seen an African woman before, or more specifically a Kenyan woman? She’s very attractive, but not at all uniquely attractive.
She’s worn some interesting stuff (and also some ugly stuff), I thought she was very good in 12YAS, she seems nice enough in the interviews I’ve seen and some of the work she did in Kenya and at Yale sounds interesting…but I don’t get why everyone’s quite so crazy in love with her. I’ve been following her pretty closely, but I don’t feel I know nearly enough about her to call myself a real fan yet, let alone gush about her the way so many people are. She hasn’t made a big impression on me, and I honestly don’t think many she’s made a big impression on many people yet, because her fashion is what’s dominating the conversation everywhere.
She’s been in one amazing film, and now one Liam Neeson vehicle. That’s all so far. When she churns out a couple more films I’ll have a better idea how I feel about her as an actress. Right now I don’t know, like I said I thought she was great in 12YAS, but it was a great role with a great director, it could well have been a slight fluke. Hopefully not, but it has been known to happen, so I don’t get why people are so adamant she’s the greatest thing ever. Even if she is, let her actually earn the high praise first.
Finally, this isn’t at all her fault, but the Lupita vs. JLaw thing is really and truly getting old. I’ve seen people who admit to not even seeing 12YAS or American Hustle yet saying horrible things about JLaw because ‘Lupita was better and deserves all the awards’. How they hell would they know, they’ve literally never seen anything Lupita’s ever done and they haven’t seen JLaw’s performance in Hustle! It’s getting crazy, and if I didn’t think it’s better for JLaw not to win this year, I’d be rooting for her. As it is I’m starting to wish Sally Hawkins has a surprise win so this stupid conversation dies a swift death.
Is Dolly Parton a thing in Britain? Is any country artist, apart from Johnny Cash a thing in Britain?
I was wondering the same thing.
I knew she was small on top but had no idea her waist was that tiny. Jealous.
I’m in the minority but I love the matching of her eye shadow and eyeliner to her clothes. It brings out the fun in her ensemble and is her trademark. But I understand why other people may hate it.
I’m part of the minority too. It’s not the eyeshadow that gets me every time, it’s the matching shoes. Too much! Girl needs to up her shoe game.
I don’t understand minority based scholarships. wouldn’t it be better if they were based on economical background of the student?
I kinda agree but all financial assistance is based on economic background. I’m kinda iffy on affirmative action myself since I feel like sometimes it can come across as not having to work as hard or as if AA’s like myself require lower standards. If one student doed better than another morally I think that student should get it regardless of race. But then there are other factors that could come into play of course.
Most minority scholarhips are based on minority status, economic background or academic achievement- or a combination of those factors
@sideeye that’s not always the case I received a full academic scholarship that was solely based on my grades. Meaning my course tuition was paid for but I still had to cover room and board and books. I think your thinking about financial aid which is diff from scholarships and grants
But why should minority status matter?
They are an attempt ensure that minorities are represented in the school population. It is not solely based on minority status, as the individual must also meet the standards set by the institution for admission.
It is a purposeful form of outreach to minorities who are often extremely underrepresented for a variety of reasons (socioeconomic being only one of those)
But if two students have the same results, come from the same economic background, isn’t it unfair that one gets in because of the colour of his skin?
Yep, which is why this law exists. Guess who usually gets picked.
Zadie the motivation for the law is so that schools are forced to actively consider minority students because before in your scenario minorities tended to not get accepted in favor of Caucasian students even though they had equal qualifications. That’s the same reasoning for affirmative action in the workplace. But it’s not perfect and it has limitations
My university experience was greatly enhanced by the wide variety of people that attended. I not only learned in my classes, I learned from my fellow students as well. The fact that there were people of different socio-economic backgrounds, different countries, and different races added value to MY college experience, not just theirs.
I think diversity is good for us all.
Race in the US is indeed a big deal, and it should be due to our horrific history of racial intolerance and cruelty. (and it is clearly NOT just a problem from the past: see Paula Deen)
Minority status absolutely should be taken into account when universities are attempting to make their student population reflective of the population at large.
That said, the process needs real changes, because just like CAZZEE said, the process tends to result in the over-admission of “the right kind of minorities” – those from more middle class backgrounds, black African students (rather than African Americans) etc.
To truly be effective outreach it has to actively work to seek out underprivileged minority students who are smart and capable but often lack the access, information, and support needed to attend institutions of higher learning.
And all those screaming “unfair”, just look at the percentage of Caucasians in ALL major universities, ALL major corporations, ALL government entities, ALL major anything. Maybe trying to balance that out a little isn’t so unfair after all.
Food for thought.
I’m not from nor have I ever been to the US, so the confusion regarding race and how much it still matters shocks me. And I learned it from this site, because the image you get of the US tends to be very sugarcoated.
“I’m not from nor have I ever been to the US”
Then you’re in for a rude awakening. The US is good at sugarcoating things but we’re not all bad. You should come for a visit and see for yourself.
@Zadie
I was born in the US but have lived in London for almost 14 years and with all the US faults I do miss the US. Def go for a visit.
@Ag-UK-Wanna switch places? 😉
I LOVE London…we could do an apartment swap.
I doubt I could afford to visit the US, but I would really like to. Maybe one day.
I have lived and traveled all over, and the U.S. is better than most places. If you are in a tiny city in the south it may be bad. Overall it is pretty decent. Name another majority white country that has elected and reelected a black leader. I am Hispanic, and wow have I seen racism. South Americans look down on other Hispanics. Many countries in South America look down on Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. Argentina seems to look down on everyone. I have seen some pretty blatant racism in Italy and Spain.
The motivation for affirmative action at elite institutions is to bring in the “right” kind of minority students (the ones whose parents are doctors and lawyers and professors) so that they can maintain institutional credibility while at the same time protecting themselves from actually having to change. The other group of minority students who are considered to be the “right” kind of student and are admitted are the children of African and West Indian immigrants. Regular black American students tend to have a lot of trouble “adjusting” and tend to drop out at very high rates, so universities prefer not to admit them – they’re too much trouble.
Letting poor people in (of any color) doesn’t work out for elite institutions because poor people don’t have a stake in maintaining the status quo, and they ask too many questions. Plus they try to change things to make it more fair for future students, which is unacceptable to the elite because that way more poor people might get in.
At Harvard, two thirds of the black undergraduates are the children of Caribbean or African immigrants, and most of the rest are well-connected kids who went to private schools or elite public schools, and who have parents who are artists or writers or judges.
Affirmative action is about the elite protecting themselves by maintaining the credibility of their institutions through a carefully shaded org chart – America is becoming more multiracial, so the institutions need to have a “more diverse look”. It has nothing to do with social justice. If it were, places like Harvard would be going out of their way to find talented poor black students to recruit…not going out of their way to find prep school graduates who can help their statistics.
If Affirmative Action were based on class, a large proportion of the students admitted under that policy would be black – they would just be a totally different group of people than the ones who are admitted nowadays under AA policies.
/rant over/
Sorry, I used to go to Harvard and it always pissed me off how the administration talked up a storm about “diversity” while only letting in well-connected prep school kids and the children of immigrants. They wanted a “rainbow coalition” of people who are exactly the same.
I never comment on these pages and registered just to reply to your comment. I am a black woman who attended Brown University. My parents are from the Caribbean ….and…THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for speaking the truth. I totally agree with you. Even though I am a member of the group you mention, it pissed me off just as much as it pissed you off. Thanks for your rant. I could not agree with you more.
Now THIS is EXACTLY the type of clothing I’ve been saying Lupita should wear. Her body looks banging! However, blech! Enough with the matchy matchy shoes and eyeshadow!
gorgeous face, ugly legs.
I fully agree.
That lipstick color is dreadful. I don’t like anything about that look 🙁
Lupita could put on a potato sack, roll around in the mud, and she would still be stunning!
That said, I agree with the make up comments. Red lipstick OR the blue eye shadow, but not both. They compete too much. One or the other would have worked if paired with a neutral, but this combo is too much, even on Lupita’s gorgeous skin.
Her skin is gorgeous! She glows.
She makes the dress OK, but I agree I’m not loving the makeup and shoes. But she’s still completely lovely.
LOL at that twitter mistake. Some mischievous kids need to make up campaign posters for him with that as the slogan.
I’m seriously astonished by people who are bothered by Lupita’s coverage and insist in saying they don’t know why is she famous. Are you serious?
She was the brilliant supporting actress in one of the most talked about movies of the award season,she’s an Oscar nominee who happens to be stylish on the red carpet. We talk about her in the same terms we’ve been talking about J.Law last year and many others It Girls.What’s the problem with that? As soon as the award season will be over you won’t hear of her until her next project,so ,calm down.
Lea
Lupita has given us 1 role in which to judge her on. 1 role to prove she’s this grand actress. Lawrence gave us film after film after film. We didn’t get so bored and weren’t questioning her talent.
Also, Lawrence got her share of over exposure, backlash.
Yes, TYAS is big, but it’s not the best or only movie out there. And she’s getting a lot of coverage, but she’s hardly hitting home runs every time on the red carpet.
And she will be talked about post award season. We don’t stop with Cumby, or Fassy when they have nothing going on.
She hasn’t had the chance yet,since this is her first feature.Hopefully in the future even though we know how Hollywood seems to lack roles for black women.
I just don’t get why J.Law has had this supposed backlash this year and people are already bashing Lupita now. It’s not like she gets pap’ed everyday and we know every single detail about her life.So how do you get tired of a person this way?
I’m not tired of the person, I haven’t seen enough of her to be tired of her, and that’s part of the problem.
I’m tired of all the hype when right now she’s still a bit of an unknown quantity. So much is being written about her, but not much is being said, because there’s just not that much to say yet. She was excellent in 12YAS and she’s worn a few fantastic outfits…that’s normally not enough to warrant this kind of outpouring of adoration. It just seems hugely out of proportion given what she’s actually done so far. Right now she’s getting more coverage than Cate Blanchett, which is crazy. It’s not her fault people have latched onto her this way before she’s really had the chance the prove herself, but it is getting tiring.
I still don’t like the dress.
Aside from Lupita’s flaw of matching her eyeliner to her shoes, I think she is very pretty and I find it refreshing that she doesn’t feel compelled to use chemicals or weaves. I don’t think she exudes personality in photos and looks bored/blank though.
I love Lupita and I think she’s gorg. Far from
being sick of her I’m going to miss her fashion, grace and attitude. Such a great break from actresses that always talk about their weight or try too hard to be sweet and lovable and relatable. Being “exotic” I guess she gets less pressure to be an everywoman tho.
Exotic? Ughhh!
Forget Lupita, Adam Driver is going to be the villain in Star Wars VII? NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, what the heck? He’s not really that villainy. He’s not the type of person that can pull off “iconic villain” status. UGH! It really seems like VII is going to be a mess.
WTF Spain ?
That shade of blue is becoming for Lupita but the style is unflattering. Midriff cutout is tacky and the length is bad. Lupita’s top half is a size smaller than her bottom half, so the fitted sheath silhouette fits her poorly – fabric pulls across her tummy & thighs because it’s too tight. She looks much better in flared skirts.
She should avoid above -the-knee lengths as her legs are not her best feature.
I don’t like the makeup at all.
Agree about the makeup. She looked so flawless at the Golden Globes that I hope we see something like that at the Oscars. Bold colours suit her and she’s stunningly beautiful, so a bright striking dress and minimal makeup would really bring out her best.
I like the color but I just find the bad makeup, overdesigned dress, and the matchy-matchy shoes and eyeshadow so tragic on a beautiful girl.
How did Stella get so famous…? Oh yeah, daughter of a Beatle.
Always amazing but she’s done the jewel tone thing too much. I’d love to see her in a soft blush pink, pastels or cream.
No one can make a McCartney frock look good. Not even Lupita. That is an ill fitting dress period.
Her knees look really swollen for some reason. I’ve never seen slim legs with fat knees before, but there it is…
Hers are always that way. Hide ’em, girl.