Mary-Kate Olsen is just too gorgeous for words at yesterday’s New York City screening of her new film The Wackness.  (In it, she kisses Sir Ben Kingsley…you know, Gandhi?…who is like seven times her age.  Definitely earning that paycheck.)  The soft makeup–no crazy colors, simply natural peachy tones–lets her skin shine through and the strong well-groomed brows and charcoal liner accentuates her eyes fabulously.  As far as the studiously-messy updo?  A-mazing.

Photo from UsMagazine.com

Jennifer Aniston’s He’s Just Not That Into You is pushed until February, avoiding a competitive release with Angelina Jolie’s Changeling.  Please, we all knew Jen was going to win the box office war, anyway!

Hilary Swank cut all her hair off.  I mean, all…of…it.

Bella Sugar loves Arcona White Tea Cleanser (I second her raves!  I’ve been using it off and on for the past few months and it’s excellent for sensitive skin.)

Clinique is beginning a beauty insider program.

Beauty Addict finds out which makeup items Dior used on Charlize Theron during the Hancock publicity tour.

Taylor Momsen (little Jenny Humphrey, again!) signs a modeling deal with IMG.  Um, I sure as hell didn’t look like that when I was 14 years old! 

Are you as excited for the new season for Gossip Girl as I am?  I simply can’t get enough of pictures of the cast on set…

Blake Lively’s long, thick, golden locks, Leighton Meester’s wild and wacky ensembles, I covet it all!  (Oh, yes, and Blake’s gams are, in my mind, already legendary)

Too busy to eat?  I guess these overachieving kids are going to be saving our future–somebody has to counteract the MTV generation–but they certainly don’t sound like a barrel full of laughs.

If you’re over 27 and haven’t had your Gardasil vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, you’re still out of luck; the FDA has rejected an application for use in women 27 through 45.

Cosmetic surgery procedures will exceed 55 million by 2015.  That’s four times as many procedures performed in 2005.

DailySugar is offering a free Balenciaga bag just for signing up.

Kat Von D. has a makeup line…and the offerings are actually kind of cute.

It’s (not at all really) official: Mario Lopez is The Most Shirtless Man in America.  Number two?  Everybody’s crush at my gym: Ryan “Oh My Hot” Reynolds.

Yesterday at the gym, I saw Lance Bass.  Dude is tiny.  It’s been a decade since N’Sync was the hottest boy band in the world, and while Lance, Joey et al. are doing okay for themselves, Justin Timberlake has, of course, blown them all out of the water.  (Seriously, just stop and think about JT’s career trajectory for a second.  It’s mindblowing.)  Justin’s the face of Givenchy’s new fragrance Play, and his new ads have just been released.  He’s hot, sure…but the first image is way over-airbrushed.  Looks like an art director was a bit too excited.

Any guesses as to what this juice will smell like?  Money, sweat, and sex?

When a beauty product becomes discontinued, panic ensues.  How will I live without that perfect, exact, nothing-else-in-this-world-even-comes-close shade of slightly pink, slightly coral, not-too-shimmery, not-too-matte lipgloss?!, you curse the gods.  We girls are damn crazy about our favorites, stubbornly clinging to crumbling compacts and nubby tubes and waxy pencils, angrily shaking off friends who try to press a newer, fancier, better version on us.  (Better?  Ha!  I’ll be the judge of that.)  Sure, there may be scores!, hundreds!, nay thousands! of allllmost identical eye shadows, nail polishes and lipsticks out there…but we likes what we likes, no?  Lucky Magazine’s Beauty Blog lists a few soon-to-be-discontinued gems, including Lancome Juicy Gelee Crystal Clear Lipgloss and Smashbox Smokebox Palette.  Get ‘em before they’re gone!

Taylor Momsen (better known as Jenny Humphrey from Gossip Girl) chilled on location yesterday in Oyster Bay, Long Island, pictured below.  (I once nannyed for a family in Oyster Bay.  It was a truly bone-chilling summer, and I’m not talking about the weather.)  Anyhoo, I was flipping through pictures on People.com, as you do, and came across this one.  “Hmm, Jenny is so cute, even with her hair in those dorky rollers,” I thought, about to click onto the next time suck, when I realized: “Wait a minute!  Rollers!  So that’s how they get her hair so bouncy!”  Taylor doesn’t have the world’s thickest tresses, so it makes sense they’d want to pump up the volume as much as possible—but I’m jealous that her end result is sleek, smooth waves, whereas my result with hot (or even Velcro) rollers would be “Texas Beauty Queen Circa 1987.”  My best friend A. has similarly thin hair and relied on rollers for the first four years I knew her.  I was endlessly fascinated watching her roll her hair this way and that, and must confess I’m still something of a moron when it comes to them.  Ah, yes, I know roller theory, that’s for sure.  But if I were studying at Roller University and taking my practical finals?  I would—sob!—probably fail.  And then be left with bad hair, to boot. 

If I had a set of rollers at my house, you totally know what I’d be doing tonight.  Alas…I don’t.

Kate Middleton and Chelsy Davy looked every inch the Professional Girlfriends this weekend as they watched their Princes play polo at Beaufort Polo Club in Gloucestershire.  Reportedly, Kate’s mom Carole was finally set to meet The Queen this weekend at Royal Ascot, but those rumors seem to have gone nowhere.

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