Gossip Girl may be “Every Parent’s Nightmare”, to quote the ubiquitous billboards showing the pretty cast getting down and dirty, but Blake Lively’s hair is every beauty addict’s dream.  No?  (Chace Crawford isn’t too damn bad, either.  I’m sure he rolls out of bed looking camera-ready, but I do wonder how much time our boys have to spend in the hair and makeup chair everyday to get them looking just right.)  Gossip Girl seems to be single-handedly championing a scarf/headband/hairpiece revival, which is very helpful for those lazy girls (like moi!) who enjoy rolling out of bed and haphazardly making the stuff on our head look presentable.  One of my favorite places for cute-but-still-affordable hair accessories is Target.  Check out the Isaac Mizrahi rhinestone headband below, which is sort of similar to the Grecian-inspired look Serena Blake is sporting below.  Sure, it says it’s bridal, but why wait for a $50,000 party when you can wear it now?

Photo from USmagazine.com

The August issue of Vanity Fair features the fresh faces that are destined to become household names: Kristen Stewart, Blake Lively, Emma Roberts and Amanda Seyfried grace the cover, and inside are more beautiful kids that may become the next Julia Roberts (like, hey, her niece Emma!)…or become the next Gretchen Mol.  Tear!

Hooray for tooth whitening and airbrushing!

These kids star on a little show called Gossip Girl.  Maybe you’ve heard of it? 

More pictures from Vanity Fair after the jump!

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La Blake, rocking the beachy waves…

Photo from People.com

And a little Ed Westwick tastiness…

It’s hard to see with the watermark, but oh, yes, those girls are topless

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)

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.