beauty :: cute disaster

This is what happens when fame and fortune get hold of you. Remember Kelli Pickler from American Idol a few years back? I thought she was so cute...

Now pickles look better. A stardom disaster - JUST not COOL!

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beauty :: reverse face-lift

The Presidential Reverse Face-Lift, only for the privileged very few...

Here's the wrinkly mug that BO has to look forward to when he takes office in a few days. I'm sure he'll be getting a nip here, a tuck there, and definitely some botox. Heck he doesnt' want to end up like good ol' GW ;)

My take from all of this? Don't go into politics, cuz looky...

It ain't pretty!

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beauty :: what's up with makeup?

Makeup, that wonderful invention that makes us beautiful even when we are at our ugliest, has some ugly secrets to tell. What is makeup actually made up of? These ingredients will surprise you:

Pepper spray: in your lipstick? Yup, it's that Oleoresin Capsicum that causes a warming sensation when applied topically to make your lips look big, fat and beautiful.

Egg whites: one of the prime ingredients in skin firming products, albumen constricts very efficiently when dried. Hey I remember egg white masks, before a big night out, do you?

Urine : Well really urea which is an ingredient in urine. Eeeewww! As a cosmetic ingredient, urea is a functional skin-softener and humectant, which means it helps to collect and hold moisture in the skin.

Plastic : It's what keeps the crispy crunch in your coif, the waterproofness in your mascara and its the tiny little beads in your skin exfoliant. Plastic serves as a film-former in hair gel, hairspray, barrier products, and liquid bandages too.

Salt : Good old table salt is a common ingredient in shampoo, facial cleanser, body wash, bubble bath, and anything else that foams.

Lard : Gramma's shortnin' does double duty to make your skin baby soft. The shortening or hydrogenated vegetable oil is an amazing skin-softener, emollient, and barrier ingredient and included in many heavy body and foot creams, lip balms, and in some suntan products. I remember reading about Doris Day slathering her whole body with crisco once a week so I guess it works!

Hmmm... putting pee, eggs, salt and pepper spray on my face does sound pretty gross. But hey, I love makeup and if it makes me look good...It's JUST COOL!

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Halloween :: the scariest costume

...only it isn't a costume - it's for real.

Jocelyn Wildenstein doesn't have to worry about what to wear for Halloween. She's been wearing it for years and each year it gets a little better - and scarier. The rich 68 year old divorcee spent over $3 million on cosmetic surgery over the years and it started way back in the 1990's when she caught her husband in bed with a Russian model and decided to get his attention by turning into one of his favorite pets, a cat. Her pricey feline transformation didn't help her though - it scared him so much that he divorced her.

The plasticene feline is known to have received several procedures including silicone injections to the lips, cheek, and chin along with a facelift and eye reconstruction to appear more feline. (Uhhh...it looks like atleast 100 procedures.) This meowerific lady is known by nicknames like Cat Woman and Bride of Frankenstein (aka Wildenstein.) and believe it or not - she's still hot - atleast according to her longtime boyfriend Lloyd Klein. All she needs now are some whiskers and a tail. At her age the whiskers shouldn't be a problem.

Happy Halloween everyone! This cat woman is JUST COOL!

via dlisted