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5 Best Parts Of the 2013 Academy Awards Ceremony

February 26, 2013 by afrobella 7 Comments

5 Best Parts Of the 2013 Academy Awards Ceremony

  Crass, contrived humor and misogyny aside – the 2013 Academy Awards did have its entertaining moments. I’ve been watching the Oscars every year since when I was little – and I’m old enough to remember being thoroughly confused by that Rob Lowe/Snow White moment in 1989. A few moments of this year’s ceremony reminded…

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Filed Under: Events, Featured, Issues, Pop Culture Tagged With: Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2013, Adele, Award Shows, Chicago, Dame Shirley Bassey, Featured, full-image, jennifer hudson, Oscar, Oscar fashion, Pop Culture, Shirley Bassey

Quvenzhané Wallis Deserves Better

February 25, 2013 by afrobella 35 Comments

Quvenzhané Wallis Deserves Better

  Last night’s Oscar broadcast was more or less what I expected. Standard issue sophomoric humor and frat boy irreverence set to music and soft shoe dance routines by Seth McFarlane, check. An excessively long broadcast that felt every second of three hours long, check. Glorious gowns and fantastic performances by a few of my…

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Filed Under: Featured, Issues, Pop Culture Tagged With: controversy, Featured, full-image, issues, Oscar, quvenzhane, Quvenzhané Wallis

Hooray for Quvenzhané! All About Oscar’s Youngest Nominee

February 18, 2013 by afrobella 8 Comments

Hooray for Quvenzhané! All About Oscar’s Youngest Nominee

The Academy Awards will take place on February 24th, and yours truly won’t be on the red carpet this year, but I sure will be glued to my TV screen! I’m a longtime Oscar junkie. I love seeing the stars walk the red carpet – what they wear, who they’re with, the hair, the nails,…

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Filed Under: Events, Featured, Issues, Pop Culture Tagged With: Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2013, Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Best Actress, Black Beauty, Featured, full-image, kids, Oscar, Quvenzhané Wallis

Oscar Hair, Makeup, and Fashion–Our Red Carpet Looks!

March 2, 2012 by afrobella 27 Comments

Oscar Hair, Makeup, and Fashion–Our Red Carpet Looks!

For most special events and occasions, I feel comfortable doing my own hair and makeup. But certainly NOT for something as momentous as the Academy Awards! An occasion like that calls for full hair, makeup, exquisite garments, the whole 9 yards! To put together the perfect Oscar look, we had to put together the ideal…

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Filed Under: Beauty, Events, Featured, Makeup Tagged With: Beauty, fashion, full-image, makeup, Oscar

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