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Gwyneth Paltrow Covers the March 2012 issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

Get her look courtesy of Natasha Sunshine of Byu-ti Salon and Pureology.

At the Christian Dior show during Paris Fashion Week, Mila Kunis wore shiny, pin-straight strands. We love how her hair was sleek, and had movement to it.

To keep your hair from looking too stringy, spritz a volumizing spray at your crown before blow-drying using a round brush to give lift and movement. Then, smooth a shine serum through your hair to create a mirror-like finish, concentrating on your mid-lengths and ends. For thicker, more course hair you may need to run a flat iron over sections from the mid-length to the ends before adding the shine serum.

The result? A shiny, fuss-free style that won’t fall flat.

FACE: Start off with Smashbox Photo Finish foundation primer using fingertips to smooth the skin’s surface and elongate the wear of your make up

Apply Sheer Focus  Tinted Moisturizer in shade of your choice using foundation brush #13 (starting in center of the face and working your way out towards jaw line)

Apply high definition concealer under eyes and top with photo-op under eye brightener to smooth and illuminate.  Set face using fan brush #22 and photoset powder

Image credit: Examiner.com

Apply Smashbox Blush Rush (paradise color) to the apples of cheeks using fingertips

EYES: Apply photofinish lid primer with fingertips all over entire eyelid to smooth, neutralize and hold shadow in place

Using eyelights eyeshadow palette in beam, use lightest shade all over with tapered shadow brush #7, using same brush sweep the middle peach color over the eyelid(starting at lashes)

Apply jet set waterproof liner in black across top  lash line and in the inner rim of eye using arced liner brush #21.  Finish lashes with a coat of layer lash primer and  jet black Lash DNA  mascara

LIPS: Start with Smashbox’s Nude Lipliner in Fair then use Smashbox’s Be Legendary in Nylon Nude.  Finish with Smashbox’s Limitless long wear Lipgloss in Endless.  Makeup artist Stacey Ellis is a regular contributor to BSW’s ‘Get the Look’.

Courtesy of Celebrity Makeup Artist Piper Cline of Angelo David Salon

Get ready everyone and hold on to your hair, GCB, (or as we still like to call it Good Christian Bitches) premieres this Sunday on ABC.  The highly anticipated show has been given a thumbs up by TV critics, and with a colorful cast of characters we are pretty sure the show will be a hit.

GCB (Good Christian Belles), falls under the category of an American comedy-drama television series.  Created and written by Robert Harling, produced by Darren Star, and based on the book Good Christian Bitches by Kim Gatlin, the show stars Kristin Chenoweth, Leslie Bibb, Jennifer Aspen, Miriam Shor, Marisol Nichols, and Annie Potts.

The show is set in Texas, so you can expect big hair and lots, and lots of makeup. Smoky eyes especially which is why it made perfect sense to have beth bender beauty’s smoky eye kits on set for the series too!  Annie Potts’s fabulous smoky eyes were created by Annie’s makeup artist Nanette using the LYL Smoky Eye Kit and BAB Smoky Eye Kit.

The rest of the belles are enjoying the Original Get in Line Eyeliner Kit, The SGB Smoky Eye Kit, The BFF Smoky Eye Kit , and 2 lip glosses that you will also be seeing a lot of on the show, Paris is Burning Perfect Pout Lip Shine, and XXX High Shine Gloss in baby Doll.

Annie and Beth on the set of GCB

Sunday night, ABC, don’t miss it!!

We usually expect the worst when a celebrity walks into a courtroom.  Ever since O.J. Simpson made celebrity trials as interesting – if not more so – than their professional work, the public has found itself captivated whenever a big-name star stands before a judge in the past couple decades.  And, when this scenario occurs, nobody is surprised when the celebrity in question leaves court with a conviction.  Sometimes it’s simply a DUI or a drug abuse case.  Other times, it’s robbery, child abuse, or murder.  No matter what the circumstances, there are few things more public than a celebrity with legal trouble.

Lindsay Lohan knows this all too well. Her legal troubles began in the spring and summer of 2007, when she was arrested twice for a DUI – first in May and then in July. She was also charged with cocaine possession and driving with a suspended license at the same time. In court, Lohan entered a plea deal and agreed to extensive probation and community service so as to avoid a jail sentence. Over the ensuing three years, Lohan was in and out of court as she repeatedly violated the terms of her probation; she was cited for drinking alcohol, failing drug tests, and not taking her prescribed therapy and alcohol education classes.

Then, last February, Lohan stole a necklace from a Venice, California jewelry store. She was sentenced to a short jail term and to 16 hours of community service. That was the last time we heard from her.

So when Lohan returned to court this week, we understandably expected a new string of bad news. The only question was what that news was. Did she fail another drug test? Return to the jewelry store and steal black tungsten rings for men? Neglect her community service?

It turns out that she did none of those things. In fact, hell might have frozen over when the judge commended Lohan on her progress and said that she only needed 14 more days of community service and five more therapy sessions before her next hearing, scheduled for March 29th. If she fills these final requirements by that date, Lohan will walk out of court with her legal troubles hopefully in the past.

Lohan is scheduled to host Saturday Night Live on March 3rd, the first time since will have hosted since 2006, before her legal problems had begun and when she was still known as a successful actress. Does the return to SNL indicate that she’s come full cycle and that her court issues are firmly in the past? Only time will tell.

Guest Contributor,  Alex Summers

Are you loving Katy Perry’s new cat eye look as much as we are???  Well, you can get it too using Beth Bender Beauty’s Backstage Beauty Smoky Eye Quad seen below.

Katy Perry's Cat Eye Look using Beth Bender Beauty's Back Stage Beauty Smoky Eye Quad

This look is so easy to re-create using the cat eye stencil by placing it gently above your lash line.  Use a darker shadow in the kit to fill in the stencil using the thinner side of the brush.  For a darker cat eye, wet the brush first, wipe off excess water, dip into shadow and fill in again using the stencil as a guide.

Repeat the same on the other eye. Use the lighter shades for highlighting the brow bone.

You can make your cat eye thin or thick depending on where you place it above the lash line.  You can also adjust how far out your cat eye goes as well.  Have fun playing around with the stencils to create a variety of beautilicious eye looks!

Beth Bender Beauty's Backstage Beauty Smoky Eye Quad

This convenient pouch make’s it easy to travel with and whip out the perfect cat eye and smoky eye in seconds!

Available exclusively at Beth Bender Beauty

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Adriana Lima’s eyes got our attention at the kick off of the Victoria’s Secret Angels Very Sexy Jet tour.  Her eyes look amazing and here is why:

If the idea of wearing bold color on your eyelids makes you pause, check out Ginnifer Goodwin at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. We love the swipe of pale mint shimmer that starts heavily in her inner eye and covers her entire lid.

“The key to making this look work is to concentrate on the lower lid”, says celebrity makeup artist Beth Bender.  Highlight the brow bone with a bisque matte shadow. Goodwin also illuminated her undereye by gliding a highlighter beneath and adding a few false lashes on the outer part of eye.

This made the entire eye a statement. Take your cue from Goodwin and play down the rest of your makeup when your eyes are this bright.

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck will finally be able to add a little testosterone to their household, the happy Hollywood couple announced Tuesday.

Garner and Affleck, both 39, welcomed baby number three, a baby boy, in Santa Monica, Calif., a source confirmed to People.

The couple, who announced that they were expecting last August, already have two young daughters together – Violet, 6, and Seraphina, 3.

It’ll be a new experience for the two parents, who have become accustomed to rearing their little girls, but one that they welcome with open arms.

Garner, who had previously said that she wanted a third daughter, told Jay Leno in January that Affleck was probably hoping for a boy – but could be swayed.

“I would have thought so. At first I think I really thought so,” she said when asked whether Affleck wanted a son. “And then he kind of said, ‘Well, we have girls. We know how to do girls. My girls love me. I’m the big guy in the house.’ So, now I’m not sure.”

Even Garner admitted that “it would be so weird to have a boy,” during an interview with Ellen DeGeneres. But, the “Alias” actress reasoned, it would definitely be “cool and different.”

At least the girls are already excited about the prospect of a younger sibling.

“Our girls are working on names,” Garner told Leno in January. “At first they were definitely Disney. It was like, Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse Affleck.

“And then they’ve moved on. Then it was Peter Pan, Captain Hook, Smee.”