We’re going to look at the BAFTAs (the Brit version of the Oscars) and Elle Style Award red carpet, but first a gasp at a new trend (speaking of carpet, nyuk nyuk).
Vajazzling. What is that, you ask? Well… it starts with a Brazilian. The full monty. And it ends up with your netherregions all done up sparkly with Swarovski crystals glued on. (GASP!). I am so glad I am married and no longer in the dating world. How do you compete with that? (Would you mind dressing it up a little? My last girlfriend was vajazzled…) But wait a minute, couldn’t that result in some friction-related injuries? Never mind.
If you want to read more, go here, to a site NSFW: Vajazzled. You really don’t see anything shocking, but you do see how it’s done. If you’re curious. And I admit, I was curious. So, ahem, on to the BAFTAs. After that, I think we all need a little Colin Firth.
Oh yeah. Now I am feeling so much better. How about you? And big congratulations to Colin, he won the Best Actor BAFTA! Woot! For A Single Man. And well-deserved, I am sure, though I have not seen it. I think Jeff Bridges has the Academy Award all wrapped up. But Colin won the BAFTA. And he celebrated with his… lovely wife at the Elle Style
Awards. Now I’m all sad again. Oh, not really. She’s a lucky lady. And he probably doesn’t even want her to vajazzle for him. Siiigh.
You know who looked really stunning and sleek at the BAFTAs? Kate Winslet. Wow. 
Even if she is slouching weirdly on the red carpet (maybe she just got vajazzled).
Robert Pattinson was at the BAFTAs sporting a new haircut. Personally, I don’t get the appeal, but then I’m young and not easily distracted by sparkly objects (meaning Rob as Edward Cullen, the glittery vampire– no, that wasn’t another vajazzle joke). Vera Farmiga from Up in the Air was there, but I think she was trying for a modern day Scarlett O’Hara look. Maybe she read JK’s post on Gone with the Wind last week. 
Never underestimate the popularity of The Whine Sisters.
Finally, guess who showed up at the Elle Style Awards? Our favorite duo? We haven’t seen them in a while? You can’t guess?
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen! 
Yes, looking lovely as usual. Mary Kate is on the left in black, in case you couldn’t tell. But I would really like to know what is up with the guy in the kerchief behind them. Unusual. I would put my bodyguards on Stalker Alert for that guy, if I were MK or Ash. Just saying.
In case you’re not a Colin Firth kind of gal (the mind boggles) and you still haven’t gotten over vajazzling, I will leave you with Clive Owen from the BAFTAs. There. Feeling better?
Do you follow trends when it comes to style? Or are you more of a classic sort? (I mean in general, not specifically in any one, er, area. I’m a little afraid that regular commenter KC is already on the phone making an appointment with the spa). Have you made your Oscar picks yet? Do you prefer Ashley? Or Mary Kate? Kate’s dress? Or Vera’s? Colin, Clive, or Cullen AKA Rob Pattinson?
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Vajazzling sounds like a swingers sellling tool to me. So man your wife she’s not too pretty. Yah I know, but she’s totally shaved. Is she shaved or vajazzeled? She will be.
Since I always wanted to be a total whore when I grow up I’m off to vajazzel.
Hey, I don’t judge. What you do to your business is your business.
Sherri, you’re such a devil! I gotta judge, it’s not funny if I don’t judge.
Yup. Don’t want people messin in the business, unless you’re… (insert Don Pardo voice) VAJAZZLED!
You know I can’t resist judging.
HA,HA,HA,HA,HA! Ooh, people are crazy. God bless ‘em.
Mary Kate and Ashley, we have missed you and your…mmm….fashion sense.
As for Robert Patterson. I have no problem lusting after younger men, but this guy really does not do it for me. Nor does Kristin Stewart. She looks like a kid I’d get stuck babysitting.
One of the twin has a vaguely Morticia Adams thing going now….. All she needs is her own Gomez and the picture will be complete…
I remember reading something a long time ago about how younger women (i.e. teenagers) find the less overt masculinity appealing and it changes as they get older. It was an article about how more girls picked Luke Skywalker over Han, and other crimes against humanity.
This does not surprise me. Some of my daughter’s friends like sexually ambiguous dudes (like the singer of Tokio Hotel), and they have some sort of fascination with gay guys, the slender pretty boys. I wonder if there’s some semblance of safety there or they just want to share makeup. I don’t get it. But I did prefer Luke when I was a kid, and Han once I got a little older.
I think it’s the safety thing, and I *think* that was the article surmised as well. I was a Luke fan at one time, too.
You did the Clive Owen thing just for me didn’t you????? I’d say thanks but I’m still gawking at the pic. Sigh….
I did! I was thinking, Hmm, Colin Firth might not do it for Dee Davis, so let me find a dark and dangerous sort of guy.
I can’t imagine why. I just can’t. if you went to that much trouble to vajazzle, wouldn’t you want the whole world to see? It’s like buying a fancy party dress and wearing it around the house while your husband watches ESPN sports center. what is the point?
HOOORAY for Colin!! I adore him. I hate Mrs. Colin tho. Don’t know her, but I hate her. Why her and not me, I ask you?!?!?!
HAHAHA. Sad but true on the ESPN. And I was thinking you could get vajazzled to celebrate completing your 10K next month. What a reward.
LMAO. Great idea, Sherri! Maybe the new line for sport champions will morph from “I’m going to Disney World!” into “I’m getting vajazzled!”
Vajazzling is officially on my Things I Ain’t No Way In Hell Doin’ list. Vajazzling–seriously, who thinks up this stuff?
So glad Colin won. He’s divine. Mrs. Colin is a lucky gal. Do you think she vajazzles?
LOLOL!!! I don’t even know what to say. Except, once again, it’s always the female (makeup, heels, control-top hose or pants…). In the animal world, it’s usually the MALE that is gussied up. How about johnson jewels, or member makeovers?
Although, I suppose that would pose an entirely new set of logistical problems.
OMG, VB! LOL! No thanks.
Johnson jewels, hahahahahaaa!
Ah, gee, thanks Sherri for COMPLETELY DISTRACTING me from the main part of the post. Now I’m wondering about the itch factor, the pain factor, the lost factor (if they fall off and you find them, do you get to reuse them next time? Do you collect them and decorate frames or small bud vases?), the cost factor (sparkly vajayjay v. kids’ college fund), and the, ah, friction factor.
I don’t think I’m a candidate for vajaazzling.
As for the rest, oh yeah. Some people are up for awards for some stuff. Right. Sorry. Still distracted. (But for the record, b/w Colin and Clive, I’m going with Clive.)
It boggles the mind, doesn’t it? And then you can’t stop thinking about it. Who comes up with this stuff? How do they convince women to go for it? Will there be infomercials? Home vajazzling kits? Ew. But what can I say? I had to share. I consider it my responsibility to report on such trends.
Why have I imagined throngs of outraged vajazzlers storming the blog to set me straight? “I didn’t do it for my boyfriend. I did it for me!” “Um, just because you’re married doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pretty up your area.”
Yeah yeah yeah.
I’m just saying nobody is gluing anything to my va-jay-jay.
I’m with you there, Dee.
LOL. But what’s a landing strip without the lights….
Kathleen, brilliant. That’s next. A glow in the dark landing path. For the night-vision challenged.
Hahaha! Hilarious, Kathleen. Disco inferno!!
Oh, Kathleen! Hahahaaa! Disco inferno!!
ROFL…. Disco inferno!!! That is TOO good.