The Academy Awards were last night. There were winners, there were losers. Fashion rights and fashion wrongs. Here’s my best and worst dressed:

Jennifer Lawrence, in Calvin Klein, was definitely a favourite. I love it’s simplicity and elegance. Gorgeous.

Mila Kunis, in Elie Saab, is another favourite. I love the neckline, the colour and the delicacy of the lace and chiffon.

Nicole Kidman, in Christian Dior, was my worst dressed of the night. I didn’t like the fabric or the over the top embroidery. It wasn’t very flattering and looked very stiff and heavy. Not impressed.  

Luke: “So how do we get rid of these bad thoughts?”

Gloria Shrugs

Luke: “We shoot them out”

Probably my favourite moment from ‘Modern Family’ so far. It was hilarious. Especially when Luke took his new found talents and used them to help Haley at the end. Best. Teacher. Ever.

This week Gwyneth Paltrow made her glee-club debut, Sue became president principal and Terri came back to nurse her beloved Will. Here’s what I liked and disliked:

Liked:

• The mini glee-clubbers! Too cute! I hope we see more of them, maybe in a flashback episode? Also you can also see a behind-the-scenes vid with the kids here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKEjrifP9Oo, which is sweet.
• Terri’s return. Oh how we’ve missed Will’s crackers ex-wife, who is now in therapy and ‘medicating’. Her face when she saw Holly was brilliant “Are you a porn star or a drag queen?”
• Holly Holiday. Gwyneth Paltrow is amazing! Holly is even better. She tweets her students, is BFFs with Sue (loved them having their highlights done, getting buzzed) and called Rachel out for being such a stick in the mud “god, you are such a drag”, who wouldn’t want to be in her class? Plus it meant we got rid of Mr Schu for a bit, which in my books is always a bonus.
• Sue’s school takeover. Of course her first order of business was to “destroy the glee club”, but she got distracted and ended up banning tater-tots, which I will now forever think of as ‘deep-fried deer poop’ (thanks Brittany). Also loved the way she hadn’t quite thought everything through when she went to cut the football team and Coach Beiste asked “who will the Cheerios cheer for?” “I will get back to you on all that…”. Power gets away from us all, Sue.  

Disliked:

• Mr Schuester. I think he’s pretty annoying in general, but to see him ill was a whole new level of uncomfortable especially with all the baby talk, spoon-feeding and menthol rub massages -ew.And of course Will couldn’t go the whole episode without singing - couldn’t just be sick, could you Mr Schu? The only redeeming thing was that he wasn’t rapping and we got to see some of Harry Shum Jr’s brilliant dance moves. Every cloud and all..
• Korofsky. I really hope someone puts him in his place soon.

Quotes of the Episode:

• Santana to Holly: “Aren’t you, like 40?” Holly: “Yeah, Top 40!”
• Sue: “It’s broccoli. When I showed it to Brittany earlier, she began to whimper thinking I had cut down a small tree where a family of gummy bears lived.”

Song of the Episode:

As much as I loved the choreography and costumes of ‘Singing in the Rain/Umbrella’, my favourite of the episode had to be ‘Forget You’.

Overall this episode was one of the better ones of this season so far. Let’s hope it continues. And Gwyneth Paltrow is set to reprise her role in episode 15. Can’t Wait.

I read yesterday, that a nineteen year old girl, in Mexico, has gone on hunger strike outside the British Embassy because she was devastated she hadn’t been invited to the Royal Wedding; It’s bad enough William’s marrying another girl, but to not invite her? She’s pitched a tent on the sidewalk, next to a hand-painted portrait of the royal couple and claims to have only drunk water for the past nine days. She will carry on like this until she either gets an invite and/or can’t go on.

It looks more likely to be the latter however, as the British Embassy apparently released statement saying ‘Buckingham Palace regrets that there are no more spots available’.  Which I think is a nice way of letting her down gently as opposed to saying ‘you’re very delusional if you thought you had any hope of being invited - we didn’t even invite the President!’

I, however, was fortunate enough to receive an invite, which is one hundred percent real and definitely not just my name typed onto a photo from Google…

See you at Westminster!

I was re-watching Entourage season 7 when I noticed this:

Of course Ari Gold has the paintball gun he used to fire people last season on the wall in his office. It made me laugh a lot. Then I youtubed the original scene and re-lived the magic. Love Ari. Love this show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMdmWjtDRPE

So I recently started taking these vitamin supplements that are supposed to help improve your skin. With Collagen, CoQ10 and Evening Primrose Oil, they claim to improve elasticity and help protect against the visible signs of ageing. Now I generally have pretty good skin, I rarely get spots and as of yet, I don’t have many wrinkles, but I read that these kinds of vitamins are good for you and that they work better than anti-ageing creams and treatments applied directly to the skin, so thought I’d give them a go.

After taking them for a month or so however, I have to say, that I think my skin might be in a worse state now than it was before. It’s a lot more oily, with more breakouts and is generally quite dull and lacklustre. I’m not sure whether this is a direct result of the vitamins or a combination of those and my recently poor diet of left-over Christmas chocolate and sweets, but either way I look terrible.

I’m also concerned that this is God’s way of telling me that I should probably start wearing foundation daily instead of just for nights out. That I’m too old to get away with some blusher and concealer and should probably start caking it on with a trowel if there’s any hope of me looking half-way decent. But considering the fact that I think I look like a man in drag with make-up on (fine in a dark bar where everyone is too intoxicated to know what anyone looks like, not so much in the bright sunlight of a Monday morning), it may be kinder to spare my fellow students the trauma of seeing me all dolled up.

Instead I think I’m going to focus on my diet; drink more water, eat more fruit and veg (think blueberries, pomegranate - lots of antioxidants) and maybe stop taking the vitamins for a while to see if my skin improves without them.

If not maybe it’s time to start thinking about a chemical peel…