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Oscar Fug/Fab Face-Off: Cameron Diaz vs Herself

Feb 28, 2012 By Heather AT 11:00 am

Like so many before her, Cameron Diaz decided to change out of her well-fitted red-carpet gown and into something bolder for the post-parties.

Orange is great on her, even if it’s a touch snug. Tight as a drum. Then again, I guess a girl doesn’t spend months flipping monster truck tires with A.Rod to wear a muumuu to the freaking Oscars. She earned every last muscle; I just wonder if she needed to squeeze them so hard that they mate with her ribs.

Let’s zoom in on the shoulders, and no, I don’t mean her muscles:

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Oscar Fug/Fab Face-Off: Rose Byrne vs. Anna Faris

Feb 27, 2012 By Heather AT 1:00 pm

Call this one the Battle of the Bobs, or the Case of the Wet-Look Black Sequined Dresses, although frankly that last one sounds way more boring. It’s like the sequel to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, if that movie were about accessories.

Anyway, let’s start with Rose Byrne, shall we?

The trouble with this gown, I think, is that it’s cut to be Grecian and drapey, except sequins generally don’t really DO Grecian and drapey, so the effect is just ill-fitting. Like someone just skipped a stone on a lake and it’s still rippling. Also, I know the shoes are peep-toe platform pumps, but from this angle they remind me of these hideous thick-soled slip-on sandals I bought at Nine West about fourteen years ago, back when such things were in style. I had buyer’s remorse about three days later; they were like rubberized hooves. I’m surprised I didn’t get drunk one night and turn up at a blacksmith’s. So now I have an awkward flashback associated with this dress, and I covet the spiky shoes of the lady walking through the background. Neither will be cured anytime soon, so let’s wash away the taste with a shot of the back:

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Fug or Fab, and a Face-Off: Jessica Chastain

Feb 24, 2012 By Heather AT 8:00 am

This is from the same Elie Saab collection as the green dress Nina Dobrev wore to the PCAs.

The consistency here seems to be an “almost… not quite” deployment of lace, which Fug Nation correctly noted looked like a strange skin ailment on Dobrev, and which here is stretched over her chest like a window and helps give off the impression Chastain just polished her brass knockers. The color is still great, though, and the rest of it is breezy and pretty. The sunset at Nipple Beach is really the most distracting part — well, that, and the fact that this last-ditch deployment of green has me fearing she’ll go baby pink or nude at the Oscars, which will make my eyeballs explode, and y’all KNOW how much I hate even the mere mention of eyeball-related shenanigans (and if you didn’t, you do now), and so you know I MEAN IT.

But there has to be a winner! THERE HAS TO.

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Later, Chastain pulled out this number:

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Fug/Fab Face-Off: Erika Christensen vs. Hayden Panettiere

Feb 23, 2012 By Heather AT 8:00 am

For me this is definitely fug, in a non-relative sense. It is flat-out and overt.

Erika Christensen is so lovely (and so good on Parenthood, like everyone else on that show, so please, NBC, don’t cancel it or else we are going to have issues). Why is she doing this to herself? If someone gave that to her as a Valentine’s Day present, she should send it back with a knife in the torso and a note that reads, “Let’s never speak of this again. Or, speak again, period.”

Hayden wore a softer version to a Vanity Fair party:

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Fug/Fab Face-Off: Debra Messing vs Jenna Dewan

Feb 16, 2012 By Heather AT 1:00 pm

Two celebs hit the front rows in bright pink today, one simple and one a tad more unusual, so why not compare apples to oranges? Although it’s not even that, really. It’s like comparing Red Delicious to … Fuji, or Gala, or that Honeycrisp thing that costs a bajillion bucks a pound.

Let’s begin:

This is the best I’ve seen Debra Messing look in a while. Well, there’s something funky going on with her lipstick, but the dress is great — which it had better be, because she’s at a Michael Kors show, and thus dressed in Kors, and if he’d put her in a shirt made of pants it would seem awfully unkind.

Contrast this very simple pink with a slightly more detailed one on Mrs. Channing Tatum:

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Fug/Fab Face-Off: Reese Witherspoon vs Cate Blanchett

Feb 3, 2012 By Heather AT 8:00 am

After we fugged Cate Blanchett’s pettitunic, a savvy reader pointed out that Reese wore something from the same Louis Vuitton collection to a premiere for This Means War — which, parenthetically, if her sitcom hasn’t proved Chelsea Handler should call off the acting career, then the sliver of her in the previews for this movie ought to seal the deal. Every time she brays, “A SEX TIEBREAKER YEEEEEES,” and then waves her arms around like she’s having a religious seizure, I want to quit this planet and try Mars.

On Cate, it was crazy, but it also hung better than this does. Adding the belt monkeys with the sequined layer, to where it looks like Reese belted a scarf to a party dress. If I were wearing that thing, I guarantee you I’d space out and end up drying my hands on it in the powder room. Fanciest. Dishtowel. Ever.

Which do you prefer?

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