Charlotte Gainsbourg is currently the face of Balenciaga’s perfume

Really love seeing such a natural face praised and presented in Parisian luxury company Balenciaga’s campaign for this yummy, sugary sweet perfume (wishlist!). Infused with spicy notes too, it has spawned an L’Essence counterpart.

Gainsbourg, the killer award-winning actress/singer whose starred in The Tree and that shithead Lars von Trier’s Melonchalia, with crushworthy (and I so do crush on her) Kirsten Dunst represents for natural beauties everywhere! (Does she remind you of Holly Hunter in this pic?) Background on the babe: Gainsbourg made her motion picture debut playing Catherine Deneuve’s daughter in the 1984 film Paroles et musique. In real life, she is the daughter of British actress Jane Birkin and French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, and received both a César Award and the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award. She’s tied in my book with Asia Argento as a woman I’d love to dine with. Along with Deneuve. Though, I just want to rub her feet.

Gainsbourg will soon lose her campaign crown, however, to be replaced, by The Huntsman star Kristen Stewart.

What do you think – should women take a cue and take it down a notch with makeup? Is natural better?

I miss schtooping director boyfriends. They always tell me exactly how they want the stage set, the blocking done, and the natural actress in me loves being “director’s pet.” Oh, well.

photo by Peter Bolte.

[underrated~sinead]

wanna know something about me? I’m mad for cheesy love songs from the 80s. Oh, yes. Peter Cetera is among my favorites. Couple him with Amy Grant? You put a sure-fire smile on my face. Pretty much any Peter Cetera song or, like, what’s that song about the eye of the tiger. The one about being a hero and about dating a 16 year old. Yeah. Sucker.

“I didn’t get a divorce because I had a great marriage and then along came Vince Gill. Gary and I had a rocky road from day one. I think what was so hard — and this is (what) one of our counselors said — sometimes an innocent party can come into a situation, and they’re like a big spotlight. What they do is reveal, by comparison, the painful dynamics that are already in existence.” ~Amy Grant

[HAMM on ELLEN]

As you may have heard, Jesse Lee Peterson, frequent “Faux” Fox News guest and vocal Tea Party enthusiast went on a nutty, rather vitriolic li’l tirade about how women should never have been given the right to vote. Cuz, like, we vote into office leaders that might represent our voices, rather than squander them or sell them to a corporation. Hey! Corporations are people, too!
Oh, well. If you want to watch something remarkable, but not in that “the Tea Party is a group of racist Neanderthals” sort of way, check out Iron Jawed Angels with Hilary Swank. Learn how and how hard women suffragettes fought for our right to stand inside that 4×6 booth and help choose who rules the land we share with men and animals and kids and plants and god and the ocean and our lovers. Angels will inspire you this November and ever after, to never take your rights for granted! And to be thankful, always.

Moving on to better – and most likely bigger – things… Jon Hamm, the effervescent actor who portrays Don Draper alongside that curvy red corvette Christina Hendricks on Mad Men is a yummy man to celebrate and worship. Raised by a single mother, Hamm worked at a daycare in college, got his degree in English, became an actor, now has a Barbie doll molded after his character (he notes the irony of a philandering Ken doll) and makes my heart go pitter-patter. Watch the above vid and see why. Also, not sure who’s cuter… Hamm or Ellen. #bisexualproblems

What do you think? Is Hamm a hottie, or what?

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Read my coverage of It Might Get Loud, wherein I interviewed Mr. White, and got loaded on rock n’ roll mixed drinks… Go here: Darrah interruption

Speaking of unapologetically sexy ladies, like Seyfried, in the Lovelace biopic, read my interview with Gawker Media’s Fleshbot editor-in-chief Lux Alpatrum, where we talk all things sexy – including Lovelace, Seyfried, Sasha Grey, roller-derby girls and dating in NYC.

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XOX

“Reach for the stars, so that if you fall, you land on a cloud.” Kanye West

I’m often complimented on my feet. When I was little, I used to wish for a size 7 1/2 when I “grew up.” I wear exactly that. Somehow, as a child, with my aunt wearing a size 9 and my mum donning a slightly smaller 8 1/2, I decided that my more petite stature deemed me worthy a “perfect” size 7 1/2. I almost *always* keep painted toenails. Recently, I was asked by a famous foot fetish photographer (who shall remain nameless. Think of the biggest, most published one – that’s him) to pose for him. I said I wouldn’t do nude or porn. He said, thanks but no thanks. Personally, I’d rather simply post this here, knowing somewhere out there, you guys are enjoying it – maybe even a li’l too much – and that’s that. But, living in posterity, for eternity on some blue movie website? No gracias.

XOX
your girly girl forever,
Dar