If you missed out on our Hair Challenged giveaway, fear not: there are always more chances to win on Sassy Dove. Case in point: not only are we giving away a full home teeth whitening system, but we’re also giving you an opportunity to try this fab new skin cream by eb5.
Never heard of eb5? I hadn’t either before trying out the line, but it turns out they’ve been making waves in skincare since long before I was even alive to judge celebs (not by the content of their character, but by the length of their hot pants).
Based in Portland (the cool Portland, not the one in all the Lands’ End catalogs), eb5 Skincare dates back to 1904 when pharmacist Samuel Heldfond began creating remedies for his customers. His son Robert introduced eb5’s popular “five creams in one” anti-wrinkle cream in the 1960’s. Still popular in the post-Nicki Minaj era, eb5 is considered “the original wrinkle cream.” Continue reading eb5 Skincare Intense Moisture Anti-Aging Cream Review + Giveaway→
Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj had an impromptu Twitter fight. It was about 1% of what we wanted it to be.
By now you’ve seen the Twitter battle between Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift, which is dividing B-girls and teeny boppers the world over. There’s so much about this I wouldn’t have predicted (like T. Swift jumping in on the shenanigans in the first place), but the weirdest thing is that it felt like both a win and a loss for the rest of us.
Y’all know Sassy isn’t about having a sociopolitical debate, so we’re gonna leave Nicki’s original argument on the table. However, here are the most important points of the beef, some of which will have both camps kicking me to the TMZ-watching curb:
Both gals kinda pussed out. Nicki said “If your video celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for vid of the year.” Beyonce and Taylor Swift were the only other female nominees, so who was she talking about? Taylor pops in with “@NICKIMINAJ I’ve done nothing but love & support you. It’s unlike you to pit women against each other. Maybe one of the men took your slot.”
Nicki’s response? “‘Huh? U must not be reading my tweets. Didn’t say a word about u. I love u just as much. But u should speak on this @taylorswift13.” Um, Nicki, you were totally talking about Taylor. Admit it.
Still, Taylor backs off too: “@NICKIMINAJ If I win, please come up with me!! You’re invited to any stage I’m ever on.” These chicks fear the US Weekly backlash.
Can we all just recognize that “Bad Blood” kinda sucks? I’m usually more of a Taylor fan than a Nicki fan, musically, but have you heard Bad Blood on the radio? Without the video, it sucks. With the video, it’s an overproduced Phil Spector-worthy spectacle without much substance. Really, we’ve seen chicks fighting and looking like spy girls before. It’s actually well documented how every scene was an “homage” (read: ripoff).Not that Anaconda’s exactly Stairway to Heaven, but the video had at least as much impact as Bad Blood and was at least as well made. Just sayin’.
Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars were the best thing that happened here. Inspired by the gals’ tiff, Mars kicked it off: “Yo I want in on this twitter Beef!! VMAs is the new WWF!! @edsheeran F— You!”Sheeran following up with a serious read: “any way we do dis you gon’ come up short”. (Haha, ’cause he’s short.) Bruno then got punny with “That Cut deep..U always know how to sheer me to the core. I can’t believe we’re Sheeran this in public. How dare u!”
Any way you slice it, there was a real conversation to be had here and it was overshadowed by some serious stupidity. So… yay / boo? What did you think about the war?
What is it with the booty lately? 2014 was officially the Year of the Butt. We had Nicki Minaj’s desperate bid for ass-attention with “Anaconda”, a magazine no one ever heard of until Kim Kardashian’s glazed donut graced its cover, and Iggy Azalea and Jennifer Lopez’s booty-rubbing video. Seriously, can we make 2015 the Year of the Talent? These women have it, and I’d rather see that than their rear cheeks.
Anyway, dismounting my soapbox, the 2014 American Music Awards yesterday featured rap queen and “Fancy” vocalistIggy Azalea accepting her first-ever award (she was actually the most-nominated artist of 2014 with 6 nominations including Artist of the Year, Single of the Year, New Artist of the Year, and Favorite Female Artist) and performing with J.Lo to show us even more of her booty. Yay! Continue reading Iggy Azalea’s AMAs Beauty (And Booty)→