Jennifer Lopez’s makeup looks simply awful. That shade of green eyeshadow is hideous and coupled with that bleeding pale-pink lipstick and shiny skin she just looks bad. Wouldn’t you wipe off your face and reapply your own makeup if a colorblind makeup artist did that to you?

Lopez is being sued for $35,000 for not paying for flights she and husband Marc Anthony chartered. Maybe she’s trying to show how poor she is by wearing bad drug store makeup.

She is seen at the Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles 2nd Noche de Ninos Gala on 10/8. [via]

Nicole Richie found a Brody replacement just in time for fall. She was seen out with a new guy with her crown died strawberry-blonde and some more obvious twirly extensions sticking out. I’m not liking her new hair and wish she would just get rid of the fake locks.

It’s unknown who this new guy is, but chances are he’s in some band. If he’s a famous musician or something, please clue me in.

Nicole was seen out with two different random guys with their arms around her in early August before she settled with Brody in what many people claim never seemed like a legitimate relationship. One of the guys was semi-hot and one was weird. (The weird guy was identified as Alex “Orbi” Orbison from the band White Starr, and commentors on DListed note that the relationship was probably platonic.)

She claimed that she was “never really together” with Brody so it’s possible that she just was hanging out with him and that all the PDA in public was a put-on. It’s also possible that he broke her heart and she’s trying to save face.

She can’t shake the paparrazi at this point and is clearly playing to them so this latest guy could be just a friend she convinced to put his arm around her, maybe someone she met at a crystal meth anonymous AA meeting. His arm is draped around her loosely, and he’s looking down at her somewhat amazed, so she might have asked him to do it and he’s trying to be polite and not too grabby. Still, they seem kind of happy and she has the kind of self-satisfied look on her face that is easily achieved through great sex with a new guy.

Nicole is shown with the new guy in Beverly Hills on 10/7 and outside of a hair salon with her old, better ‘do on 10/3. Pictures [via]

A devastating epidemic is sweeping the nation. Its victims walk among us. You may even be one of them. In fact, if you’re a woman who colors and/or heat-styles her hair, you probably are one of them.

It’s an epidemic of fried, frazzled, overprocessed, overtreated hair.

All over the country, women are bleaching, highlighting, blow-drying, chemically straightening, and flat-ironing their hair until it’s as dull and brittle as straw and breaks off in clumps that end up clogging millions of bathtub drains from New York to San Diego. So. Not. Pretty. Or sexy. Who wants to run his fingers through a head of straw?

Bleaching your hair damages it. The darker your natural hair color and the lighter your desired results, the more damage you inflict every time you color.

Highlighting your hair damages it.

Blow-drying your hair damages it.

Chemically straightening your hair damages it.

Flat-ironing your hair really, really, really damages it. Most of the worst-damaged hair I’ve seen has been the result of excessive flat-ironing. Even if you use a fancy-schmancy ceramic straightener. Believe me, if your hair comes in contact with anything that’s more than 400º Fahrenheit, it will get damaged, whether the heated surface is metal, ceramic, or freakin’ humanely mined magical crystals from the land of Faerie. Hot=bad. Sorry.

But what can you do? You want the hair you want, you’ll do whatever you can to get it, and I’m definitely not one to tell you to go natural. I’d be a hypocrite, with my saline boobs and $50-a-tube lip-inflating glosses. But I work with hair, and I know a thing or two about protecting your hair’s softness and shine from your daily styling routine. So here goes.

Step 1: Basic Nourishment
Chemically processing and heat-styling your hair dries it out, so your hair needs a lot more nourishment than most regular shampoos and conditioners provide. Be sure your daily routine is appropriate for the damage you’re preparing your hair to endure.

After a lot of trial and error (mostly error: Clairol Herbal Essences is justifiably popular for those luscious fragrances, but even the moisturizing formulas left my hair parched, and don’t even get me started on their new Dangerously Straight and Hello Hydration lines–clever marketing, clever packaging, horrid results), I’ve decided that Pantene and Nexxus give the most softness and shine.

If you can afford the price, Nexxus Therappe shampoo and Nexxus Emergencée conditioner work wonders. If not, go with Pantene. Their new Pro-V Restoratives collections are amazing. For hair that’s only moderately damaged, try the Pantene Pro-V Restoratives Breakage Defense Collection to repair damage and prevent future breakage. If your hair’s already severely damaged and in need of emergency help, go for the Pantene Pro-V Restoratives Time Renewal Collection, particularly the Replenishing Mask.

For extremely damaged hair, go the extra mile and buy a big bottle of vitamin E gel capsules. (They have to be gel. You’ll understand why in a second.) Before you shampoo, break open a few of the capsules, squeeze out the gel, and massage it into your ends, the delicate hairs right around your face, and any other fried areas. The gel will feel sticky and smell weird. Ignore that. You’re just going to shampoo it out anyway. The vitamin E gel will help to seal breaking hair closed and infuse it with extra moisture and protection against whatever torture you’re going to inflict on it after your shower. Shampoo and condition as usual.

Step 2: The Right Hairstyling Tools
I’m not going to dwell for too long on what tools to use. Again, no matter how fancy your blow dryer or straightening iron is, you’re going to damage your hair. I will say, however, that it’s true that ceramic straightening irons damage your hair less than other kinds, so keep that in mind if you’re considering investing in one. Just make sure it’s 100% ceramic or solid ceramic.

Dry your hair with a microfiber hair towel, not a regular towel. Microfiber absorbs water with much less rubbing and much more effectively, requiring less blow-drying afterwards. I have an Aquis microfiber hair towel, and I always use it. Also, never brush your hair when it’s wet, unless you want to end up with extra breakage and hairballs in your brush. Hair is very delicate when wet. It stretches and breaks easily. Finger-comb it, or use a wide-toothed comb if you must.

Step 3: Styling Protection
You can further reduce styling damage to your hair by protecting it with specially designed products before you style it. I like to use Nexxus Heat Protexx heat protection styling spray or Corioliss Heat Protection spray before blow-drying or flat-ironing and, for very damaged hair, a tiny bit of Pantene Ultimate Finish Perfecting Créme afterwards.

Step 4: Grow Healthier Hair
The best way to prevent dry, brittle, frizzy, dull, easily damaged hair is to grow healthier hair to begin with. Plenty of products exist to deal with the hair you’ve already got, but as far as I know, no topical product exists to improve the quality of newly grown hair. Only your diet can improve your hair from within. Make sure to eat lots of protein for stronger, healthier hair and nails, keep yourself well hydrated, and take a fish oil supplement (look for formulas with Omega-3 fatty acids) with every meal. If you eat healthy, you’ll look better, and that extends to your hair, too.

Also, give your hair a rest every once in a while, and happy styling!

Header image from NickyCita. Inset images from DieAna, eyeofsamara, and Circleview. All images are from PhotoCase.
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This post brought to you by Jude. Jude works with hair for a living. Damaged hair makes Jude sad. Jude doesn’t like being sad.

Disclosure: I don’t work for, and am not in any way affiliated with, Pantene or Nexxus. I do sell Corioliss products, but the only factor my job played in recommending a Corioliss product was in exposing me to it in the first place.

Eva Longoria’s rep released a statement on Friday stating that Eva and Tony are going through a difficult time. People magazine cites a source that says that they broke up, but are trying to work on their relationship. A friend of Tony’s is denying that they’re broken up, though. The two are in different places right now, with Eva filming “Desperate Housewives” in LA and Tony at a basketball training camp in France, so it may be a while if they ever do get back together:

Rumor has it that Tony was making out with one of his ex girlfriends at a party. Eva can be all over Jamie Foxx at the Golden Globes, but once her man starts messing around she’s not having it:

It might not be Tony’s fault he ended up with that blonde. He was denied access to the club’s VIP room, probably because Eva wasn’t with him. He had to hook up with someone else if he wanted access to anything that night.

Here’s Eva with bad hair and makeup at Ken Pave’s salon opening in Beverly Hills. (I like her dress though.) Ken is 0 for 2 with Jessica showing up in corpse makeup and now Eva looking like a warped “I Dream of Jeanie” with those super-long eyelashes, dark penciled eyebrows and half-done hair. (The crown sweep-up is usually a last-ditch effort on an exceptionally bad hair day.) He must have been too busy with his opening to assist these helpless celebrities.

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I realize that overpriced black nail polish is all the rage now, but Halloween is still a month away, and the corpse makeup is doing nothing for Jessica Simpson’s image. Do you guys like this look? I’m thinking it would be pretty if it wasn’t so overdone – like not so much eyeshadow rimming the eyes and bleeding into the corner, use a darker lip color and don’t extend the lipliner beyond the natural line.

This is the second time Jessica has been out with such spooky makeup. She was seen at her sister Ashlee’s “Chicago” opening looking positively ghostly. In that case, though, she had a bizarre orange shade on ther eyes and cheeks that looked even worse than this.

I caught some probably-deserved heat for criticizing Simpson’s look when she donned big ‘ol boots paired with jeans, a huge matching purse and white polo shirt, so I’m leaving this one up to you guys.

Jessica was seen at her hairdresser Ken Pave’s salon opening in Beverly Hills on 9/29. [via] Eva Longoria and Carmen Electra were also there, and as Mollygood points out, all three of them were involved in high-profile breakups lately. Guess a girl can always turn to her opportunistic hairdresser for a little pampering and a pick-me-up. He makes you feel better even if he doesn’t do you any beauty favors. Jessica’s hair usually looks good, (that orange ‘do being the exception) even if her makeup is a bit off, and it’s not fair to blame Paves for her poor eyeshadow choices.

Ken Pave’s new line of hair extensions are being offered on the Home Shopping Network [via] For about $90, you can get a mountain of fake hair that might look good in a photoshoot, but is sure to be as obvious as the Tony Pony in person.

Everyone can breathe a sigh of relief. Madonna hasn’t jumped on the celebrity bob train, she was just wearing a wig made of real human hair, and wanted some attention:

She must have realized that climbing on the cross over and over again can only generate so much controversy, and that only super-religious people actually give a shit. The rest of us will pay attention when she radically changes her look again, which used to be her MO too, but now it seems like she’s too chicken to actually go through with it.

David Beckham says that he makes sure his very thin wife, Victoria, gets nurishment. Her emaciated figure has many people speculating that she’s anorexic:

It was rumored last month that David had Victoria on a “pregnancy diet” meant to help her conceive. The famous British couple has said that they would like to add a girl to their family of three boys, but that they won’t be trying until next year.

David also said that he was behind Victoria’s decision to remove her hair extensions and sport a new bob hair do. He said that he didn’t like feeling the snarled extensions when he ran his fingers through her hair:

That’s really sweet. David seems to have been on to something, because the bob is the newest rage in celebrity hairstyles. Jessica Simpson, Kate Bosworth, and Madonna all recently changed their hairstyles to bobs.

Here is Victoria in a see-through dress outside a hotel in London on 9/18. She wore a slip beneath the dress, but it doesn’t seem to have worked. David looks pissed off in the car and may have been kept waiting for her. [via]

No sooner had I said that Cameron Diaz had Britney-esque extensions than I found a thread on JJB linking to these pictures taken of her at Justin’s CD release party on 9/19. What is she thinking? These extensions look horrible. The hair is like a horse’s tail and is all flyaway, and it looks really fake. Didn’t she get Victoria Beckham’s memo? Extensions are over.

Shakira looks to have dyed her hair brown since her appearance at the VMAs. She was photographed in a turquoise sun dress coverup with darker hair outside her Miami home recently. Going dark seems ot be a trend with singers and actresses alike. Most recently J.Lo showed up at the Toronto Film Festival as a brunette. Britney Spears dyed her blonde hair black a few weeks ago, and Cameron Diaz also sports darker hair now.

Shakira is seen with her longterm boyfriend, Antonio De La Rua. Antonio is the son of disgraced Argentinian president Fernando De La Rua, who resigned in December, 2001 during the Argentinian economic crisis. Antonio appears in Shakira’s video, “Underneath Your Clothes.”

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The last time J.Lo revealed her hair in public it was a pretty shade of dirty blonde. Now she’s gone brunette, and it really flatters her. It’s a lot better than that polyester silver do-rag she covered her head with at the VMAs.

She’s also shown with brown hair in the ad for her new perfume, Luxe, so it’s likely she was just hiding it at the VMAs.

J.Lo and Marc Anthony are shown in Toronto at the premiere of their new film, “El Catante”:

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