Nicole Kidman in studded Versace at the Globes: washed-out or lovely?

Maybe it was just the light, maybe it was just some extra-glossy lipstick, but whatever it was, Nicole Kidman’s lips looked out of control at last night’s Golden Globes. What’s weird is that I actually think Nicole has eased up somewhat on the Botox – her face was moving, she didn’t seem to be made of unbreakable porcelain, she was emoting… and then the lips. Did she just get them done (again) for the Globes? Does she have some kind of permanent lip implant in there? I‘m including some closeups of her face so you can decide.

So, Nicole was at the Globes with her husband Keith Urban. Nicole was there to present – with Clive Owen!! – and promote Hemingway & Gellhorn, the HBO movie she and Clive did together. Nicole wore this studded Versace gown which… on one hand, I like it. It flatters her body, it’s not a sack, it’s not a lace doily, and it’s not overly frilly, which it what Nicole does too often. I like the idea of Nicole in studded Versace – she used to be more rock n’ roll, and studded Versace is always a good idea. That being said, it’s still too light for Nicole. It washes her out. And the bust on the dress makes her tatas look super-fake and bolt-on-y. Which they very well might be, but still.

As for her hair and makeup – just shoot me because I think her hair looked fine. I would complain about another woman with her long hair worn down and worn simply, but it kind of works on Nicole, and I’m not hating it. Her makeup is fine… except for the lipstick, which just draws attention to her lip-jacking.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame.

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  1. lisa says:

    Nicole was one of my favorites.. that dress fits her so well. she sees so happy and it shows.

    • traVail says:

      You have got to be kidding. ‘the dress fit her so well’ ???
      That dress looks horrendous on her. It is waaaaay toooooo tight; her body looks like it was stuffed into it like a sausage in a casing; her boobs are bursting out of the cups which are too far apart and too much to the sides, not to mention a size or two too small! From the side she looked like a hooker with boobs falling out of the top.
      I agree that she has a great figure, and nothing wrong with trying to showcase it, but mercy me, choose something that actaully will do you favors, instead of the opposite.
      The color is just soooo plain, and on her very pale skin it completely disappears – there is no Nic, there is no dress, there are just the studs floating in the air.
      Worst of all, she does not seem comfortable in this dress, instead standing and behaving as if she worried it might burst on her at any moment – which it might as well have done, seeing as to how tightly stuffed into it she is.
      The area above the cleavage looks bad too – it seems like there is some side-boobage going on that was taped into the cups instead and as a result it all bunches and folds up on top making her look like she has some major fat/back fat going on.
      Overall, a really bad choice. Nic – it is time to start dressing your age. This dress would have been a gem on a 20-something with a sun-kissed or even dark complexion. But then it is nothing new – since her split from TC she appears to have been ‘dropped’ by her former stylist, and her fashion choices are one long stream of disasters…

      • anonymoose says:

        @traVail: hear here! agree 100% wish you were on that fashion police show instead of the dippy drippy and clueless G Rancic, Osbourne, and whoever else. YOU have got the eye for assessing what works and what doesn’t. Kudos to you!

  2. Jacq says:

    I’m glad she tried something that isn’t a run-of-the-mill gown. The detailing is very interesting & I think it is very sweet that Keith takes a big step back and lets Nic have a moment.

    • EmmaStoneWannabe says:

      Agree. She was absolutely stunning. I think Keith knew she was a knockout; after she would have a few solo pics, he ran up and held her hand. He is proud of her, they are so adorable (and sexy!) together.

  3. paola says:

    hate the dress, the color is so wrong on her, but i think the lips look better than in the past ( she has really hit the lowest of the lows in lip jacking in Australia the movie)

  4. Matie says:

    Her lips may not look perfect but they look so much better now because she didn’t have ANY lips at all before, thin lips are so unattractive.

  5. brin says:

    I thought she looked amazing…love the dress on her!

  6. Len says:

    The face still scares me, but I love the dress

  7. Shelly says:

    On tv she looked amazing and her lips didn’t look so jacked up to me then. I was like, “Yes! There’s the old Nicole”. Now I’m seeing these pics and seeing the lips are still jacked up. I love her dress though and think that overall she looked great.

  8. Jackie says:

    i LOVED watching her bitchy expressions whenever they would cut to her during the awards.

    Best. Bitchface. Ever.

    also, her husband needs to stop straightening his hair. he looks like a dufus.

    • Marjalane says:

      With all due respect- NO ONE had better bitch face last night than Charlize Theron. No one. She must be hideous to deal with. (and she has no lackey boy husband to boss around either!)

    • Ranga says:

      His hair is the worst! Ugh! And he always looks like he has eyeliner on.

  9. Valerie says:

    I actually really like this on Nicole. The colour is slightly too light – I’d have loved it in a darker blue-grey – but overall this is one of her best appearances in ages.

  10. Kerfuffles says:

    I LOVED this dress. It was my favorite of the night along with Emma Stone’s & Salma Hayek’s. I thought it worked on Kidman in part because of her pale skin.

    But color aside…THAT TAILORING fit like a glove and made her body look amazing. Gorgeous dress. Though from a color viewpoint, I think it would have looked better in black.

    THIS kind of dress in black, with the same detailing, is what I wish the Jolie would bust out at the Oscars.

    • Kaligula says:

      Hmmmm…. That suggestion for Jolie would never have occurred to me, but I think you’re onto something there….. She’d want to make it a bit more daring somehow. Maybe a super dominatrix look with multiple straps in the back?

  11. embertine says:

    Is it me or does she look as though she might have eaten a sandwich sometime in the past five years? Bodywise this is the sexiest she’s looked for ages. And actually I like the dress and styling, although I mourn the red hair. *sorrow*

    • LAK says:

      that’s what i thought. She looks like she’s put on weight, and it looks good on her.

      Watched PRACTICAL MAGIC this weekend, and her lips are so thin, i think she’s got an implant in her upper lip.

  12. Rita says:

    I’d like the dress better without the “neck harness”. Nicole looks like she’s really enjoying the evening which always brings out the beauty in a woman, unlike Keith who looks like he’d rather be any place else but he loves his wife and so he’s there for her….take note Mr. Paltrow.

  13. Azurea says:

    I believe her lips look the same as they have for years. It looks like she had lip surgery, not that she injects them.

    And oh — she looked amazing in that dress!

  14. Funnylilou says:

    looking at the pictures (without reading at first) I actually thought her lips were improved, but maybe I am just biased because I adore her 😉
    Anyway I think she is stunning
    in these pics and looks sculptural with this dress.

    I think it’s the best I have seen her in a while!

    • Mata says:

      It’s not your bias. I can take her or leave her, and I thought her lips looked better than they have in a while, too. Actually, I thought she looked great last night.

  15. Marjalane says:

    The dress was beautiful- totally wrong color on her, though.

  16. Jayna says:

    Her lips are fine. She was flat-out stunning. Very beautiful. So happy with her back to her auburn hair. The simplicity of the style worked with her dress. When she took that walk out on stage to present, you could see the beauty of the dress on her.

    Keith Urban is a hottie. He is like a rocker on stage. Love me. And I am not really a country fan, but I bought his eight song album, Get Closer. That man loves that woman.

  17. Cathy says:

    I like the outfit. I’m not a big Nicole fan, and I normally don’t like what she wears, but she looked nice.

  18. sam b says:

    sorry over the years she has just gotten worse she used to be gorgeous now her forehead is just a flatscreen…shame

  19. Esmom says:

    I liked her whole look except the hair was a bit too flat/frizzy. Maybe soft waves would have worked better. I also think her face looks slightly less frozen. And I couldn’t help but think she looked better matched with Clive than with Keith!

  20. Paul says:

    LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this on her. She was my favorite last night. I remember saying to my bf when she popped up on screen. NOW THERE’S MY GIRL!!! Her and Keith are just too cute together!!!

  21. Quest says:

    I like the dress on Nicole not so much the color of it but the style was different

  22. serena says:

    She really messed up bad with her face..her upper lip is simply ugly.
    http://sexmacheen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/young-nicole-kidman.jpg see she was so beautiful.. sigh

  23. NM9005 says:

    Ah Kidman, I always look for her RC photos because she can rock it! Love the dress and make-up. The hair looks broken and dry to me. I wish she would go for her natural ginger look again.

  24. GoodCapon says:

    Come and get it, Woody! *wink*

  25. SamiHami says:

    Definitely looked far better than she has in a long time. The dress is amazing. With her coloring a little darker would have been better; perhaps a darker beige/light brown. I would also love to see her darken her hair just a shade or two and make it a richer red. If she did that her eyes would POP.

    The only real flaw is that upper lip. She clearly has some sort of implant and it just doesn’t work.

  26. Vee says:

    This is the best she has looked in years. The dress was perfect, I loved the color. She has gained weight and she is clearly happily in love. Well done Nicole!

  27. Peg says:

    Beautiful! I thought she was the best of the night.

  28. Suzy (from Ontario, Canada) says:

    Don’t like the dress at all and I wish she’d go back to that dark auburn shade for her hair (circa Moulin Rouge). She looks so washed out with it light imo.

  29. chloe says:

    I think she looked great, the only thing I didn’t like about the dress was the studs on her boobs, they made it look like nipples in the wrong place. She looked like she was having a good time.

  30. The Original Mia says:

    She looked great. Makeup & dress design were fabulous.

  31. mia girl says:

    Definitely in the Top 3 of the night.
    She was back to looking more like the old Nicole (face-wise) and the dress looked amazing on her.

    Well done Nicole.

  32. Reece says:

    Thought she was one of the best of the night.

  33. lucy2 says:

    I thought she looked really good. The pale color isn’t the best for her, but her body looks killer in that dress. Isn’t she in her 40s? Wow.

  34. Blue says:

    I LOVE the dress 🙂

  35. Mara says:

    She is so beautiful and her dress is stunning .Nicole is a beauty love her.

  36. Heather M (Heather) says:

    She looked flawless, IMO. She’s looking more and more like her former Tom Cruise era self. The dress is so great–even the color b/c the studs warm up the pale shade. Nice red hair. No bat face. Perfection.

  37. Jules says:

    I hate studded clothing, but that dress looked amazing on Nicole…what a bod! She looked great.

  38. kikilo says:

    My fave dress of the night hands down, her body is to die for.
    Her face looks just fine, this was a good appearance for her.

  39. Julie says:

    I thought she looked very well….even the lipstick. Compare this, someone who eat, with AJ. Her body is beautiful. Curves, healthy looking, etc. She used to be a stick herself; so glad she’s accepted her body more.

  40. Ravensdaughter says:

    Dominatrix in white….

  41. P.J. says:

    Nicole’s diamond drops were my favorite earrings–beautiful and simple.

    The dress looked like it was made for her. Too bad the lips are so unattractive, especially when her natural lips are so perfect for her face! Maybe if she ditched the super gloss lipstick, it would look better.

  42. operagirl says:

    You know what throws me off about Nicole more than anything? It’s the damned fake teeth! She had perfectly lovely teeth before that fit her mouth, and a perfect cupid’s bow upper lip. Why on earth would she f*** with that?!?

    Nic, darling — take the damned fakes out, go back to what you were born with, you looked so incredibly much better!!!!

    • Trashaddict says:

      It ain’t the fake teeth, it’s the tonsils! What the heck is going on in the back of her mouth, it looks like an alien is back there.

      • operagirl says:

        Seriously, check out the scene from Practical Magic, where she is onscreen for the first time with Goran V., whose last name I can never spell. Or any of her earlier movies. The upper teeth — the gums!!– come out farther than they ever did before. I swear it is not just whatever f***uppery she is doing with her lips.

        Although I agree about the tonsils too =>

  43. Agnes says:

    I don’t get it – Nicole looks great (if Botoxy) and happy, and she sometimes wears these beautiful dresses, but this dress is horrendous. I mean, bedazzled-bad. What’s up, Nicole?

  44. Camille (The original) says:

    Awful. I hated it.

  45. beclove says:

    Keith is YUM….

  46. Maritza says:

    She looks fabulous! That dress is gorgeous.

  47. She looked gorgeous.She’s always been one of my favs.

  48. Ranga says:

    OMFG she finally looks good again! I like it, dress and hair and makeup.

  49. Maya says:

    It’s not her, it’s the trashy Versace dress.
    Ever since Gianni died, the label went to hell.

  50. Emily says:

    Looks like something Kim Kardashian would wear.

  51. tracking says:

    Love the structure of the dress–her figure has never looked better. Nice color with her skin tone too. Think it’s the overly light hair color and pale makeup that’s washing her out. Don’t know why she can’t fix that upper lip problem. It’s disturbing.

  52. Dee says:

    Nicole Kidman–Keith Urban What a beautifule couple that love each other soooo much, they can’t hide it,nice to see. Nicole looks like a real movie star, she has it all. PERFECTION.