Ariana Grande has not won anything for Wicked, but she has been nominated across the board. I sort of wanted to see her win one thing, because I’m sure her speech would have been funny and tearful. But instead, she’s had to watch Zoe Saldana pick up all of the supporting-actress awards for Emilia Perez. At last night’s SAGs, Ari wore a custom Loewe. I honestly can’t get a handle on Loewe and what a “typical Loewe look” really is, because this just looks like Elie Saab to me. Ari was poorly advised to go through the awards season with this washed-out blonde shade too.
Ari’s on-screen partner Cynthia Erivo wore a spectacular vintage Givenchy to the show. I loved this, I loved how over-the-top it was.
Elle Fanning also wore Loewe, and once again, I’m asking… what is it with Loewe? She paired her look with a Cartier necklace.
Jamie Lee Curtis in Dolce & Gabbana. She looked like a goth Big Bird.
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I’m sure it’s just the photos I’ve seen, but it sure does seem like Ariana had one expression the entire Oscar campaign – an expression that is vaguely confused and wistful.
Ha, I’ve been wondering the same thing…has she always had that expression or is it new for Wicked? I’d add that it seems like she’s trying to convey (faux) humility…like “gosh, really, you’re nominating me?”
It’s partly the cartoonish eyebrows that are drawn in the middle of her forehead to achive this puppy effect. I sense that it’s also intentional on her part and to me it conveys this innocent ingenue that she is not. Her razor thin nose, fug hair color and styling and this expression on her face makes me dislike her irrationally. Sorry, I can’t hold it back with her. I find this tactic so blatant and in-your-face.
It’s definitely and eyebrow problem. I’m thinking that perhaps she would look better without any eyebrows instead of that.
I’ve recently discovered how eyebrow shape can drastically change your appearance. It’s important you choose the right shape for your face.
I was thinking that too! Just realized, I think it’s the way her eyebrows are very flat but go up in the center by her nose. It gives her permanent 🥺
I was trying to figure out what was driving me nuts last night, and it’s definitely the surprised/wistful face.
I’m sad she hasn’t won anything because I thought she was great and her speech would be good. I’m sick of the pink styling and I wish she would do anything other than a damn ponytail for her hair.
I bet her hair is FRIED. It makes it really hard to color correct when it’s that damaged so there’s probably a lot going on to be having all ponytails all the time.
It’s like a pleading look. It’s the current shape of her eyebrows, but she hasn’t always looked like this.
I’m glad she came away with nothing but the stupid I’m so innocent look on her face. I did like Jamie Lee Curtis’s old Hollywood like look.
She had an eyebrow lift at some point that went wonky. Her brows are in a permanent state of either smirking, wistful, or surprised. They’re like baby Adrien Brody brows.
It looks like she’s about to cry or sneeze and can’t decide which
Ariana wants to appear sympathetic and it’s not working. We all know you’re a cheater! The only men she likes are the ones that are taken.
Is Ariana not sick to death of baby pink by now? This is really not up there with the best of them either.
That colour looks AMAZING on Cynthia, and a perfect shoe choice but I cannot with the pulled-down-Santa-beard neckline.
Goth big bird loool!!
Out of these I like the goth Big Bird best, and Elle Fanning’s Loewe.
AG’s dress wasn’t too bad — but another, stronger, color would have been much better.
CE’s Givenchy looks fun, but impractical.
Along with the blond washing her out, she really has those eyebrows plucked to look surprised all the time? Not a good style at all.
I think she’s going for surprised and sweet, which isn’t my impression of her. Cynthia looked fabulous, so dramatic and she looked like a Star!
Yeah, the eyebrows are not helping at all, combined with her same old expression in *every* pose it makes her come across as confused / doesn’t have a thought or feeling in her head or heart.
The pale pink plus pulled back hair in a washed out color that doesn’t complement her – everything about her presentation says:
there is nothing here
no inner life energy
I could disappear
a haze of washed out pale nothingness
who would even notice
To me, Arianna looks like a porcelain doll and vaguely creepy. The colourless face and clothes and young appearance could be out of a horror movie about an animated doll that comes to life.
@joanne Exactly this.
I suspect Ariana and Cynthia are not winning awards this season because Wicked is in two parts. The same thing happened to Lord of the Rings.
Or maybe because the other actors are better.
I thought they were both really good. And I went in expecting to hate Ariana in the role. Zoe really did surprise me (in a good way) in that dumpster fire of a movie, though.
I love Ariana and Jamie Lee Curtis’s dresses. They both looked both beautiful and understated. Cynthia’s dress looked like she was trying to mimic an elderly lion. Everyone else just looked blah.
I feel like designers are struggling with Ariana. You can’t go seductive with her but she’s not actually a child, so how so you dress an adult woman whose look defies reason? Fluffy pink.
OMG Jamie Lee is rockin’ goth big bird!
Of course she could do seductive — or goth or classic or punk or athletic or whatever. Anything but this tired waif b.s. She’s an actor, right? They should be able to CHANGE.
I knew her dress was gonna be pink before I even clicked on the post. I am begging someone, anyone, to zhuzh her hair. Hell, give her a wig if her hair is all broken off. This is all fix-able.
This Ari dress looks like a costume to me. It is not stylish or current now, and I don’t think it ever was in the past. It’s too fancy for prom but not adult enough for a movie star. Just bad. Cynthia on the other hand looks badass, stunning, and stylish in the best style-does-not-mean-following-trends kind of way.
AG’s look I believe they are going for “childlike innocence” but to me, it comes off as weird and creepy. An adult pretending to look much younger than they are. It comes off as fake especially considering she has a thing for men who are with someone else, including SpongeBob right now. Her expression skeeves me out with the feigned fake innocence.
I agree, this is why I’ve had an issue with her. It’s like she’s catering to a particular set of men, yuck! I have no doubt that while she has a messy love life, she’s probably a really smart woman.
I wish her dress here was just a shade darker, she looks washed out.
@nicole I felt the same way when she used to always wear cat ears and ponytails at her big age, that she was catering to perverts
I forgot about her cat ear years! Wow, she’s really been annoying me for a loooong time.
Elle & Jamie Lee look absolutely gorgeous!
Ariana needs to start dressing & styling like an adult instead of a constipated waif. Remember her licking, then putting back, donuts at a shop?
The pony tail & streaming bows are absurd on a 31 year old woman.
Baby Jane is in her future.
AG looks terrible. And she has for a while now. Ever since she started filming Wicked. She looks washed out (who the hell told her blonde and blush looked good on her?!). Everytime you see her she is even skinnier than the last time. That stupid expression on her face. Everything. After awards season she’s going to have an extended stay at a “retreat” for “exhaustion.”
Being with a narcissistic man does that to you
She is not helping her image with this horrible color palate. It is not the right shade dress or hair for her anemic skin tone. I agree she had a eyelid droop skin removal. She looks stressed & unhealthy for someone so in love just saying.