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Get ready with Selena Gomez as she walks you through her step-by-step makeup routine directly from her Rare Beauty office.
On Tuesday (Sept. 24), Rare Beauty posted a YouTube video of Selena Gomez showcasing each step of her beauty routine and what you can do to achieve her signature look. Selena Gomez starts off the video with an already applied base, making it easy to get you started right away with her essential makeup products.
To kick off her natural glam look, Selena Gomez starts off with Rare Beauty’s Positive Light Under Eye Brightener. This can help for under-eye coverage — or as she describes it, “pop in a little lightness” into your everyday look. To continue a natural glowy look, she moves onto Rare Beauty’s Warm Wishes Effortless Cream Bronzer Stick. “What I love most about our bronzer formula is that I like the creaminess. I love that it’s so easy, but once it’s on, it’s on,” she said in the YouTube video.
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Towards the middle of the video, Selena Gomez excitedly introduces the new True to Myself Tinted Pressed Talc-Free Finishing and uses Rare Beauty Soft Touch Puff to gently apply the powder on her face. “Most of our products and our packaging are really easy to use, so I think the goal was to create something that people could and would find easy to use,” Gomez said. “Also, the shape is easy to kind of hold in your hand.”
If you have been exploring new lip combos lately, consider adding the lip combo inspired by Selena Gomez herself! In the video, she uses Kind Words Lip Liner in the shade “Humble.” Then, she applies her Stay Vulnerable Glossy Lip Balm in “Nearly Neutral” for an added glossy look.
For those who enjoy a natural makeup look or celeb-inspired routine, these options are a great start to enhancing your everyday look. Keep scrolling and get ready like a movie star with these Selena Gomez-approved beauty must-haves.
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Keep your makeup secure and fresh with Rare Beauty’s new True to Myself Tinted Pressed Talc-Free Finishing Powder. Like Selena Gomez shares in the Rare Beauty YouTube video, it’s easy to apply and hold with its one-of-a-kind shape. It’s available in 14 shades!
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Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez Positive Light Under Eye Brightener
Looking for coverage or brightness for your under eye? Consider adding this Positive Light Under Eye Brightener to your list. It’s easy to use and comes in six different shades, from light neutral to deep neutral.
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Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez Warm Wishes Effortless Cream Bronzer Stick
Upgrade your bronzer with this Warm Wishes Effortless Cream Bronzer Stick. It comes in seven different shades. One Sephora customer described it as “very blendable” and “creamy.”
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Are you obsessed with lip combos? Consider adding this Selena Gomez-approved lip liner to the mix. A Khol’s customer described it as “long-lasting” and “creamy.”
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Finish off your lip combo look with this Selena Gomez-approved Glossy Lip Balm. If you are looking to achieve a neutral look, this lip combo is for you.
For more product recommendations, check out this travel-friendly Rare Beauty puffy makeup bag, these stylish Uggs and more Rare Beauty products to add to your makeup routine.
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Sean “Diddy” Combs is the subject of the new episode of Impact x Nightline: Drugs Lies & ‘Freak Offs,’ which will dive into the allegations of sexual assault and abuse made against him, as well as the recent federal charges for racketeering and sex trafficking that the hip-hop mogul is facing.
In a new preview clip shared exclusively with Billboard, Lizzette Martinez, who is a survivor of R. Kelly’s abuse, shares her experience meeting Diddy in the late 1990s. “He’s like, ‘Hey, you have really pretty eyes.’ And said, ‘Hey, I’m having a party. You want to come with me?’” she recalls in the clip. “I didn’t have a good feeling about it and I just declined. Thinking about it now, it’s like, ‘Wow, I really dodged a bullet.’”
The disgraced R&B singer (real name Robert Sylvester Kelly) is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence after he was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking charges in 2021. In 2022, he was also convicted of six counts of child pornography and enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity.
Martinez noted that she thought R. Kelly and Diddy are “a lot alike,” claiming that they are both “predators” who like to manipulate. She continued, “They’re dangling a career in front of you. They use the power to get you to where they want you.”
Billboard has reached out to reps for Diddy for comment. The music mogul — who has previously denied all allegations of sexual assault and abuse made against him — has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He was denied bail twice, and is currently awaiting trial behind bars. After his arrest, his lawyer told Billboard in a statement: ” We are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. … He is an imperfect person but he is not a criminal.”
Impact x Nightline: Drugs Lies & ‘Freak Offs’ will also feature an interview with Tiffany Red, a producer and songwriter who is friends with Diddy’s ex-partner Cassie Ventura, who filed a now-settled lawsuit against Diddy in November accusing the mogul of assault. She was also seen in a 2016 video obtained by CNN, in which Combs appears to shove Ventura to the ground near an elevator bank, kick her several times while she lies on the ground and drag her down a hallway.
“I can’t unsee that Cassie video,” Martinez says of the clip, while getting emotional. “You can tell me whatever you want about him, but I can’t unsee that video. She helped others to feel like they can come forward and that’s huge, because you put yourself on the line.”
Impact x Nightline: Drugs Lies & ‘Freak Offs’ begins streaming on Thursday (Sept. 26) on Hulu. Watch the preview clip featuring Martinez below.
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Lainey Wilson has reached a full circle moment, thanks to her new collaboration with Wrangler. After announcing a partnership with the brand last year, the country star debuted her very first Wrangler collection on Wednesday (Sept. 25).
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“It’s wild, and also full circle, because before I could even walk my parents had me on the back of a horse and a pair of Wranglers,” Wilson told Billboard of the collection during a fitting in Las Vegas last month. “It’s a weird thing, because I feel like, just looking at these pictures on the wall of the collection just kind of makes me feel at home in a weird way. It just reminds me of, like, my inner child and that little girl, you know?”
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The Lainey Wilson x Wrangler collection features unique designs, curve-hugging silhouettes, stylish patchwork, ringer T-shirts, western-inspired outerwear and variations of Wilson’s signature bell bottoms. A female-led design team helped Wilson bring the collection to life, which reflects her modern but retro style.
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“My family is Wrangler,” she added. “My daddy thought I really made it after I told him about this [collection]. I told him, I might be working with Wrangler. He’s a man of a few words, but he was like, ‘now that’s something!’ When he says that, you know he’s impressed.”
At the heart of the collection: Wilson’s long-standing connection with Wrangler and her childhood. She wrote her first song at just nine years old, the same year that she received her first pair of bellbottoms.
“Before we even started working, [Wrangler] really got to know me and my story. Even Viv [Vivian Rivetti, Wrangler’s global vice president of design] she just asked me small details about my childhood and what did I think of [this or that], and honestly, a lot of those things ended up in the trucker Storyteller outfit. All of the things that I feel make me, me. That’s how I write songs too. I get to put my story and myself out there, and it’s cool for me to be able to express myself every day with my music, but stepping into something like this, it just really gives me another outlet. I wrote my first song at nine years old, and I thought that’s what I’d be doing forever. I’m still doing that but it’s cool, [to have] other opportunities that come up.”
While reviewing looks in the collection, Wilson pointed out some of the small details that have had a major big impact on her life. For example, her French bulldog makes an appearance in the collection, along with trucks, trailers, horses, a guitar and other nods to her Western style like the name “Hippie Mae,” symbolizing her first pair of bell bottoms and the phrase “Hillbilly Hippie,” which is named after her 2022 song. There’s also a ringer shirt with the number nine on the front symbolizing the age that Wilson wrote her first song, got her first pair of bell bottoms and went to the Grand Ole Opry for the first time.
The collection’s “Hang Tight” ringer tee represents a phrase her father told her as a child. “I remember riding this bucking horse and my daddy’s like, ‘You better hold on. You better hang tight.’ That’s just something I say all the time and then later on, I ended up writing a song called ‘Hang Tight, Honey’ so that’s our current single.”
“There’s so many little hidden [details],” she continued. “If you look close you see a heart [in the collection]. One of my first hits at country radio was a song called ‘Heart Like a Truck,’” Wilson noted of her 2022 single, which was featured in a Dodge Ram commercial.
“The bread barn right here just symbolizes my childhood,” she said pointing to another detail in the collection. “I feel like I learned a lot growing up on the back of horse. I learned how to hold on when times get tough and how to pull myself up by the bootstraps. The tractor right here, anytime I wanted to spend time with my daddy, I had to go get on the tractor with him.”
Fashion isn’t much different from music, Wilson explained of what she learned during the process of creating her Wrangler line. “[Fashion] has a lot of similarities to the music business. This record of mine that is about to come out, we’ve been working on it [since] before the other one came out and that’s how this line is, and probably all the future things that we do together. You work on it way in advance, because it’s got to go through so many hands to get to the consumer. And that’s how it is with music, it takes a team.”
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50 Cent’s upcoming documentary surrounding Diddy’s history of alleged sexual abuse is coming to Netflix.
Per Variety, the doc produced by the G-Unit mogul is currently in production and will call the streaming giant home, with Alexandria Stapleton directing. The untitled work will center around Sean Combs’ sexual assault and abuse allegations, and also tie in his recent federal charges for racketeering and sex trafficking.
“This is a story with significant human impact. It is a complex narrative spanning decades, not just the headlines or clips seen so far,” 50 and Stapleton relayed in a joint statement to Variety on Wednesday (Sept. 25). “We remain steadfast in our commitment to give a voice to the voiceless and to present authentic and nuanced perspectives.”
They continued: “While the allegations are disturbing, we urge all to remember that Sean Combs’ story is not the full story of hip-hop and its culture. We aim to ensure that individual actions do not overshadow the culture’s broader contributions.”
50’s G-Unit Film & Television division will executive produce the documentary, while Stapleton is on board to helm the project and also produce through her company House of Nonfiction.
The documentary does not yet have a release date time frame or details regarding how many parts it will include.
50 originally announced plans for the doc about Diddy in December following a bombshell lawsuit filed by the Bad Boy CEO’s ex Cassie a month prior.
A spokesperson for 50 Cent confirmed to Billboard in December that proceeds received by 50’s G-Unit Film & Television division from the project will go toward helping victims of sexual assault and rape.
50’s been relentless in his trolling of Diddy for months even prior to the music mogul being indicted. “I been telling y’all about all this weird s–t, I don’t do NO puffy party’s. you didn’t believe me but I bet you believe me now,” he wrote on social media Wednesday alongside his announcement of the doc coming to Netflix.
He didn’t stop there when jabbing his longtime rival. The Queens legend posted a Photoshopped picture on Instagram of baby oil, which he rebranded to a bottle of “Diddy Oil.” Investigators reportedly seized more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant when raiding Diddy’s L.A. and Miami homes earlier this year, according to the Associated Press.
Sean Combs was arrested on Sept. 17 in NYC and has since been denied bond twice. Diddy will remain in prison until his trial. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
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Chappell Roan is making her position as clear as possible, once and for all. In a new TikTok video posted Wednesday (Sept. 25), the “Good Luck, Babe” singer offered one final explanation for her stance on the upcoming presidential election.
In the clip, Roan says while she will be voting for Kamala Harris to become the next president of the United States, she will not endorse the vice president since she does not support some of her policies. “I’m voting for f–king Kamala,” she said in her video. “But I’m not settling for what has been offered, because that’s questionable.”
The new clip comes after a quote Roan gave to The Guardian went viral, in which she said that she didn’t “feel pressured” to endorse a candidate in the 2024 election because “there’s problems on both sides.” Many of the singer’s fans criticized her take, saying that former president Donald Trump and the Republican Party posed a much greater threat to the country than Harris or the Democrats.
While Roan addressed the lack of context in the quote in a TikTok posted on Tuesday evening (Sept. 24), she started her new video saying that she “woke up … to people skewing it even more” and made it abundantly clear why she would not endorse any candidate.
“Obviously, f–k the policies of the right — but also, f–k some of the policies on the left! That’s why I can’t endorse,” she said. “There is no way I can stand behind some of the left’s completely transphobic and completely genocidal views … F–k Trump, for f–king real, but f–k some of the s–t that has gone down in the Democratic Party that has failed people like me and you, and more so Palestine, and more so every marginalized community in the world.”
Roan also went on to explain that “endorsing and voting are not the same thing,” which is why she said that she would be casting her vote for Harris. “Actions speak louder than words,” she said. “Voting is all we have right now in this system, so I encourage it, yet again. Vote for who, in your mind, is the best option for what we have right now, because it’s all we can do. Yes, one’s obviously better than the other. But Jesus f–king Christ, I hope you don’t have to settle for what we have and put your name behind someone that you don’t fully, fully trust because of their blatant actions.”
Over the last few months, Roan has explained on multiple occasions that she does not support the Biden administration’s support and funding of Israel’s continued attacks on Gaza and the Palestinian people. During her set at Governors Ball in June, the singer said that she turned down an invite to perform at the White House for Pride Month because “we want liberty, freedom and justice for all.” In her cover story for Rolling Stone, she went on to explain that she originally planned to accept the invitation and read Palestinian poetry instead of performing as an act of protest.
Elsewhere in that interview, Roan also explained that she would be using her vote in 2024 to “protect people’s civil rights, especially the LGBTQ+ community,” while adding that she felt “lucky to be alive during an incredibly historical time period when a woman of color is a presidential nominee.”
For those hoping that the singer would even further explain her thinking on this issue, Roan made it clear in the caption of her TikTok video that this will be her last statement on the matter. “Im done talking about it. If you dont get what im saying from this, its a lost cause,” she wrote. “And im not forcing you to agree with me. This is my statement. Have a good day.”
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Singing with Lady Gaga on the set of Joker: Folie à Deux was no joke for Joaquin Phoenix.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly published Wednesday (Sept. 25), director Todd Phillips revealed that the film’s star actor was “sick every day” with nerves about pulling off his vocal numbers alongside one of the most renowned modern singers. The pressure was especially on, considering Phoenix had to dive into shooting the Joker sequel’s musical numbers as soon as nine days into production — but luckily, Gaga was able to help him through it.
“The truth is, they gave each other pointers,” Phillips told the publication. “He’d give her pointers about acting; she’s been in movies, but he’s Joaquin Phoenix. She gave him tips about music because she’s Lady Gaga. It’s what movies should be: a giant collaboration.”
The filmmaker also shared that the 13-time Grammy winner’s notes to Phoenix were “a little more specific” and along the lines of, “You’re not hitting the note there.” “There’s less room for interpretation [with singing],” Phillips added.
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Even so, Gaga has said before that she and Phoenix were aiming for less polished vocals to give their characters — Harley Quinn and Joker, respectively — more authenticity. “I’m a trained singer, right? So even my breathing was different when I sang as Lee,” she told Empire in July. “When I breathe to sing on stage, I have this very controlled way to make sure that I’m on pitch and it’s sustained at the right rhythm and amount of time, but Lee would never know how to do any of that. So it’s like removing the technicality of the whole thing, removing my perceived art-form from it all and completely being inside of who she is.”
The “Rain on Me” singer — who recently announced a companion album for the film, Harlequin — has also said that Folie à Deux isn’t necessarily a musical, despite featuring multiple elaborate song-and-dance numbers led by the film’s two stars. Phillips is on the same page, and while speaking to EW, he clarified that the distinction isn’t because he’s “afraid of the term ‘musical.’”
“Most of the times I’ve ever seen a musical, I walk out feeling better than I did when I walked in,” he said. “On this movie, I’m not sure it’s the same thing. I wouldn’t want to be misleading and say you’re going to be whistling the songs from this movie on the way to your car after you see it.”