Gossip Girl Pictures of Hip Fashion - Get the Look of Your Favorite Gossip Girl

There is more to the show, Gossip Girl, than gorgeous rich kids, couple switching and all that teenage drama. Aside from its racy and bold depiction of what American teenagers are really like behind closed doors, the show also boasts of its massive Gossip Girl fan sites and huge fan base all over the world. Because of its popularity among its huge market, even fashion moguls have dipped their finger in making this teen-oriented show break new grounds. Now, Gossip Girl is not only a reference about pop culture. It also gives a forecast of the hottest in fashion through Gossip Girl pictures and images we see on the show and portals of the internet.

If you are truly a fan of the show, you must have taken note of how your favorite Gossip Girl don her fashion. To help you get that Gossip Girl glow, here are some tips that you might want to look into to rock Serena, Blair or Jenny's fashion vibe.

Serena van der Woodsen: It's all about the hair.
Being the IT girl in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Serena's fashion is distinctly regal and laid-back at the same time. Her boho-chic look combines vintage and a rock star feel making her the girl of every guy's dream.

To get Serena's look, you must stack up on well-tailored jackets, skinny jeans and accessories. In the show, Serena cannot be caught dead without a cute piece of accessory thrown together with a cute top, tight-fit jeans and boots. Her eclectic mix of feminine fashion has been toned down by the sexiness and masculine appeal of her boots.

When talking about Serena's fashion, it is impossible to look over her beautiful long blonde hair. Her hair has a wild and wavy feel to it that gives new meaning to the phrase 'crowning glory'. Her porcelain skin doesn't require her to apply a lot of makeup. Instead, put on a neutral lip shade and load on colorless lip gloss to get Serena's shine.

Blair Waldorf: It's all about the head bands and ribbons.
Blair Waldorf's doll appeal is unmistakable. Being a daughter of a fashion designer herself, it is not surprising for her to be so fashion forward and flamboyant in dressing up. Clad in cute and flowy dresses with delicate fabrics, Blair exudes a very strong feminine charm. We usually see Blair in short dresses with powerful prints that hug her petite body. She keeps the accessories to a minimum with her head band being the centerpiece. Her head bands have big ribbons that frame her doll face perfectly. If you are a true blue fan of hers, you'd notice that her head bands match stilettos and pumps, too. Be brave to don her look and come out as the undeniable Queen Bee of your group.

When it comes to makeup, Blair channels all our attention towards her lips by applying plum or red lipstick with lots of lip gloss. She puts on light eye makeup, but applies a lot of mascara and traces her lids with black eyeliner to reinforce the look.

Jenny Humphrey: It's all about the eye makeup.

We have seen Jenny blossom from an awkward young girl to a fashionista the instant she tried to steal the Queen Bee spot from Blair Waldorf. Although she has been a bit unsuccessful in dethroning the brunet, Jenny is still keeping a lot of score because of the experimental and original fashion sense she has developed.

Eyeing a career in the fashion industry at a young age, little Jenny is not new when it comes to hoarding attention because of what she wears. She layers a simple tank top with a cute cropped jacket, a beautiful dress with a coat and accessorizes them with eye-catching pieces like necklaces and chokers. Of course, Jenny surprises everyone with her black eyeliner, full bangs and red lips that really bring out the beautiful contours of her face.

Final Gossip Girl Fashion Advice: Load up on confidence.

Rocking the look you see in Gossip Girl pictures and images will be only seamless when you have confidence to cap things off. Just like Serena, Blair and Jenny, your beauty will only come through when you become true to yourself. Fashion becomes more fun when you get to express who you really are through the clothes you wear. After all, finding your true self is what a real Gossip Girl is all about.

A Computer Engineering student and loves to travel. Reading current news in the internet is one of his past times. Taking pictures of the things around him fully satisfies him. He loves to play badminton and his favorite pets are cats.

Oscar Predictions 2011: Which Movie Will Win the Best Picture Award?

The question of the year in the movie industry: Who will win the Best Picture award? Who will take another Academy Award home as winner and who will just spend the night applauding others? As no one knows for sure yet, let's take a look at the list of the Best Picture Nominees and try to come up with some system to make predictions.

Best Picture Nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards:

Black Swan -- director: Darren Aronofsky; writers: Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz; stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel;

The Fighter -- director: David O. Russell; writers: Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy Adams

Inception -- Director: Christopher Nolan; Writer: Christopher Nolan; Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page

The Kids Are All Right -- director: Lisa Cholodenko; writers: Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg; stars: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore vand Mark Ruffalo

The King's Speech -- director: Tom Hooper; writer: David Seidler; stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter

127 Hours -- director: Danny Boyle; writers: Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, stars: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara

The Social Network -- director: David Fincher; writers: Aaron Sorkin, Ben Mezrich; stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake

Toy Story 3 -- director: Lee Unkrich; writers: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack

True Grit -- directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen; writers: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen; stars: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Hailee Steinfeld

Winter's Bone -- director: Debra Granik; writers: Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini, stars: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes and Garret Dillahunt

Hm, now that's a list of some pretty good movies, how are these guys in Academy Awards supposed to decide, who is better? Whom they should give the Oscar statue? Oh the tension... Maybe we can help out by comparing them -- how they were created, how they did in theaters and awards? Maybe we can develop some kind of system for determining the most likely winners...

You can see that most of them have really big names in cast and crew. Thought celebrity pressure can come from any of these movies; it's not clear how to evaluate one or another star's influence for popularity of the movie. Also, one should not forget that we all have our favorites, which is not good for making objective predictions. So we have to take some other, measurable and comparable things into account when deciding.

First thing we could look at is a) how much was invested in creating these movies b) how much they earned from them. In short -- were they successful and the effort worth the money?

List no. 1: 'Budget size vs. success'

Black Swan -- budget: 13,000,000; earnings: 83,250,375; ROI: 5.4
The Kids Are All Right -- budget: 4,000,000; earnings: 20,803,237; ROI: 4.2
The King's Speech -- budget: 15,000,000; earnings: 57,313,881; ROI: 2.8
True Grit -- budget: 38,000,000; earnings: 137,963,519; ROI: 2.6
Winter's Bone -- budget: 2,000,000; earnings: 6,271,086; ROI: 2.1
The Fighter -- budget: 25,000,000; earnings: 72,680,740; ROI: 1.9
The Social Network -- budget: 40,000,000; earnings: 95,408,473; ROI: 1.4
Toy Story 3 -- budget: 200,000,000; earnings: 415,004,880; ROI: 1.1
Inception -- budget: 160,000,000; earnings: 292,568,851; ROI: 0.8
127 Hours -- budget: 18,000,000; earnings: 11,296,805; ROI: -0.4
What we get here is a very simple list of the Best Picture nominees according to return on investment [ROI] made in making them. The biggest return taking the first place, when going down to the smallest in the bottom. Basically, it shows how much money oscar nominees made in US from premier till January, divided by their estimated budget ($ numbers from IMDB and boxofficemojo.com). Conclusion - big budget is not everything you need for a blockbuster - "Black Swan" and "The Kids Are All Right" budgets were more than 10 times smaller compared to Inception, but they managed to make around 4 - 5 times more from one dollar invested. The biggest loser so far "127 Hours", which haven't managed to earn enough to cover costs yet. I didn't rank them according to gross earnings, as popular opinion and sales can easily be manipulated by increasing spending on advertising, ROI shows a lot more in this case.

Secondly, we could consider how have these movies done in professional competitions?

List no. 2: 'What do the pros think?"

The Social Network -- nominations: 55; Wins: 49; Oscar nom.:8; Total: 112
The King's Speech -- nominations: 73; Wins: 16; Oscar nom.: 12; Total: 101
Black Swan -- nominations: 71; Wins: 21; Oscar nom.: 5; Total: 97
Inception -- nominations: 57; Wins: 27; Oscar nom.: 8; Total: 92
True Grit -- nominations: 55; Wins: 12; Oscar nom.: 10; Total: 77
127 Hours -- nominations: 55; Wins: 4; Oscar nom.: 6; Total: 65
Winter's Bone -- nominations: 42; Wins: 19; Oscar nom.: 4; Total: 65
The Fighter -- nominations: 32; Wins: 23; Oscar nom.: 7; Total: 62
The Kids Are All Right -- nominations: 51; Wins: 3; Oscar nom.: 4; Total: 58
Toy Story 3 -- nominations: 18; Wins: 18; Oscar nom.: 5; Total: 41
Here I added up all nominations with wins to see which movies were noticed the most in different awards. Here "The Social Network" takes lead, with "The King's Speech" and "Black Swan" still in top three before the big spenders "Inception" and others. Hmm do we see a trend here already?

Thirdly, it's very important to compare how viewers and critics evaluate these movies:

List no. 3: 'A, B, C... or F?'

Toy Story 3 -- IMDB: 8.7; metacritics.com: 92; average: 9.0
The Social Network -- IMDB: 8.2; metacritics.com: 95; average: 8.9
The King's Speech -- IMDB: 8.5; metacritics.com: 88; average: 8.7
Winter's Bone -- IMDB: 7.5; metacritics.com: 90; average: 8.3
Black Swan -- IMDB: 8.6; metacritics.com: 79; average: 8.3
127 Hours -- IMDB: 8.2; metacritics.com: 82; average: 8.2
Inception -- IMDB: 9.0; metacritics.com: 74; average: 8.2
True Grit -- IMDB: 8.2; metacritics.com: 80; average: 8.1
The Fighter -- IMDB: 8.2; metacritics.com: 79; average: 8.1
The Kids Are All Right -- IMDB: 7.4; metacritics.com: 86; average: 8.0
I ranked these movies according to IMDB and metacritic.com rankings average. "Toy story 3" does very well here, by both viewers in IMDB and critics in metacritic.com. Some of the previous leaders spatter across the list giving an interesting perspective for possible Oscar evening winners.

And finally, to get the result we need to sum up all previous scores - from 1 to 10, the smallest score being the best:

List no. 4: 'The Grande Finale'

The King's Speech 8
Black Swan 9
The Social Network 10
Winter's Bone 16
True Grit 17
Toy Story 3 19
Inception 20
The Kids Are All Right 21
127 Hours 22
The Fighter 23
So here you go! Top 3 most possible Oscar winners according to our little calculation are: leader "The King's Speech", followed by "Black Swan" and "The Social Network". I guess this not a big surprise as "The King's Speech" already boast 16 wins in such awards as Golden Globes, British Independent Films and others. Let's not forget 12 Oscar nominations, which is a great accomplishment by itself.

Hema, Eesha and Neetu Resplendent at the Derewala Fashion Show

The mother-daughter duo of Hema Malini and Eesha Deol grabbed all the eyeballs, amidst an elaborate lineup of models at the launch of Italian Designer Jewellery collection by the Derewala Jewellers at J.W. Marriot on August 21st. Tinsel-town celebs Neetu Chandra and Hard Kaur also graced the event and added to the glam quotient.

The south Indian beauties were the centre of attraction in their picture perfect sarees. 'Dreamgirl' Hema Malini, 61, looked elegantly beautiful in a white satin sari with embellished borders and a matching short sleeved blouse. The lady carried a pink satin clutch with some light jewellery. She topped off the look with a yellow rose in her shoulder length dark brown hair. Appropriate make up highlighted her stunning facial features.

'Darling' daughter Eesha Deol looked drop dead gorgeous in a blue laced sari with spangled borders and matching short sleeve blouse. Esha Deol matched steps with her beautiful mom, Hema Malini, who was the cynosure of all eyes at the Derewala fashion show. The 'Dhoom' actress who also walked down the ramp at the show, accessorized with a stunning gold necklace, drop earrings, multiple bracelets along with a cocktail ring in her right index finger and a pearl ring in her left little finger. With the right make-up and hair do in place she looked as stunning as her mother.

The hot and spicy 'Garam Masala' fame babe Neetu Chandra also was present at the event. Neetu dazzled as he wore an elaborate full length sleeveless pink gown. Her hair neatly pulled back, the dusky beauty looked like your girl next door. Neetu Chandra said that she liked the Indo-Western jewellery which was basically very light and could be used for daily wear. Big Boss contestant and model Aryan Vaid and hindi hip-hop singer Hard Kaur were also present at the event.

The fashion show saw a team of Italians models with our very own Indian models such as Romeo Gates, Chez Shetty and Surbhi Prabhu, dressed in Kawaljeet Singh attires take to the ramp. The collection is an ingenious blend of Indian and Italian creations.

You can watch the entire fashion show event with interviews of Neetu Chandra and Aryan Vaid at NyooTV.com, which is one site where viewers can watch latest fashion events. NyooTV - India's first Online Social TV brings a whole new world of entertainment with its innovative technology, rendering a viewing experience unmatched in quality. Viewers can watch Indian movies online and get continuous updates about the latest Bollywood movie online by following NyooTV through social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace and Twitter. Members of these social networking sites can watch Hindi movies, bollywood shows events, new Bollywood movies trailers, latest Bollywood clips and events by simply logging into their accounts through NyooTV and get entertained with these high quality videos.

Gearing Up For a Fancy Dress Party

At times it is so tough to decide what to wear to your friend's fancy dress party. But there are so many dresses that you need not sweat about it. Just make sure that the dress you choose is really a show - stopper and one that will make heads turn. The whole idea of a fancy dress party is to allow your imagination to run wild and come up with those unique costumes which you would only dream of wearing in a trial room for fun. Always choose bright and vibrant colors that highlight the color of your skin tone.

Many a times fancy dress parties are theme based, so it solves your problem of racking your brains for a costume. How ever if there is no theme specified, then allow your imagination to get the better of you, especially if you are the shy yet imaginative type. Go with the flow and pick your favorite dress, be it from the medieval period, the Elizabethan period or Victorian. Of course, in this kind of a period dress your will find yourself being tightly bound in a corset, so think twice before you settle for a dress from this era of cancans and frills.

A lot will depend on the season in which the fancy dress has to be worn. Wearing a long silk gown during the peak of summer is definitely not a very comfortable idea. You could try wearing on of your favorite Hollywood actor or actress' costume, like a long flowing gown, a short but glamorous evening dress or a tuxedo for men. In case you like Bollywood actors and actresses, then you choice automatically increases to a newer range to choose from. Try wearing the six yard Indian sari or the salwar kameez, which ever takes your fancy. And do remember to apply make up befitting an actress on screen.

If you are a water lover, you could try on a scuba diving or even the bay watch life guard costume or a mermaid's costume. A Hawaiian dress with the floral wreaths and garlands would make a beautiful and colorful costume too. You could opt for a completely informal look with a colorful skirt and blouse or shorts and a fancy print shirt for men. Try the sea pirate costume. It would definitely make you stand out among the milieu. The doctor and nurse dresses are a bit out - dated but nevertheless still a hit among many.

Fairy tale characters are always a big hit with everyone at a fancy dress party. You could go as Robin Hood or Red Riding Hood or better still Cinderella or Snow White, the Tin Soldier or even a goblin. There are so many fairy tale characters to choose from. You could try being an alien from outer space or Superman or Batman too. You could go dressed up as a student and bring back memories of the good old school days for everyone at the fancy dress party too.

Hema, Eesha and Neetu Resplendent at the Derewala Fashion Show

The mother-daughter duo of Hema Malini and Eesha Deol grabbed all the eyeballs, amidst an elaborate lineup of models at the launch of Italian Designer Jewellery collection by the Derewala Jewellers at J.W. Marriot on August 21st. Tinsel-town celebs Neetu Chandra and Hard Kaur also graced the event and added to the glam quotient.

The south Indian beauties were the centre of attraction in their picture perfect sarees. 'Dreamgirl' Hema Malini, 61, looked elegantly beautiful in a white satin sari with embellished borders and a matching short sleeved blouse. The lady carried a pink satin clutch with some light jewellery. She topped off the look with a yellow rose in her shoulder length dark brown hair. Appropriate make up highlighted her stunning facial features.

'Darling' daughter Eesha Deol looked drop dead gorgeous in a blue laced sari with spangled borders and matching short sleeve blouse. Esha Deol matched steps with her beautiful mom, Hema Malini, who was the cynosure of all eyes at the Derewala fashion show. The 'Dhoom' actress who also walked down the ramp at the show, accessorized with a stunning gold necklace, drop earrings, multiple bracelets along with a cocktail ring in her right index finger and a pearl ring in her left little finger. With the right make-up and hair do in place she looked as stunning as her mother.

The hot and spicy 'Garam Masala' fame babe Neetu Chandra also was present at the event. Neetu dazzled as he wore an elaborate full length sleeveless pink gown. Her hair neatly pulled back, the dusky beauty looked like your girl next door. Neetu Chandra said that she liked the Indo-Western jewellery which was basically very light and could be used for daily wear. Big Boss contestant and model Aryan Vaid and hindi hip-hop singer Hard Kaur were also present at the event.

The fashion show saw a team of Italians models with our very own Indian models such as Romeo Gates, Chez Shetty and Surbhi Prabhu, dressed in Kawaljeet Singh attires take to the ramp. The collection is an ingenious blend of Indian and Italian creations.

You can watch the entire fashion show event with interviews of Neetu Chandra and Aryan Vaid at NyooTV.com, which is one site where viewers can watch latest fashion events. NyooTV - India's first Online Social TV brings a whole new world of entertainment with its innovative technology, rendering a viewing experience unmatched in quality. Viewers can watch Indian movies online and get continuous updates about the latest Bollywood movie online by following NyooTV through social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace and Twitter. Members of these social networking sites can watch Hindi movies, bollywood shows events, new Bollywood movies trailers, latest Bollywood clips and events by simply logging into their accounts through NyooTV and get entertained with these high quality videos.