JAMAICAN singer and season five winner of The Voice Tessanne Chin is set to walk the Grammy red carpet today wearing a pair of fluttery, 24-karat-gold-dipped eyelash extensions from Lash Dip, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday.

According to the newspaper, the US$5,000 gold lashes were designed by Lash Dip’s director of innovation, Gina Mondragon, and are being offered exclusively at Jose Eber Salon in Beverly Hills. They last up to two weeks, compared with regular eyelash extensions from Lash Dip, which last up to a month.

“We were able to create a system to infuse pure 24-karat gold — the only gold pure enough for the face — into our semipermanent lash formula and create a show-stopping look only real gold can attain,” the Los Angeles Times quotes Mondragon as saying.

“The gold lash application process takes up to three hours. First, Mondragon applies silk inserts to thicken the lash line, then she paints each individual lash with Gold Dip (24k gold leaf) to get a shimmery, gilded effect that just screams awards season,” the LA Times article said.

According to Melissa Magsaysay, the writer of the article, the gold eyelashes “certainly should be a stand-out look” on Chin, “with her usually bold makeup and edgy hair”.

Sundance stars get a retro makeover

They’re more than used to posing for all manner of photographs as some of the world’s leading actresses.

But the likes of Anne Hathaway and Kristen Stewart were virtually unrecognisable as they posed for a selection of experimental 1860s-style portraits at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

The painstakingly crafted tintypes, made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of iron coated with dark lacquer, were shot by AP Invision photographer Victoria Will, to offer a new take on this year’s movie festival.

In addition to Hollywood megastars Kristen and Anne, the artistic vintage shots also feature a host of big names, including Elle Fanning and Glenn Close — who posed together — as well as Maggie Gyllenhaal, William H Macy and Michael C Hall.

Jason Schwartzman and Katie Couric round off the creative collection of portraits, showcased at The Collective and Gibson Lounge in Park City.

This year’s Sundance Film Festival opened on January 16 with the movie Whiplash, directed by Damien Chazelle, and will close today with William H Macy’s musical drama, Rudderless.

— Daily Mail

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Anne Hathaway was virtually unrecognisable as she posed for a selection of experimental 1860s-style portraits at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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Kristen Stewart was one of numerous Hollywood stars shot by AP Invision photographer Victoria Will to offer a new take on this year’s movie festival.

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The artistic vintage shots featured a host of big names, including Elle Fanning and Glenn Close, who posed together for their striking portrait.

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Photographer Victoria Will also shot William H Macy for the project, and explained she is fascinated by the ‘slow process’ and ‘finicky nature’ of tintypes.

Nicole Kidman’s Princess Grace film shelved

Less than two months to go until its much-anticipated release, Nicole Kidman’s upcoming Grace Of Monaco, which was due to hit the big screen on March 14, has been delayed for the second occasion — this time indefinitely.

Sources told The Hollywood Reporter the biopic has been taken off The Weinstein Company’s calendar because the film is yet to be delivered to the organisation, however, it is now scheduled to premiere at Cannes in May.

The final edit of the film appears to have been delayed amid a feud between the director, Olivier Dahan, and film mogul Harvey Weinstein, after Dahan labelled the version of the film edited by The Weinstein Company “sh*t” and “catastrophic”.

The film’s release date was pushed back from November 2013 to March 2014 with The Weinstein Company citing the delay was because the movie would not be ready in time.

Following the initial announcement, Dahan went to the press with his frustrations about working with Weinstein on the project.

Speaking to a French newspaper after the film’s first delay, he said: “It’s right to struggle, but when you confront an American distributor like Weinstein, not to name names, there is not much you can do.”

— Daily Mail

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Nicole Kidman looking stunning as Hollywood actress-turned-princess Grace Kelly.