It wasn’t easy sitting through the unabashed display of major-label commercialism that was last night’s American Music Awards, but there were a few beauty moments that made it worth it—Rihanna’s eighties-era Whitney Houston curls and Ke$ha’s green-lipped, high-hair tribute to the Lanvin for H&M runway among them. Perhaps most head-turning was a straight-haired Taylor Swift, [...]

As the story goes with most awards shows, last night’s American Music Awards brought out stars big and small, in fashion and beauty looks good and bad. Shakira landed on the “questionable” end of the continuum, choosing to simulate this year’s popular side-shave with cornrows, so as not to permanently mess with her signature mane. [...]

I got the text from a friend around 8:15 last night: “American Music Awards, out of control. Xtina’s bangs, two inches too short,” thus confirming what I already knew from a few weeks of silently stalking Christina Aguilera and her recent venture into the challenging world of rockabilly hair: Two inches too short—and something of [...]