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The Perfect Dupe for Taylor Swift's Red Lipstick


Taylor Swift loves nothing more than to keep us guessing. While she’s notorious for dropping hints about each of her relationships in her lyrics and videos, it’s rare that she’ll disclose exactly who a song is about—and the same goes for her beauty routine.

Despite often referencing her red lipstick, she’s been similarly tight-lipped about the specific shades she relies on. She’s shared a few of her favorites in the past—most notably Nars’ Dragon Girl and MAC’s Ruby Woo—but there’s a new red out that’s a deadringer for the rubies she’s famously known for. And it’s got to do with Zendaya.

If you remember, before she was rocking glitter tears in Euphoria, Zendaya made a cameo in Swift’s “Bad Blood” video as “Cut-Throat” back in 2014. Now Z is the face of the new Lancôme L’Absolu Rouge Ruby Cream Lipsticks, and the gem-inspired collection features a nod to the song. The lipstick in question? A bright red aptly named Bad Blood Ruby.

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As the name of the collection implies, the lipsticks are all inspired by rubies. Each bullet is shaped like a gorgeous gem, with varying different facets. In addition to Bad Blood Ruby, there’s also the Black Prince Ruby (named after a famous ruby given to The Black Prince of England in 1367), Pigeon Blood Ruby (a deep crimson ruby that gets its—rather odd—name from the most valuable type of ruby), and RubieZ, named for Zendaya, replacing the letter “S” with her lucky letter “Z”.

While the song reference is what drew me to the lipstick in the first place, Bad Blood Ruby also happens to be the perfect red lipstick. The shade is right in the middle of the spectrum—not too blue, not too pink, with no hints of orange (my enemy in a lipstick), and wakes up my face in one swipe. It glides right on, and doesn’t dry my lips out over the day, which is thanks to rose flower extract, along with the brand’s patented hydrating complex. It has some shine to it, but surprisingly stayed put for hours, even through a greasy lunch.



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Demi Lovato Just Proved There's No Bad Blood Between Her and Taylor Swift


It’s not exactly surprising news, unfortunately, when two female pop stars are publicly pitted against each other. That’s pretty much a tale as old as time—and recently, both Taylor Swift and Demi Lovato have been on the receiving end of all sorts of speculation about their working relationships with other women in their field, including each other.

While rumors of a full-on feud might have been overblown, it’s been fairly clear that the two have not necessarily been buddy-buddy in recent years. Back in 2016, Lovato appeared to throw some shade at Swift in an interview with Glamour: “Don’t brand yourself a feminist if you don’t do the work,” she said at the time.

“To be honest, and this will probably get me in trouble, I don’t see anybody in any sort of squad that has a normal body,” she continued. “It’s kind of this false image of what people should look like. And what they should be like, and it’s not real.”

Then there was the Scooter Braun drama, where he purchased the masters to Swift’s earlier recordings. Swift was furious, but Lovato (a Braun client) defended him. More recently, fans thought Lovato was referencing Swift as the “reason” she didn’t attend the 2019 VMAs, which Swift opened. But the singer quickly shut that down on Twitter: “Btw.. I didn’t ‘shade’ anyone last night. My REASON for not going is because I’m literally living my dream being on Will & Grace rn so stop reaching thaaaaannnnkkssss.” (Lovato will appear in the final season of the NBC show’s reboot.)

But now, the two superstars are showing each other some genuine support with a couple Instagram shout-outs—and we’re here for it.

Lovato and Swift at the premiere of the Hannah Montana: The Movie in 2009.Jeff Vespa

Lovato took to her Instagram Stories to praise the song “Cruel Summer” from Swift’s latest album, Lover. “Life’s too short for women not to support other women…especially when women release great music,” she continued. “Great job @taylorswift.”

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Demi Lovato Just Responded to Claims She Shaded Taylor Swift by Skipping the VMAs


Demi Lovato was noticeably absent from the MTV VMAs on Monday, August 26, and when she wrote on Instagram that she skipped the awards ceremony “for a reason,” speculation began almost immediately. People started wondering if the message was a subtle dig at Taylor Swift, who opened the show and went on to win three awards. But Lovato stopped the rumor mill in its tracks with a follow-up story that instructed everyone to “stop reaching.”

Lovato revealed this morning that she was a no-show at the ceremony because she nabbed an exciting role on the final season of Will & Grace. After sharing the news, she was quick to dispel accusations that her original comment was directed at Swift. “Btw.. I didn’t ‘shade’ anyone last night. My REASON for not going is because I’m literally living my dream being on Will & Grace rn so stop reaching thaaaaannnnkkssss,” she wrote in one of her stories.

Fans may have started jumping to conclusions because Swift and Lovato do have somewhat of a fraught relationship. In 2016, Lovato seemingly knocked Swift’s early brand of feminism to Glamour, saying, “Don’t brand yourself a feminist if you don’t do the work.”

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Lovato continued in that same interview, “To be honest, and this will probably get me in trouble, I don’t see anybody in any sort of squad that has a normal body. It’s kind of this false image of what people should look like. And what they should be like, and it’s not real.” (Swift famously had a “squad” of girlfriends a few years back.)

Things seemed to get tense again when the whole Swift-Scooter Braun drama went down earlier this summer. Lovato, who is Braun’s client, said on social media, ““I have dealt with bad people in the industry and Scooter is not one of them. He’s a good man.”

Still, despite what their past issues have been, Demi Lovato doesn’t want words put in her mouth. It sounds like she wants to spend her time celebrating her Will & Grace moment instead of entertaining gossip.



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Taylor Swift's Reaction to Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes' Almost-Kiss at the VMAs Is Priceless


The VMAs packed in a lot in this year: There was that epic Missy Elliott performance, a reminder that Normani is a gift to humankind, a Lizzo-in-red moment, a Taylor Swift opening, and a duet with Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes that had the crowd screaming. For a second, it seemed like they were going to share their first, non-paparazzi kiss in public, but they ultimately decided against it—leaving people like Swift, among others, with their mouths hanging wide open.

When Cabello and Mendes leaned in for a kiss during their performance, celebs lost their minds in unison. Bebe Rexha was caught on camera shouting, “kiss, kiss, kiss!” Sophie Turner and the Jonas Brothers all held their hands up and screamed in anticipation. Swift , who is a close friend of Cabello’s, held a hand to her mouth, gasping at the the build-up and appeared to murmur, “Oh, shit.” (Head over to the MTV VMAs official Twitter page to see more videos like this.)

Taylor Swift had been watching the whole Cabello-Mendes scene go down with her friends and collaborators Todrick Hall and Dexter Mayfield, who worked on the video for “You Need to Calm Down.” When the video won awards for Video of the Year” and “Video for Good,” Swift brought Hall, Mayfield, and several of the drag queens who performed in the video onstage with her. Swift reportedly refused to perform on the award show unless MTV gave all of the drag queens awards, too. Hall and Mayfield also did some gasping during the “Señorita” showcase.

But Cabello and Mendes didn’t give in. They ended up hugging and walking offstage together, leaving everyone hanging in anticipation. It sounds like most people, particularly Joe Jonas, aren’t going to forget that they wanted to see a kiss. He shared a video of his reaction and wrote in the caption, “#VMAs are over, but we’re still waiting for that kiss tho ? @camila_cabello @shawnmendes.”





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Taylor Swift Gets Candid About Politics, Privilege, and How the Pop Industry Can Feel Like 'The Hunger Games'


Taylor Swift sat down with the Guardian for her first major U.K. interview in years, and over the course of the conversation, she opened up about pretty much everything fans have wanted to ask her over the last several years. Swift went into detail about her political views and why it took her so long to speak out about them; she explained why she’s been so protective of her relationship with actor Joe Alwyn; and she even shared her thoughts on the pop music industry and how it can feel like The Hunger Games sometimes.

During the interview, Swift focuses a lot on 2016—a rough year for her, during which she had some public feuds with Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, and Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. She had previously said in interviews that “an artist fails when they lose their self-awareness,” and she’s asked if she feels she’d made the same mistake during her career.

“I definitely think that sometimes you don’t realize how you’re being perceived,” she said. “Pop music can feel like it’s The Hunger Games, and like we’re gladiators. And you can really lose focus of the fact that that’s how it feels because that’s how a lot of stan [fan] Twitter and tabloids and blogs make it seem – the overanalyzing of everything makes it feel really intense.”

From there on, Swift launches into even more details about aspects of her career and her time in public view. The entire piece is full of nuance, and you can read it here. In the meantime, here’s what we learned about Swift:

Why she’s protective of her relationship with Joe Alywn:“I’ve learned that if I do [talk about the relationship], people think it’s up for discussion, and our relationship isn’t up for discussion,” she said. “If you and I were having a glass of wine right now, we’d be talking about it—but it’s just that it goes out into the world. That’s where the boundary is, and that’s where my life has become manageable. I really want to keep it feeling manageable.”

How she overcome one of her toughest years:“You can either stand there and let the wave crash into you, and you can try as hard as you can to fight something that’s more powerful and bigger than you… Or you can dive under the water, hold your breath, wait for it to pass and while you’re down there, try to learn something. Why was I in that part of the ocean? There were clearly signs that said: Rip tide! Undertow! Don’t swim! There are no lifeguards!”

“Why was I there? Why was I trusting people I trusted?” she said. “Why was I letting people into my life the way I was letting them in? What was I doing that caused this?”

What she’s learned about her own privilege:Swift said that she’s come to understand “a lot about how my privilege allowed me to not have to learn about white privilege. I didn’t know about it as a kid, and that is privilege itself, you know? And that’s something that I’m still trying to educate myself on every day. How can I see where people are coming from, and understand the pain that comes with the history of our world?”

Why she sued radio DJ David Mueller, who touched her ass at a meet-and–greet event.“Having dealt with a few of them, narcissists basically subscribe to a belief system that they should be able to do and say whatever the hell they want, whenever the hell they want to,” she said. “And if we—as anyone else in the world, but specifically women—react to that, well, we’re not allowed to. We’re not allowed to have a reaction to their actions.”



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Taylor Swift's Diary Reveals How She Really Felt After the 2009 VMAs


It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade since Kanye West hopped up on stage and interrupted a young Taylor Swift as she was receiving her 2009 MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video for “You Belong With Me.”

The “I’mma let you finish” moment, when West declared that Beyoncé had the best video of the year for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It),” is now one of the most famous moments in recent pop culture history—and it’s had 10 years of ripple effects, including West’s song “Famous” and the ensuing drama with Swift and his wife, Kim Kardashian.

But we’re just now learning new details about what exactly went down that night, thanks to excerpts from Swift’s diary released with the deluxe version of her new album, Lover, as well as an oral history from Billboard published ahead of Monday night’s VMAs.

“If you had told me that one of the biggest stars in music was going to jump up onstage and announce that he thought I shouldn’t have won on live television, I would’ve said, ‘That stuff doesn’t really happen in real life.’ Well… apparently…. It does,” Swift wrote in her diary at the time.

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According to Billboard‘s oral history of the incident, MTV producers were just as shocked as we (and the audience at Radio City Music Hall) were to see West jump on on stage during Swift’s acceptance speech. On TV, we all watched Beyoncé mouth, “Oh, Kanye,” but we didn’t see Pink later confront him during a commercial break.

“During the commercial break, he went back down to his seat ,and Pink walked up to him and got in his face,” then-MTV senior correspondent Jesse Montgomery told Billboard. “I wasn’t close enough to hear the conversation, but she was pointing in his face and nodding her head back and forth, and giving him her two cents about how fucked up this was and then stormed off. Then he was sitting there next to Amber Rose with his arm around her, and you could feel everyone in Radio City glaring at his back.”

Taylor Swift's Diary Reveals How She Really Felt After the 2009 VMAs
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