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On Friday, JLO Beauty shared an intimate clip of their founder Jennifer Lopez in their Instagram Stories. In the short glimpse into her life, fans could see Lopez enjoying a very bubbly bubble bath and modeling her incredibly smooth skin.The 52-year-old actress released a skincare line made with olive oil, and often presents her own youthful complexion as evidence that these products do what they promise. In the tub, she smiles for the camera, glowing from every angle. JLO BeautyInstagram A lot has happened for Lopez this year already, even...

Prime Video's new show The Summer I Turned Pretty was given the greenlight for its second season before it even premiered on Friday, June 17. That might mean viewers haven't had a chance to binge the show and get obsessed with it, but it sure sounds like they will.Here's everything to know about the series adaptation of Jenny Han’s YA novel The Summer I Turned Pretty and its Season 2. Some spoilers ahead.Will there be a season 2 of The Summer I Turned Pretty?Yes, Deadline reports that the second season...

Being an Instagram boyfriend/husband is a serious job. You have to get your partner’s vision. You have to get the angles right. The lighting. The perspective. Do you know when to crouch down to elongate your lover’s figure? When to step back to show that the backdrop matches the outfit? This kind of work requires an attention to detail and an intuition for subtle direction—perhaps a “look over your shoulder” or a “fix your hair on that side” or a “let’s do it again, your shoes were cut off.” It’s...

Jon Snow’s story is not over yet. HBO is reportedly in the early development stages of a live-action Game of Thrones spin-off focused on Jon Snow, per The Hollywood Reporter. Kit Harington, who portrayed the moody hero through the original series’ eight seasons, would reprise the role if the show moves forward.HBO and Harington’s reps have not yet addressed the reports after THR broke the news on Thursday night, but three years after the epic fantasy series took its final bow (to many viewers’ dissatisfaction), fans are likely eager to...

Ana de Armas is going Blonde. The Knives Out and No Time to Die star will portray Marilyn Monroe in a drama directed by Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James) that’s headed to Netflix this fall. Set to depict an unflinching fictional portrait of the Hollywood icon’s life, the project has been highly anticipated ever since de Armas’s casting was announced in 2019. Now, with its premiere quickly approaching, we’re rounding up what to know about the film so far. What is Blonde about?Here’s the official synopsis from Netflix:...

Is it too soon to announce the best new album of 2022? Maybe so, but now that Beyoncé has officially signaled her return to the airwaves, we can all bet good money that B7 will top the charts within hours of its drop—and all the best-of lists to follow. Unlike with her earlier surprise album releases, Queen B allowed fans to gird their loins a little early by sharing the release date for her next record, Renaissance: July 29. Below, everything we know about the news stirring up the Beyhive.When...

It’s no doubt that throughout the last two years of the pandemic, we have altered our relationship to ambition. Back in February, the New York Times dubbed this “The Age of Anti-Ambition,” describing a culture in which “the primary emotion that a job elicits right now is the determination to endure.” Several young, high-profile athletes publicly chose to take a step back from their careers to prioritize their mental health and well-being. Millions have been forced to and opted to leave their jobs; even our aesthetic choices are seen as...

Social media star Scarlet May is feeling confident for her game of Song Association. Scarlet rose to fame during COVID-19 when she made TikToks not only to have fun, but also to make the app more accessible to the deaf community. Scarlet shares her favorite type of content to create, her favorite thing about social media, and signs artists like Rihanna, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift. Make sure to “watch with your eyes and not your ears” as Scarlet attempts to beat ELLE's buzzer. This content is created and maintained...

Betty Gilpin has what perhaps could be called character dysmorphia: the feeling that, as an actress, her body isn’t right for the roles she wants to play. That’s not exactly a groundbreaking notion in Hollywood; actresses have complained for decades about looks-based typecasting and its correlation to the glut of two-dimensional women onscreen. But Gilpin—the 35-year-old actress known for Netflix’s GLOW and, most recently, the Starz drama Gaslit, which just aired its finale Sunday night—is one of the relative few airing her confusion over this industry pigeon-holing in real time....

Courtesy “If you want it, you make it happen,” says Jenny Mollen. “You fucking fight.” True to her words, the writer and actress didn’t take no for an answer when it came to releasing her first-ever novel, City of Likes. In fact, she spent the bulk of the past four years shopping out the social media-centric satire to publishing houses, disappointed yet undeterred by each and every rejection letter she received. Having released two personal essay collections prior, “I don’t think anybody wanted fiction from me,” she says. “People told...

No one knows exactly what's about to happen with Beyoncé, but fans are pretty sure it's something big. On Friday, June 10, all of her profile photos on her social media accounts suddenly disappeared. Now, when you go to the musical artist's Instagram page, her profile photo is a blank grey figure. She also hadn't been posting since March and then suddenly dropped a bunch of new pictures of her fantastic fashion on the timeline that same week.Some fans then noticed that on Beyoncé's website, a funny thing happens when...

In November 2020, musician Mickey Guyton went down in history as the first Black woman to earn a Grammy nomination in a country category for her hit single, “Black Like Me.” She released the song, which she then performed at the awards show, as a way to help people heal from and process the murder of George Floyd that same summer.However, right before she reached the spotlight, Guyton had nearly walked away from her dreams of country music success. Now, in a new video with ELLE.com, she opens up about...

Harry Styles has a few hotly anticipated projects coming out soon, like his film with girlfriend Olivia Wilde, Don't Worry Darling. He's also starring in a new film by director Michael Grandage based on a book by Bethan Roberts called My Policeman. The story is set in the 1950s and it focuses on a love triangle between Tom, Styles' character, and his two lovers: Marion and Patrick.Here's what we know about the film so far.What's the plot of My Policeman?In the book of the same name, My Policeman centers on...