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The Oscars are over, award hooplah has died down and everyone is on to the next sensationalized news. Well, not exactly everyone. Howard Stern, Sirius radio shock jock, seems to still have his eye on one particular nominee, and not in a good way. On his show Monday, Stern and co-host Robin Quivers had mouthful to say about 'Precious' star and Best Actress Oscar nominee Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibie's future in Hollywood.

"There's the most enormous, fat black chick I've ever seen. She is enormous. Everyone's pretending she's a part of show business and she's never going to be in another movie," Stern said. "She should have gotten the Best Actress award, because she's never going to have another shot. What movie is she gonna be in?"

Although Sidibe, 26, does have a new Showtime series 'The C Word' and a big-screen appearance opposite Zoe Kravitz in the drama 'Yelling to the Sky,' lined up, there is truth in Stern's words. This might get a lot women upset, but if we're honest, the source of anger isn't really from what Stern said, but how he said it.

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Celebrity makeup artist Ashunta Sheriff is the ultimate resource for everything beauty. Sheriff was on the scene at the Oscars Sunday night assisting TV Guide with its countdown to the biggest award show in Hollywood. We asked Sheriff to lend her expertise and help BV come up with the winners for the "Best in Beauty" at the Oscars. Find out which of your favorite stars is taking home a BV Beauty Award from the 82nd annual Academy Awards Sunday night.

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The red carpet is the perfect place to debut an eye-popping beauty statement. Gabourey Sidibe loves to rock vibrant hues on the red carpet, but we rarely see the curvaceous cutie experimenting with color when it comes to her makeup. For the Oscars on Sunday, we hope she gives us some alluring eyes.

"It would be wonderful to see her with a bright shadow like Milani's Runway Eyes Shadows #08 Shamrock," say representatives from Milani Cosmetics, who suggest slightly wetting your makeup brush first then dabbing your brush into the shadow for a very colorful impact. To create further drama, we suggest that Sidibe uses Milani's Infinite Liquid Eyeliner in Eternal along the upper lashline to really make her eyes stand out. Remember a little eye color goes a long way, and the area of the eye that has the most color is where people will look first.

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Makeup is supposed to enhance your appearance, but make one wrong move and that eyeliner or bronzer can quickly make you look worse instead of better. Top makeup artists Tayaba Jafri, of Laura Mercier, and Amy Zdunowski-Roeder, of FACE atelier, have offered BV some tips on how to avoid some common makeup sins.

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BV: What is a common mistake some women make when applying concealer, and what are your tips to avoid the "raccoon effect" that some make a mistake doing when applying concealer around the eyes?

Zdunowski-Roeder: Rihanna is a naturally beautiful girl! As we can see in this picture, her concealer is not only applied around her whole eye, but too far down her cheek, which doesn't blend with her skin-toned foundation. Avoid this by dabbing the concealer on the inner corner under your eye and blending it downward to the recessed area under the eye. Blending is critical and the result will be a brighter more composed overall look.

Jafri: In this photo, the makeup on her face looks sheer, and her concealer area has a masque effect, not just because the color is too light, but there's also way too much. Concealer is the most over-used product in cosmetics. Usually the color chosen is too light. Truly, less is more when it comes to concealer. Its best to chose a concealer that is high in pigment so you use even less to cover and correct. I suggest that before applying concealer, try using a sheer brightener such as, Laura Mercier's Secret Brightener ($30, www.lauramercier.com).

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Sade proves on the April cover of Ebony that there is nothing old about 51. The 'Soldier of Love' singer looks amazing and ageless in her cover photo, but the magazine has generated some internet buzz because one of the Brit's signature features seems to have been airbrushed away. Her freckled fans are up in arms. It's not as if she wouldn't have looked just as beautiful with her nose and cheeks covered in the familiar dots.

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Leona Lewis showed up at Monday night's Elle Style Awards in London with out-to-there false eyelashes, shimmery eye shadow, and bright red lipstick to complement her jaunty beret and side bun. Was the British songstress giving good face?

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The beauty message for next fall is this: Stake your claim and make it strong. Whether you're rocking bold strokes of charcoal like the models at the Catherine Malandrino show or soft blushes of pinks, as seen on models at Philip Lim, the look and the choice, say makeup experts, is yours to play with. And they want you to play -- where the wild things are and with pretty, sexy, looks.

"I see makeup for fall," says Napoleon Perdis, key makeup artist at Elise Overland. "This woman is not afraid of lipsticks, shadows and lengthy, natural-looking lashes."

At Derek Lam, makeup master Tom Pecheux created a look that recalled primal instincts by channeling Native American beauty: charcoal-dusted eyes with a touch of bronze and berry-stained lips

"You shouldn't try at home," he says of the look. "This look is for the show, but for your own use you'd want something different and more paired down."

So what can you expect to see come fall? A push of greys, blues, corals and pinks. It's a mishmash of spring and fall shades. You'll find a twist on the smoky eye (shadows swept within the inner corners only or deeply rimmed eyes), dark liner with thick stripes of gray, and on the opposite spectrum, light pink nudes on eyes and lips.

Check out our favorite looks to rock next fall.

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