Since Paramore are playing a string of festivals right now, it seems like a great time to post Hayley Williams’ summer festival fashion and beauty essentials, which she shared with Stylelist.

Jane Iredale Tinted Moisturizer & SPF 15 in Ivory ($36.00). “I wear this stuff year round. It evens out my skin tone, moisturizes, and it smells like roses.”

Likewise Facial Moisturizer and SPF ($34.99). “Just recently picked this stuff up and I love it so far! It’s got zinc and soy in it and it’s super mattifying… Which is great cause I’ll be sweaty. Very sweaty.”

American Apparel Baby Rib Crop T ($20.00). “So excited about these! I only bought them in white so I can customize easily with a black sharpie. I don’t typically show much skin… Even in the summer… But now I can wear these and pretend to be Jennifer Love Hewitt from “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”

“Bleached/re-dyed/customized denim like my Lazy Bones custom overall shorts by Audrey Kitching. Best part about this is you can do it yourself! Go get some old denim shorts, bleach em, dye em however you’d like and even add studs. D.I.Y. life!”

Maybelline’s Blackest Black Waterproof Mascara ($4.24). “You know, the pink tube with the green top. I wear it in my eyebrows cause I like having those black Madonna brows! But if you wanna be traditional and wear it on your lashes, there’s nothing better. Sometimes you just can’t beat the classics.”

(note: it does not seem that the waterproof formula is available in Blackest Black. If you want waterproof, you can go for for the Very Black color)

Selena Gomez out in London on July 5, 2011 – photo: Optic Photos, PacificCoastNews

While out and about in London promoting her new album When the Sun Goes Down and movie ‘Monte Carlo’, Selena Gomez was spotted sporting a casual yet chic outfit. Here she is wearing the fringed AllSaints ‘Capri Cropped Top’ ($110) with earthy leaf earrings, totally complimenting her Alternative Apparel ‘The Maxi Skirt’ in black, which you can pick up for only $58. She carried an MCM Heritage Medium Bowler Satchel ($1,100.00).

Scout Taylor Compton Twitpic

Scout Taylor-Compton is wearing a t-shirt with the artwork from legendary hardcore punk band Black Flag’s 1980 EP Jealous Again. She glams up her look with a hat, fur vest, and dark makeup.

Black Flag – $15.50
exact

Go Jane – $35.10
similar

Hat Attack – $29.99
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Paramore at Optimus Alive 2011 Music Festival – PR Photos

At the Putte I Parken festival today in Sweden [note: photo replaced with one from a different show], Hayley Williams wore a pair of Split Leg Skinny Jeans from Tripp NYC which have each leg a different color. You can buy them for $54.00 at Karmaloop or $56.00 at Trash and Vaudeville. This pair has previously been sold at Hot Topic where they were only around $40.00 but they are currently out of stock (they do have a black and leopard pair). She’s wearing the same homemade B.O.Y. t-shirt that she debuted at Leeds Festival last August.

Putte I Parken photos

Juliet Simms on July 4, 2011 - photo from her Twitter

I hope you all enjoyed your Fourth of July weekend!  Juliet Simms showed of her American pride on the 4th in an oversized Rolling Stones t-shirt and a pair of American flag leggings. When asked where she got them, she responded: “Ebay baby..just type in American Flag pants :)” If you search American Flag pants on eBay,  you’ll also wind up with some baggy sweat pants a la Rex Kwon Do from Napoleon Dynamite, but Juliet is wearing this pair of leggings for $38.99.

Juliet may also go red white and blue with her hair.  She just re-dyed the tips of her hair blue and then tweeted: “Can someone bring red hair dye tomorrow? I have blue now and wanna USA my hawirz up..presents and gifties to whoever does.”

eBay – $38.99

similar tee – $30.00

me and Ash Costello at Warped Tour in San Antonio, TX on June 26, 2011

Last weekend I interviewed New Years Day lead singer Ash Costello at Warped Tour. She spills about her recent tattoos and plans for her next, why she see band’s outfits as an important part of the show, and ripping all her favorite tights.

New Years Day are playing Warped Tour through July 10th and are following it up with their own West Coast tour. It’s been a while since the band’s 2007 debut LP My Dear, but it’s safe to say that New Years Day are back. They just put out their new EP The Mechanical Heart on Hollywood Waste Records and released a music video for the lead single “Two in the Chest, One in the Head.”

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Choice Quotes:

“I take clothes really seriously because that’s the way I express myself.”

“I sold my iPod before Warped Tour to buy new shoes.”

“Sometimes I worry that [my clothes] say ‘don’t talk to me.'”

“I’ll straight-up wear the most uncomfortable outfit if it’s in the name of self-expression and fashion.”

“What I love about Warped Tour fashion-wise is that people come here and they express themselves fully.”

read the full inteview

left: DEV at the MMVAs on June 19, 2011 by Toro magazine
right: DEV at Jet in Las Vegas on July 1, 2011 by spyonvegas

It’s no secret that DEV is a huge fan of Hellz Bellz. She was once an intern at the label and sported 26 different outfits from Hellz Bellz in her “Booty Bounce” music video. And since she’s worn so many of their clothes, it’s no surprise that she wore the same dress twice.

DEV wore the Bedtime Stories Dress in Floral at the MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto on June 19th. Although this is the more feminine version of the dress, it comes off as the more “rock star” look since she’s paired it withe a leather biker vest, leather hoop earrings, and pyramid stud bracelets. She wore the the same dress in black while celebrating her birthday with a performance at JET Nightclub in Las Vegas on July 1st. She goes for a simple, sophisticated look with thin gold hoops and a clutch purse.

Which look do you like better – colorful and edgy or basic black?

Hellz Bellz – $95.00

Hellz Bellz – $95.00

Pixie Lott on the July 2011 cover of Company Magazine

Lipsy – £45.00

River Island – sold out

Galibardy – £18.00

Pixie Lott appears on the cover of Company Magazine’s July 2011 issue wearing clothes from her own Pixie Lott Collection at Lipsy London. The 20-year-old singer reveals that she loves borrowing bodysuits that her mother used to wear when she was Pixie’s age. Regarding her celebrity inspirations, she states: “My style icons will always be Edie Sedwick and Brigitte Bardot but if I could raid anyone’s wardrobe it’d probably be Alexa Chung’s. I love the way she dresses, she always looks so cool.”

The British singer spent two months in Los Angeles recording her second album and says she loved shopping in America, but prefers the more unique styles of people in the UK: “British fashion is definitely the best because it can be so individual and quirky – it’s more forward. Americans are more glamourous, especially in LA, but you see so many more cool cats walking around London.”

She shows off that quirky look on the cover with clashing floral prints – a Pixie for Lipsy Bandeau Ruffle Playsuit and Cream Print Platform Wedge Sandals from River Island, toughened up with Galibardy’s Roaring Tiger Ring.

Pixie Lott in Company Magazine July 2011

In the spread she wears two more dresses from her Lipsy collection: the Lace Trim Sundress (left) and All Over Studded Dress (right) with Moda in Pelle Pollyanna Sandals in Natural.

Lipsy – £55.00

Lipsy – £55.00

Moda in Pelle – £89.95

save £10 off of a £50 purchase at Lipsy with the code COMPANY10 through July 10th.

scans of the article at iheartpixie.org

Christina Grimmie interviewed by MTV on June 13, 2011

17-year-old singer and pianist Christina Grimmie became known through her YouTube channel zeldaxlove64, where she posts covers of popular artists from Katy Perry to Justin Bieber. She released her debut album of original songs, Find Me, on June 14, 2011 on iTunes. She will be opening for Selena Gomez on tour this summer.

In a recent interview with MTV News, she wore this Shredded Varsity Sweater which is available at Nasty Gal for $58.00.

Christina tells MTV “My fashion is punk rock. I wear skinny jeans and t-shirts all the time. Even this shirt is a little different for me. I’m trying to get into other things, but the heart of me is t-shirt and jeans and my sneakers.”

Sierra Kusterbeck uses her wisdom teeth as plugs

When I had my wisdom teeth removed a few years ago, I was asked whether I wanted to keep the teeth. The choice was obvious – why would I want to throw away something as awesome as my own teeth! Of course the next question is, what do you do with a tooth? And it occurred to me that it would be really awesome to have them silver-plated and turned into jewelry. I still haven’t done that, mostly because I am lazy but I also because I have no idea how one even goes about finding someone to silver-plate a tooth.

Its seems I’m not alone in thinking that wisdom teeth would make great jewelry. Sierra Kusterbeck skipped the step of having them made into jewelry and just put her wisdom teeth into her stretched earlobes as plugs. Responding to criticism over her odd choice of jewelry, Sierra wrote: “If you’ve had your wisdom teeth taken out, you know how it’s the opposite of cheap. This is basically the most expensive jewelry I own!”

Sierra did of course sanitize the teeth before putting them in her ears, but they still aren’t the most practical choice of jewelry. I’m no expert on stretching, but I’ve heard that using plugs which are not round is bad for your ears since the pressure is not applied evenly. And there is nothing to hold the teeth in place. In fact, Sierra says “they fell out from rolling around on stage too much.” I hope she didn’t lose them, because they still could make really awesome plugs if she had them put into a setting.

Ke$ha is also a fan of wearing teeth, though she has an extra resource to tap – she’s asked her fans to send her their teeth. It started with one bizarre gift. She told Rolling Stone magazine “Somebody sent me their tooth, which I now wear as an earring. It’s a molar, I think. I love it when people send me body parts.” Ke$ha decided to take things further, posting on her Twitter a call for fans to send her their teeth along with a PO Box to send them to.

“I’ve received 1 tooth from a fan. I made it into a neclace. But now I really wanna make a fan tooth necklace to wear to an awards show.”

“So. What I’m getting at is please send me your teeth. I’m dead serious. I need your teeth.”

“Wisdom teeth?? Cmon. Yall got some of those laying around.”

It seems to have worked. Ke$ha now has a stockpile of teeth, but still needs to get them made into something wearable.

“THANK U!!My amazeballz fans haveSOfar sent in teeth coming to 164 teeth total. Oh…and one cut off dread.”

“i recycle bodyparts. im looking at all my crazybeautiful fans teeth right now!! i got a box of em and ive never been so excited !!!”

human tooth jewelry by Polly van der Glas - etsy.com/shop/vanderglas

Two Etsy sellers have taken to crafting human teeth into jewelry with very different aesthetics. Polly van der Glas sets her pieces in smooth silver bands that give a modern look and let the teeth speak for themselves. She says “Teeth are sentimental, recycled, beautiful and somehow unusual. We see teeth every day, but in this context they are incredible.” Loved to Death plays up the perceived creepiness of the teeth by adorning them with intricate filigree in a gothic Victorian style.

human tooth jewelry by Loved to Death - etsy.com/shop/lovedtodeath

What do you think – is turning teeth into jewelry awesome or vile? Would you wear your own teeth? Or someone else’s?