Seventeen Prom helps to narrow your search for the perfect prom gown, providing guidelines based on your body shape.

Extra Tall beauties are best suited in ruched styles (left). The gathered material hugs the body, accentuating those legs! Long legs are also well-showcased in gowns with high-low hemlines (right). The short front to show ‘em off and the long length in the back to balance.

For Petites, Seventeen recommends a mermaid style gown (left); also known as a trumpet skirt. I must say, I have to disagree with this one. Short gals will likely be cutting off a good chunk of that mermaid-style skirt. What a waste of money!

Another option,  is the oh-so-popular bubble skirt (right). Typically found on a short gown, this style is perfect for petites! A short gown in general is usually a good pick for the vertically challenged (elongates those legs!) as long as the gown hits at least three inches above the knee. Anything longer just looks matronly.

Curvy Girls can bring attention to the bust and shoulders with a one-shoulder gown (left). One shoulder strapped and the other bare, draws the eye up and is simultaneously slimming!

Also keep a look out fora-line styles, particularly the empire waistline (right). A tight fitting bodice that flares just under the bust line helps to camouflage all those curves you don’t want recognized while accentuating those you do!

Pear-shaped like the majority of women in the United States? The new trend, grecian styles, work well for us! Jeweled necklines that are typically thick and form a choker around the neck are the hottest trend for both casual and formal wear. Lucky us!

Tiered skirts with layers of fabric are also a plus. Maybe it’s the optical illusion created by so much fabric, but this style is a hip minimizer and bust maximizer…turning your pear-shaped body into the coveted coke bottle instantaneously.

It is probably my most favorite commercial on the tube these days…it’s an E-Trade advertisement featuring talking babies. It is one of a series of advertisements starring some oh-so-cute tots and it is now the center of a lawsuit, thanks to Queen Lindsay.

Lindsay Lohan is suing the financial corporation, insisting that one of the babies — who happens to be named Lindsay — was modeled after her. The baby is referred to as a milk-a-holic (hilarious). Wonder what would give her the idea that the baby was modeled after her? The ad shows a baby boy apologizing to his girlfriend via webcam for not calling the night before. The baby girl(friend) asks, “So that milk-a-holic Lindsay wasn’t over?”

She wants $100 million for her pain and suffering. Lohan’s lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, said the actress has the same single-name recognition as Oprah or Madonna. What? Are you kidding Lindsay? First of all, there are millions of Lindsays in the world. How many Oprahs or Madonnas do you know? Secondly, don’t flatter yourself, your name shouldn’t even be in the same sentence with showbiz icons.

Grow up…you are such a baby.

Introducing a new eco-friendly line of bridesmaids gowns, bridal manufacturer Alfred Angelo jumps on the green bandwagon this Spring. They call it the new way of doing bridesmaids, with the clever tag line “Recycle, Reuse, Remaid!” The new line offers fashionable choices in comfy and eco-friendly fabrics like cotton and silk.

The new styles are also fashioned to be used again and again. So many times old bridesmaid dresses hang in the closet, never to be revisited again. But these gowns convert to simple Spring/Summer looks with ease. Offering over 25 color and print combinations, Purely Alfred Angelo is sure to fit into your wedding plans!

After spilling his guts to Playboy, John Meyer has offered Jessica Simpson an apology for his disclosures concerning their sex life, via email. What a jerk, right? Jessica opens up to Oprah about John Meyer, the “mom jeans” thing and her weight on today’s episode. She doesn’t seem to be inclined to accept the emailed apology, she didn’t hit reply.

I don’t know why she is so pissed off anyway, he was very complimentary about her abilities in the boudoir. He called her sexual napalm for god’s sake! Napalm? Who thinks of that? In the Playboy interview, John also refers to Jessica’s bedroom behavior as crack cocaine to him. Really John? The entire rant on Jessica seemed to stem from crack cocaine, but it was however, very complimentary to her. Who doesn’t wanna be sexual napalm?

If you’ve been keeping up with the latest season of ABC’s The Bachelor, you may be thinking that it seems more like an episode of Jerry Springer than quality family programming. The latest publicity stunt involves 25-year-old Tenley from Oregon. In an advertisement for an upcoming episode, Tenley says to Jake, “I’m pregnant.”

It is, in fact, a stunt. The clever editing by ABC’s staff left audiences thinking that her words were true. It was revealed on Monday night that Tenley was only joking with Jake. This is just one of the low-blows the reality show has given this season in order to attract audiences.

In last week’s episode, Rozlyn Papa is accused of an “inappropriate relationship” with one of the producers that gets her eliminated from the show and the producer fired. Again, some cleverly edited promos lead audiences to believe that the “inappropriate relationship” may have involved two women in the house.

An anonymous bachelorette said the network would do anything to create drama. She told Radar Online, “You have to be so careful on that show because someone could step on your foot and they’ll make it look like you broke your toe! ABC will do anything to create drama. Even if they were just cuddling, the producers can easily make it look like something more.”

This morning’s edition of ABC’s Good Morning America gave us all a better understanding of how truly twisted Heidi Montag’s thinking is. After undergoing ten procedures in ONE DAY, Montag proclaims that she is not addicted to plastic surgery, saying, “I’m not addicted. If I were addicted, I would have had 10 plastic surgeries.” Wait, so you had ten procedures, but not ten surgeries…ahhh, I get it now! Retard.

Montag says she “just wants to be as beautiful as she can be, inside and out.” And if that means DD boobs, so be it. The starlet says that her breasts still aren’t big enough.

The iphone has taken over yet another avenue…prom dress shopping! Sherri Hill, one of the industry’s leading designers,  has created an iphone app that gets consumers up close and personal to every gown in the line!

The app features a detailed look at each style offered by Sherri Hill, along with a store locator to find your favorite style near you! The app also allows for facebook connect…share your favorites with all your FB friends!

You can locate the Sherri Hill prom gown app in the itunes store by searching for Sherri Hill. And the best part? It’s free!

I literally had to do a double take when I passed by the tabloid section at the supermarket. The headline read, “New Look for Kate Gosselin”, but could that be her?

The picture splashed across People Magazine’s January issue looks more like a photoshoot for one of Hollywood’s newest starlets. But, it is in fact, Kate Gosselin. It appears she is attempting to start her life over, a life without hubby Jon Gosselin, and she starts with this awesome makeover and an interview with People.

“It’s good to have hair again,” Kate tells People. “I never thought I’d have short hair for as long as I did. I feel like this is a fresh start, a fresh me, a fresh life.”

Later in the interview, she refers to herself as the new “Kate Clean Slate.”

“I’m rebuilding. There’s no option for this not to be a good year. Now I get to start over with a new self and new goals.”

The saga of Leno vs. Conan continues and last night, Jimmy Kimmel got in on the action. Blasting Leno on his very own show, Kimmel continuously ripped Jay Leno for his return to the 11:35 time slot on NBC.

Kimmel appeared on Jay’s show during a segment they call “10 at 10″. Kimmel was asked ten questions, most of his answers were direct shots at Jay and the surrounding controversy. But, perhaps the most scathing moment comes when Leno asked Kimmel what his favorite prank was.

“I told a guy that five years from now, I’m going to give you my show, and then I gave it to him and took it back almost instantly,” Kimmel said, drawing groans and horrified laughter from Leno’s audience. “I think he works at Fox or something now.”

At that point, Kimmel was rolling. “Ever order anything off the TV?” Leno asked.

“You mean the way NBC ordered your show off the TV?” Kimmel replied.

When asked about strippers, Kimmel said:

“I don’t like strippers because you have a phony relationship with them for money. Sort of like the way you and Conan were on ‘The Tonight Show’ together passing the torch? You know what I’m saying.”

Leno seemed to play along as Kimmel kept nailing him. It ended with Kimmel getting in one last shot.

“Listen, Jay, Conan and I have children,” he said. “All you have to take care of is cars. We have lives to lead here. You have $800 million. For God’s sake, leave our shows alone!”

The dreaded much anticipated return of American Idol is finally here. Hooray. (I hope the sarcasm is evident.)

In it’s ninth season, the wildly popular FOX series begins its quest to find the most talented singers in the nation and bring them together, on one stage, to compete for the coveted title…The American Idol. The two-night, four hour premiere holds auditions in Boston and Atlanta. But don’t expect to see Ellen DeGeneres. She won’t join the judging platform until February, when the tryouts are over and the real fun begins. (Again, I hope the sarcasm is evident.)

Simon, Randy and Kara DioGuardi will however be joined a slew of celebrity guest judges including Victoria Beckham, Mary J. Blige, Kristin Chenoweth, Neil Patrick Harris, Joe Jonas, Avril Lavigne, Katy Perry and Shania Twain.

This ninth season does hold some excitement, along with the addition of Ellen and the absence of Paula, Simon Cowell has recently announced his departure from the show. Simon will finish out this season and then move onto a new venture, The X Factor.