Modern Beauty Trends: In: Health Goth Princesses

Bette Midler isn’t pleased about that Hocus Pocus remake.
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“I never know how much of what I say is true.” —Bette Midler

Bette Midler

That “Cheap” Hocus Pocus Remake

Disney Channel is remaking Halloween classic Hocus Pocus as a cable movie, even though no one specifically asked for it. Bette Midler, the reason the original is such a classic in the first place, certainly didn’t ask for it, and she isn’t looking forward to it. Speaking to reporters during her annual Hulaween bash, she said she suspects the remake would be “cheap” and that she can’t imagine who would play such a broad character without making a mess of it. "My character is very, very broad, and I don’t know who they’re going to find to play that,” she said. To be fair, have you seen any Disney Channel original movies lately?

A Real-Life Princess and the Pea

Princess Dress Codes

Being a royal seems like a dream to most of us, but actual Princess Martha Louise of Norway had a hard time of it growing up. “I felt I was not good enough, did not understand why people looked up to me just because I was a princess,” she recently told Sweden’s Expressen newspaper. “I had not done anything, I had been born with that status.” So, to see if she was truly deserving of the status, she actually tried to pass the test from the fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea.” She literally put a pea under her mattress and was freaked out when she didn't get a bruise from sleeping on it. The princess has since adjusted to her status and found a career as an author outside her royal status. Meanwhile, Kate Middleton wasn’t born into royalty, but it suits her well. Though she’s not afraid to shake things up. She recently donned a slightly health goth–ish track suit for a quick tennis exercise. As for potential future royal Meghan Markle, since there is no official school for how to be a royal, training has apparently fallen to her beau, Prince Harry, at least according to the gossip pages. Her final test probably will not involve a mattress and a pea.

Rihanna

Kylie Jenner

Since its launch, Rihanna’s cosmetics line, Fenty Beauty, has been a blockbuster both at the cash register and on social media. While there’s no equivalent of, say, the Billboard charts for makeup, we can gauge how much the line has been talked about. In fact, we can actually put a dollar sign on the worth of all those Twitter mentions and media write-ups: $72 million in one month, according to a Tribe Dynamics cosmetics report. That’s basically the equivalent of eight minutes of ad time during the Super Bowl. In fact, the launch means it outpaced the Internet’s other favorite celebrity cosmetics company: Kylie Jenner’s Kylie Cosmetics.