Trend alert: true blue @ the Oscars

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The Oscars were last night and from the Kodak Theatre to the after parties, one colour stood out on the red carpets -blue.It seems as if everyone was wearing blue, including many of the nights' biggest stars.

 

 From 'Precious' star and best actress nominee Gabourey Sidibe wore a cobalt blue Marchesa to her co-star and Best Supporting Actress winner Mo'Nique in royal blue, it was all over.

Check out the rest of the blue parade after the cut. 

UPDATED:Islandista on the rise: Nicki Minaj

Guess who's an islandista?

That's right, Young Money's sole femcee, the Barbie-fied Nicki Minaj - known in her former life as Onika Maraj, a dougla and the daughter of two Trinis from Queens. Onika Maraj... it sound like a Trini gyul yuh know ent? Something very familiar and Trini-ish about the name.

Check the vid with her repping T&T below. (NSFW)



Following in the footsteps (well, hopefully aside from the beating Korean nail technicians t'ing) of fellow Trini-descended NY femcee Foxy Brown, Nicki is very serious about bringing the glory days of femcees back, telling MTV:

"With the album, I think it's more important that people get accustomed to seeing a female rapper again. Before I drop an album, people need to come out and see. People don't even know what a female rapper does. We're so not used to seeing it. It's nonexistent in categories. We don't get nominated. I need to work [the people] up to accepting a female rapper again and accepting my style and all of that — then the album will come."

While speaking about her song 'Envy' to MTV's Mixtape Daily, Nicki also declared:

Mariah Carey parties it up in Barbados

So pop diva Mariah Carey spent a few days in Barbados last week celebrating her 39th 'life anniversary' with husband Nick Cannon and her whole entourage.




They flew in by private jet and stayed at one of the island's most exclusive West Coast villas (the villa, which we hear goes at $15 000 a night is a celeb magnet - it also happens to be the one that Rihanna and Chris Brown allegedly tore up during their stay in Bim last summer).

They also had a big birthday bash at the Zagat-rated, super-sexy Wispers on the Bay, a restaurant right along Brown's Beach. There was actually a power cut on the night of the party that left the whole island in darkness but since Wispers is lit with standing flambeaus, it apparently did not have too much of an impact.

MC apparently had a greeeeat time, even diving into the surf afterwards in her dress and taking a swim.

Our sources tell us that the eyebrow-raising marriage between MC and Nick Cannon seems to definitely be real with the two dotish behind each other, hugging and kissing all the time and with her even flaunting an 'MCC' name-plate necklace that Nick bought her as a bday gift. That's Mariah Carey-Cannon by the way. ... I wonder if he has matching NCC jewellery because we all know that he is Mr. Carey and loves it.


In other islandista news, Rihanna is continuing to hit the party circuit and was seen out at Bar Deluxe taking her forays into the 80s look a bit too far IMO...



Shoulder pads... no. I feel like I saw this exact outfit in my auntie's closet in 1989.