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Nov 30 2011 06:00 PM ET

Lauren Conrad Styles Hospitalized Teens for the Holidays

‘Tis the season to go shopping! Lauren Conrad hit the mall recently, browsing racks stocked with the latest from her namesake line for Kohl’s. But she wasn’t shopping for herself — the former reality star was helping to style four teens from the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles for the holidays.

“It’s really nice to be able to give back,” Conrad says in the clip above. “The feeling of giving a really good gift is so amazing … I can’t imagine getting a gift and feeling this way, especially with something like this.”

Nov 30 2011 04:30 PM ET

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Designers Aren’t Clamoring to Dress Elizabeth Olsen … Yet

Elizabeth Olsen
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She’s made quite the impression on the red carpet this year, but Elizabeth Olsen hasn’t had much help dressing for the numerous premieres and film festivals surrounding her new movie, Martha Marcy May Marlene.

“I haven’t met anyone who’s like, ‘I’m dying to dress you,’” Olsen, who’s often styled by Cher Coulter, told FabSugar Monday night at the Gotham Independent Film Awards in New York City. When asked if she knew of any designers trying to get their hands on her, she responded, “I have no idea, maybe. I don’t think so … I’m not sure.”

However, with the Oscar buzz surrounding the starlet — she was nominated for the breakthrough actor award Monday, but lost to Like Crazy star Felicity Jones — it seems she’ll have plenty of opportunities to dress in designer duds for the rounds of awards shows and future film premieres to come.

Nov 30 2011 03:00 PM ET

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Mary J. Blige Loves Fans Who Wear Her Fragrances

Mary J. Blige perfume
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When Mary J. Blige greets fans, they often tell her what perfume they’re wearing — because it’s usually one of hers. “[It happens] all the time,” she tells PEOPLE. “They say, ‘I’m wearing your fragrance, girl!’ It feels so good.”

Blige shattered HSN single-day sales records last year when she sold her first scent, My Life, on the shopping network, and she’s aiming to do it again Wednesday night at 10 p.m. ET when she performs live and sells her newest scent, My Life Blossom. “It feels so good,” she says of her success on the channel. “I never in a million years thought I would be on HSN selling fragrances but it’s something that I love and it just feels like a great accomplishment to put your heart and soul into something to give to women.”

Nov 30 2011 01:30 PM ET

Shop Our Holiday Gift Guide: Best Gifts from Celeb Designers

Celebrity Gift Ideas

Say what you will about celebrity clothing lines, but often, they offer some really fun finds. Take for instance Kim Kardashian‘s Belle Noel jewelry line, which offers affordable, festive studs (left, $30); a $35 leopard-print handbag from Jessica Simpson‘s namesake collection at Macy’s, perfect for shoppers on a budget; a sparkly tank top designed by Selena Gomez ($14); and a sexy, shapely dress from Sofia Vergara’s Kmart collection ($45). And that’s just the tip of the iceberg! See our favorite celeb-designed finds in our gift guide, and peruse more gifts for men, women, kids and pets in our Hollywood Holidays section.

Nov 30 2011 12:00 PM ET

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Kellan Lutz Shaves His Head

Kellan Lutz on WhoSay

He’s been blonde, brunette, worn his hair slicked-back and curly, but now, Kellan Lutz doesn’t have any hair to worry about! The Twilight star shaved his head on Tuesday, posting a photo of the new look to his Twitter and WhoSay pages.

“Love swimming in the ocean here in Australia with my shaved head,” he wrote. “Brings back a lot of great Generation Kill memories,” he added, in a reference to the HBO miniseries he appeared on in 2008.

Nov 30 2011 10:30 AM ET

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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley: ‘I Was a Bit of an Ugly Betty’

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley perfume
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It’s hard to imagine Transformers star Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as anything but gorgeous, but the model admits she wasn’t always so camera-ready. “I was a bit of an Ugly Betty when I was 15,” she tells Harper’s Bazaar. Instead of working in front of the camera, she was behind the scenes at a modeling agency, “getting coffee, lighting people’s cigarettes,” the Devon, England, native says.

Things obviously changed, and at 18 the stunner moved to New York and landed a deal with Victoria’s Secret, and a few years later, Burberry. “To be 21, working with Mario Testino and Christopher Bailey, it was a milestone moment,” she shares.

Another milestone? Sporting those Victoria’s Secret wings. “I’d love to wear them for a fancy-dress party sometime,” she says. Although it’s not as if they’re at the ready. “People assume I have wings hanging all over my house, but that is not the case,” she jokes. She might wish it was so, though. “People kind of laugh about it and think it’s irrelevant, but I don’t know a girl in the world who would put those wings on and not feel, just for a split second, very special.”

Nov 30 2011 09:00 AM ET

Gifts to Give: Same Sky’s Prosperity Bracelets

Same Sky Bracelets

It feels great to give a gift that gives back — and Same Sky bracelets fit that bill. The baubles, designed by HIV-positive female artisans in Rwanda and Zambia, are sold in select New York retailers and online, and 100 percent of all net profits go directly to training and hiring more bracelet makers — and expanding into other regions. New for holiday are the company’s Prosperity Bracelets ($165-$175), crocheted by the women of the Abataka Collective in Lusaka, Zambia. The stackable jewels — available in multiple colors — are made of seed beads on stretchy cord, and are one size fits all. Check out all the handmade offerings at samesky.myshopify.com.