PRE-OSCAR & POST-OSCAR R&B BONANZA: JENNIFER WON!!!!

So last night's big ceremony was the 79th Academy Awards and I sat up during the early hours and watched the show. Though I couldn't keep up because it was late and I had to go somewhere the following morning. But I did catch half of the ceremony. I am glad Eddie Murphy didn't win shat. I am PROUD of Jennifer Hudson who DID win an Oscar - a BLACK WOMAN from Chicago to win an Oscar on her first try is BEYOND AMAZING. I wonder how Simon Cowell is feeling now since her American Idol stint when he told her she didn't have much depth?

Jennifer's career has gone from strength to strength. She has won award after award, has been honoured at damn near every party, contributed to black history by getting the March Vogue cover and now her Oscar win!!! So massive congrats to her. I saw Dreamgirls a couple of weeks ago and Jennifer OWNED that movie.

In light of Jennifer Hudson's Oscar victory, she performed with her co-star Beyonce at the ceremony:

Spectacular!

But the biggest Oscar disappointment of all was the frocks. When you're attending an event as big and prestigious as The Oscars you are supposed to come with it in the fashion stakes but NOBODY did. Not even glamour puss Jennifer Lopez.

Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce Knowles, Jennifer Hudson and Tracy Edmonds were all fashion no-no's at last night's Oscar ceremony.

Fabulous R&B chicks Christina Milian, Rihanna and Tatyana Ali all attended Vibe magazine’s Pre-Oscar party. And because I love Diana Ross, I thought her daughter Tracee deserved a small stint on here as she too looked fab:

Seems like Christina Milian has been adopting her fashion sense from Rihanna. Didn't rihanna wear the very same dress at some T-Mobile party a couple of months ago but in light blue? Nevertheless, she looked hot.

Beyonce attended 'Giorgio Armani Celebrates the Oscars' with an exclusive fashion show of the Armani Prive Spring/Summer 2007 couture collection at the Green Acres Estates:

I love the shoes, but why did she go back to the lighter shade of hair? Dark hair accentuates her beauty so much better. Ah well. It was only a matter of time. She hung out with the likes of Naomi Campbell, Penelope Cruz and Leonardo DiCaprio.

But the Oscars was proving a little too tricky for our favourite R&B queen to shine:

Her Armani dress was ugly, the hair was a little too plain and could have been styled to more sophistication and the shoes were so-so. She looked really pretty in the face but I just wasn't feeling her whole get-up.

And if you thought Beyonce looked disappointing, Jennifer Hudson should have been arrested for fashion crimes against humanity:

Dear dear me. Where did Jennifer Hudson's dress come from? The House of Do It Wrong? I would not have been surprised if Tina Knowles had anything to do with this at all. And the little tight up metallic snakeskin bolero jacket was just laughable. How tacky for a gown to have pockets. The chick looked like a lil raggamuffin dressed in faeces which is a rarity because Jennifer is usually on point. I loved her eyebrows though. They were well done. It were just a low down dirty shame that not much immaculateness was put into her outfit. During her Oscar moment, she looked really bad. Dried toast anyone?

Fashion guru Jennifer Lopez didn't look any better:

The hair made her look mad old and the fact that her face is starting to age anyway was not a good look. Jennifer looked absolutely gorgeous last year when she attended the Oscars but this year was a big no-no. And the dress looked like she was auditioning for a Shakesphere role. She is beginning to look a lot like her mama Guadalupe and that's not a good thing.

Earlier today, Mary J Blige, her hubby and Oprah Winfrey attended the 2007 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter:

I guess Mary has her regrets about getting those tattoo's as they are almost covered. Of course you can still see them but they are faded with make-up or something I don't know. I am glad anyway because they looked ghetto especially for a woman of her age.

And just to round things up:

Oscar party galore once more. Christina Milian continues to enjoy the moment. I love those Mowry twins. They are so purty. Tamera has been eating REAL good I see and I find it suspicious that Ray-J and his ex Kim Kardashian are turning up everywhere. I guess to plug that seedy little sextape of theirs. Lil Kim looked a hot mess as usual. Only Lil Kim can make Gucci look preposterous.