Beauty

Keith Urban celebrated his birthday by stuffing his 45-year-old country bits into a tiny pair of man panties in France this weekend.

The Australian singer took a break from keeping Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj from killing each other at "American Idol" auditions to flash his wet, toned and tatted up torso at a hotel pool.

Mr. Nicole Kidman is the whole package.

The Kardashian sisters aren't backing down in their war with a high-end makeup company -- sources close to the K-Krew tell TMZ, they've got a secret weapon to guarantee they'll prevail in court ... trademarks up the wazoo.

The Kardashian girls filed requests to trademark the phrases "Kardashian Khroma" and "Khroma Beauty by Kourtney, Kim, and Khloe" earlier this summer.

The requests are still pending -- but sources connected with the family tell us, they're confident they'll be approved ... because the man behind the competing makeup line (named Chroma) hasn't filed for ANY trademarks.

As we reported, the co-owner of Chroma Makeup in Beverly Hills -- a guy named Michael Rey -- is threatening to sue the Kardashians over the Khroma makeup line, claiming the Kardashian line will cheapen the high-end company he's built over the last 12 years.

It's worth noting ... you don't NEED to register a trademark to pursue trademark litigation -- so Rey may NOT be up the creek without a paddle.

And there's this -- while we were looking up the Kardashian trademarks, we came across another makeup company named "Kroma."

"Kroma" filed for its trademark in 2010 ... so that could be another obstacle for the Kardashians.

12:30 PM PT, 10/30/12 -- A rep for Kim tells TMZ, "Boldface licensing + branding has gone through the appropriate legal channels in obtaining the rights to use the name Khroma Beauty by Kourtney, Kim and Khloé in the Color Category with the United States Patent and Trademark Office."

The Kardashians have been accused of a cheap cover-up, stealing the name of a high-end make-up line and slapping it on their own drugstore brand ... so claims the dude who sells the fancy products.

Kim, Khloe and Kourtney are launching Khroma Beauty ... a cosmetics line you can get next month at not-so-fancy places like CVS, Sears, and Ulta.

Michael Rey, the co-owner of Chroma Makeup in Bev Hills tells TMZ ... his brand took 12 years of blood, sweat and tears to build and now boasts an A-List clientele -- but he grouses the Kardashians line cheapens his products and creates confusion in the marketplace.

Michael fears his high-end customers will run for other parts of the Hills ... thinking their primo cosmetics are not so primo after all ... and they'll be embarrassed to say they wear Chroma.

Michael says he's hired a legal team, but hasn't made contact with the Kardashians just yet. He hopes they'll change the name -- but if they don't he's prepared to take legal action.

Michael has drafted a letter to his customers making it as clear as concealer -- Chroma in NO WAY is associated with the "low-budget cosmetic products" the Kardashians are hocking.

If you like it, then you shoulda put earrings on it -- at least that's what Beyonce did with a brand new pair of Barack Obama hoops last weekend ... and now, TMZ has learned, sales for the pro-bama jewelry have EXPLODED.

The earrings were designed by a Puerto Rican jewelry designer named Erika Peña -- and up until last week, she had only sold 5 sets of the handmade earrings.

But her fortune changed overnight when Beyonce wore them last Saturday in NYC. Since then, Erika tells TMZ, she's sold over 1,300 PAIRS!

Erika tells us she received orders almost immediately from all over the world -- England, Switzerland, Chile, and Argentina ... with her biggest order coming from London.

The Britney Spears cover photo for the recent issue of Lucky magazine was TRASHED so fiercely ... the mag took the unprecedented step of apologizing on Twitter.

The photo, which shows Brit Brit in what can only be described as a really bad wig, triggered a firestorm on the Internet, and especially Twitter.

The mag couldn't ignore the backlash, so it tweeted an apology, saying, "Thank you all for sharing your thoughts on our cover! As always, we will share with our team and we're sorry to have let some of you down."

Still, considering the various incarnations of Britney's "hair," we gotta ask ...

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark aka Cassandra Peterson is anything but a horror.

Here's the 39-year-old goth babe back in 1990 (left) -- and 22 years later, the buxom 61-year-old at an event in L.A. last month (right).

The scariest thing about Elvira ... she doesn't age.

California girls Gwen Stefani and Katy Perry combined their blonde and brunette forces at a fashion event in West Hollywood on Thursday.

Question is ...

Emma Roberts donned her aunt Julia's iconic "Pretty Woman" hooker outfit and hit up a Halloween party in Beverly Hills last night.

Despite suffering multiple injuries in a bad car accident Wednesday, Diddy surfaced on the streets of L.A. yesterday -- looking pretty damn healthy.

As we reported, Diddy was involved in a serious car accident in Beverly Hills -- and according to his rep, the rap mogul sustained injuries to his neck, ribs, and collarbone.

Diddy was riding passenger when his SUV collided with another car. After the accident, Diddy was so in shock he had to lie down on the grass.

Just days after news broke of the demise of his marriage, Jessica and Ashlee Simpson's newly single father Joe Simpson was spotted out in L.A. on Thursday sporting a much more, er, youthful look.

Doing his best Ellen DeGeneres impersonation, the 54-year-old rocked blonder highlighted locks, a fitted yellow sweater, black skinny jeans and matchy matchy spiffy kicks.

As TMZ reported, Joe's wife Tina Simpson filed for divorce last month -- after being legally hitched for 34 years -- claiming their marriage has become "insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities."

As the world is well aware, Olympian McKayla Maroney isn't impressed by much, but we may have finally found something that she actually does appreciate ... an exotic bird.

While the cheetah exhibit at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay elicited her trademark bored smirk on Thursday, the 16-year-old gold medal winning gymnast showed some positive emotion and appeared generally excited with an African Ground Hornbill perched on her arm.

She's so fowl.

Dolly Parton is gonna be a NAUGHTY girl this Halloween ... and she's not afraid to admit it.

Parton was having dinner at Matteo's in L.A. last night ... when she told us she had picked up a sexy costume at the famous Trashy Lingerie shop earlier this week ... and it sounds like it's gonna be AWESOME.

"We have fun at Halloween," Parton told us ... and as she grabbed her legendary boobs, she added, "I have two pumpkins ... that's all I care about."

God we love you.

If you are voting for Barack Obama then Katy Perry makes perfect fashion sense.

Wearing a white latex frock made to look like a ballot with Obama/Biden marked off, Katy performed at a rally for the President in Nevada on Wednesday night.

Katy -- who turns 28 today -- has voiced her support for Obama in the past.

It was a ménage à trois dinner date, as Cameron Diaz got cozy with new bestie Gwyneth Paltrow and her Coldplay hubby Chris Martin while enjoying some sushi at Sugarfish in Brentwood on Monday.

Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's eldest daughter, Rumer Willis, showed off her A-list genetics by flashing her smokin' hot bod in a black bikini in Cancun this weekend.

Another member of Hollywood royalty has gone two pieces.

A week after free falling from 24 miles up in the air and breaking the speed of sound, hunky daredevil Felix Baumgartner traded his space suit for hip downtown gear and hit up trendy NYC hotspot Sons of Essex on Monday.