Lauren Conrad has come a long way since her days on “Laguna Beach.” The MTV reality star has already started her own beauty website, she’s the face of the Paper Crown fashion line, and now she’s going green with her latest endeavor, an eco-friendly lifestyle product line.

MTV reports that Conrad teamed up with BlueAvocado, a sustainable lifestyle products company, to create her own eco-friendly line of products. LC’s new line will include cosmetic accessories, as well as home and travel products. Conrad said:

“The BlueAvocado partnership represents a synergy of things I love to do—design great products, enable women to realize their dreams, and inspire thoughtful action…. Once you realize the responsibility we have to improve our environment in our lifetime, you feel compelled to act with urgency. BlueAvocado provides a canvas for me to invite change.”

BlueAvocado writes:

“Lauren Conrad has joined BlueAvocado as an investor and lead designer inviting thousands to join her on her green journey. Debuting in Summer 2012, Lauren Conrad will design her own eco-collection for BlueAvocado, which will include stylish prints and new lifestyle products including reusable lunch, shopping, hydration, home storage, travel, and cosmetic accessories.”

Conrad’s new business venture isn’t the only thing that Conrad fans are talking about today. The reality star also sent out a few interesting tweets recently. Here’s a picture of a little Lauren Conrad scowling on a Monday morning.

Conrad said: “Found this photo of me on my first day of kindergarten… 20 years later my feelings about Monday mornings remain the same. ”

And here’s a photo of Conrad’s new pink bun.

Are you a fan of Lauren Conrad?

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Lauren Conrad may be an up and coming fashion designer but that hasn’t stopped her from wearing the same dress to various holiday parties.

Speaking to FabSugar Conrad reveals that cocktail dress recycling is a specialty of hers since she attends many holiday parties.

Condrad says of wearing dresses more than one time:

“During holiday parties I end up recycling a lot of my cocktail dresses, and just wearing a layering piece, like a blazer and tights, with it.”

One advantage Conrad has over the rest of us? She designs the Paper Crown dresses, skirts and tops that she wears during the holiday which means finding the right layers is just a concept away.

“When I was designing, I was really keeping in mind the types of things you do during these months,” she explains. “You’re going to a lot of holiday parties, and you want to look festive and still put together. So we had a lot of fun with that.”

To complement her recycled look Lauren Conrad says adding a nice bow or fun prints to a plain piece can make all the difference.

Do you have any holiday dress recycling tips you want to share with our readers?

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Reality TV star, fashion designer and book author Lauren Conrad on Monday debuted her new peach colored hairstyle after she started a unique campaign for making up her hair coloring decision.

Conrad through her new website The Beauty Department told her fans that she wanted a new look and was in love with the new peach-streaked hair she was seeing on runways this fashion season, she then asked her fans if she should adopt the look as her own.

After an overwhelming number of site visitors said she should make the jump and color her hair she debuted the picture shown above.

I personally think Lauren Conrad looks hot in her new peach colored hair, then again it’s hard to remember what she looked like in the past after going from blonde to brunette to blonde, then rainbow streaks and blue-streaks followed by blonde again.

What do you think about Lauren Conrad’s new hair color?

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Former The Hills star Lauren Conrad left the show that made her famous to become a respected fashion designer and bestselling novelist and now rumor has it that she’ll be adding “bakery owner” to her list of hidden talents.

Apparently Conrad loves to bake everything from cookies to cakes and various other sugary snacks and now she’s thinking it would be a great time to add a posh bakery with an emphasis on specialty gourmet cupcakes to the mix of businesses she currently owns.

Hollywood snitch  Janet Charlton writes of the endeavor:

“…She’s looking at locations in the West Hollywood area where she can open a bakery of her own.”

Conrad has definitely been diversifying her portfolio and she hasn’t struck out yet, it will be interesting to see what she comes up with should the bakery find a home and launch to the public.

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Former reality TV star turned Forbes columnist, Lauren Conrad is single.

After three years of dating, 25-year-old Conrad and 33-year-old Kyle Howard have called it quits, according to People Magazine.

Although most of her life — including her relationships — has been under the scrutiny in both reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and its spin-off series, The Hills, Lauren and Kyle kept their relationship low-key.

“By the time I had met Kyle, I had already perfected my ‘double life,’” Conrad told Seventeen magazine in an interview last year. “There was my TV life and my real life.”

Prior to their split, things appeared to be smooth sailing between the couple, with engagement rumors even sparking earlier in the year. Those rumors,  however, were quickly shot down by Conrad’s rep who said, “This is totally false.”

At this time, the cause of the break up is unknown.

Despite having boy trouble, the budding author is having great success with her writing career.  Having already penned best sellers, L.A. Candy — the self inspired story of a young woman who moves to Los Angeles to become the star of a reality show — and Lauren Conrad Style, Lauren recently made another three-book deal with publisher HarperCollins.

The books, titled The Fame Game, will be a spin-off series of the L.A. Candy trilogy and will follow character Madison Parker.

The first of the three books will be released in 2012.

via DailyMail

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Lauren Conrad’s new reality TV show may have been axed by MTV but she’s doing pretty good for herself these days, inking a new three book deal with HarperCollins.

Conrad has already penned the best sellers L.A. Candy and Lauren Conrad Style and now the publisher has picked up the world rights to her Children’s Book series The Fame Game.

In a statement released on Wednesday HarperCollins notes:

“Madison Parker made a name for herself as best frenemy of girl-next-door-turned-reality-celeb Jane Roberts in the ‘L.A. Candy’ books,” while adding, “Now she’s ready for her turn in the spotlight and she’ll stop at nothing to get it. But with backstabbing friends and family, relentless paparazzi, and tabloid scandals she can’t control, Madison is going to have her work cut out for her.”

The first of the three books will arrive Fall 2012.

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Proving again that it takes trash to know trash, Paris Hilton has lashed out at the MTV reality series The Hills.

During an appearance at the FiFi Awards this week, Paris said her boyfriend Doug Reinhardt wouldn’t be back on the show, saying “The show is, like, so lame and fake. He doesn’t even want to be a part of it.” Doug was featured several times on The Hills during 2008 as Lauren Conrad’s sex buddy.

Hills regular Stephanie Pratt isn’t taking Paris’ attack lying down though, and has called on Paris to apologize. “Doug’s not even on the show, so I don’t even understand that,” Pratt said. “And in real life he is friends with those boys, so it’s not fake. I would never call her show dumb, so I think she should apologize.”

Doug isn’t exactly heading for the high road when it comes to future television appearances: he might not be returning to The Hills, but he has landed role on reality show Paris Hilton’s My New BFF season 2.

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Whitney Port is just more interesting, though: she’s got a new show despite being the quietest Hills girl, and she picks way hotter guys. And guess what? Even though she graduated with a degree in Gender Studies and L.C. is the one who went to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, her collection is kicking Lauren’s boring stuff to the curb already. 

Whitney’s line is due to come out in 2009. Some of the stuff is still ugly, but no one’s perfect. Now we’ll have to see about the sales, because it looks like things will run at $300+. . .

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Lauren Conrad still doesn’t hate Heidi Montag (maybe Audrina’s taken her place?) and US mag has revealed she was concerned about her after eloped with unpopular Spencer Pratt. Holly Montag, Heidi’s sister, said that she received a surprise phone call from Lauren on the day they all found out about the Mexican wedding, explaining that “She was just checking on everybody and making sure the family was OK.”

We’re pretty sure that Heidi’s mom is not doing well, but Holly seems to be bouncing back after crying on The Hills After Show when she realized that Heidi had been married days before. Holly added that “I think [Heidi] felt bad that she didn’t tell us right away, and we had to find out through other sources. But it was her choice, and we are all really supportive of whatever she decides to do.”

And then, being the awesome sister that she is, Holly said that she wanted to plan her sister’s big wedding ceremony. How can Holly even look at Spencer after he said so many horrible things to her?

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Mr. “All Girls Are Shady” Doug Reinhardt, who is from recognizable his lame spot on The Hills (where he got spectacularly dumped by Lauren Conrad because he’s so boring!), has found another lady after months of bromancing his buds. His new girlfriend? Amanda Bynes, who was seen hanging out with him at Teddy’s during Thanksgiving weekend and looking smitten! According to TMZ, the Minor League player managed to woo Amanda after their chance encounter and they’re been making time for each other ever since.

Good luck, Amanda! This is going to be a change from the “Smartest Person on TV” and multi-millionaire ex-boyfriend Seth McFarlane, but Doug’s official website does declare him to be “a gentleman” with “breathtaking” charm. So you never know.

Shall we take bets on how it will last? I’m guessing 2 months max.

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“Bottom line, Justin and Lauren treating me like I wasn’t worthy of an explanation was almost worse than the rumor itself, and it only got worse the harder I tried to get a genuine answer. Instead, I got screamed at and they both got super defensive. Let me just remind everyone that this rumor didn’t appear out of thin air, they were both at the same place at the same time, but apparently what was said to have happened never actually did.”

Imagine how embarrassing this will be a couple of years down the road, when she’s wondering what went wrong. Justin Bobby = not a keeper. That being said, L.C.’s best friend Lo and known Audrina-hater is so happy right now. If it was her birthday, she definitely got her wish.

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MTV reality series The Hills has been renewed for a 5th season.

The show documenting the life of Lauren Conrad and her friends in Los Angeles after Conrad’s move from Laguna Beach, California debuted back in 2006, and gave the world Lauren Conrad, Audrina Patridge, Heidi Montag and Whitney Port.

People got the scoop from Audrina Patridge: “There is going to be a fifth season. We just found out.”

“We have fun with each other and we’ve stuck it out this long, so we might as well do another one.”

“At one point, all of us were like, ‘No, we don’t want to do another season,’” she says. “I wanted to do more movies, and Whitney moved to New York and she’s doing her own spin-off. And Lauren’s dating [My Boys actor] Kyle [Howard] but he can’t be on the show because he’s on another show, so that makes it hard.”

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Lauren Conrad is such a diva, and I love that nobody even notices in New York besides the paparazzi. We are so jaded, and Page Six was happy to remind us about it in their “Get Over It” section. It turns out that when Lauren was called to desk to pick up her standby ticket in JFK, she totally freaked:

“LC pitched a fit, and was almost driven to tears because she thought people would start talking to her and bothering her. But no one even cared.”

The Hills is so over. Since Lauren’s trying to keep her boyfriend Kyle Howard off the show and stay out of the limelight, it’s just a matter of time before she escapes the drama herself and leaves it for Heidi and Spencer. Can’t say I blame her, although the attention has gone to her head!

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Finally someone said what I’ve been dying to hear about Lauren Conrad. If you take a look at The Hills, she’s got a revolving door of drama that shifts from Heidi to Spencer to Justin Bobby to Audrina to Doug to Stephanie Pratt to even her bestest friend Lauren “Lo” Bosworth. Has nobody told her to her face that “It’s not me, it’s you?” Well, David Letterman kind of stepped up to the plate.

When Lauren stopped by Letterman last night, she made the crucial error of saying that it wasn’t just Heidi Montag she was having problems with, but “a little bit of everyone.” Nice. Letterman countered by asking her “Who is it? Maybe you’re the problem.” Pause at 1:20 for the most uncomfortable look ever as she contemplates her response.

And then he kind of accidentally calls her an idiot. I can’t say I didn’t enjoy it, because it’s pretty rare that someone rags on LC– to her face, that is. The sheer novelty made me love it, especially when we get a dash of Brody insulting to go along with it!

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Will Lauren Conrad be exiting The Hills? It might be giving her a healthy paycheck, but she has also had so much personal drama on and off the show that she’s probably feeling woozy.

L.C. dished to extra on Tuesday, saying that “It’s coming to a point where I love this show so much, but I’m ready to kind of walk away. I’ve been doing it for five years now. Five years on TV is a really, really long time.” Of course she didn’t blame anyone in particular for her escape plans, but I think insidious Spidey treatment has finally gotten the best of her.

She alluded to other problems that The Hills– and all the media attention– has brought, saying that her friendships get tested through all the rumors:

“It makes it more difficult. It’s more difficult when not only everyone knows about your problems, but they make them worse because things escalate and things get twisted. It’s hard to have an actual friendship be torn apart in the media.”

I vote that L.C. keeps her day job and sucks it up. She’s a millionaire and famous. . . boo hoo.

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And by “workplace,” I mean “club.” I was so excited to see Lauren Conrad flanked by Audrina Patridge and Lo Bosworth last night while they were filming The Hills– that means they’ve made up. Right?! For all of you who have watched the show or have read about it here, you know that things are never that simple.

Poor Audrina Patridge was puzzled last weekend when rumors circulated about her Hills co-star L.C. hooking up with her ex Justin-Bobby. Lauren promptly denied it and blamed it on Spencer. As you do. He denied having anything to do with it, of course, but I figured the girls would bond over their hatred of the guy.

Even though the two are currently filming The Hills and seem pretty amicable on camera, Audrina came onto “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” to talk about problems with Lauren. Here’s the short and sweet version:

“Audrina explained that she’d tried to talk to Lauren about what really happened with Justin and that Lauren had hung up on her. She also took issue with the fact that rather than speak to her directly about whatever did or didn’t happen, Lauren had chosen to speak to the tabloids.”

So most of what you see on The Hills isn’t real, because these girls are fighting on the sidelines for sure. First Heidi, then Spencer, then Brody, then Doug, and now Audrina? L.C.’s running out of friends to fight with! I’m sorry, but I think that L.C. might be the problem here.

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I think Heidi’s getting bored of sitting around and taking pictures of herself and Spencer, so she’s back to making non-news about becoming friends with Lauren Conrad. *Sniff* She sounds lonely! Don’t you feel bad for her? Yeah, me neither.

Heidi is doing all of the talking, so we can assume that Lauren has no interest in making up. Heidi only mentioned that she’d like to, saying:

“Obviously I miss her, and she was my best friend for a really long time,” Montag said. “Hopefully one day we will be able to work through this and move on and patch some things up.”

Noooo! Who doesn’t think that Lauren should stay away? Show yourselves (and tell me why, please).

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Lauren Conrad is the object of a lot of flack: you know, for getting jobs that maybe she doesn’t deserve, for having a bad attitude, and being a predictable dresser. Ahem. I may or may not agree, but no girl deserves what happened last night. I’m starting to slip into the Lauren Conrad camp after all. What is with all of her friends?

Here goes: Lauren goes to Italy, Stephanie Pratt spills to Audrina that she might want to date Lauren’s ex Doug (mistake), and then Audrina tells all of Lauren’s friends before she gets home (mistake mistake). What was she thinking? Oh, wait.

But what gets me is that Audrina doesn’t just tell concerned parties. She tells everyone she knows, and then brings it up again for good measure. She tells her co-workers, she tells Lo, and she tells Justin-Bobby, but worst of all, she tells Heidi and Spencer. Inexcusable! I am glad that Audrina just moved out, because she was probably a week away from getting kicked out.

Magically, Lo’s back to being the good guy again.

Is it wrong that I feel bad for Lauren?

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Audrina’s moving out! This will comes as no surprise to anyone following The Drama. Has Lo been mean enough to actually pushed her out for good? Or has watching all the Dramz on the small screen helped Audrina realize on her own how insidious most of the people are with whom she associates?

With Whitney Port headed out on her own in New York, this could spell the end of The Hills! Well, not really, since there are plenty of spinoffs in the works and there’s no way that MTV wants to let go of this cash cow.

I’m not sure how I feel about an show dedicated to our favorite ceiling eyes, but at least she won’t be criticized for her “weird shows.”

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Were you just totally, 100% happy with the fact that Lo didn’t make a surprise appearance in last night’s version of The Hills? At first I was like “What’s with The Hills?” and then I realized: my New Spencer was missing! And, come to think of it, so was Audrina. That was my favorite drama of the season so far, too.

Instead we were treated to terrible Spencer Pratt. Poor de-sistered Stephanie: she just wants to be friends with her own brother (even if that’s probably best left alone) and she wasn’t looking so good, either. Her face seems super-round, only emphasizing her deer-in-headlights expression, and I want to like her because she seems real (for The Hills, mind you). Unlike Whitney’s incredible good luck, great wardrobe, evil-b*tch boss taming, and magic guy-getting skills; what the F? Naked male models, surprise dates. . . lucky doesn’t begin to describe it.

At least my predictions came true: Lauren really is a terrible dater. I knew it.

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