Celeste ‘tired of the whole big-booty thing’
Everywhere you look in Las Vegas nightlife, it’s all about “bubblebutts” and beards. The female big-booty trend was seeded by J. Lo in the 1990s. It blossomed dramatically atop Kim Kardashian’s back shelf. Now women by the masses wear tight tights, displaying righteous orbs.
Not every woman has wants to store junk in her trunk. “UFC Girl” Arianny Celeste remains tiny in a landscape of medium and large.
“In this society we’re living in, everybody wants to plump everything and make everything exaggerated,” Celeste told me, before hosting a Cinco de Mayo party at Tacos & Tequila.
Celeste is a highly soughtafter model, former UNLV fitness major and health nut from Velocity’s “Overhaulin’” and MTV2’s “Guy Code.”
She is now in the unusual position of defending her type: The itty-bitty booty, which she has recently been promoting publicly via TMZ and elsewhere.
“I just kind of got tired of the whole big-booty thing. I just want to represent petite girls,” she told me. “Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes — including a size-zero petite girl. I’m proud of myself and my body, and I work out a lot.”
Tonight, Celeste will represent petite girls as the 6-9 p.m. host of “Sexy de Mayo” at Tacos & Tequila in the Luxor.
Celeste isn’t against big butts.
“I’m just, like, ‘Love yourself, no matter what size you are,’ ” she said.
But she frowns on unnatural butt implants, which women will buy for, say, $8,000.
“That’s not a very good message that you send to young girls,” the model said.
I personally don’t think the caboose-to-seduce movement will fade because it plays into America’s naturally occurring dual habits of owning a larger derriere and of being proud. Celeste disagrees.
“It’ll die just like every other trend,” she thinks.
Meanwhile, guys’ trendy answer to the female “booty bounce” has been that burly man beard.
Judge Celeste decrees: “Yeah, but it depends on the beard, though, and the guy attached to it.” WHAT IT COST ME TO GO SOLAR
Two years ago, my mom, a teacher, died and left me a small but loving inheritance of several thousand dollars. It felt disturbing to get money for my mom’s death. But I vowed to honor her inheritance by spending it on solar panels.
On the new episode of the “Doug Elfman Show” (on iTunes, Android podcast apps and DougElfman.com), I discuss this solar journey with John W. Miller, the Summerlin Energy representative whom I dealt with.
If you don’t want to listen, here’s my layman’s wisdom now that I’ve been living 100 percent solar since December.
Last summer, sales reps at some solar companies kept telling me I couldn’t go 100 percent solar because the roof of my 1,500-square-foot, two-story house was too small to accommodate enough southern-sun facing panels.
I finally found a sales rep who said his company would take me to 100 percent solar by adding tiles to my westand east-facing roof sections, but then tilting those tiles southward at the sun.
I wrote checks totaling $19,000, but my cost dropped to $12,000-plus after I got a $2,000 incentive via Nevada Energy and a roughly $5,000 tax incentive from the federal government.
I still pay $22 (actually $14 this month) to Nevada Energy to swap power with me, which I’m cool with because that way I don’t have to buy a $5,000 solar battery to store my energy at home. (Elon Musk last week announced new cheaper batteries that will be built in Nevada.)
If I can ever afford to buy an electric car, I will plug it into my house, and my solar panels will pay for fueling up that car. I look forward to doing my part against BP Big Oil and Dick Cheney.
HOAs must by law approve solar panel applications for single-home dwellings. My HOA told me a rush of people alerted them of their intentions to go solar after news broke of the Nevada Energy rebate.
It took two half-days of work for several installers to panel my house. Then it was several weeks after that when Nevada Energy gave me a different meter. But solar was turned on quickly and easily.
The biggest flaw in the system is the federal tax incentive. You only get that dollar-for-dollar tax incentive back if you owe enough money in federal taxes. (I got mine.) In other words, to get a dollar back in solar incentive, you have to have paid a dollar in federal taxes. The U.S. government must change that program into an upfront subsidy or an outright rebate. That’s my dumb taxpayer’s opinion.
It will take about a bucket of water every six months to clean my panels.
You’re welcome, Earth. The pleasure was mine. IMAGINE DRAGONS VIDEO
Las Vegas’ own Imagine Dragons on Monday released their newest video, an acousticpiano version of the song “Shots,” which was recorded on stage at The Smith Center.
The song is from a new EP, also called “Shots.”
The band has been hugging Las Vegas pretty warmly since putting out their new album, “Smoke + Mirrors,” performing for superfans at club Vanity in the Hard Rock Hotel and speaking at a Vegas magazine party on behalf of their charity, the Tyler Robinson Foundation.
On Monday night, the pop band was scheduled to perform a mash-up with REO Speedwagon on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” BROWN OFF DRAI’S SCHEDULE
Cromwell hotel headliner Chris Brown, who is accused of getting into another fight while in Vegas this weekend, was scheduled to return to Vegas on July 4 for his residency at Drai’s nightclub, but Drai’s website on Monday listed July 4 as “TBA.”
If you need one more Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao postscript:
Rapper Rick Ross gifted 200 bottles of Luc Belaire to Mayweather before the champ even won Saturday’s fight. Ross wasn’t here because he was performing in South Africa. The price tag for the bubbly, via Sovereign Brands: $10,000.
But here’s the piece de resistance. One of the ways Mayweather has already capitalized on his latest victory is with an official tie-in app for Apple phones called HollywoodSelfie, which I guess lets fans choose a photo or video of Mayweather and then merge their own selfies so it looks like they’re hanging with him. Contact Doug Elfman at delfman@ reviewjournal.com. He blogs at reviewjournal.com/elfman. Find him on Twitter: @VegasAnonymous