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Golden Globes 2010: Mariah Carey and Halle Berry Wear Plunging Dresses. Who Got it Right?

by Katie Hintz-Zambrano (Subscribe to Katie Hintz-Zambrano's posts)
Posted Jan 18th 2010 at 4:48AM  
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Mariah Carey and Halle Berry show off their Golden Globes. Photos: Jason Merritt, Getty Images | Steve Granitz, WireImage.com

As any woman who's tried it knows, showing cleavage can be tricky. And, as a pair of stars at the Golden Globes demonstrated, the task can be trickier for some than for others.

Exhibit A: The notoriously skin-baring and buxom Mariah Carey -- who walked the red carpet with husband/umbrella holder Nick Cannon (10 years her junior) -- donned a Hervé Léger by Max Azria curve-hugging long black dress with plunging V-neckline, putting her business front and center.

Unfortunately, with the 39-year-old "Precious" star's breasts being so out there, it was easy to miss the fashionable elements of her ensemble, including diamond and platinum chandelier earrings by Chopard, a stack of diamond bracelets and the totally on-trend power shoulders of her bandage dress.

On the flip side, 43-year-old award ceremony presenter Halle Berry took the plunge in a Kaufman Franco silk bias cut gown with lace inserts that was actually cut lower than Carey's Léger look and quite similar in style, yet the actress managed to look sexy, not sleezy.

The difference? Berry has a smaller chest and therefore less cleavage, so her girls were under control and she avoided giving off a desperate "check out my goods!" vibe.

But maybe it's just us... Who do you think flaunted her, um, gifts best? Leave a comment.

And see which bold dress color dominated the 2010 Golden Globes.
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Tags: 2010 Golden Globes, Awards Shows, cleavage, golden globes, halle berry, Herve Leger, Kaufman Franco, mariah carey, red carpet
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EDWARD A. STOTTS, 1-18-2010, 6:08AM

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I like Halle Berry's dress better & her breasts better. Mariah Carey dresses like she's trying to attract a man but, she already has one. She has nice breasts though.

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joy, 1-19-2010, 4:27PM

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both of those beautiful women do not look good in the dresses they have chosen. One looks like she can"t breath in that girdle thing she is wearing, the other looks like she is wearing a sack with cut out holes. Of the two; I have to say Halle's dress is the dubeious better.

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joy, 1-18-2010, 6:25AM

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Both dresses are dreadful. One looks like a girdle, the other looks like a sack with a peek-a-boo scoop. They are two beautiful women in really bad dresses. Of the two however, I choose Halle as being better.

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jetwel, 2-03-2010, 8:29AM

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jetwel

Halle, wins hands down! Mariah looks stuffed and uncomfortable in that dress, in her skin! Why is she trying so hard to look slutty!? Is she missing something in her personal life, with herself? She's not emitting "sexy" at all, in the dress or photo. Is it a mid-life crisis or what going on with her? I'm thinking she's not satisfied with herself or her husband. I'm thinking he doesn't have a voice when it comes to her personal self and personal decisions. As her husband I think he should have encouraged her to go more towards the taste and style that Halle chose...sexy and respectable! She can't keep enlarging her "girls". She's starting to look awkward; unbalanced. Maybe it's just the dress. It does nothing or her.

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Lisa, 1-18-2010, 9:04AM

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They both need to just stop! We know they have boobs; why both women consistently continue to show off just screams desperate to me.

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Naima's Closet, 1-18-2010, 12:05PM

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Naima's Closet

I agree with the article, I was distracted by Mariah's cleavage. The earrings are lovely. Halle seems to do everything better...

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trunkbay9, 1-18-2010, 11:13AM

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Halle always manages to look classy and magnificent. Mariah not so much. Her dress is silly and desperate looking. Having said that, however, and not really being a fan of Carey's music, I will say that she gave a great performance in the movie "Precious."
And who's the idiot who wrote that Mariah has "nice" breasts ? Really ? Seriously ? Why, because they're big ? The dress makes them look cow-like.

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Rich, 1-18-2010, 2:24PM

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Mariah has built up a "skimpy" reputation. That fact that she wore this dress doesn't surprise me at all. I guess its her signature look. On the other hand Halle Berry has always shown her good taste. So automatically she appears more daring and sexy.

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Janet, 1-19-2010, 2:26AM

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Halle 43? WOW! Hands-down Mariah please take note.

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Pam, 1-19-2010, 5:42AM

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Mariah always seems to dress like a younger Aretha Franklin (this is no compliment). The women tonight had so many lovely gowns that were timeless and beautiful with style and class; with the help of a good stylist.

When all else fails.....show skin, I guess. There's a time and a place to show your assets and those were two large assets that were too large for the dress. As you age, you should mature and dress gracefully; Nick, put some clothes on your wife. But what was even worse was Monique's hairy legs.....damn!

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Tina, 1-19-2010, 12:29PM

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Couldn't agree with you more. Mariah has always been slutty. Her album covers are very elementary and I am sick of her showing her arm pits. Halle is a class act from day one. Even when she played slutty characters, she had more class than Mariah ever has. Mariah cannot seem to accept maturity nor know how to do it well.

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angela, 1-19-2010, 12:34PM

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Halle Berry cannot be touched!! She looks fabulous and I am glad she's back to her signature look. Longer tresses aged her, in my opinion. Mariah Carey needs a stylist or needs to fire the one she has. She always tries to overdo herself and comes off looking silly. Like a fat girl caught up in a too tight girdle. I can bet she's so uncomfortable in that get up. Halle is always classy because her figure is just the right amount of everything to play it off well.

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Ruth W., 1-19-2010, 7:24PM

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I dearly love Mariah, she has a voice with octaves second to none! When she went through her period of trauma, I actually prayed that she would make a comeback, and she did, and what a comeback it has been!!!

However, I have always thought she showed too much skin. Everything she has ever worn had her busts showing, from when she first landed on the scene to the age she is now! So, enough already!! She doesn't have to do this, because she has always been one of the beauties of our day, and she has such a sweet spirit, to boot. But the time for her to pull in the reins some, and dress with more class is long overdue. Class is ageless!

She also needs very much to lose weight, which makes her look even more mature, especially noticeable since she has a younger man, and also to let that beautiful hair down, and get a more flattering hairdo.

When are women going to learn that they don't have to show everything they have to look sexy!!! Be mysterious!!! Many times, less is much more sexy if it's the right outfit!

Halle is one of the world's all time great beauties - she is in the class with Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge and Josephine Baker!!! The elitists!! She could put on a sack and look good in it. She's 43 and looks 30!! Yep, it's a "show all" dress, but she even manages to look classy in THAT!! Mariah, take a look at the comments and then make changes accordingly - you're still a looker, but you're drawing negative attention because you're dressing all wrong!!! But, love you, girl!!!

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Josie, 1-26-2010, 2:36AM

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Halle Berry is and has always been a class act~Mariah though I dearly love your voice and music has always come off as slutty in her clothing...

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Ita, 1-29-2010, 2:10AM

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Mariah Carey is so predictable. Unless she's in Aspen or some other really cold place, you can count on seeing at least 50% of her 'assets'. She's boring. Displays like that are annoying. This has nothing to do with her age or any jealousy on my part. I think it's disrespectful to her husband, even if he takes some weird sort of pride in his wife's perpetual streetwalker look. It also conflicts with the ideals behind the cross symbols I've seen her wearing from time to time. Halle Berry's dress is a little too revealing, but not in-your-face like Mariah's. Halle photographs tastefully, because she can distinguish 'sexy' from 'skanky' when she's buying clothes.

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Joanna James, 8-04-2010, 7:50AM

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Both ladies shouldnt have picked the outfits they have on.They are very beautiful ladies and could have looked very presentable wiv sumting else.
but since they picked it out anyway, I think halle pulled it off,the shoulders of carey's dress is flattering at all,other than that I think she would have pulled it off too.

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