Blac Chyna toned down her look for the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday after being roasted by her own mom over the ‘horrendous’ Black Swan dress that she wore to the Grammys.
The 34-year-old model-socialite arrived in a plunging orange gown with ornate embellishments at the navel and shoulders.
Chyna stunned with her short pixie cut, flawless glam and an elongated manicure that brought a subtle edge to her elegant look.
The rapper allowed her foot tattoos to be showcased as she sported gold pumps and posed with her leg peeking out of the high slit in her dress.
Chyna’s ethereal look was a total departure from her getup at the Grammys, where she donned a grand concoction of jet-black feathers that featured raven skull pendants around the thighs of her bodysuit.
Chyna’s over-the-top Grammys outfit did not receive the approval of her brutally honest mom, Tokyo Toni, who roasted her daughter’s look to TMZ.
In the blistering fashion takedown, Tokyo Toni – real name Shalana Jones-Hunter, 51 – gave her opinion on Chyna’s Black Swan getup, which was one of the worst looks of the evening.
Toni said: ‘I texted Chyna this morning and, uh, when I found out and I saw it, um, I said, “Chyna, what in the H is this? Who are you trying to not impress?”‘
Blac Chyna’s mom wasn’t agonizing over telling her daughter the cold hard truth, as she said that the blunt criticism was ‘well-deserved.’
‘It may have been a little, um…mean, or whatever, but it was well-deserved,’ said Toni, who didn’t receive a text back from her daughter.
‘No response,’ Toni stated. ‘Maybe if I said, “Oh, your dress was beautiful,” maybe I woulda got a response.’
‘It was terrible,’ she proclaimed, driving home her point. ‘And I just wish that whole day could just rewind and bring her back and put a nice gold dress on her with some blonde hair. We’d been happenin’. It was horrible.’
Toni kept blasting her daughter, and came up with some interesting comparisons in the process: ‘She looked like Black Adam’s wife fell outta the sky. Like…a fallen angel. It was disgusting.’
And Chyna’s mom didn’t stop with her dress, as she lit into the reality star’s inky eye makeup.
‘Her eyes…it don’t look like Blac Chyna. It just don’t look like her at all, and that dress…I coulda came and took it off her myself.’
After unleashing her tirade to TMZ, Tokyo Toni concluded with a few final thoughts – none of which were positive.
‘I believe she do deserve the trolling because it’s well-deserved. The Grammys should be…you should be dressed…very very elegant. Very, uh, pretty. Real wifey-like. You know?’
‘And you’re not getting an award, but you’re supposed to dress as if you are. And um…it was just terrible. I wouldn’t wish that dress on anybody in the world. Looks like the devil.’
The 54th NAACP Image Awards were hosted in Downtown Los Angeles at L.A. Live Event Deck by Queen Latifah on Saturday.
The event honors outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in motion pictures, television, music, and literature in the year 2022.
Beyoncé and Rihanna were among the winners included in night one of the weeklong non-televised categories getting awarded ahead of Saturday’s main ceremony.
Beyoncé won for the Outstanding Female Artist, Outstanding Soul/R&B Song for Cuff It and Outstanding Album for Renaissance.
Rihanna won for Outstanding Video/Visual Album for Lift Me Up, with her film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, taking the trophy for the Outstanding Soundtrack/Compilation Album category.
The night prior Quinta Brunson, Keke Palmer, and Nia Long, were among those who received nods.
Brunson won for Outstanding Breakthrough Creative (Television) for her ABC show Abbott Elementary. Palmer won Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance – Motion Picture for her work on Lightyear. Long won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Television Movie, Limited–Series or Dramatic Special for The Best Man: The Final Chapters.
Tonight, The Daily Show won for Outstanding Variety or Game Show (Series or Special), while Lizzo’s Big Grrrls won in the Outstanding Reality Program/Reality Compeтιтion Series category.
Serena Williams received the Jackie Robinson Sports Award and Gabrielle Union-Wade and Dwyane Wade were recognized with the President’s Award.
Presenters included Zendaya, Taye Diggs, Issa Rae, Cliff ‘Method Man’ Smith, Jonathan Majors, Janelle Monáe, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kerry Washington, and Sheryl Lee Ralph.