Events – Page 4

Sanaa Lathan is the new face of Pantene Pro-V Nature Fusion Moisture Balance Collection!

January 19, 2012

A few weeks ago myself and several other beauty bloggers were invited to a super-exclusive event at the Hotel Gansevoort in New York City to celebrate a new product launch by Pantene.

When we arrived at the event we had to sign a disclosure policy not to spill the beans about the new spokesperson for Pantene’s new Pro-V Nature Fusion Moisture Balance Collection. To our surprise the new face of representing the Pantene Pro-V Nature Fusion Moisture Balance Collection in print ads is none other than the beautiful actress Sanaa Lathan. As you can image it was extremely hard not to tweet or twitpic this event! However we did get a chance to sit down with Sanaa up close and personal.

What do you think of Sanaa Lathan as the new face of Pantene’s new collection?

Want a beauty internship with Dior? It’s gonna cost you!

October 27, 2011

If you an aspiring beauty marketing professional here is the dream internship of a lifetime.. a four-week internship at Christian Dior Perfumes headquarters in New York. Now while you’re grabbing your resumes and getting ready to submit I have to let you know that it’s gonna cost you. Yes, You read it right, this UNPAID internship is going to cost you money. You see Christian Dior Perfumes is having an auction where ~~the best candidate~~ the highest bidder gets the privilege of grabbing Starbucks for the office for free!

On the positive, 100% of the fees collected from this auction will go to Look Good…Feel Better, an organization dedicated to helping women deal with the appearance related effects of cancer and its treatment. So although this internship is going to cost a pretty penny, it does benefit a really good cause. At the present time the current bid is $1,205, but I’m sure that the price will go up much higher before the auction ends on Halloween.

So would you pay to intern at your dream company?

Behind the Scenes: Lucky FABB Conference

September 8, 2011

To kick off Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week and Social Media Week, Lucky Magazine hosted their FABB Conference, otherwise known as the Lucky Fashion and Beauty Blogger Conference. As a beauty blogger I’m most appreciative of this event. I see conferences for mommy bloggers, wine bloggers, tech bloggers…but I’ve never seen a conference for beauty bloggers. So kudos to Lucky Magazine for not forgetting about us and even more-so for no lumping up together with fashion bloggers and appreciating our unique voices about everything beauty.

Lucky Fabb panel Diane Von Furstenberg — Diane von Furstenberg and Brandon Holley

The conference started off with designer Diane von Furstenberg as keynote speaker. Diane is so down to earth and I know that is such as cliched phrase but it’s so true. She came from humble beginnings in Belgium, she had a clear vision of the woman that she wanted to be and she manifested an empire. She was the perfect speaker to start the day off with, she gave candid advice sprinkled with a little humor. Diane also shared her three rules for women:

1. The most important relationship you will ever have is the one you make with yourself.

2. All women should have children.

3. It is very important for women to have an identity outside of their career.

Amen Diane.

Diane Von Furstenberg Lucky Magazine keynote speaker — Diane von Furstenberg

Panel like Brands & Bloggers working Together and Setting the Trends are always blogging conference favorites. Most of the advice given was to “be authentic” and to “find your own voice”. Now if they only have a panel on that advice…

We heard from industry professionals like Katia Beauchamp who is the Cofounder of Birchbox and Essie Weingarten, Founder, Essie Cosmetics. It was nice to see that beauty brands were represented, and I loved hearing from brands that i write about. I think that every beauty blogger has swatched an Essie nail polish a time or two!

Essie Weingarten at Lucky Fabb — If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not taking enough risks. ~Essie Weingarten

Rebecca Minkoff, Rachel Roy and Coco Rocha on Building Your Brand

: Rebecca Minkoff, Rachel Roy, Coco Rocha

And of course the panel would not be complete with some well know bloggers like Phil Oh, Founder, Street Peeper.

Setting the Trends Panel with "Street Peeper" and "Man Repeller"

And just when you thought that you’d seen the Kardashian sisters everywhere, well they were at Lucky FABB too. The ladies were polite, funny and answered a few questions while being filmed for their reality series. I’ll admit that I’m a Kardashian fan so I was incredibly excited to see that they were speaking at FABB.

Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian — Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian

Kim Kardashians engagement ring! — Sorry but I had to take a photo of Kim's engagement ring!

Kourtney Kardashian at Lucky FABB — Kourtney Kardashian

The full day conference ended with closing remarks from Brandon Holley followed by a fun cocktail party. Lucky also honored bloggers with an awards ceremony presented by Zappos.com.

This is my second time at Lucky FABB and I’ll be there again in February. Aside from enjoying a carefully curated panel, Lucky provided bloggers with an opportunity to connect with one another in real life. I met a few people that I follow on Twitter and it’s refreshing to put a face to a name and blog.

Should you go to Lucky Fabb? If you’re a beauty or fashion blogger, abolutely.

Maybelline NY and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week live on the internet!

September 4, 2011

If you live in New York City then you know that fashion week is upon us. From September 8-15, 2011 you can catch some of the runway shows and behind the scenes beauty as it happens live from Lincoln Center. Maybelline, official sponsor of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, will be live streaming more than 30 shows from the tents. I’m looking forward to seeing Nicole Miller, Charlotte Ronson and Vera Wang!

Catch the front row experience here. To follow all of the details on twitter use the hashtag #LIVERUNWAY

I’ll be at Lucky FABB in the Big Apple on September 7th!

August 25, 2011

As part of Social Media Week and leading up to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is one of the most lust-worthy blogging events of the season, the Lucky Fashion and Beauty Blogger Conference (FABB). I attended FABB this past February and it was a blast! There were about 150 bloggers in attendance and Joan Rivers was the keynote, the panel included J.Crew’s Executive Creative Director/President Jenna Lyons, Fashion designer Tory Burch and Rich Tong, Fashion Director at Tumblr.

This time around Lucky brings Diane von Furstenberg, Coca Rocha, The Kardashian Sisters, Essie Weingarten (of Essie Cosmetics!), Rodger Berman and many more amazing peeps to NYC to advise aspiring bloggers on the business of fashion and beauty and of course blogging. The conference will explore female entrepreneurship and how to make a blog a business as well as branding yourself and how to work with the brands you love.

Unfortunately the conference is already sold out of the 250 available tickets (there’s a waiting list). Luckily I ordered my ticket early and will be among the lucky 250 bloggers attending this event. The good news is the conference will be available via live stream so that you can catch all of the deets!

Stay tuned for more news about this event or follow me on Twitter as I live tweet this amazing event!