• Home
  • About
    • Link Love
  • Press
  • Contact

A New York City Health and Beauty Blog

Looking Polished: Essie Winter 2011 Collection with Essie Weingarten

October 12, 2011

 Yesterday I attended a wonderful media breakfast with Glamour Magazine and Essie Weingarten of essie Cosmetics at TenOverTen Nail Salon in New York City. We previewed the Essie Winter 2011 nail color collection and were treated to manicured and mimosa’s. The Winter 2011 collection is inspired by jewelry and who doesn’t love that?

Essie nail polish Winter 2011 collection
Essie Cosmetics Winter 2011 collection

Like any great accessory, jewelry makes a statement. So I say, the bigger the better! Whether you wear rings, bangles, pendants or brooches—size matters!” says Essie Weingarten, founder of essie cosmetics. The same is true with color for Winter 2011—the bolder the better.

Essie cocktail bling swatch
Cocktail Bling

Out of the collection loved Bangle Jangle and Cocktail Bling. It was a touch choice but I ended up going for Essie’s Cocktail Bling which is a nod to the lavish jewels worn at holiday parties. The color is a gorgeous soft smokey grey with a hint of purple.

What do you think of the Essie Winter 2011 collection?

Leave a Comment
Filed Under: Nail Polish Tagged: Essie Cocktail Bling, Essie Cometics, Essie Cosmetics Winter 2011 collection, Essie Weingarten, looking polished, NYC nail salon, Tenoverten Nail Salon, Tenoverten New York CIty

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 at Lucky FABB
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"
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!
The Kardashians
The Kardashians again!
 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.

7 Comments
Filed Under: Events Tagged: Coco Rocha, Diane von Furstenberg, Essie Cosmetics, Essie Weingarten, Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Lucky FABB, Lucky Magazine, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Rebecca Minkoff, Street Peeper

Sponsors

cheap nail polish

Search

Awards

View this SkinnyScoop List
Top 100 Beauty & Fashion Blogs of 2012 by Skincare-news.com

EverydaySale.co.uk

Subscribe Via Email

Enter your email address:


Delivered by FeedBurner

Lipstick and Luxury Archives

Networks





Beauty Blogs - BlogCatalog Blog Directory



POPSUGAR Select Beauty




Theme Design By Studio Mommy · Copyright © 2023

Copyright © 2023 · Classy Ink Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in