Easy Breezy Beautiful Brows in a Box
Apr22

Easy Breezy Beautiful Brows in a Box

Permit me to rave about a newly discovered product that is now an everyday essential. It’s the Anastasia Beverly Hills Beauty Express for Brows and Eyes — a pretty little palette that includes five brow stencils, a brush, brow wax, two shades of brow powder and two shades of under brow highlighter/eyeshadow. Anastasia Soare is the brow queen of Hollywood who counts a number of celebrities and VIPs as her clients, and if...

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It’s a Beauty-ful Thing: The Oscar Suites

From the Andaz to the Luxe to the Four Seasons, Montage, Peninsula, the London and L’Ermitage, a wide swath of luxury hotels in Beverly Hills and West Holywood were buzzing with beautifying and gifting in the days leading up to the Oscars. It’s the awards season rite known as gifting suites, and although they’ve scaled back since the days before the recession—no more hired-out mansions with private chefs and massages in cabanas by the...

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A Cosmetically Colorful Way to Celebrate
Feb15

A Cosmetically Colorful Way to Celebrate

It looks like an artist’s toolbox, and if you want one, you’re going to have to hurry. To celebrate its 15 years in the business of making trend-setting cosmetics, Orange County-based Urban Decay has come out with a limited edition set of its amazing 24/7 Glide On Eye Pencils—15 of them, of course, for an amazing price. Normally $18 each, the set runs $92. Do the math, as I just did, and that’s only a bit more than $6 each—and you get...

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Treats at the Suites
Jan18

Treats at the Suites

The fun and festivities for the Golden Globes as always, started days before the trophies being awarded.  First out of the gate, the Roger Neal Style Hollywood Ultimate Beauty Suite at L’Ermitage. Neal and his wife Lynn, veteran organizers of luxury awards events for 15 years, including the vaunted Stuart Weitzman shoe dinners for the Oscars, produced another winning suite that focused on beauty and pampering– along with an open...

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Mansion for Men
Jan18

Mansion for Men

In the hierarchy of awards season suites, men are pretty much at the bottom of the totem pole.  But not so at the 2nd annual “THE Hospitality Suite at the Nivea For Men Mansion” hosted by jeweler Pascal Mouawad at his stunning home–also known as the Glamhouse. A full-on barbershop– stocked  with Nivea for Men products, of course — and a cigar lounge greeted the guys as they walked into the hillside home,...

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