E! news :D

The latest exciting news is that a couple of other interns and I will be in an E! News segment showing the styles of the latest trendsetters of 2008-- who are Rihanna, Anne Hathaway, Leighton Meester, Katie Holmes and Gwenyth Paltrow, FYI! Their looks are featured in the People Style Watch Dec./Jan. issue that's out right now. I'm going to be imitating Leighton's look with a BCBGeneration dress... love it!

NY WICI conference

Yesterday I attended New York's Women in Communications Foundations annual student career conference at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. This event is an amazing networking opportunity that I wish I knew about a long time ago. This was my second year attending and I was certainly looking forward to Debbye Turner Bell's ("The Early Show" correspondent on CBS) and Kate White's (Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan...duh!) speeches. You sign up in advance for 3 panels in fields like Communications, magazines, advertising, broadcast journalism, newspapers, marketing, public relations, etc. and you get to ask experienced people in those fields questions about their career, their particular publications and advice on how to get your feet wet.

I managed to squeeze my way in through the crowds of media students after the panels and spoke with the account manager from Cosmo and a reporter for Vanity Fair. I even chatted with the president of my sister's public relations firm, Stanton-Crenshaw! NY WICI is a great way to get business cards and contact information for internships or even future job opportunities.

Talking to a reporter from Variety


Can you spot me in the crowd?

Photos from NYWICI

Beauty Sale!!!

This is a picture captures only a few tables of our sale, before it was ransacked.

Today was our MUCH anticipated beauty sale. I learned they haven’t had one since May and it sure looked like it. We had over 50 bins filled to the brim with beauty products as well as 6 huge dumpsters packed with boxes of more stuff. A dozen of the staff and interns helped divide everything into categories. It was an all-day project and the amount of things we had to organize was pretty intimidating. The fashion closet also had a good amount of their items to put up for sale. 15 tables, 4 racks of clothing and hundreds of boxes later, we finally finished organizing everything within 4 hours.

With a simple e-mail, word spread that our beauty sale was today. People lined up all around the perimeter of the floor to get into the sale. People were pressed up against the glass doors to try to get a peek at the goodies we had inside. It was clearly madness as they all stampeded into the conference room. 2 hours of the sale went by pretty fast and at the end of the day I was exhausted. I’m still not sure what the total amount we made was, but we estimated about $8,000. 100% of it always goes to a charity so I was glad to do my part help out!

Victoria's Secret eyeliner

I have pretty sensitive eyes and absolutely cannot be stabbing them with a super hard eyeliner pencil and I seldom have the patience for a liquid liner. Victoria Secret's Very Sexy eyeliner pencil in Dark Chocolate is my absolute favorite because of it's creaminess, easy application and it doesn't smudge off from a long day of interning. One side is the pencil and the other is a smudging tip. It's smooth enough that you can spread it over the eye with the spongey side for a smokey look. :)

Available at victoriassecret.com for $10

(photo courtesy of victoriassecret.com)

Holiday faves!!!

The run-through for picking out holiday gift guide items was over three hours long! (A typical run-through for a normal story is usually around 20-25 minutes). It's kind of sad to see how many fabulous items just didn't make the cut, but here were my personal favorites!


Dior Holiday make-up palette $70
It has a mini Dior-Addict lipgloss, mini blackout mascara, as well as 6 really pretty eyeshadows, a blush and a shimmery powder. After you've put the make-up to good use over the holidays, you can pull out the products and use the case as a cute clutch!

Now available at: Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdales and Saks.
(picture courtesy of nordstrom.com)



Juicy loves Sephora wristlet $78
Juicy Couture came out with all these limited edition make-up bags for Sephora. This $78 isn't just made for holding make-up, but it was certainly one of my favs. I love the design and the chocolately color! Some of the editors thought it might be too young-looking for most readers. I still dig it.

Available at Sephora.com
(picture courtesy of Sephora)







L'Occitane Provencal Travel Treasures $35

L'Occitane shea hand cream is your hand's BFF. I think it's the perfect little kit for when you're on-the-go or going on vacation and don't want to resort to the dinky shower stuff the hotel usually leaves you with. It's a $57 value for only $35 at Sephora. It comes with:
- 1 oz. shea hand cream
- 2.5 oz. shea body lotion
- 2.5 oz shea verbena shower cream
- 2.5 oz of both aromachologie shampoo and conditioner
- 3.5 shea lavender soap and bshea milk butter soap
Doesn't it sound lush?!

(picture courtesy of Sephora)

Everyday Intern Life

Now that Fashion Week's been over for a couple of weeks, I'm back to my busy beauty closet organizing job, which is proving to be a never-ending, but interesting task. We're getting ready for our holiday issue and it's sweet seeing all the festive gift ideas for this year! And I'm finally making a lot of progress tidying up the closet and I'm excited for our sale coming up soon. I've also been given the cool responsibility on arranging desk-sides with beauty companies on my own--I'm definitely part of an awesome team.

Beauty Blurb: Make-up Palettes

Sephora Bronzed! Make-up Palette

Photo courtesy of Sephora.com

"The Sephora Brand Makeup Bronzed! Palette gets you glowing with 24 eyeshadows, 12 lip colors, two cheek colors, one bronzing powder, two double-ended shadow applicators, a blush brush, and two lip brushes with all new shades for summer. The chic, brushed-matte exterior of the slim compact adds a distinctly modern touch."

My Thoughts: The eyeshadows in their photograph look different in person. They also apply really lightly--even the dark brown and purple. For a "Bronzed" make-up palette, I'm kind of surprised they only provide one bronzer and so many similar white/off-white eye shadows. The lipcolors are the best part, but even they are mediocre! The palette's pretty to look at, but I'd save the $30.

Backstage: Baby Phat

Backstage at the Baby Phat show on Friday, key Linea Pro hairstylist Odile Gilbert created a "60s Cher" look for all the models which meant super long, pin-straight hair and a middle part. Some of the models, like the one below, had bangs too and it came out very nice. Odile said that she wanted something "feminine and sexy like Kimora (the designer)" and that "straight hair is always in fashion."

In order to create the super straight 60's Cher hair, Odile used uber sparkly flat irons, pictured left! She kept the hair products to a minumum, using only Mizani light holding hair spray to finish off the look.







I met up with head M-A-C make-up artist James Kaliardos again. He's pretty awesome and said he remembered me from the Nicole Miller show.

C: What's the look for Baby Phat tonight?
J: 70s Cher. 3 shimmery eyeshadows: bright gold to make the inner corner of the eye pop, peachy gold over the entire lid, and a dark/black gold for the contour of the crease and below the eye.

C: And for the rest of the face?
J: Peachy/orangey blush to create a high cheekbone. The lipgloss is also a peach color. We're using false eyelashes and some mascara. The most important part is keeping the skin sheer.

C: Any special techniques?
J: "Keep the skin as sheer as possible--that helps to make the whole look breathe."

C: How do you know Kimora?
J: "This is my first season doing a show for her, though I worked with her as a model."