Fresh Beauty’s Lotus Collection has returned on Earth Day.
This time around, Fresh Beauty uses all of the whole lotus into the collection. Nothing goes to waste, all in the name of sustainability.
To cut down on fossil fuel, Fresh grows their all ingredients in America.
They grow and farm their lotuses in Alabama. They use Prickly Pears and peaches in their revamped collection.
Jam packed with antioxidant goodness, this goes a long way with this new Lotus collection.
Most skincare companies just use the heart of a flower then discard the rest away. Not with Fresh, they use the whole Lotus in their collection with Prickly Pears and peaches.
After the event, guests potted their own succulents in empty Fresh ceramic and glass jars, to take home on Earth Day.
With Fresh Beauty harvesting and growing their own ingredients in the US, they unintentionally created an All-American skincare.
Something that this sun-soaked scribe can use through July the 4th.
After coaching kids in sports and education then coaching their dads in careers and jobs, life coach, tutor, and mentor, Eric Gee sensed there must be a better and way more fun way to coach people than boring Briggs-Meyers test.
People are so exhausted being round pegs squeezing themselves into square holes.
Hey, why not update it to animal spirits then refashion personality types into video game avatars and fun animals?
At his book debut Happy Hour launch party at his YouTopiaProject.com studio in Culver City, media folks were having fun, learning what’s their “personality animal.”
For Hollywood Entertainment industry insiders, Coachella is wrapping up as Stagecoach is about to rev up.
Pretty soon, it’ll be Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.
Yes, you lucky folks got you all’s tumenscene out in what is a twenty-first century fertility rite of Spring, so close to Earth Day.
Now, your dermis is paying the price for all that partying out in the desert.
Nestled between Santa Ana Mountains, San Gabriel Mountains, and San Bernardino Mountains, Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa is a slice of valley green heaven hideaway, shielded by the mountains, a California version of Switzerland.
It’s history going back to 1860s. While the East Coast was wagering the Civil War, an husband was nursing his ailing wife at a mineral hot springs, that later became Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa and Golf Course to this day.
A long-standing history of retreating from current day stress, Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa is no slouch in up to date facial and body rejuvenating treatments.
This stressed out scribe was treated to their new Radiant Rejuvenation Glow Facial. Glen Ivy has the most knowledgeable facialists, in a state of art spa, the Comfort Zone. It also sells the spa’s own skincare that guests can take home to keep up the facials. To maintain those healthy glows, the Comfort Zone also sells Coola Sunscreen and Glo Cosmetics.
It’s a two-steps facial that’s best for those naughty moms and dads who know better to pick at their acne scars but did. Now, they’re smarting for a facial.
Radiant Rejuvenation Glow Facial’s first step is an effective yet gentle acid peel that eats away at the blemishes and the fine wrinkles.
Then, the second facial is applied. The second facial is a light yet moisturizing mask that replenishes and heals the new layer of skin, freed from UV damages and blemish flaws.
Hence, a “rejuvenated” new you.
In between, the facialist massages the stress out of your scalp and neck, ah.
Before or after, guests can soak in the day spa’s mineral jacuzzis, splash in salt water pool, or soak in the mud bath.
Guests can refuel and treat themselves at Ivy Kitchen and the Cafe for breakfast and lunch.
They have activities such as floral arrangements and intentional bracelets crafting in their “secret garden.” Their garden hosts a many weddings.
Too bad, Glen Ivy Springs Hot Springs normally closes at 5pm.
However, it’ll stay open later until 9pm, during Summer. Stay posted for that.
Sigh, Glen Ivy Hot Springs is an oasis for the senses.
Lea Seydoux proves she got range, playing three different characters in three different time periods while being stuck in a bio-electric feedback loop of never-ending yearning of an unrequited romantic relationship.
Leaping from Belle Epoque to 2014 to 2044, it’s about one woman’s romantic life being reincarnated three times over by the same guy, played by George MacKay.
It’s romance being defined by three different decades and eras, from longing to Incel anger to techno-stalking. This makes it bio-electric feedback loop.
After “The Durrell of Corfu” then “The Crown,” actor Josh O’ Connor is “La Chimera.”
In “La Chimera,” his lost character is Arthur Harrison, an archaeologist who slipped into the black market antiquities that form the foundation for museums’ hot antiquities market.
A Chimera is often referred to as a mythical creature with magical powers and skills that normal people don’t have but wish they have. It’s an Italian unicorn.
Since Arthur Harrison has uncanny knack for discovering ancient artifacts and Roman marble statues, his talents and knowledge fuels the hot, black market that does get him in trouble and being taken advantage of, by the local rural rednecks and farmers who actually make money in the black market.
Basically, poor Arthur Harrison is “La Chimera,” a lost English ex-pat who made home as an English transplant in rural Italy.
It was a “Girl Glam Slam” week, a triple threat of female empowerment in a trio week of: supermodel, Winnie Harlow, actress/producer/Laneige Ambassador, Sydney Sweeney, and @Aftermidnight’s Taylor Tomlinson on CBS. Taylor is the only female late night host in a field overcrowded with stereotypical white males, interchangeable as the next one. It’s time to be a sore thumb sticking out.
Winnie Harlow ignited the week, on a Saturday, by debuting her Island Glow Smoothie at Erewhon, next door to a Sephora selling her sunscreens, conveniently.
She asked this scribe, what her smoothie tastes like? This scribe answered, “pineapple.”
Then on the following Monday, hundred fans lined up then curled around the corner, at Laneige’s The Grove pop-up, for rising star, Sydney Sweeney. She’s Laneige’s brand ambassador. Sydney promoted their latest Bouncy & Firm Face Mask by handing it out to the first fifty fans. As an actress/producer who likes to develop then produce books, she likes reading, Sydney is becoming a triple threat on her own feet and hands, in her early twenties.
The next day, Tuesday, the third and final was Taylor Tomlinson, the lone female late-night talk/game show host in a field over-populated by cookie-cutter white male hosts, interchangeable from the next.
Not only does Taylor sticks due to her gender. @AfterMidnight sticks as the only game show airing at 12:30 am, not your canned talk show. The contestants are comedians. With the people and the time slot, it can be a light blue, raunchy, and risqué with a nightclub party atmosphere.
Before Dior then Maison Marigela, Creative Director John Galliano crashed when in an exhausted burnout or nervous breakdown, a drunk Galliano spewed antisemitic and racist anti- Asian slurs, slurred as his speak. When he realized the average French Parisian don’t give a damn about his high-level, high-pressured haute designer status, they burst his designer bubble, sending him and his career crashing onto Earth.
Coming back from the ground up, John Galliano is coming back as Maison Marigela, sprinkling his theatrical magic dust onto the runway.
His self-destructive documentary, “John Galliano, High and Low,” traces his antisemitic Catholic roots while his extreme low of alcoholism followed by his extreme highs in working out, to detox the drugs and alcohol.
It also shows you, what it means to be a designer of today.
What apprising designers really want to be, is be a Creative Designer.
What most folks call a design house, is really brands.
As Dior’s Creative Director, John isn’t afraid to say, he was in charge of two design houses with their own four lines of haute couture, contemporary ready to wear street/urban wear, accessories, makeup and skincare. Times two, John was designing 8 lines every year, non-stop.
There were no vacations, just research trips to create fresh fashion trends.
In-between, he had to do party and press, media blitzes.
No rest for the weary, no personal life, all that dedication and hard work accumulated into episodes of drugged and drunken nervous breakdowns.
Even his right-man committed suicide due to the responsibilities and demands.
When you hit rock bottom, your true friends come to your rescue.
Ironically, it was the predominantly Jewish fashion that came to John’s rescue. They owed up to saying the fashion industry that they’re part of and own and run, is reason why John had that infamous nervous breakdown.
After leaving Paris and resetting on a farm, John Galliano recovered enough to make a comeback as Maison Maricela’s Creative Director.
Of course, he’s now a different person. No longer hogging the spotlight as celebrity designer, he still sprinkle his theatrical magic dust on another genre-busting runway show but this exhausted bad boy hid behind the curtains.
In a “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” 1950’s period fashion piece, a young smart fashion executive said why don’t Dior expand into accessories of purses, shoes, and makeup, lipstick and powdered foundation mirror compact for the average woman to have touches of haute couture?
That idea have proven to be any fashion brand’s bloodline, the foundation holding the lofty ceiling of haute couture.
John Galliano was the real life, flesh and blood of that, burning out on non-stop treadmill of designing 8 lines of clothes, accessories and the beauty lines.
Those demands killed Alexander McQueen but John Galliano survived it.
After 23 years learning and living then the next 16 years reporting and covering, this scribe discover and cherish time-honored Hollywood tradition, such as Oscar Week! Awards Season, Hollywood dream come true!
A locals-only, the Miss Dior pop-up beauty cafe. Now, the cat is out of the bag!
Last year, it was a real cafe with lattes and savory snacks and fancy desserts, worthy of “Emily in Paris,” with Dior makeup makeovers and J’Adore Dior rose perfumes.
This recent one for this year’s Oscar weekend, Miss Dior pop-up was a fancy ice cream parlor with a rose floral shop with the mandatory makeover stations and the J’Adore perfume bar. Don’t worry, they still had a latte cafe. You need makeovers fueled by rose-tinted, strawberry-flavored caffeine to get you through the rounds of nonstop pre-Oscar parties and soirées leading up to the Oscars.
Oscar Week or Oscar Weekend is the ideal time to launch beauty and fashion products when nervous, anxious nominees and their way more nervous dates, need stuff now, that work immediately.
Ilia Beauty launched their brand, new skincare-based Skin Rewind Complexion Stick on Saturday, day before Oscar Sunday. Their promotional pop-up was a treat trying out the new Complexion Sticks as foundation, concealer, and contour. They had their tinted sunscreen with their tinted lip balms.
This is two days of makeovers.
Remember, this and any Awards Season starts in January with Golden Globes launching it, during Winter.
Oscars complexion starts in January, during Winter.
Sweet July by Ayesha Curry’s Castaway Cream’s shea butter, castor oil, and meadowfoam seed oil moisturizes with antioxidants while niacinamide keeps the greasiness at bay.
For stressed, nervous adult skin, it can’t be too oily to pop up stress pimples and pimple scars, yet it can’t it be so drying that wrinkles and crow’s feet show up,.. for all the world to see.
This is where Ayesha Curry’s Sweet July Irie Power Face Oil comes in handy.
This clarifying oil has the olive oil and neem seed oil to moisturize during the harsh winter while salicylic acid and turmeric clarifies the skin away from clogging pores and debris from pimples. Prepping skin while preventing blemishes, for those close-ups on those big nights, when everyone is watching tv, picking flaws for sport.
Yeah, Oscar beauty and Awards Season skincare is all about saving face closed up, on a global stage. But yeah, it sets you up for years of good skincare habits.
Nothing deep, nothing meaningful yet a guilty treat of an emotional rollercoaster of sexual thriller, according to a real triple threat of “Demise” movie director, producer, and screenwriter, Yara Estrada-Lowe. Growing up, she’s always a fan of Eigthies and Ninties erotic thrillers. But it’s 2024, with exploding Hispanic market, she thought it would it be nice to have a Latin spin on a love triangle and desire. She did it with “Demise.”
Good looks and sensuality runs in the Mendez family. Eva Mendez’ half-brother, Carlo Mendez is an actor in his own right and long, established career. Yes, he plays the cliche hot Latin lover, but in today’s “Demise,” he’s portrayed as a player who’s served with karma, both good and bad. His character, Caleb, undergoes a real character journey riding life’s rollercoaster.
“Demise” is a contemporary erotic thriller set in present day with real, current, and common problems that majority of people deal with everyday, infertility affecting infidelity, revenge while rebounding, and desire versus jealousy. Liz Fenning’s “Celine” is the woman done dirty by life, that this scribe does feel empathy for.
In today’s life, every woman needs an objective gay buddy who sees it for what it is, to tell her what it is. This is where a strong supporting character comes, “Miguel” played by Morris Jude Martinez. Being supporting to be supportive, never means being minor.
Come February 27th, you can devour this sexy, erotic eye candy, “Demise” on Apple TV, so you can have something naughty while munching on your chocolate bonbons, French macarons, candy truffles, and toffees. “Demise” is naughty, sexy treat.
In quest for the next fast food hit, in addition to mass question to the mass public in an advertising campaign asking people in creating the next, great Whooper, lucky Los Angelenos were treated to a Burger King pop-up carnival on the massive Santa Monica Pier.
Amongst the fun and games, with swag, Burger King will discover the next, new Whooper.
In order to get their free Whooper, there are three menus, Santa Monica Whooper, Impossible Burger, and Customized Whooper. The Customized Whooper was the secret sauce. Anyone can put anything in their Customized Whooper. Whatever and whichever combination is the most popular, will be the next Whooper.
While munching, folks gulped down oceans of Orange Fanta and Coke and Coke Zero Ice Cream 🍨 floats while getting limited edition swag and designing their dream Whooper on t-shirts.
Let’s hear it for the behind the scenes makeup artists and hairdressers and hairstylists who help actors get into character or get then posh and polished for red carpet’s flashion glare. That extra confidence boost.
Last night was the Oscars for hair and makeup, the Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Awards for the best in special effects and anywhere where celebrities need help.
TV legend, Marla Gibbs and Cheryl Hines showed up.
Tarte Cosmetics’ bus tour celebrating its 25th birthday.
Since Tarte is big enough to treat influencers with overseas and international city trips where influencers have to test drive Tarte’s goodies in various climates and environments then makes fun of those who don’t get the assignment, Tarte is big enough not to get, but to give back for thanking fans while giving those who deserve the most-teachers.
At each bus stop, they’ll stop at a select Ulta for a mere one hour then they hop onto a school where they gift teachers well-deserved goodies that will be much appreciated.
Tarte’s founder’s mom was a teacher. With her success, Maureen thought giving back to under-paid, unappreciated, and over-worked teachers, treats, would a wonderful idea.
It is.
At each one hour Ulta stop, Tarte encourages fans to show, be on the local morning news then be gifted with the freshest and newest Tarte’s products, always healthy.
Warming up for music’s biggest night, the Grammys, requires
rehearsals with the best instruments and equipments.
This is where National Association of Music Merchandisers come in.
Still strictly an industry only trade show, they’re slowly open up to aspiring musicians for $150 general admission ticket to get our feet wet.
Invitation only, Gibson’s Showroom on the Sunset Strip treated NAMM musicians to a little yet exclusive cocktail party where professional musicians can try out Gibson’s Guitars for the upcoming Grammys.
Austen Sexton did an intimate concert set for fellow musicians.
If you all want to get y’all’s feet wet (literally during the rain season), spend the $150 ticket then go scope out NAMM.
It was soaking wet with talent during Grammy Week.
Larkin Poe wasn’t afraid of the rain. They rocked the rain-soaked stage, pool side at the rockers’ Sunset Marquis, where they have a recording studio and the Cavatina Restaurant where the real party was held.
Post-quarantine, it was pouring rockers, braving their hairdos, their leather coats and jackets in the elements, to celebrate the music industry.
Best quality eye candy, Nile Rogers, Run DMC, and Boy George strolled between Cavatina, the poolside stage, and the Morrison Hotel photo gallery, celebrating legendary rock photographer, Mick Rock.
Cool ear and eye candy during Grammy Week, the real deals.
With Grammy Awards fast approaching, it’s only appropriate that multi-talented heavy metal drummer, pianist, fashion designer, composer, and vintner, YOSHIKI finally got his recognition. His own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in front of the legendary Mann’s Chinese Theatre, in the heart of Hollywood.
In the celebratory luncheon, YOSHIKI revealed he’ll be auctioning off his one-of-kind crystal piano for Japan’s earthquake relief.
He used the luncheon as a fond farewell to his crystal piano, by playing it, the last time before he’s auctioning it off.
With him designing contemporary kimonos, producing his own wine, and composing, YOSHIKI ain’t going nowhere.
How do you get that rosy glow for Awards Season, in the middle of winter?
With Ayesha Curry’s Sweet July Castaway Cream, you can a posh matte complexion, without primer or traditional powder, with plant-powered rosy cheeks, natural blush.
What happens if you’re a greasy-faced phobic?
With niacinamide controlling the oil and pores clogging, you can have the best of both worlds, soft, moisturized skin without the fear of heavy oils and fats bursting clogged pores into acne zit pits.
Using traditional caster oil, shea butter, and meadowfoam seed oil, your epidermis is nourished and protected from the harsh elements during dry winter and dry desert heat.
Whether you’re skiing on the slopes or braving the popping glare on the red carpet, Ayesha Curry’s Sweet July Castaway Cream got you covered.
Covering, reporting, reviewing, and being treated to the ultra-exclusive world of pampering and prepping suites that morph into gifting suites during Awards Season, only in Hollywood, I enjoyed them and have always cherish these rare, insider events.
Now, Selena Gomez is revealing the curtain and giving back to her fans and the general public, by treating them, the red carpet treatment by throwing a weekend only Comfort Club pop-up chill lounge retreat.
Yes, Selena is striking when the iron is hot. She’s promoting her just released Rare Beauty skincare and aromatherapy line.
Just in time for stressed out nominees, anxiously worrying and wishing they win, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and/or Oscar.
Those anxious stars have been neglecting their complexions for years and months. Now, it’s close-up, spotlight, and limelight time.
Selena has absolutely been in those shoes.
For nominees and stars, Rare Beauty’s Comfort Club where folks do yoga and meditation studios to center themselves while calming their complexions and nerves, it is a godsend. The calm before the storm.
Selena did this during this past, recent Golden Globes then they’ll do it again, for the Grammys.
For mere mortals and Selena’s fans, it was a thrilling treat.
They got all excited over the same free yoga and meditation sessions.
They were tickled pink, sampling Rare Beauty’s latest skincare line.
Like the nominees, the lucky guests walked away with full-sized spray bottles of Rare Beauty Biotin Mist and little goody pouches of skincare samples, to try at home.
