This year’s Oscar Awards are fast-approaching this Sunday afternoon, March 2nd.
These style and gifting lounges and suites may be feel like reflating pampering. But underneath it all, it is last-minute intensive treatments to people red carpet-ready when media stick microphones up your noses and cameras into your pores. Even, manicures walk the red carpet.
This is why Lancôme is doing a mini Génifique pop-up spa with a spirulina and coconut water smoothie for internal hydration.
Lymphatic massages to apply Génifique lotion to the face, neck, and chest.
Finally, a beauty pop-up for Millennials, Gen-Xers, and Baby Boomers.
Aaahhhhh, Lancôme’s Génifique pop-up spa feels so good.
For those not in LA to personally get a Genifique facial or missing it this weekend, you can get Lancôme’s Génifique facial massage at any Lancôme counter at Macy’s.
Wink, wink, hint, hint for anyone, anywhere for any function or just any other therapy during retail therapy.
Continuing the trend for effortless, multipurpose, one and done, quality ingredients makeup with the Oscars fast-approaching, Ilila Beauty teamed up with Cafe Telegrama to do a beauty brunch this past weekend.
What a perfect synergy, cosmetics with your coffee and croissants, helping each others out. After the LA fires, cooperation is the new trend.
Ilila Beauty’s new Eye Stylus is the eye makeup version of Rhode Beauty’s Lip Shape.
Instead of lip liner meets lipstick, Eye Stylus is eyeliner meets stick eyeshadow.
You can put Rhode Beauty Lip Shape with Ilila Beauty’s Eye Stylus in your red carpet clutch for speedy, discrete touch-ups.
The vegan-green skincare brand, Youth To The People, share their 10th anniversary with the people by doing a skincare carnival with prizes, goodies swag, and free skincare analysis, matching customized skincare dialysis with their vegetable-based skincare products that tackle complexion problems.
Share, share alike.
Actually, just a week before the Oscars, when everyone needs to r zoom in tight close up-ready.
Actually, Cori says she’s not really a makeup girl. But, she does sees and uses makeup as a self-esteem and mood booster. She makes that as her mission statement.
“Choc” is Snoop Dogg’s nickname for his daughter, since she’s sweet and deep like chocolate.
To further that, Cori puts matching flavors to each of her simple chic collection of lip glosses and lip liners.
Why this scribe loves makeup launch parties, first hand pampering experiences.
Cori’s CHOC Factory lip care brand is pretty basic.
The first two steps are universally for everyone: first, sugar exfoliator to scrub away dead lip skin while moisturizing the new lip skin. This is the first preparation.
Second, then you further moisturize with the universal lip balm. Anyone can do these first two steps as your bedtime routine to rest and rejuvenate your lips overnight.
The third and fourth steps are fun and creative.
The third step is the lip liner. They outline my lips in Hot Cocoa lip liner.
The fourth and final step is glazing the lip liner with Girly Lip Gloss.
The surprising result that dark brown Hot Cocoa lip liner gave depth while light pink Girly lip gloss adds dimension of fullness, an old Hollywood trick that Marylin Monroe did all the time. Cori Broadus’ CHOC Factory is a 21st-century reinterpretation of this Old Hollywood movie magic trick.
Cori’s dad, Snoop Dogg, of course offered emotional support for his daughter’s business launch.
While everyone sampled his daughter’s lip makeovers, grandpa Snoop Dogg danced with his grandchildren.
The Broadus Family used CHOC Factory’s Galentine-Valentine as a family affair, another form of love.
These ladies, Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber, use Galentine-Valentine to show love, compassion, sympathy, empathy, and kindness to give true love to Los Angeles Fire victims, by using the holiday and their fans to raise funds to pay it forward to rebuild Palisades and Altadena communities.
Yes, it was a best of both worlds. Their fans get their favorite celebrities’ makeup then those proceeds goes directly to feeding, clothing, and perhaps, some self-esteem boosting makeup and refreshing hygiene-skincare for the fire victims, giving hands up.
If Taylor Swift’s Swiftie fans exchange hand-braided, knotted Friendship bracelets, Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty fans exchange handcrafted rose-gold rings, twisted to spell “Rare” honoring Selena and her beauty line. To further more kindness, go to Karla Moreno’s @littleworldofkindness, handcrafting rings and other types of jewelry out of love and kindness, @littlekindness and @littleworldofkindness.
Yes, these ladies, Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber, use this opportunity to debut new products to whet the appetite to try new stuff first, experiencing them in real life, touching, feeling, and seeing these items products’ texture then raise funds.
Selena’s fans experience the launch of her latest, Soft Pinch Illuminating Blush, multi-dimensional butterfly prism wing shimmering rainbow of a blush and eyeshadow.
Selena Gomez’s develop Rare Beauty for what real Latinas and Latinx want to wear in real life: easy to use, soft-natural makeup that’s quality as it is reasonably priced, counteracting the stereotypical dark, graphic, and harsh makeup that most perceive as Hispanic makeup, yet something majority of olive-toned Latins don’t want.
Yes, Rare Beauty raised money for Palisades and Altadena fire victims.
Rare Beauty has always been about kindness towards self and others.
Hailey Bieber says, just like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Los Angeles is her home.
Since her mere Tinted Lip Balm Photo Booth pop-ups have proven to be one-day hits, attracting thousands of beauty-itas first thing in the morning, her fun house of a beauty charity pop-up shop took that popularity then used it to raise funds for Los Angeles’ fire victims who need a hand up to rebuild.
This went beyond tinted lip balms. This charity pop-up shop offers the entire range of her multiple purpose portable pocket blushes, the whole tinted lip balms collection, every skincare item, and finally debuting her lip liner-lipstick combo, the whole lip shape collection, in all their flesh-friendly shades of the rainbow.
What attracted hundreds of thousands was this was the only opportunity to swatch and sample these makeup and skincare in real life. The chance to simply touch, feel, and see these items in action. What a better way to raise funds?
Again, these smart-savvy ladies use desire and valentine feminine to fuel kindness.
Real boyfriends accompany their ladies to these charity pop-up shops to further that romance then bought what their ladies want, while being good guys toward charity.
To unite the stereotypical gender divide, Ziba Graham puts his spin in the “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.”
His marriage manual, “Fix Your Marriage Without Counseling,”
https://www.fixyourmarriagebook.com/ is adapting, adjusting, and changing along with your spouse, done in scales. 1 is for divorce. 10 is the optimal marriage. 2 to 3 is when it’s in a danger zone. 7 to 8 is okay but could be better. The different scales initiates communication between spouses to see where they are now and where they’re heading.
It’s not what you want. It’s what they need and want.
This is Graham’s love language of thoughtfulness and consideration.
This is Larissa Tanis’ first-hand account of the first day of the Pacific Palisades Fire on January 7th…
Ballerina-turned Pilates instructor and therapist described how everything turned upside-down then incinerated into ash.
She was working as a therapist at Cypress Center Physical Therapy Clinic and at White Lotus Pilates Studio, directly behind it. The day started like any other day, until she stepped outside then saw huge plumes of smoke nearby.
At first, the locals were ordered to stay put, shelter in place.
But, Larissa listened to her gut instinct, she went ahead then drove straight home, nearly missing that devastating traffic jam where people were forced to abandon their cars from fast-spreading fire.
Luckily, Larissa was fortunate enough to drive back home to, grab and stuff her trunk with important documents, evading the fire.
Obviously, Cypress Center Physical Therapy Clinic and adjoining White Lotus Pilates Studio didn’t survive.
She’s been bouncing from friends stretching from Marina Del Rey to Palm Springs. She switched her studio to the Jonathan Club where 540 club members lost their homes to the Palisades Fire.
The fire engulfed and burnt 24,000 acres and 7,000 structures.
When it was safe to return to check out, Larissa shot a video of the smoldering ruins of her work place.
Since her clients lost their homes and are displaced, wandering around, the pilates community of instructors, nation wide, are coming together for Larissa Tanis to help rebuild her work and the White Lotus Pilates Studio.
The community of pilates professionals has been a source of comfort and center for Larissa.
Now, this Saturday, February 15th from 4pm to 6pm Eastern Standard Time, the pilates community is coming together virtually, to raise funds for Larissa and Los Angeles’ fire victims, on https://bit.ly/.CityofAngels101
Guys, you all can join in with the ladies. Get your fitness on, breathe then get centered, while raising funds, when Kentucky-based ex-Marine turned pilates instructor provides a class.
Alyson will be joined by Robert Edison-Turner, ex-Marine Corps turned sports therapist and pilates instructor.
Palm Beach-based pilates instructor and Rollology creator, Alyson Limehouse is rallying the movement community to help those who lost homes, livelihoods, and studios to the Los Angeles fires.
Limehouse, along with fellow movement instructors, has launched a nationwide effort, spanning from Palm Beach, FL thru Kentucky to Chicago then back to Los Angeles. Limehouse and the team are calling on movement enthusiasts, wellness advocates, and the broader community to join in this effort, https://bit.ly/.CityofAngels101
If you all sign up https://bit.ly/.CityofAngels101, the workout videos and donations will be up and running for near future workouts and donations.
If the fires’ aftermath and the accompanying stress and heartache are getting you down, leaving you discombobulated with a centered routine, and isolated.
Have a feeling that you’re not alone in this. This fitness fundraiser is a virtual hug, knowing you’re not alone in this, mentally, emotionally, or physically.
With this virtual fitness fundraiser, you can join in and nourish your body and soul.
Not only did it raised $100 Millions (keep it coming on https://fireaidla.org/ because recuperating, recovering, and rebuilding homes and lives are a long term effort), Fire Aid LA, in juggling and managing the logistics of all these rockers became every music fans’ wet dreams of legendary duets and collaborations. Whom, some of them, unfortunately lost everything in the fires.
Fire Aid LA was a night of duets of dreams. Established rockers sang with their childhood idols. It was a cross-generational and cross-gender collaboration night.
Altadena Fire victims, Dawes, sang with folk-rock legends, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, putting aside their past petty differences aside, to support a city that gave them opportunities to let their musical careers come true. It was a night of paying it back.
Since this is about giving an helping hand to LA, a city that birthed so many’s dreams, Fire Aid LA was a collection of love songs to the City of Angels.
The Black Crowes and Slash covered Led Zeppelin’s “Going to California.”
This was the beginning of a love letter to Los Angeles and the golden state of California.
The dream team of Anderson Paak with Shelia E. and Dr. Dre did LA love, Inglewood style (since the fundraiser concert was in the heart of black-pride Inglewood, split between the legendary Kia Forum and the high tech newbie Intuit Dome), performing Tupac Shakur’s hip hop classic, “California Love.”
Continuing the theme of California Love was the quintessential LA, Californian band, The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Each performers, with a multitude of bands were limited to one song to no more than four songs. The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ set was solid “Californication” set. They started their set with “Dani California.” The word, “fuck,” is becoming increasingly an adverb and adjective, in terms of authentic intensity. Flea the Bassist, “Los Angeles is our home. We fucking love you!” Anthony Kiedis shows his caring, singing “Under the Bridge” about when more Angelenos cared more about him, than he did about himself.
The idolization of rockers continues with Jelly Roll and Travis Barker covering Bob Sager’s “Hollywood Nights.”
Each song covered by these musicians, represents what City of Angels and California mean to them.
Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters proved to be gentlemen with Joan Jet, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, and his daughter, Violet Grohl, covering his old band, Nirvana’s greatest hits. It was also his daughter’s official debut as a singer. Yes, the remaining members of Nirvana regrouped, with Women Who Rock as lead singers.
The ultimate dream wet team was Sting and Flea jamming with Stevie Wonder, their idol, over his classic funk jam, “Higher Ground,” a Red Hot Chili Peppers’ favorite cover song.
They saved the best for last. As the very last song, Lady Gaga debuted a new song, specifically written for the concert, about the fires.
Due to the recent LA Fires, obviously these affected musicians, on the cusp and established during Awards Season, the music industry and corporations step up.
Live Nation took full advantage of the Grammy Awards to not only spotlight disabled musicians, but raise funds for displaced musicians.
Disabled musicians showed what they got. They never let their disabilities hinder them in playing music. Of course, the most famous is Stevie Wonder, who raised money for Fire Aid LA, the next night.
