Coachella-ing Sets Summer Style.

By Laura Medina

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For Californians and local Los Angelenos, it's a mere skip and an hop getaway.

For others, it's a mythical overseas odyssey of a musical festival-turned-season, enough to revive Woodstock.

Regardless, where y'all are coming from, you all need easy, flexible clothes that you can jam into a tote, backpack, or duffle bag.

Free People, www.freepeople.com, quickly delivers at reasonable prices.

Slip it up, slip it down then tie it all around, Free People's Convertible Skirts doubles as tops and skirts.

 https://www.freepeople.com/shop/just-float-on-printed-flare-jeans/?category=SEARCHRESULTS&color=073

Just Float On Printed Flare Jeans screams "Spring" then blooming into Summer.

https://www.freepeople.com/shop/minkpink-minx-denim-jumpsuit/

MINKPINK Minx Denim Jumpsuit jumps straight into White Parties, once Coachella is done and over for another year.

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Wanna get your hippie on or you're an established Gen-Xer or Millennial who parties at the best after-parties and pool parties who needs extra tailoring.

Have no fear, Free People's CRVY Collection is here...or hear, since it's a music festival.

• Flared-leg silhouette with a raw hem
• Contoured waistband that hugs your waist, just right, with a no-gap back
• Reinforced waistband that won’t stretch out
• Stretch Technology denim made to keep its shape all day long
• Front stretch pocket lining, specifically designed to hold you in
• Traditional front pockets
• Button closure and zip fly
• Fit: True to size - designed to fit your curves.

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You packable and toss n' go hygiene and skincare and beauty for your sun-drenched selfies.

Don't dismiss Tarte's younger sister line, Sugar Rush.

The full-sized items are reasonably priced, topping at $25, https://luxurist.blogspot.com/2019/03/tartes-young-at-heart-line-sugar-rush.html

But Tarte thought of more consideration for it's die-hard teens and twenties crushing Coachella, very sensible $10 mini versions of their fragrance, lip oil, cleansers, and oil-free moisturizer.

Full sized but multipurpose...

sugar rush™ beach cheeks cream blush can be used as both blush and eyeshadow. 

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Adelaine Morin may be too young to crash Coachella past midnight but her sunny AdelaineMorinxTarget Palette with it's peach, various pinks, and russet eyeshadows and blush will get your Spring into Summer, without skipping a beat.

Coachella-ing into Spring Break.

Rockin' Cabaret Makeup, Hard Candy.

By Laura Medina

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Before the Pussycat Dolls was rocking singing and dancing troupe, they were a rocking burlesque troupe.  This gave birth to Cherry Boom Boom, https://www.cherryboomboom.com/, created by Robin Lindsley Allen, who worked with the Pussycat Dolls and Prince; and Concrete Kiss, https://www.concretekiss.com/ the singing rock n' roll burlesque version.

These hot, sweaty burlesque troupes really belt it out, sweating bullets, singing and dancing with some gymnastics and acrobatics tossed in.

They need makeup that can rock with them, without melting off.

Hard Candy's  Matte-aholic Velvet Mousse Lip Color, https://hardcandy.com/products/matte-aholic-velvet-mousse-lipcolor-velvet-liner?variant=21439773048937 with matching lip liner, is tough without budging off, that the performers can dance, stomp, rock, sing, flip, and swing full throttle without worry.

Matte liquid lip color with matching lip liner, uses both a matte liquid lip color matching lip liner for the perfect pout. Mattaholic Lip Color is a comfortable hydrating matte liquid lip color that lasts for hours. Matte-aholic Lip Liner glides on smoothly; creating lip definition, extended wear and helps prevent feathering and bleeding.  

The liquid matte formula can double as pinch your cheeks cream blush, if you're rushing to hit the stage.  "In The Navy" blue matte liquid lip color can be smeared on the eye lids as liquid matte blue eyeshadow.

Hard Candy's  Matte-aholic Velvet Mousse Lip Color is great for touring, lightweight.  Once depleted, you can hit WalMart and buy tons to replenish your makeup kit, which isn't going to be much.

Hard Candy's  Matte-aholic Velvet Mousse Lip Color is sexy and tough as these ladies from Cherry Boom Boom, https://www.cherryboomboom.com/ and Concrete Kiss, https://www.concretekiss.com/

Rev Up with Ciara at Sound By SoulCycle Then Recovery with RCVR By Lululemon.

By Laura Medina

The thirty-three years-old Los Angeles Marathon shouldn't be overlooked.  It's emergence took a long time coming.

The Friday night before the race was the most exclusive nightclub/party.  It's the second installment/spin class of Sound by SoulCycle, the trendy, cultish weight-lifting meets biking gym.

The first installment/class was at Wynn's very own SoulCycle, where Sin City's very own, The Chainsmokers, replaced the blasting canned soundtrack with their very own live concert, an extra adrenaline oomph of a boost of busting and grooving on stationary bikes while pumping weights to The Chainsmokers' live beats, Spinning with Soul Cycle...with The Chainsmokers...in Vegas...at Wynn's XS Nightclub, Detox to Retox. https://luxurist.blogspot.com/2018/12/spinning-with-soul-cyclewith.html. As a sweaty reward, the participating riders in The Chainsmokers' SoulCycle class, got VIP access to The Chainsmokers' real concert later that night.

As for Sound by SoulCycle's second installment, a SoulCycle devotee threw a live concert for a SoulCycle spinning class, Ciara for Sound by SoulCycle.

What really got this scribe was that Ketel One Botanicals Vodka did healthy, all-natural cocktails for the spin cycle concert, promoting their Ketel One Botanical Peach & Orange Blossom Vodka, https://www.ketelone.com/vodkas/peach-orange-blossom-botanical/?ds_e=MICROSOFT&ds_c=B%3A+Ketel+One+Botanical_BMM_HV&ds_k=%2Bketel+%2Bone+%2Bbotanical&msclkid=e13f5bf9b96b19b572d60763e348e7e6&gclid=CL-zmM-joOECFZCNxQIdbacHsA&gclsrc=ds/

 If you were unable to sweat to Ciara live, you can sip like the non-exercising concert audience, while making participating riders thirsty, Ketel One's Botanical Vodkas are 405 fewer calories than white wine...

KETEL ONE BOTANICAL & SODA

Featuring Peach & Orange Blossom

1.5oz Ketel One Botanical Peach & Orange Blossom

3oz Soda Water

Serve in a wine glass with ice and your choice of fragrant herbs, crisp citrus or other fresh fruit.

Ketel One Botanical Cucumber & Mint, 

KETEL ONE BOTANICAL & SODA

Featuring Cucumber & Mint

1.5oz Ketel One Botanical Cucumber and Mint

3oz Soda Water

Serve in a wine glass with ice and your choice of fragrant herbs, crisp citrus or other fresh fruit.

The participating spin class riders really earned their low-calorie, all-natural infused vodka cocktails and bite-sized hor d' oeuvres for dinner, and some fresh new athleisure clothes by Soul by SoulCycle at Nordstorm, https://shop.nordstrom.com/content/soul-cycle

Ciara's live concert, with her and her back-up dancers grooving in Soul by SoulCycle athleisure collection, got the riders bumping for a good whole hour.

That was just a warm-up to Sunday's 26 miles long LA Marathon.

This is why naïve newcomers and experienced native walkers either have legs like knots or wobbly like jelly.  This is why Lululemon is kind enough to offer post-marathon recovery wellness and pop-up shop, RCVR by Lululemon in Culver City's Platform, where yoga stretches and Breatheworks dot the landscape,  https://rcvrbylululemon.splashthat.com/

If you're really hurting or can't stomach yoga first thing in the morning, that's simple on the outside but complex in the inside Breathework to get the lungs, the sore rib cages, and stiff guts moving.  Good for your sinus.

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Cyro Cafe's facials are a relief, not just for cooling down sweat but it:

• Tightens the Skin
• Increases Collagen Production for Healthier Skin
• Increases circulation
• Reduces Inflammation
• Closes Pores
• Improves sleep quality
• Promotes happiness
• Reduces headaches

Can't think of anything better than in sweaty, sticky, humid South Carolina summer.

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For those whose legs are really are jelly, the convenient zip-up leggings of Normatec can message those legs back to normal, using hydraulic pumping and deflating air along various pulse points from toes to soles to ankles to calves to hamstrings to sore butts, with nary of an human touch.  A wise investment.

LA Marathon was LA's fitness weekend.

Zen Cooking of Waygu Beef, Nothing Goes to Waste.

By Laura Medina

There's more to beef than just the choice cuts of loin, shoulders, and short ribs.

Chef Thomas Bowman, from the protein-alternative Eclipse Foods, wants to show how to fully utilize beef, especialy Toriyama Waygu Beef, the softest beef there is.

There was the usual but simplest Shoulder Waygu Beef slice...

With beef, there is simplicity, such grilling Short Rib Gyutaki in sugar and butter as a quick, easy, and simple glaze, using cheap, daily ingredients to make something so chic.

You can even save and use leftover beef broth and juice, simmer in garlic and onion as dipping sauce for Beef au Jus, an Los Angeles invention thru a clumsy cook and an hungry cop.

The Kakuni Brasied Chuck Short Rib topped with Chicken Fried Oysters garnished with bacon then drizzled in mayo mustard sauce, it was so Southern that qualifies as fancy decadent for the Oscar Week that came before it.  A true surf & turf hor d' oeurves.  If you know now to fry and sear and grill, you can do this.

Even the most simplest of scrap and rejects brought back justice for fully utilizing Waygu Beef.

Chef Thomas made butter out of Waygu Beef lard as a spread for toast...

He used Waygu Beef lard butter in baking focaccia.

The best utilization of beef waste is using Waygu Beef lard butter in making caramel sauce, something Paleo people will enjoy.  Shoot, they'll enjoy stirring in Waygu Butter in their coffee.

He even incorporated traditional Japanese cooking into All-American sandwiches. Zabutton Gyu Katsu Sando is the Japanese version of Fried Chicken Sandwich. He did a Los Angeles invention, American classic, Beef au Jus, using tender, thin slices of Waygu Beef.

 

Simplicity rules again.  This time Waygu Beef goes Italian in Gooseneck Round Tataki Carpaccio.

Then, goes fancy with Top Round Wagyu Sugo: gnocchi, blue cheese, grapes, pine nuts, top with a lid of crispy parmesan.  Breaking out of the Japanese culinary stereotypes.

Then, Chef Thomas went traditionally Texan with 20 Hour Smoked Wagyu Brisket, still utilizing Wagyu dripping mixed with espresso to make it's own BBQ sauce, garnish with pickles and okra, to be sopped up with white bread.

No part of the Toriyama Waygu Cow goes to waste.  Chef Arai's Sukiyaki of Short Rib, Short Plate, and knuckle.

Don't worry, Toriyama Waygu saved the best to near last, Rib Eye and Short Rib with Pesto.

Chef Arai keeps on giving with one more Waygu grill Beef salad dressed in California Spring Greens and edible flowers.

As a finishing piece to a seven-course tasting feast, Chef Thomas Bowman poached apples in Waygu Fat then used Waygu Fat in making Paleo/Beef Caramel Sauce in a traditional, nothing-weird Warm Apple Crumble dollop in Sakura Vanilla Ice Cream, dusted in Pecan Crumbles.

According to Chef Thomas Bowman, the best way to use and eat meat, especially beef, is to use the whole animal and everything about it, returning to the Native American mentality and being Zen about it.

If you're thrifty and green, there's recipe video for this, https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Caramel+using+beef+lard&view=detail&mid=A253C4731FD62B91E5F3A253C4731FD62B91E5F3&FORM=VIRE

Nothing goes to waste with Waygu and with Chef Thomas Bowman.