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January 23, 2015

Fashion Pulse Flash: Featuring Diptyque, Sassoon, more

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Hello! And Happy Friday!  I’ve experienced a bunch of fantastic items and events over the past week, and can’t wait to share them with you. In the meanwhile, I also revamped the Fashion Pulse Daily Press Section, where you can find links and PDFs of Fashion Pulse Daily and/or me being quoted, linked to, or features penned by me, and found elsewhere. I hope you like it!

One of the more recent features you’ll find there is the piece I wrote on Stylish Workout Apparel for The Today Show’s website, Today.com. Thanks for checking out the latest happenings at FPD;  I sooo appreciate your readership and comments!

Diptyque florabellio fragrance

Last week I was thrilled to attend the launch event for Diptyque‘s latest scent, Florabellio, which hits Diptyque stores and retailers in late April of 2015.  Diptyque Paris, at six decades in business and going strong, is an iconic fragrance house originated in Paris and is most well-known for candles, home and personal fragrances. Thinking about what you may experience moving from the “woods to the shore” holds as a point of inspiration for the fragrance, which incorporates notes addressed by the brand as salty sea spray, sea fennel, apple blossom, and apricot-scented osmanthus mist, roasted coffee with toasted sesame accents. It’s a blend of rich scents that marvelously work together; definitely feminine but not overly so, and at its core, luxurious and easy. In a nutshell, it’s lovely, and I think you’ll come to enjoy it just as much as I did – only three more months to go until it’s officially here!

cricket ultra smooth professional hair dryer

When I receive a promise of beauty enhancement on several levels, and I don’t even have to do anything…I am totally in to give it a go. Wouldn’t you do the same? Continue reading…

August 15, 2014

Fashion Pulse Flash: essie, Sassoon, Phyto-C, more!

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the knot fall 2014 -1

It’s not every day that you get to share your honeymoon with…all of the readers of a major publication! I’m so thrilled that our story and imagery was selected to represent an example of a great Hawaiian honeymoon in The Knot‘s fall 2014 national edition. This was such a perfect commemoration of our  one-year anniversary, as exactly a year prior to the day, we were on a beach in Hawaii, sipping on Mai Tais!

If you haven’t been to Hawaii yet, please do add it to the top of your travel bucket list, as the majestic beauty, delicious, fresh food, and friendly people of the islands makes for quite a memorable experience.  We managed to stay on budget by cashing in a ton of credit card points/miles that had been accumulating for a year and a half, redeemed toward on our flights and car rentals, and we would occasionally pick up food from the grocery store and cook meals or bring food with us during our stay.

See below for the page dedicated to our honeymoon, along with the not-to-miss pic of me digging right into the coffee beans (Don’t worry, it’s sanitary! Visitors were allowed to touch a special section of the beans on the coffee tour). For more pics from our “big event,” check out the edited selection of our wedding photos, featured in The Knot’s “real weddings” section.

The Knot Honeymoon

essie fall 2014
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February 4, 2014

Fashion Week Worthy Hair Design, From Sassoon Salon!

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Sassoon Salon inside

[Inside the Sassoon Salon]

Fashion week is always the marker to update my beauty look, be it hair cut, color, eyebrow shaping, or even a simple manicure and pedicure. This time around, I received the royal treatment – a hair cut from the Sassoon Salon  on 56th Street- ooh la la! Anderson La, my amicable and and thorough stylist, reassured me that although I wasn’t feeling adventurous enough to lob a foot of hair off that day, that I would still be getting a signature Sassoon cut, since it comes done to the precision and style of hair design.

And precise, Anderson was; just when you think there are only a handful of options for long hair, seeing an expert stylist will reveal plenty more! For my style, Anderson only took up a tiny bit in length, cleaned it up evenly in the back, and created a nice halo of a layer at the nape of the neck for added volume and dimension. In the front, he truly cared for every single strand of hair framing me face, making sure the length I was left with accentuated my strong draw line in the best way possible. The cut was in no way rushed, which was split up into two parts: I was first shampooed and had a mix of hydrating and color-treated hair treatment by Kérastase put in and Anderson then cut it wet.

before + after Vidal Sassoon

[My before and after pics]

Next, the treatment was rinsed out, and Anderson dried and perfected the cut, then blew-dry and styled my hair with a flat iron, first straightening it out then added in some loose waves. If I dare say, my hair received the revamp that it needed to make it stylishly through New York Fashion Week!

Although this wasn’t my first time at Sassoon, the experience sure reinforced the value of connecting with a stylist who has perfected his/her technique, and in this instance, in the Sassoon way.  The stylists at Sassoon Salon are constantly challenged to stay on the latest news and trends in haircare, as well as incorporating new techniques into their current repertoire. Sassoon releases two “collections” a year, which stands as inspiration for clients to request new concepts and adjust to how they will work best for them, as well as help the Sassoon salon brand in continuing to evolve as pioneers in the salon space.

sassoon new cuts

[A look from the Constructivist Collection]

The latest collection, “Constructivist,” is inspired by the art movement of the same name from the early twentieth century, and emphasizes the symmetry of  and color in tandem, utilizing the Sassoon long-standing philosophy of logic and iconic geometry in hair cutting.  Colors introduced in this collection create both compliments and contrasts, like cool and warm browns, pieces of copper and iridescent, opaline blonde with soft lilac, silver and pale grey.

Have I got you ready to experience it for yourself? Go for it! Call one of the 15 locations nearest you for an appointment, and for a limited time, receive a $20 voucher for every $100 gift card you purchase (Note: you should treat yourself! Call the salon to inquire about the deal- some exceptions apply).