World according to Blondes

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Jason Dolan top hair colorist in John Barrett hair Salon knows it best how to create Bergdorf Blondes.  I have been transforming my blond hair color with him for the past 10 years.  Incredibly good and confident at what he does Jason boasts a large and devoted following, including many celebrities, and TV shows.

He brings life and luster to any shade of hair, yet he has a particular talent of giving highlights its natural look. His gift thrives on creating marvelous new looks for those in need of a color boost.

I like the fact that my hair is treated with the most innovative professional hair color system from L’Oreal INOA which is ammonia free, has no odor, optimizes scalp comfort, maximizes sublime shine, and covers 100% white hair.

54% women in US color their hair.



The world according to blondes is more FUN!! 

 

 

 

Sadly I must report as being on both sides I felt more visible as a blond.

Here are some interesting statistics for Blondes leadership:

  • Blondes get more dates on service Match.com
  • Blondes increase in higher self-esteem.
  • Most likely employers will hire Blondes for legal professions or any other brainy fields. So much for Dumb Blonde.
  • Did you know that Famous red hair Queen Elizabeth was natural Blond, as was a raven-hair beauty Cleopatra.
  • Blondes always seem to be the center of the controversy
  • Best jokes are always about Blondes
  • Blondes get more mosquito bites. (Evidently mosquitos prefer Blondes)
  • Blond girls power has been trademarked.
  • Blondes owe to French chemist Eugene Schuller who in 1907 created a Bottle and a Dream Blond hair dye.
  • In 1911 Blond Bombshell Jean Harlow was born, who became “The It Girl”.
  • In 1953 the Blond Goddess Marilyn Monroe was featured on the cover of Playboy magazine causing  revolutionary Blond movement.
My favorite Famous Blondes: Madonna, Princess Diana, Merilyn Monroe, Jennifer Aniston, Claudia Schiffer.
 
Coloring your hair may seem like an art to most people, but there is actually a lot of science behind it.  John Berrett hair salon is located in the penthouse floor of Bergdorf Goddman and is favorite destination of the STARS…

Show me your closet & I will maximize its space

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No matter how many clothes you have, sometimes you just can’t find anything that matches, or you’ve completely lost track of your favorite outfit.  In reality we only use 20% of what is in our closet.  I sign under that statement and noticed that most of my clothes just gang there unworn.

I can’t deny it.   I decided to use a season change as a perfect excuse to edit and simplify my own closed using 5 simple rules that have been working for me perfectly.

Here they are:

Rule   #1 

Keep only current weather season clothes in your main closet.

Rule   #2 

Choose Karen Rhodes skinny velvet hangers and save enormous amount of space.

Rule   #3

Organize your closet by the Category: bottoms, tops, dresses, and evening.  Separate delicates with fragile beading and embroidery protecting them in clear plastic or garment bag.




 

 

Rule   #4

Organize all your categories by color.  Start with: white, creams, beige, peach, pink, red, fuchsia, purple, light gray, darker gray, light blue, darker blue, navy blue, brown, and black.

Rule #5

Put away what you don’t need with space saver boxes.  Reisenthel collapsable boxes are not only beautiful, but very practical.  Light weight and very functional for any closet’s shelves. They come in different sizes and are perfect to store your gloves, hats, socks, tights, undergarments, scarfs, and anything else you can have easy access to.  If you want to get really neat you can get additional dividing velvet compartments interiors at Container store that will keep your colors, and categories in order.

I also love to put delicious sents and travel size air purifiers that are available at Frontgate to keep everything fresh and to prevent musty smells in clothing.

I like to open my closet each time and make a dressing experience very special!!

 

 

Feeling and looking good is contagious

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After Sun Math 

Biologique Recherche is what I call made-to-measure beauty.  Essence of a perfect solution for the sun-damage faces drank up with the vitamins and actives found in the serums and creams. 

Their products are ultimate Solution for all skin type needs and problems. This cosmetic line delivers skin care effectiveness in its purest estate.

 Minimalistic design, Maximalistic results. Brand is based on an original concept: The essence of simple serum mixture to use with active ingredient that repairs the skin instantly.

You just need a syringe to get every drop of the sanctuary elixir COLOSTRUM SERUM to avoid any access of bacteria from getting in, and follow with CREME RELIPIDANTE to get maximum skin repair effect.  You can also mouisturize your skin, body and hair with BENEFIQUE OIL which has a very pleasant sent and rich texture. Great for before and after being exposed to sun.  Karin also advised me to mix this oil with their full of actives body cream EMULSION ORIGINALLE. The repair face of targeting specific need for tonic and firm body can be best restored with magical CREAM REPARATRICE alternated with new revolutionary product SERUM MATRICIEL that has been getting standing ovation in French Voque.

Banish summer unprotected skin beauty problems and Don’t leave home without using these products!

http://www.biologique-recherche.us/

I can do it with Louise Hay

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What a weekend I had! Inspiring, empowering and filled with lots of meaningful messages. Louise Hay knows it best when it comes to standing behind the mantra

I CAN DO IT.

In her 2 days seminar organized by HAY HOUSE in NYC full empowerment lives through us to embrace just that.  We need to wake its conscious, find purpose in life, what moves us, excites us, and what we are passionate about.

Sometimes when life sucks shift happens unexpectedly.  It addresses challenges for us and badges new paths to grow.  We are given a second chance to create a life defining our core identity.  So when you find yourself in the middle of the storm and when you look into its eye how would it make you respond differently? Perhaps the simplest and foremost answer to it is the essence to Love, forgiveness, let it go and learn from it.  So ITS ONLY LOVE AND THAT’S ALL as the Beatles sing. …  And honestly Love is something most people don’t understand.

Reaching point of no return is simply a moment that brings us to the summation that it’s never too late to change, break our thinking patterns that are responsible for our feelings of how we perceive the world.  Overcoming the fears and worries that can manifest in unleashing our full power.

And how do we perceive the world?  As Louise pointed it all begins in our mind.  Our thoughts shape our reality; create the outcome for our feelings, which are the currencies we buy our life with. When I connect all the dots I like to think of it as “ THE WORLD HAS BEEN CREATED FOR ME” as I have learned about it from one of my favorite popular Broadway show “Everyday Rapture”.  Our world of half-truths did not happen by accidents.  We can’t miss the biggest story of our life-the story that takes place right under our noses.

Louise encourages the importance of practice daily affirmations and gratitude at the front of the mirror.  It’s the most powerful way of self-acceptance and loving, however at the same time the most difficult for majority to practice and accept.This is the only way that will diffuse and differ when we think too much about future and ourselves.

We are blessed with so many gifts one of them is our Imagination that declares our reality. But make no mistake! This is not a fantasyland.  It’s a clear path for everything to get better through constant affirmation remodeling exercise.  We are able to co-create the world by showing up differently, by giving a world a purpose.  Reinventing an authenticity to new YOU.

All is well.

My favorite quotes from the seminar:

1. Formula for success; First we must be so we can do so we can have.

2. Universal language is Smile

3. If you don’t have strong NO you will have weak YES

4.  Tell the truth even if it pisses someone off

5.  I love life and life loves me

6.  If you think something is missing in your life its probably YOU

7.  Dear God show me the truth about myself no matter how beautiful it is!

http://www.louisehay.com/

Eva Minge conquers hearts of Fashion Week in New York

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WHO IS EVA MINGE THIS SEASON?

Eva Minge Polish native fashion designer stays true to herself presenting Spring/Summer 2012 collection in Hudson Hotel during New York Fashion Week.

Her new Esotiq Spring/Summer line staples a dynamic and inspiring new beginning.  In the season full of ladies of their finest clothing Eva adds fresh takes of luxurious touches of my classic favorites. It was all about the fabulous. Where less is more!

This Spring for Eva is about capturing the essence to pursuite of elegance for well dressed woman with grace and an air of confidence, so your presence is known in any room.  As every woman knows best its always about finding an updated classic, covetable, hard-to-get pieces that’s subtle enough to save but statement making to capture the moment. Her mix of cream and black colors with delicate touch of gold, high quality fabrics and zippers unfolds in variety of styles and additional swimsuit edition.

I celebrated her fashion and was part of this exciting event.  Bravo Eva!

 http://www.ewaminge.pl/

Taste your wine like a pro

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Gabrielle Vizzavona French wine expert, member of “French Sommelier Association”, and TV host taught me how to taste wine like a pro.  Learning it was an adventure for me, and truly deepen my wine appreciation for both wines and winemakers. We started with wine basic senses of looking at wine, smelling, tasting it and of course lots of spitting!!

Gabrielle described general characteristics of wine with the range of flavors, and aromas.  I learned that wines have four basic components: sweetness,  tannins,  alcohol,  and acidity. A good wine will have a good balance of all for characteristics.  Aging will soften tannins. Acidity will soften throughout the life of a wine as it undergoes chemical changes which include the break down of acids.  Fruit will rise and then fall throughout the life of a wine. Alcohol will stay the same. All these factors contribute to knowing when to drink a wine.

Throughout her adventures international wine taster Gabrielle found some amazing wines almost everywhere.  Here is her favorite California & Oregon wine list recommendation for wine lovers.

CHEERS!!

Belle pente riesling 07, Muller thurgau (12 doll), Riesling 09 (20 doll), Patz & Hall, Hanzel (pinot noir), Joseph Phelps (bordeaux blends), Lagier Meredith (Shiraz), Viader (petit verdot), Calera pinot noir 07 

For more of Gabrielle’s wine tips visit her website www.gabriellevizzavona.com


In Boutique on 57 we trust

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“Our responsibility comes from years of delivering quality designer brand names, variety, uniqueness, one of a kind limited editions.  Delivering always on time, servicing memorably, creating a valuable partnership between ourselves and our customers”

 

Boutique on 57 best kept secret!

Not just a stylist, but focusing on all aspects of the always evolving fashion industry. I love working with designers to help push their vision and create great images for their brands. I like to be a part of projects from personal fashion reinvention, whether helping to choose right ensemble, hair, make-up, or accessories.

Its not easy to be a modern dandy. Women want everything. Traditional but new style, great fabrics withholding its shapes and colors. You can always reinvent your style at Boutiqueon57  

Straight from Italy with new collections: Moschino, Blumarine, Brunello Cucinelli, Roberto Cavalli, Blumarine, Valentino, Missoni, Alberta Ferretti, Christian Dior, Prada, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, and much more..

New exciting contests and prizes coming in September. See you soon all fashionistas!!!

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Do hair make the woman?

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Would you like to have healthy glamorous hair?     If you answered yes then I am taking you to the RIGHT PLACE Leonor Greyl  hair spa in Paris France.

Their last 40 years of expertise and high-end hair care product innovation is true love of their profession. I have visited them recently in Paris where I indulged myself in a personalized non-agressive hair straightening treatment called Mexican blow-drying free.  This treatment is so effective with immediate results of healthy radiant hair specifically adapted to all hair types.  They use high-grade natural ingredients environmentally safe with delicate aromas, and plant extracts silicone, parabens free.

Its innovative advanced sophisticated technique rescues damaged hair bringing instant hydration, luminosity, and vitality where traditional blow-drying damages your hair severely.  The whole process took about one hour, and it gave my hair spectacular shine, strength, glamour, and beauty.  It was incredible experience and I wish they had their hair spa in NYC. Their internationally renowned products and treatments are used and loved by the top models, celebrities, and beauty experts.

http://leonorgreyl.com/

Can You Sing Like Lady Gaga or “You Have to Be Born This Way”

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Do you want to be the best singer you can be – with the greatest range, tone quality, stamina expression you are capable of? You came to the right place.  And, no matter what your style, getting the basic vocal instrument in tip-top shape is the place to start. Just ask Kurt Robinson who has taught best of over 10 years effective Vocal Coach training. He takes you step by step to make you the most flexible communicator you can be. In singing, as in sports, the muscles needed for performing have to be exercised.  Daily practice will give you the confidence to sing whenever the occasion arises.

Kurt’s clientele have enjoyed thriving performances in someof the hottest Broadway productions and national tours, including Rent, Billy Elliot, In the Heights, Hair, Spring Awakening, The Color Purple, Hairspray, Wicked, The Lion King, Tarzan, The Little Mermaid, Phantom of the Opera, Dream Girls, Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, A Chorus Line, Producers, Chicago, Spamalot, American Idiot, and the Radio City Rockettes. He has coached recording artists for the Columbia Artists, Jive, Def Jam, Epic, Atlantic, and Nickelodeon labels.

Kurt maintains a private studio in New York City and works regularly with students across the United States, in L.A., in Europe, and in Japan. He is on faculty at the Broadway Dance Center in New York and is a headlining vocal coach for MSA Talent Agency NYC.  Kurt workshops for the Jikei Group Music Conservatories in Tokyo, Japan.  He holds a Master’s in Vocal Performance from Manhattan School of Music.

Kurt’s vocal technique enables anyone to sing better effortlessly!

http://www.full-voice.com

So You Want to Dress Better?

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I have made a compelling case on the importance of a well-dressed woman.  Few simple secrets for building a basic wardrobe and improving their general appearance-it’s not meant to turn you into a trendy hipster overnight. Your body is a temple that deserves to be worshipped.

Don’t forget that the basics are timeless: Less is more. Solid colors, elegant white and black shirts, blue blazers, lace-up dress shoes, and white sneakers. You’ll always look presentable.

Remember to wear clothing which fits well. Clothes a size too small do not make you look thinner or smaller. Dark clothes will help you look a little thinner.

Dressing right can be very important to a lot of us. Just make sure to wear comfortable stylish clothes that compliment your beauty and confidence! Below is the picture of Serena Williams wearing Blumarine blk dress available at Boutique on 57:

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