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BlogHer '07 - Beauty & Style Wrapup
By Kelly Reising |
August 1, 2007
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 My oldest daughter told me today, when I was doing her doll’s hair, in elaborate pin curls, that “Wow, Mom, you are quite a fashionista!” Where did she even hear that term? I thought to myself that my kid is a chip off the old block all right. She pretty much summed it up. I adore fashion and beauty. Can’t get enough of it. I read about it. I like to look at it, and hear about it. Somehow, my five-year-old can see that. Fun and high fashion is everywhere you look. So this past weekend I was looking around the writing conference I attended for style in all its fabulous forms. Finding some at BlogHer was easy. Here are my top beauty and style moments…
My dress -- For The Imperfect Parent cocktail party I choose a fetching purple dress from Nordstrom. I actually bought the same dress in black and was conflicted over which one to wear. Considering it’s the summer season, I chose to go with color. It was by Gibson, made out of viscose and a touch of spandex, but feels like soft t-shirty material. I thought it was very cute.
 The Amy Sedaris outfit -- All right, I am completely enamored with this woman. She is hilaaaaaaarious. When I found out that she was going to be a speaker panelist at BlogHer, I was soooooo there. When I got there I found out that she was going to be on a panel about people that blog about Crafts. I thought that’s really not my thing, but I still was very excited to see her. My gosh, the woman was in a movie! Strangers With Candy, a movie about a character she created. Brillant. Funny. Bizarre. Completely unfiltered. When she showed up at the panel she was wheeling in a stylish suitcase that she could have slipped her tiny little body into. Dressed appropriately in a short sleeved black blouse, with tiny ruffles down the button front, with her trademark black glasses framing her face. Her skirt was that of a 1950s housewife. Full and feminine with lots of crazy embroideries and patterns. It’s similar to the skirts she wears in her book, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence. Very cute. I even got lucky enough to ask her a question when she was up there with all the other craft-crazy bloggers. The question was, “Why cupcakes? What is it about cupcakes that inspires you to make them and sell them to people you know?” The only reason I asked this was to hear her go off about cupcakes for a bit. Plus I was a little tired of hearing other people talk about homemade macramé oven mitts. Seriously. I wanted to tell the other panelists…do you know how funny and famous this woman is? “Good times!” She wrote that in the book I bought and had her sign. So fun.
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The AOL Swag Laptop Bag -- I love you AOL. I know people have mixed emotions on you, but considering that you were a corporate sponsor for BlogHer, I just love you. The fact that you had a video blogging booth at our conference was beyond nice. The fact that I could do a video blog and send it to my daughters was so they could see what their Mom was doing in Chicago meant a lot to me. So when you handed out to all the attendees the super swag laptop bag in sage green or navy, I was just happy. My old laptop bag is just not cool. It’s very basic black business traditional laptop bag. Boring. My new AOL bag is hip. Plus I had to score another one for my boyfriend, so I did lie and say I lost mine. I’m sorry. It was for a good cause though. His old man bag is atrocious. The new one is style personified.
Sneaker Boy -- Ah, sneaker boy. I met him at the cocktail party on the rooftop of Navy Pier. He was wearing some kind of high end Nike sneaks. I think they were gray. But how can you not love a guy that has a footwear obsession? He writes a blog called www.sneakerblogger.com -- check him out. The highlight of his shoes weren’t even the brown pair of Tod loafers that he wore when we went clubbing. The highlight was the white and red K-Swiss tennis shoes he wore the last day of the conference. Perfection. I need a pair.
Have a question for Kelly? Send it to magnet@imperfectparent.com!
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 Kelly Reising is the Beauty Editor of Mode, a lifestyle magazine geared towards women in the direct sales industry. Her monthly column for HotMomsClub.com is called “The Beauty Bite” and you can seek out even more of her advice at Lifetips.com where she is an Expert Guru Author in Makeup. Her first book, Lifetips 101 Makeup Tips will be available on Amazon.com and at Barnes&Noble.com This former makeup artist and mother of two girls knows that while her day may not be perfect, at least her lip gloss will be. |
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