Confessions of a Beauty Editor featuring Polly Blitzer

On occasions I get invited to beauty or fashion events and most of the time I’m not able to attend for reasons beyond my control, but for Confessions of a Beauty Editor featuring Polly Blitzer founder of beautyblitz.com I had to attend. The event took place at Lord & Taylor on 39^th street and Fifth Avenue here in New York City on May 16th, 2013. Hosting the Event with Polly Blitzer was Dave Lackie editor-in-chief of beautytheguide.com and is also the men’s style columnist for the National Post newspaper in Canada.

The event was a total success to my opinion; the evening began with Dave introducing Polly to all of us and asks her about her previous work experiences before she became founder and editor of Beautyblitz.com. She talked about her experience at Marie Claire where she was a copy editor that’s where she got her first insight of what the magazine culture was like. She also worked at InStyle Magazine as an Editor. She talked about all her cool experiences at InStyle which were so fascinating to me. I always wanted to work in a Magazine hasn’t happened yet but will see. Dave asked Polly how many beauty Items arrived on her desk each year and he’s right when he said we weren’t going to believe it, she said she got about an average of a thousand beauty items a month, my jaw dropped, I was like what that’s a lot of products to test out. She mentioned how getting all these products was cool and fun but sometimes she had to test all retinol and anti-wrinkle serums and different skin care products that sometimes would irritate or burn their skin.

They talked about all the awesome press kits that beauty companies send out so to impress beauty editors so that they can be covered/featured in the magazine, companies sometimes send singing telegrams, pop up books, shopping bags with leather straps, you name it anything they can use to impress editors, this was pretty interesting to know. They also talked about press trips, I didn’t know companies took reporters on press trips when they have a product launch, the take press people to different places which sounds really fun and interesting. She talked about her celebrities interviews during the years, some of their beauty secrets and even some their
unfortunate beauty fails. She gave very useful reporting information and tips for becoming a beauty journalist. Four of those tips where:

1.Read Read Read (web sites, magazines , etc..)

2. Create Relationships ( She mentions social media is a great way to create long lasting relationships)

3. Take a class in journalism

4. Don’t be afraid to start low

I learned a great deal about being a reporter and learned so many insightful beauty tips which were very interesting. After the chat with Dave and Polly we were given gifts bags witch I didn’t look inside tight away but did felt is was a bit heavy. After we got our bags we were told to walk around to the counters that were named In a list they gave us when we arrive. Some of the names of vendors was Chanel, Clinique, Bobbi Brown, Laura Mercier, St. Tropez, Frederic Fekkai, Cairns and much more. There was free makeover, facials and hair consultations, and skincare solutions. I actually just went to the skin care and hair consultations, as I already had some make up on. Before I headed to all the counters I wanted to thank Polly for all the great beauty tips and also take some pictures with her :)

                           This is Polly in the center and the one on the righ is my sister Mariella.

I went to Clarins and Clinique for skin care tips though Sherril at the Clinique counter told me I was doing a pretty good job with my skin care routine. I also went to the Frederic Fekkai counter where the nice Jasmina took a look at my supper curly dry hair, I told her I didn’t know what to use on my hair anymore because its so curly and it’s so dry that it gets really tangled all the time, so she gave me some tips on what to do and used some Fekkai hair products on my hair that by the way smelled so awesome, actually fell in love with the smell. Then I wrote down every thing she used on my hair and she was nice enough to give me samples so I can try it and if it work go back and buy the full size and I intend to do just that.

Over all I had an awesome evening thanks to Polly, Dave and Lord & Taylor for such a great event. The night ended me taking my little sister to eat she loved the event too and had fun she said “it was like a early birthday treat”, since the next day was her birthday. Oh before I forget below is a picture of all the products in our gift bag witch I found to be a very generous amount of great products. Reviews coming up.

 

We got this cute pink bag with the following products the

new StriVectin-EV Get Even Brightening Serum,

St. Tropez Instant Glow Body Lotion, J'adore by Dior Perfume,

Aura by Swarovski Perfume, Bliss Faboulous Foaming Face Wash,

Fekkai Advanced Brilliant Glossing, Fekkai Shampoo conditioner and a repair masque, 

Mario Badescu Skin Care Drying Lotion, Trish McEvoy Eye Primer,

Donna Karan Woman Perfume, Clinique Repairwear laser focus, Clinique Blush in Aglow,

Fashion Fair Lip Stick in Naked, Anthony Logistics for Men Shaving Cream

and a black compac mirror perfect for travel.

 

 

Hope you enjoyed and util next time.

 

Leslie xoxo

 

Becca Beach Tint

Before I went to Jamaica I got this Becca Beach Tint duo at Sephora along with some concealer samples that were supposedly water proof, I will talk about the concealers later on.

The two Becca Beach Tint colors that came in this little 0.270oz box are Watermelon and Fig. The packaging is a .14oz tube a bit smaller than the original size, but it’s great because you can just squeeze a little dot trust me a little goes a long way. I love it because you can use it in two ways, as a cheek tint or a lip tint.  The Watermelon shade looks very pretty, though it looks red on the tube on your cheeks once you rub it in the colors doesn’t look as dark and looks really pretty.

When applied on my lips it is a very matte red lip shade it’s not glossy, but it won’t over dry your lips either. I did use a chapstick over it because my lips are really dry and they don’t click with matte lip products, but the tint lasted me all day at the beach witch was the whole purpose of me getting it.  The Fig shade is very light for me so I didn’t use it on my cheeks but I did use it on my lip which makes a great nude lip color. They both smell awesome the watermelon smell like watermelon it does fade away and the Fig one has a fruit smell too witch also fades. 

Over all I liked these products, they both came really handy for being out in hot humid weather and at the beach in Jamaica. I would totally recommend Becca Beach Tint Cheek and lip tints specially now for the summer.

These are some swatches of the tints left side picture has no flash and right side picture has flash, the top one is Fig as you can see is a really pale pink you can barely see it on my skin in the left side in the sun it might be a little visible but not as much and the bottom one is Watermelon witch looks really pretty on the cheeks and lips.   

Hope you enjoyed the review and until next post.

Leslie
xoxo