I am a lucky girl. I fully realize that, and I am thankful for it every day.

This last Saturday, I was invited to visit The Makeup Show LA by Cal-pal, sweetheart and founder of vegan friendly Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics, David Klasfeld. Held at the penthouse of the California Market Center in downtown Los Angeles, it’s a makeup industry showcase where top national brands and innovative up-and-comers can show their wares and share samples with the top makeup professionals in Hollywood. Wow!

I was immediately introduced to David’s biz partner, adorable NYC makeup artist Katie Pellegrino (and her adorable glasses! HOT!)

• “Basic Life” – they would say hi and then I’d wander around scrounging .1oz lip balm samples. This didn’t happen.
• “Calpernia Life” – David puts some of OCC’s top products into a huge bag for me and Katie pops a cup of Champagne into my hand before leading me off to meet all the top makeup reps at the event. OMFG this is really happening!

By the end of the day, I had almost more makeup than I could carry, a panoply of pigments, powders, cremes, colors, sticks, brushes and more. I literally almost cried at one point, people were so generous. In terms of makeup celebrities, I met MUA (make-up-artist) Sharon Gault of the Madonna “Truth or Dare” documentary, famous YouTube MUA “Queen of Blending“, and I saw sweetie-pie MUA from “Transamerican Love Story” Autumn Scruggs, “Transamerican Love Story (Pilot)” MUA Valerie Hernandez and MUA Selena working and shopping as well.

I will write up the brands in individual posts coming up shortly, beginning with Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics. But let me just tell you, with the addition of a few simple things like a colorful lipstick, thicker mascara and better concealer I have been getting triple the attention from men this week — no joke! I can’t wait to share these products with you! In the mean time, here is a list of top tips from the Makeup Show LA artists.

Cal-pal Johan sent me a delicious box of Swedish Candy! I unbox it and try everything, including the execrable “Jätte Salt” and “Salt Katten”.

Hey kids, I’ve been dealing with MAJOR computer issues over the last week, which finally culminated in a complete meltdown of my main computer’s hard disk yesterday. As you may know, I’m no slouch when it comes to computer wrangling, so I was able to get most of my data off the rapidly sinking ship of my primary machine and into the lifeboat of a 1 TB external backup drive yesterday, THANK GOD, but now I’m struggling to see if I can salvage the hard drive inside the computer at all. I’m using every trick in the book, so we shall see. I’ll tell you a secret… I’ve been working on a new song for Cal-pal Selene Luna that is FUN, so I would have died if I had lost all the work I’d done on it so far. Whew!

Soooo… today, whilst my main computer was chugging away running diagnostics and fixits and whatsits, Cal-pal Matthew B. (Beverly Hills hair stylist to the rich and famous, darling!) offered me a spot as a sort of hair model for their new Brazilian Blowout procedure! No, I’m not getting paid to endorse this, but Matthew is such a talented sweetheart (and hottie!) that I definitely want to recommend him to everyone. While it would have been outside my tight recession-era budget to get this done if he hadn’t done it to me as a special training hair model, it is totally worth it if you want to condition and straighten your hair. Mine feels like silk now, and it moves and slides around with any little turn of my head.

Call the Gavert Atalier in Beverly Hills and ask for Matthew, he’ll do ya up reeeeel purty!

Gavert Atalier

Matthew B.
9666 Brighton Way
Beverly Hills, CA 90210-5126
(310) 858-7898