{"id":14002,"date":"2014-03-12T17:11:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T17:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=14002"},"modified":"2014-03-12T17:11:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T17:11:50","slug":"gifting-suite-ultra-gold-oscars-gifting-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/gifting-suite-ultra-gold-oscars-gifting-suite\/","title":{"rendered":"GIFTING SUITE: ULTRA GOLD OSCARS GIFTING SUITE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>ULTRA GOLD OSCARS GIFTING SUITE<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Note: Despite just recovering from pneumonia, I managed to make it out to five gifting suites celebrating the 2014 Oscars. Each one gets its own column because I don\u2019t want any of you to miss even one item I\u2019m telling you about. So, please make sure to check out the last four posts to learn about all the fabulous-ness. This is the fifth of five. My Contributing Writer on this one is Stephanie.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14005\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14005\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14005\" alt=\"Some of the shoes in the store. Photo by Stephanie Sedayao.\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2020-e1394326219754-300x186.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2020-e1394326219754-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2020-e1394326219754-1024x637.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the shoes in the store. Photo by Stephanie Sedayao.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I passed on a couple of the bigger, more established lounges to have time to visit this newcomer into the suites game. (A girl can only do so many events now!) I always like to support newbies.<\/p>\n<p>This first-time suite was held at the recently-remodeled For The Stars Fashion House, a hipster footwear store on Melrose.<\/p>\n<p>It was more an event to showcase new products and healthful solutions, like how to tell if drinking water is good, but there was also a little bit of gifting going on as well.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14007\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9714.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14007\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14007\" alt=\"Thinning Drops. Photo by Karen Salkin.\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9714-e1394326313350-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9714-e1394326313350-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9714-e1394326313350-1024x676.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thinning Drops. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here are the highlights:<\/p>\n<p>Guests received <strong>&#8220;Thinning Drops&#8221;<\/strong> (which is actually a serum to<em> prevent<\/em> thinning hair), courtesy of hairstylist Tonia B, who was quite darling.<\/p>\n<p>We also got to chat with <strong>Tao Master Levitan<\/strong>, who gave-out certificates for consultations with\u00a0him.\u00a0 He seemed pretty happy himself, so we&#8217;re hoping he can steer us in that direction, as well.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14011\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9713.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14011\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14011\" alt=\"Photo by Karen Salkin. \" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9713-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9713-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9713-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But the best\u00a0thing to me was <strong>King Rex Vodka<\/strong>, that comes in the most interesting bottle I&#8217;ve ever seen!\u00a0 We all know that I don&#8217;t drink, but I&#8217;ll sure enjoy staring at it&#8217;s voodoo-looking face on the front of the bottle while my pals imbibe.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14009\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9717.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14009\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14009\" alt=\"The desserts.  Photo by Karen Salkin.\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9717-e1394326383790-300x215.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9717-e1394326383790-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9717-e1394326383790-1024x733.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The desserts. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They had a really pleasant group of women serving luscious-looking desserts, but, alas for us, they all contained alcohol. As I just mentioned above, I don&#8217;t drink at all, (because I hate the taste of alcohol, so clearly, these pretty confections were not for me,) and Stephanie is a responsible driver, so we couldn&#8217;t sample them, but the rest of the guests seemed happy with them. They were going fast.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it for the Oscars suites this year.\u00a0 Whew!\u00a0 As exhausting as it is, we loved every second of them.<\/p>\n<p>Now on to March events, including a quick trip to Vegas, which I&#8217;ll tell you about next week. But springing the clock ahead this past week-end definitely didn&#8217;t help me have energy for them all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ULTRA GOLD OSCARS GIFTING SUITE &nbsp; [Note: Despite just recovering from pneumonia, I managed to make it out to five gifting suites celebrating the 2014 Oscars. Each one gets its own column because I don\u2019t want any of you to miss even one item I\u2019m telling you about. So, please make sure to check out<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/gifting-suite-ultra-gold-oscars-gifting-suite\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-academy-awards-to-emmys-to-grammys-gifting-extravaganzas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14002"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14012,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002\/revisions\/14012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}