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<\/a>Some of the activities on the veranda. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n
That came courtesy of fellow beauty and lifestyle e-zine, FabFitFun. They had a Fall Launch Party for their wonderful seasonal VIP Box, which is chock-full of full-sized items. (You can order one for yourself on their website of the same name.) And, boy, did they do this fete right!<\/p>\n
It was held at the trendy Redbury Hotel in Hollywood, in the Library. (Lucky location because I have a feeling this is as close to a library as some of the other guests have ever gotten!!! Not my co-writer, Alice Farinas, whose statements are the ones in quotes, by the way, nor me, of course, nor the fabulous<\/em> FFF staff, but some<\/em>. Just sayin’.)<\/p>\n Emily Tran of Nail Garden working on a satisfied customer. Photo by Alice Farinas.<\/p><\/div>\n The activities were mainly on the outdoor veranda, and Alice commented this this was the \u201cperfect evening!\u201d We were treated to lots<\/em> of fun beauty services including manis (and pedis<\/em>!,) hair styling, mini massages, facial treatments, eyebrow threading, and make-up.<\/p>\n Alice and I started off our evening with pedis, (mini-ones,) courtesy of Tiffany Phan and Emily Tran of the various locations of Nail Garden. The girls were great. Alice is still<\/em> raving about them, and she would usually rather do her own<\/em> nails. I guess not anymore!<\/p>\n While she continued bonding with Emily, I moved over to the Glam Squad area, for\u00a0Jennie Albano to flat-iron my beachy hair. I was so happy that they were handing out colorful little hair ties because we needed them for our next service, chair massages by Sande Stratton of Soothe. I loved her honesty in agreeing that the tension in my back was off the charts. But she definitely helped that situation.<\/p>\n Photo by Alice Farinas.<\/p><\/div>\n Neither of us was in need of the rest of the services, so we just chilled, and enjoyed the tasty, and clever, passed appetizers. Alice’s fave was the \u201cyummy gourmet\u201d pizza with olives. Even though I detest olives, these were easy to remove, (and hand over to Alice,) so it was really the perfect pizza! She also noted that the \u201cdelicious sliders were an ideal way to soak up all the fun drinks!\u201d I was more into the foods I deemed \u201cclever,\u201d because they were little dishes of healthful sauces, like cucumber and yogurt, or hummus and chickpeas, with a long, thin cracker sticking up from it in the cup. (Those go along with FFF’s \u201cwellness\u201d theme.)<\/p>\n Along the way, they also served various cocktails, (I don’t drink, but Alice was very happy to sample a couple<\/em> of \u201cgreat 15% proof coconut cocktails,\u201d and I noticed many others following suit!) We finished our snacking with pretty mini-cupcakes. And there was a photo booth to occupy us in-between it all!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>