Kickin' It: Cocktails & Couture Party 2012

 On Saturday night I had the pleasure of attending this season's Cocktails & Couture shindig during NYFW. It's the quintessential blogger meet-up party every season, hosted by beauty blogger extraordinaire Lianne Farbes. This season, the esteemed co-host was big-hitter Patrice Yursik of Afrobella.com (love her!) and the presenting sponsor was BlogHer.com. In true blogger meet-up fashion, there were cocktails, cameras & cute outfits galore. Check it out:

Danielle Gray, Lexi Felder, Eboni Ife and Merli Estime

Hostess Lianne Farbes and Jessica Andrews

Lianne hosted some awesome giveaways throughout the night. The cocktails were flowing courtesy Hpnotiq and there were on-site blowouts & makeovers by Christo Fifth Ave and DDF.

Me and Lianne Farbes

Love these girls!

Lianne's arm party - so cute!

Ty Brown, Patrice Yursik, Sharontina Brightman, Ro

Patrice was in town this NYFW season and I got to spend time with her - LOVE this lady. Check out her blog Afrobella.com, you'll fall in love too.

Stylish editors Geneva Thomas & Chastity Saunders

SanTara of TheGorgeousIngredient.com

Me & Sharontina Brightman of TheRunwayTimes.com

Cece Olisa, Alissa Wilson & I

Danielle Gray of TheStyleandBeautyDoctor.com - always with the perfect red lip!

Good times! Looking forward to the next C&C Party.

LBS Feature: The New York Times

I'm elated! I've been quoted by The New York Times within an article about the natural hair community. The lovely Jessica Andrews of Glamazons Blog contributed a beauty piece to the New York Times around the idea of natural-haired women and whether the obsession with "stretched" curls is the newest definition of "good hair". Remember when I did a post about the idea of a"curlism"? It's an interesting debate. [CONTINUE]

MAC Cosmetics Taps Bloggers for Collection

Word on the street is, a few of my fave bloggers have been tapped by MAC Cosmetics to launch their own capsule beauty collection. Apparently MAC dwindled 80 blogger submissions (of color concepts for both a lipglass and an eyeshadow) down to10 finalists and these ladies were flown to Toronto to tour the MAC facilities and create their own products. How exciting!