A Peek Inside the Blueprint Girls Carry On

Last month, we we went to Blueprint Cleanse camp for a day of delights. We enjoyed yoga (that's us above with Felicia), blowouts with James Corbett and a raw food cooking class that turned us into fans of kale salad. We recently had the chance to look in the carry on bag of founders Erica and Zoe.

ERICA HUSS
Carry On: The Sak Dakota Shopper


Current Reads: Bright Shiny Morning, and always the new issues of Gourmet and Food & Wine (I don’t subscribe, they're my plane candy).

Music on my iPod: I get a bit of flight anxiety, so I usually listen to Bach or Beethoven piano concertos, or Phoenix, Andrew Bird and Simon & Garfunkel are always on travel mixes
Favorite Wrap: Black Gap wide cotton scarf, it’s T-shirt material and the softest thing ever
Beauty Products: Le Metier de Beaute blushed/bronzed duet, eyelash curler, and Nivea Kiss of Moisture lip balm.


ZOE SAKOUTIS
Carry On: BluePrintCleanse Tote Bag, or I shove everything into my black leather Mark Jacobs bag.
Current Reads: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel, by Haruki Murakami and Nine Stories, JD Salinger
Music on my iPod: One Eskimo (below), The Phenomenal Handclap Band, The Knife.

Favorite wrap: 5 dollar NYC street pashmina!
Must have beauty products: Laura Mercier Undercover Camouflage Pot and pink cheek tin thingy from Fresh.

Clinique and Milly Gift With Purchase

This may be the chicest gift with purchase yet: a can't-find-anywhere-else Milly cosmetic case filled with 7 great products in super-wearable colors. Michelle Smith designed the bag which was inspired by her fall collection. She also chose the products in rich shades that complement that same collection. You can get this bonus worth $75 with only a $25 Clinique purchase and it's available exclusively at Bloomingdales. Products include the 7-day Scrub, Even Better Skin Tone Corrector, Blushwear Cream Stick in Rosy Blush, Eye Shadow Duo in Pink Slate, Long Last Glosswear SPF 15 in Tenderheart, Lipstick in Blushing Nude, and Lash Doubling Mascara in Black.


The bag and its beauties inside suit the woman that wears Milly. Said Smith, "I design for smart, glamorous women with sophisticated taste... Feminine and a bit flirty, I design retro yet truly modern separates..." Celebrity fans include Carrie Underwood (pictured above) and Rosario Dawson.

If you're planning on attending NYC's Fashion's Night Out on Thursday, September 10th, 2009; don't miss the chance to meet Milly designer, Michelle Smith, over cocktails at Bloomies 59th Street from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

The Best Eyebrow Pencil Ever

We're always on the hunt for eyebrow pencils for our blonde eyebrows. Our current fave is the Brow Trio Pencil from Darac Beauty. We had the opportunity to meet Darac, the QVC star, a few weeks back courtesy of Daily Makeover. It's easy to see why Darac is on QVC--his larger than life personality was made for TV. It's hard for us to describe the Brow Trio Pencil better than Darac does on his own website, "A bright young even face is what attracts the men, it’s written in their DNA. Brows are the easiest place to set the stage for that balanced youthful look." Damn! Can we order 10 of them?

The genius of the Darac Brow Trio Pencil is the tri-action. One end is a brush, one end is an angled brow pencil that truly is as "goof-proof" as Darac claims it is, and the third is a highlighting powder. Darac recomends you use it "above and below brows to add instant symmetry and youth." We're in love!

Michael Kors Very Hollywood

How can you not love a fragrance that's inspired by the glamor of old Hollywood, including the Beverly Hills Hotel, an old-fashioned flash bulb and faux eyelashes? Michael Kors mixed all those together to come up with his latest fragrance, Very Hollywood. It's a blend of wet jasmine, ylang ylang, raspberry, gardenia, Italian orsis, creamy amber and soft white moss.


The fragrance line also includes this gorge over-sized cocktail ring with solid fragrance inside--perfect for on the go touch ups.


There's still time to enter the Michael Kors Very Hollywood/Instyle Red Carpet sweepstakes for a 3-night trip for two to Hollywood.

Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction

We're looking forward to viewing Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction at the Whitney Museum in NY. It's the first ever show concentrating exclusively on O'Keeffe's abstractions throughout her long career, as opposed to other shows which have focused on particular subjects or comprehensive reviews of her lifetime's work. While O'Keeffe is well known for her flowers, animal bones and landscapes, she was also one of the earliest American artists (and notably a woman) that experimented with abstract art.

The exhibit features over 100 paintings, watercolors and sculptures. It will also include excerpts from the recently released huge collection of love letters between O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz and a selection of Stieglitz's photographs of O'Keeffe.

Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction will be at the Whitney Museum September 17, 2009 to January 17, 2010, then it moves to the Phillips Collection in Washington February 6 to May 9, 2010, finally it stops at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe May 28 to September 10, 2010.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Series 1-No. 3, 1918, Milwaukee Museum of Art.

Venus Williams' US Open T-Shirt

Turns out Maria Sharpova isn't the only designer playing in the U.S. Open. Venus Williams designed this eco-friendly T-shirt for the tournament. Venus told WWD, that the shirt combines three of her interests, fashion, tennis and the environment. The shirt reads: Green Your Game. A portion of the proceeds of the organic cotton t-shirt go to Unisphere Inc., a non-profit that Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The $36 shirt is for sale on USOpen.org.

The Lippmann Collection Celebrates 10 Years With A Giveaway

Sometimes we feel like switching things up and painting our nails fun and crazy colors. Deborah Lippmann combines top notch quality nail polish with out of the ordinary colors to brighten up your day and your nail beds. The Lippman Collection is celebrating their 10 year anniversary next month. To kick off the celebration, they are ever so kindly giving away a $50 gift certificate to every 10th customer who makes a purchase on http://www.lippmanncollection.com/ today, September 1, 2009. The promotion only lasts one day so act fast! To commemorate this milestone, fashion manicurist to the stars Deborah Lippman created a limited edition collection of glitz and glamour shades available for just $35. As seen above, some are as shiny as Dorothy's slippers or as gold as Midas's touch. Celebs such as Lady Gaga are getting in on the fun too. She likes Ruby Red Slippers, in case you were wondering. Channel her style and try to win a gift certificate. Good luck!