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WOW! Creations Kicked off Emmy week with Gifting Lounge in Honor of the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards

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WOW! Creations kicked off the festivities and started the buzz early in the week leading up to the 2011 Emmys with their fabulous gifting suite on the rooftop of the Luxe Hotel Rodeo, Beverly Hills. The sun was shining, the music filled the open air penthouse, and celebs and VIP friends alike were abuzz with the exciting brands and businesses that came from all over the US to share their products and services with Hollywood. Check out the stars who were there and the great brands that dazzled them.WOW! Creations, a Los Angeles-based creative marketing and publicity company, specializes in gift lounges and more. These great brands participated in the WOW! Creations 2011 Emmy Gifting Suite at the Luxe Hotel – Rodeo Penthouse

Live Smart 360 is a forward-looking company with fresh, winning solutions. It gives you the tools to live smart 360 days of the year, on every level. The culmination of 100 years of industry experience. In May 2010, LiveSmart 360 had its global launch and introduced potent, patent-pending, nutritional products that have the convenience and high absorbability of a mist spray.

LATP Chief Jane Emery (ctr) with CEO Mark T. McCool of Live Smart 360

Live Smart 360 was gifting ‘ The 6 Pack’ of their amazing proprietary mists, which include: Mist Zorbmax: This proprietary product 360 Mist enhances nutrient absorption at the microscopic level of human cells. As part of a multi-million dollar deal, 360 Mist features proprietary ZorbMax technology. This nutritional breakthrough enables the body to be able to the nutrients in foods and supplements fully. Mist Zip:  A natural burst of absorbable B Vitamins, caffeine, and Yerba mate helps you feel alert and mentally clear throughout the day. This unique adaptogen blend helps support the mind-body connection and increase overall mental energy, enhances alertness, physical energy, and a healthy mood.  Mist Relieve:  The main cause of aches and pains is inflammation. 360 Relieve Mist gives you fast relief. An exclusive adaptogen blend, plus herbs including Bromelain, Ginger Extract, and Skullcap, work to support overall physical performance while regulating the body’s response to inflammation. Mist Slim:  Support your weight-loss program and reduce hunger pangs with a rapid-release delivery system that controls cravings quickly, without making you feel nervous or jittery. Mist PM:  With 360 PM Mist, you can finally fall asleep quickly and wake feeling refreshed. PM relies on natural and non-habit-forming ingredients such as Melatonin, 5-HTP, Valerian Root, and L-theanine to help you relax and fall asleep naturally by regulating your body’s sleep-wake cycle.  Mist Ignite:  Enhance sexual performance and support increased desire with natural herbs and adaptogens that have been used for centuries, such as Catuaba Bark Extract and Saw Palmetto Berry, which have been used for their ability to enhance sexual drive in both men and women. The company has been endorsed by celebrities, athletes, and world-renown doctors. An excellent product! www.LiveSmart360.com

Peter and Lisa Mackeonis of Santa Cruz Holistics were at the suite with their divine GLOtoSLEEPâ„¢ mask, at the 2011 Emmys gifting suite. The GLOtoSLEEPâ„¢ is produced by Sound Oasis, the company that specializes in healthy solutions for today’s busy world. It helps you fall asleep by utilizing an Eastern relaxation technique of ‘looking up,’ which converts the brain’s active Beta waves to calming Alpha waves. With four rows of photo luminescent bars inside the eye cavities, which glow blue when charged with a light bulb or sunlight, nagging thoughts disappear when the wearer glances up and down the rows of ‘glo;’ allowing sleep to follow. www.glotosleep.us

Eric Roberts with Glo To Sleep

Celebrities who received the ‘gift of sleep’ included: James Woods, Joan Van Ark, Leif Garrett, Eric Roberts, Fred Willard and leading cast members from ‘Two and a Half Men,’ ‘Big Bang Theory,’ ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ ‘American Idol,’ ‘Dancing with The Stars,’ ‘My Name is Earl,’ ‘MADtv,’ ‘Heroes,’ ‘Average Joe,’ ‘Bad Girls Club,’ ‘Twilight,’ ‘Nip/Tuck, ‘Dallas,’ ‘The Gangster Squad,’ ‘Saving Grace,’ ‘Lost’ and ‘Bucky Larson.’

Maui Jim Sunglasses

At Maui Jim, the Aloha Spirit permeates their philosophy at Maui Jim, which is about creating the best sunglasses on the planet. In 2004, PolarizedPlus®2 technology revolutionized the sunglass market – patented. In 2006, the presented a new 24,000 sq ft state-of-the-art direct surfacing lab, which was built to ensure precision prescription optics. A year later, Maui Jim introduced MauiReaders®. MauiPassportTM  followed in 2008, offering prescription wearers wide views and outstanding acuity. That same year, our new MauiHTTM  lens brought clarity to low-light conditions. They were gifting sunglasses that you could also get prescription lenses for. www.mauijim.com

The Can’t Miss:  Improve your golf game and have your competitors scratching their heads, with Gyroscope’s “The Can’t Miss” – It will have you making your putts every time! The Golf item is an accessory that you apply to your putter and improves your putting game. www.TheCantMiss.com.au

Brilliance New York is the trendsetter of beauty products for all of your hair styling, hair care, skin care and makeup desires.

Brilliance New York Triple Barrel is a 3-piece Diamond Curling Iron Set that helps you create beautiful curls fit for any social event. Thanks to this brand you can get the volume you’ve always desired, with curls that lasts longer than ever. There’s constant and even heat distribution, which means there are no damaging hot spots. It utilizes real diamonds in high thermal conductivity and other properties. Brilliance New York is renowned all over the world. Elegance comes to mind when you use Brilliance New York. www.brilliancenewyork.com

GRATiAE Organic Beauty by Nature

Was excited to see this sublime line, GRATiAE Organic Beauty by Nature. GRATiAE utilizes the purest, most natural ingredients. The secret of GRATiAE comes from successfully combining Gratiae thermal spring mineral water with Sea of Galilee native flora and organic plants. These ingredients, orchestrated by top leading biotechnology engineers, create a superior skin care line that promotes healthy, young, radiant and beautiful skin. LA’s The Place loves this line and it has made THElist 2011. www.gratiaeorganics.com

Ark Naturals

Ark Naturals – Natural products for pets, from dental to fleas to nutrition, herbal and botanical. The most complete, all-natural produce line on the market today. www.arknaturals.com

Bill Jordan’s new Advantage Timber brings a whole new meaning to camouflage. It brings you to the natural world, perfect to wear out into the wilderness. Fit for hunting, camping and all sorts of outdoor activities. When you wear Advantage of Timber you not only become one with nature, but you turn into the inner beast that helps you become undefeated. www.realtree.com

Do-All Outdoors, LLC : Provides affordable, durable, and reliable clay target throwers, Targeting Systems, and master crafted outdoor accessories. www.DoAllOutdoors.com

Versailles Cosmetic & Laser Center Dr. Kathy Gohar

Versailles Cosmetic & Laser Center Dr. Kathy Gohar was onhand to invite celebs to her practice in Beverly Hills. From laser hair removal, to Fraxel, to treatment of cellulite with Vela Smooth, and Thermage for skin tightening—Dr. Kathy Gohar delivers to perfection. Dr. Gohar is one of the few laser centers offering both Fraxel Repair and Restore for treatment of deep acne and surgical scars, wrinkles, sun damage, hyperpigmentation and stretch marks. 310-591-0082 For more information, see Dr. Gohar’s Facebook page…

La Bella Donna

La Bella Donna has an endless variety of skin product that’s compatible to every skin tone. Foundation, bronzer, concelears, compact, blush, eyeshadow, lipstick and lab are all made from healthy minerals that heal, soothes, covers, corrects and beautifies your face. La Bella Donna carries loose and compressed mineral foundation fit for up to twelve different skin tones. In addition is their new ultimate pure perfection liquid mineral foundation. Their compressed mineral blush produces an all-natural glow that blends with your own skin tone. Their compressed mineral eyeshadow produces eye-popping shades that don’t irritate your eyelids. As for your luscious lips, their lip color produces the highest level of mineral pigment for color and quality. La Bella Donna is traditional, classy, and great for your skin, just the brand of make-up every woman dreams of. www.LaBellaDonna.com

Joyful Bath Natural Bath Products

Joyful Bath Natural Bath Products From The Land & Sea shared their signature bath salts and handmade botanical soaps. Their products are blended with healing elements of the land and the sea. Their natural ingredients come from the Mediterranean and Dead Seas. There are no synthetic fragrance, no parabens, artificial colors or dyes, no preservatives – only organic extra virgin olive, palm and coconut oils mixed with honey, buttermilk, ginger root, green tea, oats, coconut milk and pure essential oils. No animals testing either! Rinses clean. Pure, natural and healing for men, women and children. www.joyfulbathco.com

Cupcakes are the crown jewels of Frosted Robin® café at their Seaport Village, San Diego or Camana Bay, Cayman Islands locations. A variety of delicious, innovative cupcakes were a treat for celebs and VIPs alike. www.frostedrobincupcakes.com

Sheree Harrison, Owner, Frosted Robin Cupcakes

A Green Wardrobe carries both international and national designers, which embraces global green and offers a broad range of styles and approaches. Each unique item on our site is created from organic, sustainable, or recycled and repurposed materials, manufactured using fair labor and fair trade and proceeds back to the community by the designer are common. www.agreenwardrobe.com

Supple Skin Boutique

Supple Skin Boutique:  Nelia Mazulaan, a chemical engineer found inspiration in her quest for beautiful skin and good health, in ancient remedies from Japan, India, China, South America and her native Mozambiqueherbal. Supple Skin Boutique was onhand at the Wow Creations gifting suite and offered individual concoctions for different goals: Hair, Acne, Detox tea, Hormone tea, Weight loss tea, Antioxidant tea that you can ingest to bring a healthy glow to your skin while promoting whole health. She tinkered with antioxidants such as acai, goji and acerola berries, herbs (chamomile and feverfew, dandelion and saw palmetto) and teas (sencha green and peony white) and discovered how a cocktail of plants can affect the feel and appearance of pores. Her and her brother Marcos — an agricultural engineer share a holistic view towards great skin. The Mazulas teach that many of our skincare issues relate to our hormones, so the goal is to balance the body first, which can lead to great skin everywhere. Choose from 35 herbal combos of teas, tisanes and powders. You’re sure to find an answer to all your skin care concerns! suppleskinboutique.com

From Canada with love – Nostalgia Gemstone Collections created out of their love of gemstones and Jewels.  Unique exquisite jewelery collections nostalgiagems.webs.com

PRVCY brand was created with idealistic goals in mind: to provide great casual couture apparel for women and men, and share the profits with various breast cancer research foundations to help in early detection education and finding the cure for breast cancer. www.prvcy.net

Cali Blue Fragrance:  It’s a warm sunny day at the beach, and you’re holding the hands of that one person you love. As you get closer to getting your favorite kiss you smell the perfect, sweetest fragrant, which makes you want to kiss your lover even more. Cali blue, a fragrance by aromaearth is a blend of floral and citrus with sage like base. It’s very beachy, clean and exquisite. Just the right kind of smell describing the loveable, sweet, fun, and romantic person that you are. To read more go to Cali Blue on Facebook.

The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Company, of which Larry King is the national spokesperson for tell us “It’s all about the water” which is their mantra. The quick-service restaurant chain creates “Brooklynized†water, which is bottled and sold at the restaurants and used in all its products. Barbara Streisand is a fan. www.BrooklynWaterBagels.com

Slip N’ Toss shared their disposable flip-flops! Slip N’ Toss is 100% biodegradable, designed for your shoe emergencies, when you need to lose the heels and put on something comfortable,  or use in spas. These flip-flops are only designed for emergencies, not for everyday footwear. And now Slip N’ Toss has gone a ‘step’ further and created a pair of flip flops that fold so you can slip them in your purse. When your heels become unbearable, just use the little bag that folds up and throw your heels in the bag and slip on your dressy flip flops!   www.SlipNToss.com

Kangen water is alkaline water created from Enagic’s progressive water technology. The Kangen water machine filters out the harmful chemicals from ap water, and through the process of ionization produces Kangen alkaline water.  The term “Kangen” means return to origin. is water made of nothing more than purified water and natural caffeine. No colors, flavors or any of those not-found-in-nature ingredients. A natural charge in a bottle. www.kangenmrcl.com

Mary Louise Butters’ Brownies are the most delicious and decorative brownie out there. There are over twenty delectable varietals of their gourmet brownies. They carry special occasion brownies fit for events like bridal showers, birthdays, weddings…etc. In addition they ship their brownies to you, coming to you so fresh it’s almost as if they just came out of the oven. www.ButtersBrownies.com

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Diva Cup: Now there is another option for women and ‘that time of the month”! The award-winning Diva Cup is a revolutionary menstrual cup that helps you deal with Mother Nature in an easier, healthier way. Instead of constantly spending money on disposable tampons, the Diva Cup is re-usable with the simple wash and reinsert process. This product gives the ladies unlimited opportunities to continue their activities such as yoga, swimming, camping without encountering any accidents. It is 100% silicone, no latex, rubber, plastic or BPA. The Diva Cup is eco-friendly, comfortable, and most convenient to wear. No leaks or toxic chemicals to worry about. Also, it not only helps younger women, but it helps those who are older/have families. There are officially two models: 1) for women under 30 years old and have never delivered vaginally or by c-section. 2) For women over 30 years old and have delivered vaginally or by c-section. What more can women ask for in a menstrual product? The Diva Cup helps you save money, as well as helping the environment. Buy one today and watch yourself turn into the strong, confident and independent that you are. www.divacup.com

The Noah’s Spring Water company introduced their new 12 oz round “ball†bottle. Also, Noah’s Sparkling Spring Water presented their trendy new 12 oz sleek cans, with natural Lime, Blueberry-Pomegranate, and Peach-Mango flavors. The convenient container has quickly become a favorite item, because of its great taste, innovative package size, and healthy attributes.  www.facebook.com/noahswater
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Distributing everything you need for your winebar, was The Wine Groupwww.thewinegroup.com.

Hangover Gone – Powered by Cysteine, fortified with vitamin blend, Hangover Gone uses a proprietary technology, scientifically formulated to bolster your body’s natural ability to combat acetaldehyde, alcohol’s main and most toxic by-product and to avoid the dreaded next-day hangover! www.HangoverGone.com

Experia socks must be sent from heaven. These are the best fitting, most comfortable, well constructed socks this writer has ever worn! It has the right amount of padding right whree you need it. www.thorlo.com

Liebo Bycylcles:  The perfect bicycle, that does it all – the best of all bicycles in one bicycle.  www.liebobicycles.com

Plush Puffs are delicious, gourmet marshmallows in a variety of flavors. www.plushpuffs.com, Product USA gifted from their line of natural, argon-based skin care products. www.product-usa.com.

Johnny Rockets gifted lucky celebrities with a VIP vouchers good for up to four people to dine at any Johnny Rockets in the U.S., for one year. www.JohnnyRockets.com

WOW! Creations also specializes in creating Celebrity / VIP Gift bags filled with high-end consumer products for Hollywood Award Shows/Film Festivals/ Beauty Pageants/Charity Events/Sport event/Individual Gifting Experiences and Launch parties for emerging companies. Since 2004 the team at Wow Creations has been providing it’s clients with custom-designed communications plans and strategies with one unique objective: to enhance and broaden their brand or company’s appeal.

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