Nominees, presenters and attendees of the 2011 Golden Globe Awards were able to fulfill all of their get-ready needs at this year’s Wella Beauty Bar. Wella Beauty Bar, in association with BMF Media Group, took up shop in Nine Zero One Salon off of Santa Monica Boulevard for its two-day extravaganza of complimentary spa services. Wella made sure that the bases were covered with hair care, manicures, massages, spray tanning and makeup applications.
Wella Professionals (www.wella.com) gave attendees blowouts complete with their exclusive line of products. Wella started back in 1880 with innovations in wigs and hair pieces and has grown into an innovative and top-of-the-line hair company expanding through Asia/Pacific and always reinvigorating its style. Recently, the company relaunched with Wella Professionals care and Styling.
Celebrity stylist Andy LeCompte said that he used Wella Ocean Spritz while styling icon Madonna’s hair for the big evening. Madonna took home a Golden Globe for Best Original Song for “Masterpiece” on the “WE” soundtrack.
To get rid of those wintertime blues, Fake Bake was onhand offering spray tans and lotions to bronze up the skin without harmful UV rays. Based in the UK, Fake Bake (www.fakebake.com) is a leading sunless tanning brand with a large range of products and services, including makeup, lip gloss, lotions and applicator tools. The products contain botanically extracted ingredients and no preservatives, and the award-winning formulas are also known to moisturize, hydrate and protect the skin as well.
With a stressful weekend like that of the Golden Globes, Bio-Oil stayed busy giving hand massages with the brand’s own advanced moisturizing oil that is said to smooth and tone scars and stretch marks. Bio-Oil (www.bio-oilusa.com) can be found in local drugstores like CVS, Walgreens and Target.
Also in attendance was the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (www.MiamiAndBeaches.com) offering its own spa treatments and awarding lucky winners with luxurious spa packages from the upcoming Miami Spa Month.
Schick Quattro for Women (www.quattroforwomen.com) gifted their own inventive razor and also had a fun quiz “What’s Your Dating TrimStyle?” to see if ones trim style lines up with their dating style. E! News’ own Giuliana Rancic was back in action this weekend and stopped by the Wella Beauty Bar. Before rushing to her red carpet rehearsals, she grabbed the new vibrating razor saying that it would be great for Joan Rivers. UV Vodka provided refreshments and cocktails during the two-day event.
Ali Fedotowsky of ABC’s “The Bachelorette” was spotted at the Beauty Bar getting a manicure of a pink/peach color with a friend. She was excited to see the Schick Quattro for Women section with the complimentary razors since she had forgotten to bring one with her to LA. When she was leaving, she ran into current “Bachelor” Ben Flajnik, and they quickly discussed Ali’s top picks for him from this season.
Last season’s winner of “Dancing with the Stars” Karina Smirnoff attended for all of her pampering needs, including a blowout, manicure, makeup application and Fake Bake spray tan. The dancer even gave a couple of lucky guests a private salsa lesson. Smirnoff was in great spirits the entire time, even yelling “Opa!” when a stylist shattered a glass on the floor.
Jessica Szohr (“Gossip Girl”) brought her friend Cameron along and wanted the day’s focus to be on him as he partook in a spa manicure and glass of champagne. Szohr had a hand massage from Bio-Oil and was seen talking to everyone in the room. Reality star Camilla Grammar also enjoyed the Bio-Oil station and took a bottle saying, “This product is great. I really do love it.” The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” member was accompanied by her boyfriend attorney Dmitri Charalambopoulos, and the two also picked up the vibrating Schick Quattro razor.
Kim Richards—also of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”–asked for five bottles of Bio-Oil, one for each daughter, and said things are going well for her now, and she is getting along with sister Kyle. TV personality and red carpet host Maria Menounos brought mother Stavroula with her to get ready for the Golden Globes, explaining that it is tradition for the two to have a full day of treatments before an award show.
Actress Busy Phillips brought young daughter Birdie with her for a mother daughter spa day. Phillips (“Cougar Town”) picked out a hair style from an old photo of Drew Barrymore, and Birdie quickly decided she would like the same matching braids. Phillips attended the Golden Globes sitting alongside friend Michelle Williams—the two starred on “Dawson’s Creek” together. Williams won for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in “My Week with Marilyn” and Phillips cheered alongside her big win.
Singer/actress Haylie Duff arrived at the Wella Beauty Bar with friends Leah Renee (“The Playboy Club”) and Jenna Dewan-Tatum (“Step Up”). Duff discussed younger sister Hilary’s pregnancy, though didn’t give up too much information except to say she is excited. Haylie is currently working on a new healthy cookbook and voicing Summer Wheatly in the animated TV series “Napoleon Dynamite.” Her piece of beauty advice: “wash your face every night.”
Another “Bachelor” favorite Melissa Rycroft and husband Tye Strickland chatted up their upcoming CMT show “Melissa and Tye: A New Reality,” likening it to Tori Spelling’s reality show with husband Dean. The show will offer fans a glimpse into their homelife with each other and baby Ava. While in the Fake Bake lounge, Rycroft also talked about this season of “The Bachelor” and told guests she would never want her daughter to go on the show “look what a hot mess mom was!”
Guests received an exclusive gift bag on site including Wella Professionals Enrich Shampoo , Moisturizer, Heat Protection Spray and Shine Spray; Bio-Oil skincare product; and gift certificates to exhale MindBodySpa, David Barton Gym and Ko’An Skincare.
Photo credit (in order of slideshow):
Melissa Rycroft & Tye Strickland – Photo Credit – Tony Lowe
Melissa Rycroft – Photo Credit – Gabriel Olsen
Carmen Electra & Cheryl Burke – Photo Credit – Maury Phillips
Carmen Electra – Photo Credit – Gabriel Olsen
Anne Heche – Photo Credit – Tony Lowe
Camille Grammer – Photo Credit – Gabriel Olsen
Haylie Duff Leah Renee & Jenna Dewan-Tatum – Photo Credit – Maury Phillips
Karina Smirnoff – Photo Credit – Gabriel Olsen
Karina Smirnoff – Photo Credit – Maury Phillips
Melissa Rycroft & Tye Strickland – Photo Credit – Gabriel Olsen
Leah Renee – Photo Credit – Maury Phillips
Maria Menounos – Photo Credit – Maury Phillips
Maria Menounos – Photo Credit – Maury Phillips
Melissa Rycroft & Tye Strickland – Photo Credit – Gabriel Olsen
Stephanie Pratt & Amber Lancaster – Photo Credit – Gabriel Olsen
Stephanie Pratt & Amber Lancaster – Photo Credit – Maury Phillips
Stephanie Pratt – Photo Credit – Maury Phillips
Jessica Szohr – Photo Credit – Gabriel Olsen
Jessica Szohr – Photo Credit – Gabriel Olsen
Busy Philipps – Photo Credit – Gabriel Olsen
Kim Richards – Photo Credit – Gabriel Olsen
Haylie Duff – Photo Credit – Gabriel Olsen
Ali Fedotowsky – Photo Credit – Maury Phillips
