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eBeauty.ca and CityTV Pre-Canada Day media event

Raul — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:00:04 +0000

This past Wednesday, my good friend Airdrie Miller (editor of Lip Gloss and Laptops, a Vancouver-based blog/podcast with a broadly-reaching, world-wide audience that focuses on the beauty industry) and I were invited to participate in an event organized by CityTV and eBeauty.ca. I was invited as a tag-along as I’m a guest host for Lip Gloss and Laptops, providing the male perspective on beauty products for males and I’ve often reviewed colognes for L&L. So technically, this wasn’t an invite for Hummingbird604.com as much as for Lip Gloss and Laptops. And I loved tagging along. Airdrie and I had a really great time talking to the fine folks of eBeauty.ca.

The event was emcee’d by my other good friend, Dawn Chubai (co-host of Breakfast Television Vancouver). I saw a number of local bloggers in attendance, including Erica Lam (The Style Spy), Olivia Lovenmark (Style Struck), Liz Sperandeo who works for Spectacular Ink and (a bit of a surprise to me) Rick Chung, who freelances all around the city but I’ve seen writing lately for Vancouver Is Awesome.

eBeauty is Canada’s new online shopping destination for everything beauty!

Owned and operated on home soil, eBeauty offers an extensive assortment of bath, body, and beauty products available to Canadian shoppers. With over 300 brands and new arrivals added daily, you’ll be able to find all of your favourite products, all of your can’t-live-without-must-haves, as well as discover a wide selection of new and exciting products available as soon as they hit the market.

eBeauty. Beauty for everyone.

I’m always a fan of events with great drinks (especially champagne mimosas!)…

…. and great swag bags…

Not that I’m a rampant consumerist, but you know, swag is swag any way you slice it And it was nice to be again at events associated with the beauty industry, and hanging out with Airdrie. Thanks to eBeauty.ca and CityTV for inviting Lip Gloss and Laptops!

Guest-hosted on Lip Gloss and Laptops Episode # 124!

Raul — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:00:15 +0000

You may remember that I have written about Lip Gloss and Laptops a few times before. L&L is one of the podcasts I do follow, not because I actually have a stake in the cosmetics industry, but simply because I enjoy listening to the conversations of my friends Airdrie and Kerry Anne. We became friends through the Vancouver tech scene, and I’m quite glad I met them as they’ve managed to bring a lot of positive energy to my life. And, as I mentioned before, L&L is one of the best podcasts out there.

Lip Gloss and Laptops is recorded in the home studio of the Millers, and for those of you podcasting/music geeks out there, YES, I have podcasted from the Inside Home Recording studio. Derek K. Miller, musician, podcaster, and friend of mine, is one of the co-hosts of IHR, so I could barely contain my excitement when I came by to record the show. And kudos to Derek for figuring out how to set up for the guest-host (normally, L&L and IHR have only two hosts, so the set up changes when you involve a third microphone and set of earphones). Geekiness, FTW!

Airdrie and Kerry Anne made my experience as a guest host a really pleasant one. I had had a rough weekend, so I wasn’t really as prepared as I would have loved to be. But I think the show went ok and apparently, from what Airdrie told me at the Vancouver Bloggers Meetup, the audience liked it. It was a bit of a nerve-wracking experience. I’m not an expert in cosmetics, although I do know a lot about colognes. But having had experience with cosmetics when I did theatre and also, while going shopping with my mother, has taught me a lot. And it’s always fun to podcast with friends. This is my second time podcasting, as my very first one was during EPIC 2008 when I interviewed Adria Vasil for HappyFrog.

And if you want to find out more about what I talked about with Kerry Anne and Airdrie, go and listen to the podcast. RIGHT NOW. Ok, good. Now, let me know what you think Your feedback would be greatly appreciated!