An Affair to Remember: Henri Bendel and Warren Tricomi

My first internship after college graduation was at the U.N. Kofi Anan was in fact one of the more humble creatures I've ever encountered but that's another story for another blog. Kofi's wife however completely qualifies for beauty blog banter. She is an incredibly smart, lanky, blond, Swede who gave all the interns manicures at Bendels in support of her pet project, UNIFEM. Since that day I have always known that the ancient secrets of beauty are housed deep within the inner sanctum of Bendel's. On July 8th some of the most ingenious men in hair care will also be housed there. The last time I was at Warren Tricomi I met Lauren Conrad and had the best haircut of my life. I highly recommend attending this event.

From 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. on July 8 Joel Warren and Edward Tricomi will be at Bendels to kick off a week of Warren-Tricomi specials within the hallowed halls of this legendary 5th Ave entrepot. Also up for grabs is a day of beauty (worth $1,200) with this follicularly proficient duo. Enjoy!

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Beauty's SPA: Warren Tricomi at the Plaza!

My love for Warren Tricomi Salon is similar to the rapture of great Jane Austin style romances. Now they are bringing their beauty to the Plaza Hotel 7 days a week - and really why put a limit on love, especially when it means fabulous locks every day? I can not imagine a more luxurious Sunday that a stroll through the upper west side with a cut at Warren Tricomi's Plaza Salon.

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Warren Tricomi Salon: Daniel Martinez is The Hair Stylist Love of My Life.

Well girls, I have been sitting on this post for a while. In May I was in LA and the hair stylist love of my life, Daniel Martinez, cut my hair. I posted the pictures from the Warren Tricomi Salon on Melrose and promised to write more later. I am so so sorry it took me until now to post this but please read on. (There is an amazing ending.) Here is what I wrote during the first week of the new cut:

If I ever meet a man who does for me what Daniel Martinez does for my hair I will ask him to marry me instantly. I have never seen my hair look like this. Have you ever peered into a beautiful rose and wonder where all the leaves start? Daniel erases all the parts, natural and otherwise, that I have ever given my hair. Then he patterns my hair drawing new lines using the weight and curl of each section as a guide. In the process creating what looks like a genus of rose the world has never known before. In the care of Daniel and his assistant Nicole I feel as if I have two hair care geniuses, like brother and sister octopus working on me with a million arms and a brilliant vision. God must have put them here for this purpose.

Daniel curls my hair with thick curling iron. The curling iron gives a million little butterfly kisses to each strand of hair as Daniel tightens and releases to create big, but more modern, Farah Fawcett curls.

My hair has never felt this light this well tailored to my otherwise oddly shaped face. I love Warren Tricomi. I love the wispy blow drying he does. Somewhere along the way we notice some grey strands and comment that next time we will have to do some color.

Now 6 weeks later I love my hair even more. A great hair stylist awes you the day and week of the cut. A brilliant hair stylist gives you an imaginary wink 6 weeks later when the cut grows into itself and reveals their even more brilliant vision. I have never had a hair cut that has grown in this well. It seemingly styles itself into gorgeous ringlets that frame my face and play with my hair's natural fullness while the cut itself eliminates weightiness and frizz. Looks like I’m either going to have to move to LA or fly to see Daniel every time I need a cut. No one else is every touching my hair as long as Daniel Martinez is still around. Also, check out the beautiful new Warren Tricomi site.

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Warren Tricomi Pictures!

Here is a quick update from LA. I'm too busy to post full articles but I can post these Warren Tricomi pictures. Daniel Martinez is officially a hair genius. He took time out of his busy schedule (house calls to the stars) to give me the most beautiful haircut I have ever had. My hair is normally a disaster - curly in the back, straight in the front, and frizzy all over. But Daniel has transformed my unruly mane into a beautiful work of art, perfectly suited to my face. I'll do a full write up later but just wanted to keep you, well, posted.

If I ever meet a man who does for me what Daniel does for my hair I will ask him to marry me on the spot.

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I held out on you a little bit: Lauren Conrad and Mark. Cosmetics at LA Fashion Week

Lauren Conrad with Mark. Lead Makeup Artist Amy Nadine.I had only one traumatic experience at LA Fashion Week. Like any traumatic experience, it has taken a few weeks to recover, process, and gain the ability to communicate in words what, exactly, happened. I alluded to this encounter in my Warren Tricomi post. After the west coast hair wizard, Daniel Martinez, skillfully reinvented my locks into a stunning shawl of smooth brown sultriness, I found myself doing what bloggers do. Milling about, taking pictures, examining product, and asking questions. Occasionally I would catch my image in one of the floor-to-ceiling length mirrors and smile as, moments later, I recognized that the beautiful woman in the mirror was me. This same disorienting visual experience happened a few moments after I began taking pictures only this time I was certain the distracting image was not mine. Daniel is certainly a genius with transformative powers approaching the supernatural but there is no way he could have turned me into the tiny, short, blond with her hair knotted on top of her dainty, adorable little head. This woman looked vaguely familiar as she traipsed into the salon. She seemed all at once to be chipper, elfish, and even slightly shy. She shot me the shy smile of the girl you meet on the first day of fifth grade. Then I got. It was Lauren Conrad. Her fashion show was that night and she was at Warren Tricomi to get her hair done. I stood there baffled, camera in hand, facing a huge dilemma. This could be good for the blog. But I could also make a total ass of myself, as I proceeded to do. At some point between her first smile and noticing I was still standing there a very awkward 45 seconds later I began to speak as she looked my way. We were two of three clients in the salon that morning and at this point I needed to say something instead of just standing there star struck. "Um, hi I'm sorry to bother you but I'm covering LA Fashion week, do you think I could get a picture?" "Oh I wish I could but I don't have any make up on. Where do you work?" I began to tell her about Beauty's Spot. She goes on to explain that she just got a computer and lives in the stone age and she's really sorry but she doesn't know anything about blogs. She looks a lot younger with out makeup but is still stunningly beautiful and she was clearly a very very nice person. I was going to keep the whole thing to myself (mostly out of a painfully overdeveloped sense of pride). I spent the hour following my LC encounter driving around LA lost and berating myself for bothering her at all in the first place. Then this weekend the fateful email arrived. Her people found my people (my people being me). I now understand why she wanted to wait until her makeup was done to have her picture taken. Her makeup people are the best- Mark. Cosmetics- and if I were about to have them do my makeup I'd wait to have my picture taken as well. And here, as a gift from her people, are the backstage shots from her spring collection AND the lowdown on the show's makeup. Sometimes life really is sweet.

The Look:
Femme fatale from Paris runways, inspired by strong female icons from the 40s. The makeup look was sultry eyes, gold bronze colors, black liner, full lashes and intense garnet lips. Amy Nadine says of the look, "We wanted to create a classic, beautiful look to keep with the Parisian theme. Lauren knew she wanted sultry eyes, slightly winged out on the corner."


The Products:
eyes: i-mark in nomadic and magic, liquid liner in cleo, scandalash in blacklash
cheek: good glowing in cameo
face: speedway and face expert foundation
lips: dew drenched gloss in juicy, juice gems in berryliscious (new!)

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Warren Tricomi on Melrose: Hair Heaven on Earth

On the most incredible (and incredibly busy) day of my trip to LA Fashion week I miraculously fit in a blow out at Warren Tricomi. It has taken me a week to recover from this surreal experience. I was previously unaware my hair could look so picturesque. I will be unable to fully describe how fetching my hair looked when they were through with it. Essentially, you must go to Warren Tricomi to really understand the transformations they invoke from otherwise average hair. It is beyond my powers of comprehension that I got my hair done at one of the world's superior salons. I still find myself looking at their website in awe. At some point after my hair was finished, they left the little salon on Melrose Avenue and headed to Culver City to do the hair for Maggie Barry’s show at Fashion Week. Here is a video of Erika Valente from Makeup bag and Marta Walsh from Beauty Interviews interviewing the Warren Tricomi team backstage before the show.

So just to make this clear (and attempt to make myself believe that this actually happened) I’ll repeat: before they did the hair for all the models at the Maggie Barry show, they did my hair. (Sometimes life just is too good to be true.) Daniel Martinez, my stylist, has been doing hair for 10 years and he didn't bat an eyelash at the curly, untreated mane I presented to him. He used Warren Tricomi Blow Dry Lotion and Warren Tricomi Workforce #9 to transform my unruly mop into a beautiful, full, straight-haired work of art.

A friend of mine says there are two kinds of people in the world, pasture ponies and thoroughbreds. Pasture ponies are easily managed. You throw them in a field with a bail of hay and voila: healthy and happy ponies. Thoroughbreds on the other hand, need constant attention from a variety of trained professionals: veterinarians, stable hands, horseshoe fitters, groomers, and trainers. What I am trying to say is, I am more the thoroughbred type - it takes a lot to keep me on the beam. Warren Tricomi is the ideal salon for a thoroughbred like me. (See Erika Valente's posting on their eyebrow expertise.) They are talented enough to transform any head of hair that walks through the door. Daniel was wholly undaunted by my unruly mane. So much so that I briefly considered returning to big city life just so I could encounter stylists like him more often. They welcome hair like mine, confidently knowing they are qualified enough to handle it. In fact he turned my hair into a stunning series of deep brown waves rather quickly, putting every other stylist I have visited to shame. Daniel's assistant, Nicole Pascal (pictured below) shampoo-ed and washed my hair with precision and acute attention to detail. Not one hair follicle escaped repeated massaging, lathering and rinsing. (The deep scalp massage after the shampoo was also heavenly.) Then she and Daniel worked on my hair simultaneously, attentively completeing what seemed to be the most efficient blow out I have ever seen.

A lot has been said about Warren Tricomi because it is well, the best. My experience does nothing but confirm every good thing that has been said. A word to the wise, if you are lucky enough to visit this haven on Melrose, be prepared to see some famous faces. It certainly took me by surprise. So much so, that I spent the next hour in a mild state of shock, driving around LA, lost and flustered (but looking incredibly chic), due to an encounter with one of my favorite celebrities.

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