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Vou ser bem rápida hoje , adoro esse esmalte , já faz um tempo que vi uma técnica feita com Plástico.
Não ficou com o efeito que eu vi , mas achei lindo, fiz com aquele filme plástico que usamos na cozinha , rss
Beijooos
Credit: Adam Schultz/Clinton Global Initiative
One-on-One Conversation:
Participants:
President Bill Clinton, Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative, 42nd President of the United States
Jake Tapper, Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent, CNN
Panel Discussion:
Moderator:
Poppy Harlow, Anchor and Correspondent, CNN
Participants:
Katia Beauchamp, Co-founder and CEO, Birchbox
Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, U.S. Department of Education
Andrew Yang, Founder and CEO, Venture for America
My review of July's Birchbox is up on the blog today!
Birchbox founder Hayley Barna, Mashable COO Sharon Feder and Nestio CEO Caren Maio participate in the "Why being a good Executive has nothing to do with being a woman" panel on Day 2 of Internet Week New York, Tuesday, May 15, 2012 in New York. (Gary He/Insider Images for Internet Week New York)
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 05: Co- founder of Birchbox Hayley Barna speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014 - Day 1 on May 5, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
A little review on October's Birchbox is up on the blog today.
I really love this skirt, but it makes me look very young. But I wore it anyway! I tried pairing it with a button-up shirt to look more grown-up, but it just doesn't change the fact that I look like a ninth grader.
And then, for Narnia rehearsal, I changed out of the striped button up and put on my Harry Potter tee, so I looked even younger. Oh, well. I was comfy!
Top: Forever 21
Skirt: Modcloth via eBay
Leggings: Old Navy
Shoes: Keds, thrifted
Nail Polish: Birchbox Exclusive Color Club in Tweet Me
Perfume of the Day: Gap So Pink
Leweb Paris I Day Three
Digital Women Influencers Roundtable
Moderated By: Paul Papadimitriou, Founder & CEO, Digital Intelligence
Katia Beauchamp, Co-Founder, Birchbox
Maelle Gavet, CEO, OZON Holdings
Geraldine Le Meur, Co-Founder, LeWeb
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 05: Co- founders of Birchbox, Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014 - Day 1 on May 5, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
Leweb Paris I Day Three
Digital Women Influencers Roundtable
Moderated By: Paul Papadimitriou, Founder & CEO, Digital Intelligence
Katia Beauchamp, Co-Founder, Birchbox
Maelle Gavet, CEO, OZON Holdings
Geraldine Le Meur, Co-Founder, LeWeb
1. bloom so far, 2. good folks patchwork quilted pillow front, 3. Pillows-2, 4. Obsession Quilt, 5. OPI Polish, 6. Newtown Auction Pillow, 7. a new basket., 8. Monogrammed Mini. Final., 9. Something to try beige, 10. DQS11, the last post, 11. Finally finished the binding on this last week & forgot to post a pic. I love that I'll get to see my favorites every day., 12. New crafting tray, 13. Fairytale Forest quilt close up, 14. potholders, 15. www.flickr.com/photos/annamariahorner/4384307867/in/faves..., 16. Untitled
So, color color color and COFFEE. ha ha! Apparently I also like monograms since I put a few in there.
LIKES: My favorite candies are toffee, Swedish Fish, Jelly Belly jelly beans, Hot Tamales, and virtually anything with nuts in it (not peanuts). Favorite color is aqua or teal, but I truly love color…….except maroon. I really hate maroon. I have an addiction to putting things in rainbow order. Anna Maria Horner is my fav, but I like lots and lots of other designers too so don't feel limited at all! I love the contrast of black and white against something colorful. I love makeup/nail polish/hair products. I'm a sample junkie! Birchbox is my crack.
DISLIKES: Maroon, I can't stress this enough. :) No drab, muted, marbled fabric please!
ABOUT ME: I'm a mom of 2 boys (4 if you count the dog and my hubby). I force myself to workout 6 days a week because I love to eat. As a result, I spend most of my time in t-shirts and cropped yoga pants. I'm a Southerner who feels that tea should always be sweet, summer should last all year, and manners never go out of style.
Leweb Paris I Day Three
Digital Women Influencers Roundtable
Moderated By: Paul Papadimitriou, Founder & CEO, Digital Intelligence
Katia Beauchamp, Co-Founder, Birchbox
Maelle Gavet, CEO, OZON Holdings
Geraldine Le Meur, Co-Founder, LeWeb
thenextweb.com/insider/2011/09/17/the-future-of-fitness-a...
Fitness will be Gamified
Fitocracy
Fitocracy founders Brian Wang and Richard Talens used to be “really
out of shape, video game addicts”. Talens was “super fat” and Wang was
“super skinny”. While in college, they realized they had to make a
lifestyle change and thus became “addicted to fitness”. Inspired by
their experience, the two started building a new platform that tracks
workouts and turns personal fitness into a social game.
Fitocracy is a fitness social network that requires you to manually
enter your work-out in order to gain points and move through the
system. People give each other “Props,” that are equivalent to a
Facebook Like. In the future, the team will hook up with applications
like Nike Plus and RunKeeper, intending to be the point aggregator
that sits on top of all that aggregated data. The best thing about
Fitocracy is that you can log anything, so that I can compete with
people even if I’m practicing yoga and they’re lifting weights. Well,
you can log almost anything…
Talens, who hits the gym 3 days a week and spends all of his time
doing big, heavy lifting believes fitness is inherently social and
that success is best attained when we can keep each other motivated.
In June, Fitocracy hit 16,000 users with 6,000 more on the waiting
list. Fitocracy will be opening in Beta next month but we’ve got
invites for you right here. Use the code “THENEXTWEB”.
Earndit
I scheduled a call with Earnditfounder Andres Moran last week, and it
was free! If I had been using his fitness rewards platform, which he
launched last September 2010, a 15 minute video chat with Moran would
cost me 50 points! Call it a journalist’s perk.
Moran is the founder of Earndit, a rewards platform for fitness
enthusiasts with 25,000 users. Earndit was one of RunKeeper’s first
API integration partners, and its service has been a huge hit with the
RunKeeper community, according to Jason Jacobs of RunKeeper. Earndit
also integrates with Foursquare, Fitbit, Nike Plus, Every Trail and
Garmin. I signed up for Earndit, and I’m a fan.
All this time I could’ve been earning points upon my check-ins at yoga
studios and gyms! 15 points each time, 20 points if you’re the mayor.
Earndit has dozens of reward partners so you can trade your points for
perks like online personal trainers, retail gift cards, boxes of
energy bars and gym credits.
“This space of tracking and verifiable data is blowing up for us,”
says Moran. “The mere act of measuring our activities will make me
more active. When you see a graphical or numerical output of your
activity, you see how lazy you really are sometimes. It really prompts
you to change that. It’s a slap in the face. And as they say, it’s
hard to change that which you cannot measure.”
Keas
Adam Bosworth, the former head of Google Health, has finally launched
his consumer health start-up, Keas, “a game that keeps you healthy”.
Users pick 3 goals a week, which can range from hitting the gym,
eating less carbs to reducing stress. Keas users then receive points
for accomplishing goals and taking health quizes. The social program
is targeting the entreprise level and working with HR departments to
become a corporate wellness program. So if your company signs up for
it you can receive additional rewards, including cash.
Keas’ initial launch partners include Healthwise, Google Health,
Microsoft HealthVault, Quest Diagnostics and Dr. Alan Greene. In a
June interview with TechCrunch, Keas said the reason Google Health
never really took off was because Google Health never asked, “What
could they do that people would want?” Instead. “They basically
offered a place to store data… People don’t want to store data, they
want to have fun.”
Fitness is Food
Lollihop
The brand new San Francisco based startup, Lollihop offers a monthly
subscription service of healthy, organic snacks tied to educational
online content. Founder Suzanne Xie launched the site this week to
make it easier for people to eat healthy on a regular basis. Lollihop
ships out healthy food much like Birchbox sends out beauty products.
It’s a delightful present every month in your mailbox, a package
filled with nutritional snacks from brands like Terra, Lara Bar and
Kind, hand picked from ex-Whole Food buyers.
Xie has been tasting snacks for months in preparation for launch. “The
first 10 snacks I tasted, I thought, ‘This is the best job ever,’ but
about 50 snacks later I said, ‘OK, this is the worst job ever’,” she
says laughing.
“Nutrition is a huge part of fitness,” says Xie. ”If you don’t have
time to work out, everything you put in your body is crucial. Today,
kids consume 40% of their total calories in snack form, for adults its
30%; we’re trying to make sure those snacks are healthy.”
Coming soon, Lollihop will have a Hunch-like personalization element
that will ask you simple questions like, Are you a vegetarian, vegan
etc. When you wake up in the morning, how do you feel? What kind of
sleep are you getting? Working with a nutritionist, Lollihop will be
able to better recommend snacks and offer tailored health content to
suit your needs.
Fitness is Better Health Care
ZocDoc
ZocDoc is one of the most structurally intelligent and powerful
technologies spearheading our health care revolution. ZocDoc allows
patients to find nearby doctors who accept their insurance, read
verified reviews written by real patients, and instantly book an
appointment with a local medical professional online or via the free
iPhone App. ZocDoc is a free service for patients, while doctors pay a
subscription fee of $250 per doctor per month. Typically with one or
two new patients, the service pays for itself. On average, doctors
using ZocDoc see an additional 100 patients on a monthly basis.
“I believe patients will increasingly turn to technology for their
healthcare needs. As the lines blur between mobile devices and medical
devices, as telemedicine blossoms and health information continues to
proliferate online, people will naturally rely on these tools. And I
think they’ll find their doctors and schedule appointments online, as
they can with ZocDoc, because the ease and convenience of doing so
represents a real paradigm shift.”
-Cyrus Massoumi, co-founder & CEO of ZocDoc
ZocDoc is strategically based in New York City, where there are more
doctors per capita than any other city in the world, according to
Oliver Kharraz, MD, co-founder and COO of ZocDoc. Before expanding
nationally, ZocDoc took a hyperlocal approach, making sure their
product worked in downtown Manhattan. They are now set to aggressively
expand across the nation in 2011 with hopes to move into international
territories the following year.
Massive Health
Aza Raskin, 26-year-old son of noted human-computer interface expert
Jef Raskin has had a strong, laudable career thus far. He founded
Humanized Inc. where he created the language-based service-oriented
Enso software. In 2008, he and other Humanized employees were hired by
Mozilla where he was appointed Creative Lead for Firefox. He left
Mozilla late last year to begin Massive Health and tackle health
issues like obesity, oronary heart disease and diabetes. Raskin will
apply cognitive psychology, design principles and tighter feedback
loops to our own health through Massive Health, what could be this
century’s health Renaissance, “where products and services are
redesigned to be responsive to human needs and considerate of human
frailties.”
While Massive Health is still in its early stages, Raskin writes, “Why
is it that we live surrounded by beautiful technology, but as soon as
we get sick we’re left out in the cold? We’re working to fix that. We
believe that people should be treated like people, not patients.”
How to live forever
To some life extensionists, experimental gerontologists, longevists,
or whatever you want to call them, people like Cambridge professor
Aubrey deGray (pictured above at the 2009 Singularity Summit in NYC),
believe the idea of living forever is a real biological
possibility…and we’re not talking about cryonics or mind uploads.
The Methuselarity, (named after the Methuselarity flies) is commonly
defined as the point where we achieve the “Longevity Escape Velocity”
in the rate of progress of our anti-aging efforts. DeGray identifies
aging as a problem of pathology and metabolism. After seeing a great
amount of success with life extension in Methuselarity flies, deGray
believes that by experimenting with calorie restriction to extend our
metabolism, cell therapies to combat cell atrophy and genetic
stimulations, we will be able to extend our natural lifespan by 30
years very soon, but one day we will be able to live forever. He also
believes that once we begin to extend our lifespans, the ability to do
so will occur at an exponential rate. For example, he believes that
the first 1,000 year old is probably less than 20 years younger than
the first 150-year-old and that the first 10 to the N year old is
probably less than 2 years younger than the first 1,000 year old.
Last year, the MacArthur Research Network on an Aging Society released
a study that said Americans living in the next 40 years will be much
older than our government’s current predictions. The study not only
brings up the topic of length of life, but quality of life. Dr. Steven
Joyal, Vice President of Science and Medical Affairs for the Life
Extension Foundation, the largest non-profit organization engaged in
cutting-edge research to enhance human health says,
We are at the forefront of longevity revolution. Advancements in
nanotechnology, gene therapy, artificial intelligence, and stem cell
research will enable infants born today to be as functional and
productive when they are one hundred and twenty years of age as people
aged twenty or thirty today.
In a study by Stanford University researchers learned that maintaining
an active lifestyle will add 16 years to your active life. That’s 16
years of productivity and healthy joy that might have been spent
dealing with disabilities, heart issues, diabetes, etc. The bottom
line is that understanding and prioritizing your health is crucial to
a balanced lifestyle, whether it’s running, biking, swimming, yoga,
eating right, taking long walks or just daily meditation.
Moving forward starts with data aggregation and awareness to better
understand the health of humanity. In 2-3 years time, we will layer
technology and smart algorithms to enable us to make smarter choices
more easily. While you might feel uncomfortable about sharing massive
amounts of your personal data, think of it like this: In sharing
ourselves and our data, we become vulnerable, yes, but it’s allowing
us to form a human community once again.
Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman is noted for his theories surrounding
Web 3.0, which combine our real identities with the massive amounts of
active and passive data we are generating. Amazon, for example, can
make smart recommendations to you based on what you buy and what
people with similar shopping experiences buy. Now, imagine a system
that operates like that around your health that will make the world
healthier as more aspects of our lives are tied into the platform.
Today you are more aware. Until we reach the Methuselarity, or figure
out a way to live forever by technological means, you’ve got one and a
half billion heartbeats on this Earth. Treat them well.
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- Bvlgari Jasmin Noir perfume sample
- Archipelago Pomegranate Soap mini bar
- Ahava Deadsea Water Mineral Hand Cream (0.68 oz)
- "bonus" greeting card
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How to: Take Control of Your Health in 2012
Courtney Boyd Myers
December 29, 2011
Dionysian indulgences between Thanksgiving and New Year’s are part of la joie de vivre, but they can take a real, long-term toll on our health. Which is why, like every year, we vow to be healthier in the New Year. We promise to be better to ourselves, manage stress more efficiently, eat healthier foods and hit the gym more often.
This Christmas, my 61-year old father gave us quite the scare. After complaining of terrible stomach aches, we drove him to the ER. 12 hours later, he was in surgery to have his gallbladder removed. We spent Christmas Eve in the hospital; and while my mother prayed, I thought about how I could help and inspire myself and the ones I love to have a healthier 2012.
Maintaining a productive health and fitness regimen is hard. And finding great information online about how to do it is harder. But it’s getting easier.
Recently, I stumbled upon Greatist, which is an educated, upbeat and go-to source for all things fitness, health and happiness. The New York City, new media startup was founded by entrepreneur Derek Flanzraich (pictured right), who’s currently training for a half-marathon and has quite a lot to say about his company, and how to stay healthy and happy.
Flanzraich started working on Greatist 7 months ago after CBS bought his former employer, Clicker, in May of this year. ”Fitness and health has been my personal passion for a long time. I always credit keeping fit as my secret to how I am able to work really hard, succeed and still be a fun, positive person,” says Flanzraich. “But I’m the first to admit that I struggle with it too. Our goal at Greatist is to make approaching health and fitness easier.”
Flanzraich moved from San Francisco to New York this summer in order to hire the best possible writers and editors for his site. Greatist now has a staff of 15 editors who all have a personal passion for staying fit, supported by the company’s gym membership benefit, of course.
“I love everything about fitness; I weight train, I run and I practice yoga once a week. I love extreme sports too- everything from kayaking to skydiving. I’ll try anything,” he says.
While New York has proven a more difficult city to stay fit in than San Francisco, Flanzraich says fitness and health is mostly what you make of it, although it is deeply and profoundly affected by the people who surround you. ”Good health is about choices and being aware of what you’re doing,” he says.
To get started, I highly recommend signing up for Greatist’s Daily Email and checking out these TNW top pick articles below:
The 15 Most Inspiring Health & Fitness Images of 2011
How to Live Forever
The Secret to Better Sleep
80 Healthy Recipe Substitutions
Meditation Physically Changes The Brain
14 Health Risks You Might Be Wearing
Life expectancy has risen in recent years; in the U.S., it’s 75 years for men and 80 years for women. So, science and technology is on our side! This year we wrote about The Future of Fitness and Health and recently gave you a complete run down of all of our fitness and health articles from 2011. Now, let’s take a look at some other great companies that will help make centenarians the average age in the future. Make sure to keep these apps and tools on your to-do list for 2012.
Great apps and tools to use in the New Year
ZocDoc
ZocDoc is a free, online service that helps people find local doctors who take their insurance and allows patients to instantly book an appointment for a time that works for them. In most major cities, the wait time for a doctor’s appointment can average more than 20 days (and even higher in January with cold/flu season, New Year’s resolutions and health care benefits resetting spiking demand for doctors). The company, which we covered in June of this year, uncovers the “hidden supply” of doctors’ appointments (including 10 – 20% that are cancelled last-minute). ZocDoc says that 40% of its patients book an appointment within 24 hours; 60% within 3 days.
RunKeeper
While he’s tried dozens of apps and wearable wrist bands, Greatist’s Flanzraich says that RunKeeper is the only mobile app he uses to track his fitness. Flanzraich is using it to train for his upcoming half marathon. Since its launch 3 years ago, RunKeeper has attracted a massive user base: 6 million fitness enthusiasts and counting on iOS, Android and Windows devices. This summer, RunKeeper became a platform and began to build “The Health Graph” which is much like Facebook’s massive “Social Graph”. The Health Graph allows 3rd parties to build applications on top of a massive amount of correlated health data. RunKeeper integrates with modern fitness devices Fitbit and Zeo, Withings‘ Wi-Fi body scale, as well as heart rate transmitters from Polar and Wahoo Fitness and Garmin watches. Auto-Pause is one of my favorite new features on the app.
Fitocracy
Flanzraich loves using Fitocracy to log his weight training routines. Fitocracy is a New York City startup that’s building a gamified social network around fitness. The “fitness social network” requires you to manually enter your work-out in order to gain points and move through the system. People give each other “Props,” that are equivalent to a Facebook Like. The best thing about Fitocracy is that you can log anything, so that I can compete with people even if I’m practicing yoga and they’re lifting weights. Since then, the startup has been admitted into Dave McClure’s 500 Startups Accelerator so expect some big product announcements coming in 2012 like applications with Nike Plus and RunKeeper.
The Eatery
Massive Health, a company that focuses on using technology to better our health, has launched a new app this year called “The Eatery“. The Eatery tracks the types of food you eat, and lets the community decide how healthy you’re eating (or not) as a whole. The app is gorgeous, and just 10 days after launch it had proven itself addictive after one million food ratings. While I use Foodspotting to snap photos of my food when I eat out, I tend to use The Eatery to snap photos of my food that I make myself. This is why I have an extremely high healthy food rating on The Eatery and still have a bit of a belly. Read our full review here.
Withings Body Scale
The Withings WiFi body scale measures your weight, body fat and lean mass. The initial set up takes 5 minutes, then you just step on the scale and voilá! Your measurements are sent to your web or mobile account. By making it so easy to monitor these data points, it’s easier to motivate yourself to make micro-decisions like deciding to walk back home instead of driving, taking the stairs or splitting a dessert.
Withings works with a multitude of devices and applications including RunKeeper, FitBit and Zeo. I use my Withings scale every day. My only complaint? It doesn’t travel well.
iTriage
iTriage for iOS lets you self-diagnose (at your own risk) what’s wrong with you when you’re not feeling right. You can search the app by symptoms, specific illnesses, or start with a particular part of your body and drill down to a potential problem. The app also lets you find doctors in your area who perform certain types of procedures or treat certain types of illnesses. Our TNW West Coast Editor, Drew Olanoff said he recently used iTriage when his friend was hurt at an ice rink. iTriage told him the wait times at the local emergency room. Read our full iTriage review here.
Foodzy
Foodzy is an app that helps keep track of what you eat during the day and rewards your eating habits with badges. On Foodzy, you can follow users to discover new products that your friends like as well as discover which of them have eating habits that are similar to you. The Amsterdam based startup gamifies your food intake by rewarding you with badges for healthy choices, and even marks some more ‘fun’ events like a Hangover badge if you drink too much. Foodzy also integrates with the Withings WiFi body scale. Download it here: Foodzy for iPhone and Android. And watch our interview with the Foodzy founders here.
Earndit
Earndit is a fitness rewards platform, which launched last September 2010 and has 25,000 users. Earndit integrates with RunKeeper, Foursquare, Fitbit, Nike Plus, Every Trail and Garmin to track your daily activities in order to earn points. So now, every time I check-in at the yoga studio, I earn 15 points. Earndit has dozens of reward partners so you can trade your points for perks like online personal trainers, retail gift cards, boxes of energy bars and gym credits. The best part about Earndit is how passive it is. I completely forgot that I synced up my accounts in September and now I have enough points for $100 Bonobo’s Gift Certificates, two free months of Artsicle or free boxes of energy bars just by using Foursquare and RunKeeper.
Lollihop
The new San Francisco based startup Lollihop offers a monthly subscription service of healthy, organic snacks tied to educational online content. Lollihop ships out healthy food much like Birchbox sends out beauty products. It’s a delightful present every month in your mailbox; a package filled with nutritional snacks from brands like Terra, Lara Bar and Kind, hand-picked from ex-Whole Food buyers. For busy moms or lazy college kids, Lollihop is an easy way to get your heath on the right track.
Blueprint Cleanse
I know a lot of people who are weirded out by juice cleanses because they think cleanses are unhealthy or impossible to do. It’s a personal choice but I have never felt healthier in my whole life after doing a 3-day juice cleanse last May. It was a week after The Next Web Conference and my body was in dire need of a detox. I went with the Blueprint Cleanse, which has a simple, well-designed website and great delivery options in New York City. Basically going on a juice cleanse gives your digestive system a much-needed break and forces you to not drink alcohol for a week’s time, which will make anyone feel better after a week in Amsterdam. (If you email me, I’ll send you the recipes so you can buy yourself a juicer and save a few bucks. These juice cleanses aren’t cheap!)
And do you know the single best thing you can do for your health? Hint: It only takes 30 minutes.
In truth, maintaining excellent health and fitness is really hard. Like our TNW Editor Drew Olanoff wrote:
“Better fitness and health is something we all talk about and strive for, but it’s usually the last thing we actually dedicate ourselves to. There are a lot of reasons for that including jobs, family, eating a lot of food, drinking a lot of alcohol, and the list goes on and on.”
The important first strides towards better health and fitness are awareness, education and motivation. I hope this article has made you more aware and slightly more educated. For some motivation, check out this sweet Spotify Running playlist I’ve put together, which I’d love you to add to!
In case you were wondering, the doctors released my dad the next day, so he was able to come home and enjoy Christmas with our family. But what were the first words out of his mouth after 2 hours of surgery and 2 days without food? “Pizzaaaaah. Hot Fudge Sundae….” Looks like I have my work cut out for me in 2012.
Stay tuned for more news on the future of health and fitness and don’t be one of the 43.2 million Americans who ditched their resolutions by February of last year!
JULY 13-15, 2015: ASPEN, COLORADO
Fortune Brainstorm TECH 2015
Presented in Association with Aspen Institute
“Technology-industry business conferences come and go. Fortune’s Brainstorm franchise, now in its 14th year, endures because of its unique blend of the power of Fortune 500 companies, the excitement of the emerging entrepreneurs of the tech world, and the connective tissue of the investors who finance them. It doesn’t hurt that Brainstorm Tech takes place on the gorgeous campus of the Aspen Institute in Colorado. It’s not the easiest place to get to, but Brainstorm Tech attendees tend to stick around, enjoy the tranquil surroundings, and have a helluva good time in Aspen while they’re at it.”
With three constituencies in mind—big-company CEOs, startups with juice, and financiers from every “asset class” from venture capitalist to private equity—this year’s participants include: Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly, President of the CVS pharmacy chain Helena Foulke, Flextronics CEO Mike McNamara, Apple’s top HR executive Denise Young Smith, Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri, and Ed Catmull, president of Pixar and Disney’s animation studios. Also attending are financers including private-equity pioneer Henry Kravis of KKR, Egon Durban of Silver Lake, and Reid Hoffman of Greylock; Startup founders and CEOs including Katia Beauchamp of Birchbox, Clara Shih of Hearsay Social, Apoorva Mehta of Instacart, Katrina Lake of StitchFix, Ben Kaufman of Quirky, Brian Sharples of HomeAway and Ben Silbermann of Pinterest. Joining them in the lineup are Stewart Butterfield of Slack, brotherly leaders of Stripe John and Patrick Collison, and Evan Williams, CEO of Medium. We’ll also hear from music-industry stalwarts Scooter Braun of SB Projects and Scott Borchetta of Big Machine Label Group. Lastly, we’ll hear two special voices from government, ex-Google executive Megan Smith, now chief technology officer of the United States; and Rahm Emanuel, the recently re-elected mayor of Chicago, a global city whose tech scene is emergent
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm TECH
The hostess of our @birchbox dinner @aniab 💗 #birchboxca #blogger #canadianblogger #birchbox #cosmetics #makeup
This is the first time I've worn pants to work ever. Ever.
I don't really like wearing pants- I feel like they fit me funny- but I don't mind this particular pair. They've got that cropped pedal-pusher 1950s look I like, and they were extremely comfortable for today- I was choreographing the battle scene for Narnia and needed to be comfy and covered enough to do crazy things like roll around on the floor.
I also wore my contacts! I wear disposables and I'm down to my last pair without knowing when I'll have time for a doctor's appointment, so I only bring them out for special occasions. Today was headshots for Narnia, so I needed to look prettyish and stuff. Also the reason for the plain black tee shirt, and why I wore it with pants.
And there are my glorious rainbow Keds! I love them.
And also a cameo appearance by my car keys.
Tee: Target
Pants: Old Navy
Shoes: Keds via eBay
Nail Polish: Birchbox Exclusive by Color Club in Tweet Me
Perfume of the Day: Harajuku Lovers Super G
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 Aspen, CO
Fortune Brainstorm TECH
7:45 AM Breakfast roundtables
THE NEW NEW RETAIL
Presented by Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Katia Beauchamp, Co-founder, Birchbox
Maelle Gavet, CEO, OZON
Deena Varshavskaya, CEO, Wanelo
Moderator: Nina Easton, Fortune
Photograph by Kevin Moloney/Fortune Brainstorm TECH
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I started a subscription to Birchbox and got my first Birchbox this month! I found a few "reviews" on youtube of the stuff in this months box and was really excited about the samples I'd be getting. So I thought I'd post about it. I've seen some pretty disappointing boxes in past reviews on youtube so I was kinda worried it'd just be a rip off. But I'm pretty satisfied with these samples, and I thought I'd do my own review. Most "reviews" I've found on youtube aren't actually reviews, but a verbal list of the stuff you get. Bleh. And in more recent months I've noticed there is an unspoken contest, so to speak, between beauty gurus and reviewers to see who can post their Birchbox review the quickest! LOL
The perfume sample is called Vanille Insensee by Atelier Cologne and it smells very vanilla-y and yummy. Not super sweet or overbearing. It also lasts a long time. I don't think the scent is very original though, so definitely not worth the $65-175 for a full size bottle. Also, the deluxe sample isn't in a mini spray bottle, it only has a tiny plug which makes it difficult to open and close. I got it all over my fingers and then had to wash my hands.
The nail polish is called Disco Nap by Color Club. It's a very shimmer and shiny metallic polish that's gold in color. It goes on very easily, doesn't clump, dries quickly, and doesn't take many coats at all. The sample bottle is a decent size at 7 mL and has a full size brush! I will probably give this color to my daughter, and check out what other colors this brand carries. A full size bottle is only $8.
The face cream is called Waterfuse BB Cream by Dr. Jart + It claims to be a 4 in one moisturizer, serum, sunscreen, and skin perfecting tint. It goes on easily, blends well, and doesn't feel heavy or greasy. I like the fact that it has SPF 25 in it. In order to properly critique a product like this I would need at least a few weeks, but after one day I can't say I have any complaints. I'm pretty picky about what I put on my skin since I have terribly oily skin and even the mildest of moisturizers will send my pores into overdrive, but this is something I might have to really look into getting. The full size tube is $32, and considering my current skin care regimen, this is actually cheaper. Also, less steps!
The lip balm is called Sugar Rose Tinted Lip Treatment SPF 15 by fresh. This is the deluxe sample I was super excited about! I love lip stuffs, and the sample has 2.2g of product. Enough product to last me at least 2 months (but probably a lot longer) with nearly constant use! Now that is deluxe!!! Also, the cap to the lip balm SCREWS on! No worry of it popping off in your purse and getting all your stuff balmy. ;) I love that it has SPF in it and the tint is just that. Tint! It gives my lips a nice "just been kissed" look. It glides on nicely and lasts quite a while without eating or drinking. I might have to get some of this when I run out! Full size is $22.50. Considering the sample will last me months, $22.50 isn't asking much... :)
The last sample is called Hair Tie by twistband. This is a snag free elastic that looks like a strip of elastic that was tied off. I LOVE IT! We go through "pretties" in this house like candy. They don't last long. If they have those annoying metal clasps they don't survive more than a few uses. This hair tie is awesome! It just requires a tightening of the knot every now and then. I'm not sure $18 for a pack of 12 is worth it, but I might get a pack just to see how long they will last over hear. If 12 can outlast me and two little girls for more than 3 months I'd call it a good investment.
All in all, while I have no clue what Gossip Girl is I'm pretty satisfied with my samples. I just hope next months goodies are just as good! :D
p.s. I probably won't be doing this every month. I was just super excited about my samples and disappointed with the "reviews" on youtube, so I thought I'd do my own. <3