#Merry Merry #Merry Christmas #Super #Happy #Conde Nast #Vogue #Holiday #Gift #Tis the Season #Love It #Blogger #Blog #The World in Vogue #People #Parties #Places
11:04 AMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#DarlingMagazine # Love @Artofbeingawoman #Virtue #wit #modesty #wisdom #beauty
My Darling Desk featuring Darling Mag!!
8:48 PMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#stellamccartney #pjs #matchesfashion #fashion #sleeptime #holiday #lazy #blog #capitoldebeaute
Snooze Button Gifty Goodness!!
4:07 PMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
Nothing says 'lazy lay around for the Holidays' like these dreamy Stella McCartney PJs!
Simply divine, you must have them!
Sweet dreams,
melanie
#A Christmas Story #Chanel #Beauty #Shop #Atlanta #Love #Holiday #Memories #Pretty #Mydomaine #Inspiration #Hope
#Kate Spade #Rosè
~Delusions of Grandeur!!~
12:36 PMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
Every day, we have the ability to move forward. It's part leap of faith combined with compounded fear, it happens no matter how much we try to resist it.... a jump into the unknown.
Whatever direction you choose to move in, keep in mind of others around you. We can not exist without the thought of others. Above all, choose to be a nice person and choose things that make you happy to be part of this lovely planet.
xo, melanie
#creative #musings #Mood #Quotes #FlatLays #Styles #SocialMedia #Fun #Pretty #Fashion of Dreamy Stuff for #Bloggers #Writers #Pinterest #Instagram Lovers
Atticus
~She Was!!~
11:12 PMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#Skininc #faceandbody #beauty #skincare #health #spa #wellness #mua #makeup #Atlanta #blogger
~Face and Body Expo! It's a Wrap!!~
6:13 PMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
We are at the cornerstone of a beauty evolution!
I had the opportunity to cover the Face and Body Expo in Atlanta last month, and it was a BIG eye opener! Skin Inc. Magazine and Face and Body Expo's collaboration brought in the best of the best of professional beauty, spa and skincare experts to Southeast!
With advancing technology, global connections and a million makeup tutorials constantly feeding on our favorite social sites like Youtube, Instagram, Snapchat and Pinterest, it's a great time to be alive and lovely!
As a beauty and skincare advocate, I have spent years working in the industry at different capacities & for different brands, and though I have a mad penchant for skincare products, I also love lipstick and lip gloss, and have probably breached, well, at least last time I counted, around 120 in various brands and shades! I just love makeup, and own several different brands with a few tried and true favorites. I also love fragrances and body products, and live most of my days in spa mode.
However, skincare is my baby, and I have the clear skin to prove it! Wink, wink, brag, brag! It is a true labor of love and there are days when I can not wait, at the end of the day, to cleanse my face and layer on the goodness! Serums, creams, elixirs, I love them all!
Genes can play a huge part, however, as the daughter of a former beauty maven and majorette, proper skincare was taught early on. My Mother, a true stickler for skincare products, spent a solid Saturday morning each week with my sisters and I in some sort of beauty routine. Bathrobes, nails painted, a plain yogurt mask on the face, cucumber slices over our eyes, we were set. Yes, it was old school beauty, but it worked! You see, routines are a learned behavior, and as I grew up and fell in love with makeup, I knew from learning proper skincare, that it had to come off. No matter how tired or how late, through my teens and in college, the makeup came off at the end of the day. No exceptions!
So why am I telling you all of this?
Because if you love everything beauty like I do, you will be very happy with the results, and rewards that you will reap from your glowing skin to a more confident you!
"The newly launched Face & Body Southeast is a conference and expo held exclusively for skin care, spa and wellness professionals. Discover the latest products, ingredients, treatments and skin science over three days dedicated to your professional skin care, spa and wellness career!"
See you in 2017!!
See you in 2017!!
#dreams #goals #inspirations #affirmations #purpose #truth
8:19 PMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#Skininc #faceandbody #beauty #skincare #health #spa #wellness #mua #makeup #Atlanta #blogger
Stripped!
5:43 PMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
For me, proper skincare is EVERYTHING! I am a true advocate of beautiful skin first, makeup second and I have the glowing skin to prove it!
I will be the first to admit that it's hard work. An entire life of cleansers, serums, creams and lotions, and it has been worth every moment and dime spent!
Join me at the Skin Inc. Face & Body Expo Southeast on Sunday, October 16th at the FAB Force booth! I will be highlighting professional vendors, products and other skincare enthusiasts and would love to meet you!
Check out www.faceandbody.com for more info!
Hey Southeast!
Skin inc. Face & Body Expo is coming to Atlanta!!
Join us this Sunday, October 16th at the FAB Force Booth!!
Join us this Sunday, October 16th at the FAB Force Booth!!
"The newly launched Face & Body Southeast is a conference and expo held exclusively for skin care, spa and wellness professionals. Discover the latest products, ingredients, treatments and skin science over three days dedicated to your professional skin care, spa and wellness career!"
Use code DEBEAUTE when you sign up and enjoy a 2-day access to the expo hall (Sun & Mon Oct 16-17) for just $25!
Click image to learn more about the most exciting Beauty and Skincare conference in the South!
#autumn
#Fall
#Fashion
~Oh, October!~ Yay! You're finally here!
8:44 AMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#Diana Vreeland #Memos: The Vogue Years
#Exclusive
#FGI Atlanta
~Meet Alexander Vreeland, Grandson of the Late Grand Dame, Diana Vreeland!~
1:09 PMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#Rèvive Skincare #SaksAtlanta #Art Box 13 #Joel Grey #Love #saksbeauty #saksstyle #saksatlanta #phippsplaza #beauty #MUA #Skincare #cheerstogoodskin #Fall 2015 #New #Product #Launch
Face it, Your Skin Wants a Brighter Future!!
9:30 AMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
As we all know, what you put on the inside, shows on the outside. I drink a ton of water & a lot of coffee, staying hydrated is important for the regeneration of skin cells, it keeps them nice and plump, naturally filling in fine lines and wrinkles, giving skin a smooth surface for makeup, and also, looking great without it! Coffee is a natural diuretic, I even the playing field, so to speak, by drinking a ton of water & taking great care of my skin. The result? Healthy skin with lots of compliments!
Working in the beauty & skincare industry for years taught me to rely on topical treatments. Our skin is a protective cover. Right now, our skin is defending us from oxidation stress, it is a battle that is 24/7, non-stop. We must assist our bodies in this defense, wearing sunscreen is one of the best things we can do for our skin right now, but what does the future hold? What about the damage already done? The answer is using products geared towards repair & renewal.
Rèvive Skincare Products are built on the foundation of technology. RES Technology, delivering real time results with longevity.
Rèvive Skincare Products are built on the foundation of technology. RES Technology, delivering real time results with longevity.
What is RES Technology?
Renewal Epidermal Science. Founder "Dr. Brown formulates Rèvive products with a collection of unique molecules inspired by the proteins that we produce naturally. These molecules help to promote the natural generation of new skin cells and improve the visible signs of aging, breathing new life into your skin to reveal the skin you want to touch."
You only have one skin, think about your skin now & beyond. What changes would you like to make without the need of fillers, scalpels or knives?
#fgi atlanta #hilton hollis #tootsies #shop tootsies #fashion #style #fashion designer #atlanta #around lenox
~Meet Fashion Designer, Hilton Hollis!!~
9:18 AMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#The Tastemakers #FGI Atlanta #AC Hotel Buckhead #Atlanta Magazine #Jeffrey #Atlanta #Fashion #Style #Events #Beauty #Interior Design
A Divinely Chic MUST Attend.
11:12 AMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#Happy Birthday #Coco #Chanel #Chanel19 #Capitoldebeaute #Paris #French #Beauty
~Happy Birthday Coco Chanel!~
7:57 AMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#cocochanel #Smart Girls #Creative #Musings #Mood #Quotes #Collaborate #Styles #SocialMedia #Smart #Pretty #Fashion of Dreamy Stuff for #Bloggers #Writers #Pinterest #Instagram Lovers
~Gorgeously Smart, Intelligently Charming & Brilliantly Irresistible!~
9:30 AMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#beauty #bloggers #writers #blog #cheers to good skin #launch skincare #makeup #mua #vloggers #wanted #product reviews
#nationallipstickday
~Happy National Lipstick Day!!~
11:47 AMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#chanel #beauty #lips #makeup #mua #luxury #color #luciapica#beauty talks
~Beauty Play Date!!~
7:52 PMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#dreams #goals #inspirations #affirmations #purpose #truth
~There are Better Days Ahead!!~ Remain.
8:35 PMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#billcunningham #streetstyle #restinpeace
~Larger than Life!!~
6:31 PMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
Farewell Bill
| From the New York Times |
| From the New York Times |
Bill Cunningham, the street-style photographer whose photo essays for The New York Times memorialized trends ranging from fanny packs to Birkin bags, gingham shirts and fluorescent biker shorts, died in New York on Saturday. He was 87.
He had been hospitalized recently after having a stroke. His death was confirmed by The New York Times.
In his nearly 40 years working for The Times, Mr. Cunningham operated both as a dedicated chronicler of fashion and as an unlikely cultural anthropologist, one who used the changing dress habits of the people he photographed to chart the broader shift away from formality and toward something more diffuse and individualistic.
At the Pierre hotel on the East Side of Manhattan, he pointed his camera at tweed-wearing blue-blood New Yorkers with names like Rockefeller and Vanderbilt. Downtown, by the piers, he clicked away at crop-top wearing Voguers. Up in Harlem, he jumped off his bicycle — he rode more than 30 over the years, replacing one after another as they were wrecked or stolen — for B-boys in low-slung jeans.
In the process, he turned into something of a celebrity himself.
In 2008, Mr. Cunningham went to Paris, where the French government bestowed him with the Legion d’Honneur. Back in New York, he was celebrated at Bergdorf Goodman, where a life-size mannequin of him, as slight and bony-thin as ever, was installed in the window.
In 2009, he was named a Living Landmark by the New York Landmarks Conservancy and profiled in The New Yorker, which described his columns On the Street and Evening Hours as the city’s unofficial yearbook, “an exuberant, sometimes retroactively embarrassing chronicle of the way we looked.”
In 2010, a documentary film, “Bill Cunningham New York,” premiered at the Museum of Modern Art to glowing reviews.
Yet Mr. Cunningham told nearly anyone who asked about it that the attendant publicity was a total hassle, a reason for strangers to approach and bother him.
He wanted to find subjects, not be the subject. He wanted to observe, rather than be observed. Asceticism was a hallmark of his brand.
He didn’t go to the movies. He didn’t own a television. He ate breakfast nearly every day at the Stage Star Deli on West 55th Street, where a cup of coffee and a sausage, egg and cheese could be had until very recently for under $3. He lived until 2010 in a studio above Carnegie Hall amid rows and rows of file cabinets, where he kept all of his negatives. He slept on a single-size cot, showered in a shared bathroom and, when he was asked why he spent years ripping up checks from magazines like Details (which he helped Annie Flanders launch in 1982), said: “Money’s the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.”
His uniform was utterly utilitarian: a blue French worker’s jacket, khaki pants and black sneakers. Although he sometimes photographed upward of 20 gala events a week, he never sat down at any of them for dinner and would wave away people who walked up to him to inquire whether he would at least like a glass of water.
Instead, he stood off to the side photographing women like Annette de la Renta and Mercedes Bass in their beaded gowns and tweed suits. As Anna Wintour put it in the documentary about Mr. Cunningham, “I’ve said many times, we all get dressed for Bill.”
Mr. Cunningham’s position as a perennial outsider among a set of consummate insiders was part of what made him uniquely well suited to The Times.
“His company was sought after by the fashion world’s rich and powerful, yet he remained one of the kindest, most gentle and humble people I have ever met,” said Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., the Times’s publisher and chairman.
“We have lost a legend, and I am personally heartbroken to have lost a friend.
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ByBow #Capitol de Beaute #Fashion #Art #Style #Studio118 #AndersonSmith #AmyRader #GoatsFarmArtsCenter #Creative Brand Showcase #Atlanta #Joinus #Event #Save the Date
~Atlanta! Save the Date!!~Studio 118, Creative Brand Showcase
11:36 AMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
Join us as the creative collaborators at Studio 118 bring together 2 brilliant artists, 8 up & coming designer brands, and two foodies for an evening of fashion, food and fun!
Featured Artists, Anderson Smith & Amy Rader
Enjoy delicious bites & liquid libations from SugarBonen Sweets & Greets while you tour the creative studio work space of By Bow Floral Artistry and Event Styling and Blogger, Capitol de Beaute!
This is a free to attend event!
#MisterMigs #NonProfit #Doggie #Boutique #Pet Store #Fashion #Style #Shop #Retail #Charity
~Mister Migs Doggie Boutique Opens in Atlanta!!~
9:18 AMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
Hi Everyone,
Please join us next Wednesday, June 8 for the VIP grand opening party for the new Mister Migs “Dog Gear for Good” pet boutique in Tucker, Georgia. The invite is posted below. You can drop by anytime from 6 – 8:30 pm. Dogs are welcome to attend! Tour the new pet boutique which includes the entire Mister Migs pet clothing collection made out of recycled denim, t-shirts and leather. Meet Atlanta’s own Celebrity Instagram Dog Stars and the Mister Migs Ambassadorables. Enjoy light bites, beverages and recycled denim gift bags filled with pet goodies! Complimentary parking. Please let me know if you can attend and I’ll add you and a guest to the list.
Thanks so much! –Amanda
Amanda Leesburg
Leesburg PR
Mister Migs
2137 Flintstone Drive, Suite E
Tucker, GA 30084
Tucker, GA 30084
Look for the balloons at the street entrance
#Loreal #LorealParis #Cateye #Red #Lips #MUA #chic #Summer #Look #marilynmonroe #Birthday Girl
Happy Birthday Marilyn Monroe! ~Cateye, Red Lip, SO Chic, SO Hip!!~
12:10 PMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie WoodroffeA video posted by Μ ε λ α Ν ι ε (@capitoldebeaute) on
#dreams #goals #inspirations #affirmations #purpose #truth #truestory #honestly
#fashion #style #media #blog #instagram #capitoldebeaute #style
#roots
~New Ground!!~
10:18 AMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
What do you think about when one says, 'root'?
I think about the foundation of where things once started. The seed which was laid & planted firmly in the ground.
The anticipation of waiting for something to sprout, grasping it's foundation for survival. Standing tall, within it's own fertilized expansion; ground-breaking, earth shattering cultivating changes that move the seeds of growth.
Capitol de Beaute has been rooted and growing for many years, now set for a ground-breaking uproot, we seek the new.
Soon to follow updates....thank you for all of your support through the years.
xo, melanie
#capitoldebeaute #HQ #moodovermonday #nah to the blahs #mood #motd #home Office #Life #MoreDoing #Presence #Now
~Mood over Monday!!~
10:34 AMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#Terrarium #DIY #Interior Design #Garden #Life #Create #Creative Project #Pinterest #Gardening #Earth Month #Make Something
~Earthly Delights!!~
2:06 PMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie WoodroffeAll pieces are found via Goodwill and my back yard!
Gather all of your goodies, then go! 10 minutes! Yay!
1.
Find a great glass container. Believe it or not, I found these all at Goodwill!
2.
Forage around your garden for tiny bits and pieces of moss, succulent, fern, small {identifiable} plants, rocks, bark and sticks.
3.
Look around your home for smallish, cute things to decorate with. { I found a tiny ceramic mushroom sculptor, and these great crystal beads from Christmas}
4.
Lay your gravel in the bottom of the container, then add dirt and sand to build a foundation.
5.
Then take a drinking straw and dig a few tiny holes to place your plants. {once done, throw the straw in the recycle bin!}
6.
Add tiny landscaping details like the ones shown, and voila! You're done!
Next, find a filtered, sunny space and watch your garden grow! Water sparingly or use a little mist of water for humidity!
#LionsLighthouse #Night of Spectacles #Fashion with a Mission #NOS16 #Atlanta #Fashion #Style #Sustainable #GreeningAtl #Atlanta
~Every Day is Earth Day!!~Excerpts from GreeningATL Excellence Awards 2016
10:49 AMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#LoganLedford #Artist #Highlight #Art Obsession #Creative Muse #Lovely #Talented #Gorgeous #Style
~Art Obsession!!~
9:06 AMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#dreams #goals #inspirations #affirmations #purpose #truth #truestory #honestly #Lifestyle #Blogger #Luxe Lover #Luxury #Fashion #Style #Writer #Loves #moodovermonday
~It's Monday, Start Anew!!~ #MoodoverMonday
12:08 PMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
I saved this a few years ago from the vault files.
It is a list that helps me gain balance & refocus from all of the running around I SO enjoy & love to do!
You can make it your own too! Start with all, or just one or two, improvement is always good for the mind & body!
happy monday,
xo, melanie
#dreams #goals #inspirations #affirmations #purpose #truth #truestory #honestly#magic
~Be your kind kinda self!!~
11:31 AMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
#Nars #Opening #Atlanta #Buckhead #Modern Luxury #Jezebel #Beauty #Cosmetics #Shops of Buckhead #CapitoldeBeaute #BeautyBuzz
CDB Beauty Buzz ~NARS Shops of Buckhead Grand Opening!!~
9:27 AMCapitol de Beaute Blog by Melanie Woodroffe
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My little sister and I! Same NARS 'Janet' lipstick, two totally different skin tones! |
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Champagne and NARS, a beauty girl's wet dream! |
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NARS BLKR line, "Downtown inspired, Boldness required!" Love it! |
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Our favorite Makeup Artist, Matthew!! |
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Chic guests arrive! Thank you Modern Luxury for a superb evening! xo, melanie |