Lifestyles of the Single and Saved: DivasandDorks

Sunday, June 24, 2012

The Recap: Style Bloggers of Color Conference

I am still in awe and swimming in this sea of inspiration, and ability to do anything that I put my mind to do ever since going to the Style Blogger of Color first annual conference also known as Mattiepalooza. SBOC that took place in Atlanta, GA at INK gallery was nothing short of resourceful.

As part of her birthday celebration that she thought up a year ago Mattie of Mattieologie.com, brought together some of the most amazing bloggers and industry insiders who shared their knowledge of the blogging industry broken down into a series of panels. The panels included, Content is King, Consistency is Queen, Making Your Mark in Social Media, Brands: What They Are Looking For and How to Get To Them, and One Blog; Many Hustles. Some of the panelists included Kimberly Walker of BET.com and EBONY.com, PR guru Nicole Garner of The Garner Circle, beauty editor of Tia Williams (ESSENCE, InStyle, Teen People), Marie Denee of The Curvy Fashionista, Christen Rochon of Divas and Dorks, celebrity stylist Charles Wade (Solange Knowles), CurlBox creator Myleik Teele, and Katie Croteau of Google to name a few. More than information the conference was a buffet full of beautiful fashions, vendors who showcased their talents and just a good time with no pretense. I was able to get the information necessary to move forward with Miss Merli in NYC in a way that I never imagined.

Wearing Courtney Washington Tunic with H&M Tights Shoes by Vince Camutto and Earrings info I'll get back to you on that one

Kimberly Walker of Bet.com

Tiffani Gatlin

Mattie herself looking beautiful

The first panel fabulous and intelligent Marie, Kimberly, Tiffani Gatlin, and Monroe Steele

Amber and Christen

Kimberly and Tia Williams

Myliek founder of Curlbox

Claire of Fashion Bomb

Winner of blogger award

Freaking Fabulosity Love it

Aree and friend

Marie Denee, me, Christen Rochon, and Amber

Friday, March 2, 2012

NYFW Relax, Renew, and Recharge Tweet UP: Late Recap

Hello Beautiful People,

My how the time has gone by. Since that faithful fashion week has passed I've been working to get ll the pictures up of events that I've gone to while still waking up daily to go to work. Whew February has been super crazy filled with events but also surprising loses i.e. Whitney Houston it's been quite crazy. Nevertheless I wanted to share with you an awesome meet up brought to us by Christen of DivasandDorks.com and Ty of GorgeousinGrey The usual suspects were in attendance including Patrice of LookingFlyonaDime , Caprece of capreceknowsfresh, Kim of makeupbyKim-Porter, Alicia Criner @BeautyChampagne , Cherrie CherrieAmore , Nichole @SugaRushtv, Christina @LoveBrownSugar and Danielle @RhapsoDani just to name a few. I got a makeover with the fabulous Shon Michaux and even won a $100 sephora gift card SCORE! The best part is I got to spend time with amazing ladies who juggle the world and still have time to blog about the very things that make us happy and our world goes around and that right there is so priceless. Thank you Christen and Ty for bring the blogger ladies together for fun, beauty and bonding time. Here are some tweets and of course pictures of the great time.