Makeup & a Movie with Bobbi Brown

The movie was "Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's," and the Bergdorf's color [for shopping bags, signature ribbon on silver boxes, etc. is purple].  I took home a lavender iced mini cupcake and purple-tipped lipstick cookie for Figgy.

If you were sitting on the couch next to me, you'd catch a note of Bobbi's Party, spritzed on from the bottle in the bathroom at the Bobbi Brown Studio in Montclair tonight. The scent is pretty, and I like the way it's lingering.

The Montclair Fund for Educational Excellence fundraiser tonight was a huge hit--packed house. I enjoyed it, yet felt lonely. My friends Anne and Elly bought $50 [lowest tier] tickets too, but our schedules changed--it's Elly's wedding anniversary, so she headed out to a late dinner with her husband, and Anne had to pick up her Nikki from cheerleading. I was waiting for Punch's grandma to arrive to take her for the weekend and she hit bad traffic, so by the time I drove Figgy to art class, I didn't get to the event till 7, though it started at 6. I overlapped with dear Anne and Elly a little, but otherwise, I was alone among pretty PTA people. I saw a lot of faces from years past but was too shy to interrupt their conversations. I said hello to a couple of women I know.

Anyway, purple prose: 

• On the way in, when I stopped to buy $20 worth of raffle basket tickets, I noticed a dish of purple-and-green foil wrapped chocolate hearts. Put a couple in my purse to bring home to Figgy. 
• The movie. Missed the beginning, but ate up the part I saw. [Bobbi was also in it.] I kind of grew up at Bergdorf's stylewise--it was the place I loved to visit on lunch hour. And where I first laid my eyes on these brands: Kate Spade, Tocca, Milly, Tory, Aerin, Annick Goutal, Wolford, Emilio Pucci.
• Bobbi Brown is petite at the podium. She did a Q&A session, and I liked it when she answered a Q about how a young person could follow his or her dream. "Work hard and do what you love," she said. "And take a year off and work for free."
• Nice perks. Not only did the Champagne flow [and it tasted good], but people filled Chinese takeout containers with food from Wah-chung restaurant in town and ate it with forks or chopsticks while the film rolled.
• Bobbi's flight of makeup artists was available for touch-ups, and attendees got a 20 percent coupon to spend at her makeup bar. I used it toward lipstick in Brownie [Bobbi is famous for pinky browns] and a tube of Beach shower gel. Going to use it tonight, can't wait. Love how it smells, like Coppertone on a breezy, blue-sky August day on the beach.
• The lipstick shaped cookies! So clever. And the shade? Purple. [Wouldn't like that on lips, but like it in sugar icing.] A nice woman watching over the coffee and tea table said they were from the Little Daisy Bake Shop [please note--I bought the small blue cake pedestal pictured above at Little Daisy on my birthday].
• The mini cupcakes, iced in purple, donated by Cupcakes by Carousel, on Church Street. Appropriate, since when I once had a luscious cupcake at the frozen yogurt/cupcake stop on 5F at Bergdorf's, I asked the waiter where it was baked. He checked the box and said Cupcakes by Carousel.
• Good coffee.

TCOY

1. Private Benjamin.

2. Read and rested.