Ladies, we have to discuss something delicate today, your undergarments. Please watch the 13 second video above to see what I am talking about. The days of Madonna with her cone bra, Britney with her thong above her jeans, and Carrie Bradshaw with her black bra under her white tank are over. I want you all to look classy and elegant from the moment you walk out the door; whether you are going to Whole Foods or hitting the red carpet. Here are a couple of amazing and affordable tools to keep your undergarments in check:
Tape it up! From L to R: Fashion Forms, Hollywood Fashion Tape, TOPSTICK.
1. Tape: Whether it is the classic men's toupée tape called TOPSTICK (A favorite of Rachel Zoe.), Hollywood Fashion Tape, or Style Solutions by Fashion Forms (Dress Tape), it is time to tape it all up! Use the double-sided tape on your DVF wrap dress close to the top of the slit so you aren't flashing your undies coming in and out of the car or tape that shirt to your bra, so we don't have to look at the lace on the latest Victoria's Secret fashion. It's easy to use, easy to remove, and it's affordable at less than $10 for any of the three products mentioned above. As an avid user of tape every time I am on-camera, I prefer TOPSTICK or Fashion Forms because their adhesive won't let you down. For those of you who are SAG members, Naimie's sells TOPSTICK for a 30% discount with your membership card.
The absolute MUST-HAVE in your wardrobe: Fashion Forms NuBra Ultralite.
2. Adhesive Bras: Oh, it sounds really weird, but once I discovered this genius invention, I haven't looked back. Think of it as cups with adhesive, no straps, but they attach together at the center for additional support. These bras are amazing with strapless, backless, or red carpet dresses. They offer the support that pasties lack and they gently stick to your skin without a worry. They are easy to wash, the adhesive lasts a long time, and I don't fuss with the adhesive bra the way I do with a regular strapless bra. The best part? They also work with chicken cutlets if you smaller-chested ladies (Like Moi!) want some additional cleavage. Also, Fashion Forms has taken the chicken cutlet/adhesive bra one step further and combined it them into one amazing product. Target carries Fashion Forms beginning at $24.99.
This little piece of plastic is all you need. From L to R: Strap Perfect in clear, black, and nude, and Fashion Forms in black.
3. Strap Perfect: Okay, it's time to seriously put those bra straps away. You've seen those commercials on TV. Strap Perfect is affordable and a terrific solution to hiding those straps when you are wearing a tank top or a racer back shirt. The pack includes clear, nude, and black pieces to accommodate the most common colors in your undergarment wardrobe. It will pull and tighten those straps so you aren't pushing them up as they slide off of your shoulders and the ad is true, they give you a nice lift. The ads on TV charge you $18.95 plus $7.95 shipping. Skip that route and head to Bed, Bath, and Beyond armed with one of their 20% off coupons and get a smaller pack for under $10.
Okay, those are just a few quick and affordable solutions to pulling yourself together for a big night out without pulling a Britney. I just want you to look your best and I prefer not to know the color of your underwear. If you don't believe me, check out my interview with lovely CEO and founder of Fashion Forms, Ann Deal, at the Reality Cares gifting suite. Not only is she a hoot, but she understands the importance of dressing from the inside out:
Finally, we have to announce our winner of the Emmys Weekend Gift Bag Giveaway. Using Random.org, our winner was selected and it is Lisa Cafiero! Congratulations! Please make sure to contact me (Contact Tab is at the top of the page.) so I can make sure you get your gift bag this week.
We have finally reached the end of Emmys Weekend event coverage. Phew. It was a busy few days and it took almost an entire week for me to share all of the pictures. Many have you asked about the interview and where you can see them. Once they are edited and ready for viewing, I will post them and the appropriate links for you. Our editor is hard at work as we speak as he has a ton of footage to attend to.
Now, let's get down to the fun stuff: photos from the last red carpet event last weekend. It was the Reality Cares Achievement Awards at The Luxe Hotel Rodeo Drive and yes, we spent a lot of time here over the course of two days. The honorees that night included Whitney Port of The City, the executive producers from The Amazing Race, and Carrie Ann Inaba from Dancing With The Stars. Carrie Ann wasn't able to attend, but we got a strong list of reality show participants that evening.
Me and E!'s Michael Yo
Michael Yo was awesome, sweet and he dished on Paris Hilton's arrest that day for cocaine possession. That's my kind of juicy interview. I can't wait to post this video for you. I should have it for you next week. Stay tuned.
Whitney Port from The City
I was a huge fan of The Hills during the first couple of seasons, so it was fun to interview Whitney Port. She has become quite the entrepreneur with her fashion line, Whitney Eve. She looked stunning with a short, flapper-inspired dress and soft waves in her purposely messy updo. The girl is tall and she was wearing four inch heels to boot, so I looked right into her cleavage while I was talking to her. I couldn't stop staring at her boobs. It was a very strange situation to be stuck in, but hey, her décolletage looked good. It was a pretty funny moment for me and JD, who was behind the camera watching it all.
Roxy Olin from The City
With an amazing acting lineage and a pretty face to boot, Roxy was there to present the award to her pal, Whitney. She was charming during our short interview. Next time, I will try and get the scoop on her parents, Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig, and the details of this season's Brothers and Sisters, which looks to be a bloodbath of cast cuts after last season's finale.
Jason Davis.....famous for nothing...or Celebrity Rehab.
I just call it like I see it, I'm not sure why he walked the red carpet and he didn't have much to say. If you want to read about Jason, here you go.
Phil Keoghan from The Amazing Race
Here's where the fun begins! Phil Keoghan from The Amazing Race popped onto the red carpet to help honor the show's Executive Producers, Bertram van Muster and Elise Doganieri. As a fan of The Amazing Race and one who has always wanted to get "PHILiminated" at the check-in point, it was pretty awesome to meet him. He was a super chatty interview. I talked to him alone, then with his producers, and then with the CBS publicist. At that point, the Reality Cares publicist asked me to wrap up the interview, I was hogging him. Even after I tried to finish the interview, he kept talking. It was definitely a first. I am usually begging people to talk, instead, Phil gave us a ton of material to work with.
Chatting on and on and on......
Finally, we were done and it was time to have fun. Here's the elusive man behind the camera, JD Piche. We never have fun together as you can see from the photos. After we finished mugging for the camera, look who jumped into frame. Oh yeah, Phil. Sweet. I do think he's delicious, so I certainly didn't mind.
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If you missed the other sections of my Emmys pictures, go here, here, and here.
Thanks for joining me for a week of Emmys pictures and stories. Let me know what your favorite post was in the comment section below. See you tomorrow at Red Carpet Closet.
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Hey Everyone! Today we are off to visit our last gifting suite sponsored by Reality Cares. I will tell you that we stumbled upon an interesting mix of celebs at this venue. Now, I left you at the SLS Hotel in West Hollywood yesterday. After we finished at the SLS, we ventured over to The Luxe Hotel in Beverly Hills. This party was happening on the penthouse rooftop, it was hot, sunny, and the drinks were flowing. I walked away from this one a little buzzed, a little sunburned, and with a nice bag of gifts. Let's see who I ran into here:
Now Carolyn and I go way back. Seriously. Back to the turn of the century "in the year 2000" (That's for all of the CoCo fans out there.), we met when my boyfriend at the time was doing a play with her at the Sacred Fools Theatre. Carolyn is a tremendous talent and she has a career that most actors would envy. It was fantastic to run into her again and I already warned my now ex-boyfriend that he was discussed on-camera. He has nothing to fear though, he's a nice guy.
Bob Guiney of GSN Live, Band from TV, and The Bachelor.
I am always guilty of name-dropping in interviews. I have no shame. I find that it makes the person your interviewing a bit more comfortable and trusting of you if you have some friends in common. Two fellow entertainment reporters and hosts, Melissa Rowley and Jeff Rago, recently interviewed Bob Guiney for their show, In Bed With, on Mingle Media TV. Bob is one of the nicest guys you may ever meet. He's a great interview and he gamely answered the truth behind the hooking up with 5.5 girls (Don't believe everything Mike Fleiss tells you on 20/20.) on The Bachelor question for Jeff and Melissa. I took the opportunity to tease him about it and he ran with it. My kind of guy!
I look like I am going to bite Bob. I must have been hungry.
Verne Troyer AKA Mini Me.
We were milling around the gifting suite when all of a sudden someone flashes by me in a scooter. It was Verne Troyer! Score! He was posing for photos and he happily agreed to an interview. He is tiny. Not just tiny, but tiny, tiny. I had to sit on my knees to interview him in his scooter. I asked him a few Emmy/TV questions. While he revealed he didn't own a TV, he still scored points with me when he admitted that the Fonz was one of his favorite TV characters. Seriously, who doesn't love the Fonz?
Verne Troyer with Todd Michael Krim of Reality Cares. This gives you an idea of how tiny Verne is.
Charlie Saxton from the HBO show, Hung.
If you are an HBO fan like me, you know that Hung precedes Entourage each and every week. So, when we ran into Charlie Saxton as we were leaving the SLS Hotel, I told him how much I loved the show. Fast forward to the Luxe Hotel about two hours later and we run into him again. That means it is time for an interview! Charlie is definitely older than the high school teen he plays on Hung, but he is really cute and sweet. We talked about filming in Detroit (Ah, did you know the show was shot in Michigan?) and I gave him a tip on the best barbeque in D-town, Slows. It may not be in the best neighborhood, but it is worth the trip.
Finally, a few photos from in and around the Reality Cares gifting suite where I somehow found my way into a photo booth. Yeah, I might have a cocktail in my hand on the job......oops!
The amazing view from atop the penthouse at The Luxe Hotel Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills.
If you missed Part 1 and 2 of my Emmys weekend, you can find them here and here.
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Thanks for stopping by. Join me tomorrow at Red Carpet Closet for some hot photos with one of my favorite TV hosts.
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Oh, what a weekend! I have a lot of photos to share with you and hopefully a few stories behind some of the interviews. The interviews from Mingle Media TV will be posted in the next few days, but here's a head start on what happened this weekend at some of the pre-Emmys gifting suites, parties, and events. I was trying to put them all in one post, but it was too overwhelming, so here is the start of my Emmys weekend:
Reality Cares Benefit: Friday night I was at the Luxe Hotel Rodeo Drive for the Love Hope & Healing Cancer Benefit.
With the band, Honor Society, who played that night. They are cute, sweet, very Disney, and friends with the Jonas Brothers.
Max Adler from Glee. Even though he plays a non-singing role in the show, Max revealed he was a member of show choir back in high school....sequins and all!
Patrick Gallagher of True Blood and Glee. Is he looking at my boobs?
Guillermo Diaz from Weeds told me his favorite TV character is Mork from Mork and Mindy. Here we are doing a little "Nanu Nanu" on the red carpet.
Lots of web series fans will recognize Lauren Mayhew from Private High Musical. She couldn't remember who created her dress. We had to do a little tag checking during the interview.
Okay, here we go. Vienna Girardi from The Bachelor. She was the host of the evening and I have to say, she is sweet and much prettier and softer in person. I don't know what her career plans are in LA, but I think she got screwed with a little Mike Fleiss editing on the show. I am glad she is away from Jake because I think he is crazy. Yep, I said it. Crazy.
Lots of goofing around on the red carpet with my producer, JD Piche, behind the camera.
I will be back with more photos tomorrow and I have lots of good stories from the GBK Gifting Suite with your favorite celebs from The Office, 30 Rock, Mad Men, and Desperate Housewives. I will also be doing an Emmys event gift bag giveaway, so come back and join me at Red Carpet Closet tomorrow!
Photos Courtesy of Mingle Media TV and Kristyn Burtt. May not be used without linking back to the proper sites.
