NBC’s “Today” show Style Editor and notorious fashion adviser, Bobbie Thomas, was in Seattle this week and I had the pleasure of sitting down with her for some fabulous girl talk. I’ve looked up to her for a few years now, but after witnessing her passion and intellect first hand, she immediately jumped up to hero status.

Her philosophy: “Style is about self expression. It’s the way we speak to the world without words.”

Okay…enough gushing. Now for the fun stuff!

In light of my plans to spend the weekend in Vegas with one of my best girlfriends Angie, I decided to ask Bobbie what beauty products she’d take with her on a Vegas vacay. Below are her top picks:

1. Venus Embrace: One of Bobbie’s favorite beauty tools, the first five blade razor for women gets all the grooves with its curve hugging design – even the knees! Bobbie recommends shaving everyday, even if you’re not prickly, because it helps exfoliate and remove dead skin.

2. Bliss Fat Girl Sleep: Not to be confused with its skin firming and moisturizing sister, Fat Girl Slim, Bliss’ Sleep version allows all the same benefits with no caffiene. Bobbie can’t stress enough the importance of beauty sleep.

3. Neutrogena Micro Mist Self-Tanner: The more horror stories we hear about tanning whether skin cancer or accelerating the aging process, the more sunless tanning products are becoming available. Neutrogena’s Micro Mist spray is affordable and goes on light, thin and even. Bobbie strongly advises exfoliating before and after applying all sunless tanners.

4. Spa Sister’s Polishing Towels: Bobbie lives by these towels. They are to be used for exfoliating before showering and applying sunless tanner and/or skin firming lotions. According to Bobbie, “This will not only prep your skin, but help you remove color as well. It’s important to not add self-tanner on top of your last application.”

5. Bliss Triple Oxygen Eye Mask: Perfect for Vegas, the Bliss instant energizing eye mask reduces circles and puffiness in only 15 minutes. For puffy eyes, Bobbie also suggests applying highlighter shine from the corner of the eye to the temple for a natural glow.

My convo with Bobbie went far beyond beauty products so I’ll try to include more tidbits in upcoming posts. In the meantime, be sure to watch her on the “Today” show and check out her style column.    

Lastly, here are deets and pics for my outfit selection process. Rather than going too funky or extravagant, I tried to pick something representative of my personal style – skirt, tank and fun accessories.

Wearing:

• Tank: Forever 21
• Skirt: Bebe
• Pumps: BCBGirls
•  Necklaces: Belt borrowed from a dress, silver chain and Prismera

The necklaces are actually all three connected and were inspired by one of Bobbie’s DIYs. It’s pretty simple and I am posting on it soon…stay tuned!

**Special thanks to Allison and Angie for introducing me to Bobbie.

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