Lately the universe has brought me some amazing shopping experiences. I know that sounds ridiculous, but I promise, it's true. One of my dear friends FINALLY got me to host a Stella & Dot party, after a year of coaxing. It was actually really fun. We made elaborate foods that we bought from Wegmans, and we drank champagne and wine and we let our kids run amok eating finger foods and brownie bites until dark. Stuff got broken (by my own kid playing frisbee in the house). Oh and we shopped for stylish yet affordable jewelry.

In the last few weeks I was also introduced to something called Trunk Club. Um. Pretty much the most amazing shopping experience of my nearly 40 years here this time on Earth. How that works is, you spend a hot minute filling out a profile, then answering some questions. I gave Tracey my pinterest WHAT TO WEAR board (which I am particularly fond and proud of). It's like stitch fix, accept your trunk of clothes and shoes that an amazing stylist has put together just for you, either comes to your house or it comes to your party - and that party can be in their clubhouse (which I haven't been to yet) OR it can be at your house, your stylist's house. You get the point. Again, champagne and shopping and let's just face it, I'm doomed.

So after all of these endorphin-laden experiences, I got an idea. Sometimes that happens. But I thought what if I brought my glamour light (aka ring light or ring flash), Pitbull (or ok, Justin Bieber), lots of wine and champagne, finger food and my camera to a girl party? Add in that my best friend is and always has been (even in high school) a top makeup artist, who did everyone's makeup. Would that be fun? Would people like that? In the world of Facebook profile pictures and Insta-worthy praise, who wouldn't? I found some girls down with the idea and we set it up. This is what I got:

And then Fiona, the goddess appearing first in this blog post, had the brilliant idea that we should recreate this with our littles. OMGEE. Makeup on a 4 year old slays me. So we'll have to set that up, if Aunt Melissa is down. More on the blog later...

I think my experiment was a success! I don't know, what do you think? Would you do this with your girlfriends? If you'd like to, message me to see if we can set something up.

Thanks for looking!

Jessica