Stephanie Wang of The Alchemist's Kitchen
On Saturday, October 15th, I attended the ABC Carpet & Home fall Beauty Wellness Wisdom event at 888 Broadway at 19th Street. This event is the perfect way to focus on yourself for the day, by sitting in on morning discussions, learning about green beauty brands, and indulging in afternoon spa treatments and wellness experiences.
The event, which is held both in the spring and the fall, is $80 to attend, and is well worth the cost since the $80 you pay for the ticket serves as a gift card you can use on the day of the event, towards apothecary, skincare, makeup and books.
It's important to get there as soon as the event opens at 9am to sign up for afternoon treatments, private sessions and master classes, which fill up quickly. Each treatment is approximately 15 minutes long, and there is no limit to how many treatments you sign up for.
After sign-ups, the morning began with an opening meditation with Deepak Chopra, followed by a series of morning talks:
- Fall star forecast with Spiritual Astrologer Demitra Vassiliadis
- Goop's Beauty Editor Jean Godfrey-June + Cherry Bombe's Editor Kerry Diamond
- Stephanie Wang on the origin of The Alchemist's Kitchen + tonic tastings
- Attuned Beauty + Conscious Confidence with Fern Olivia Langham founder of Ajai Alchemy
- The Beauty of Wellness with Yuri Dhara, Self-Discovery Teacher & founder of State Of Self
- Jason Wacob, CEO of MindBodyGreen with Lauren Berlingeri
- Plant Medicine + The Wise Woman Tradition with Téana David
Check out the afternoon beauty and wellness highlights below. Aside from scheduled treatments, there was plenty of time to stop by each brand and sample products on your own. When it comes to skin care and beauty products, I appreciate being able to test out products before I buy them, and meeting with the founders and experts of the brands also makes for a better shopping experience. ABC Carpet & Home executes such an amazing event twice a year, and it just keeps getting bigger and better!
Goop's Beauty Editor Jean Godfrey-June + Cherry Bombe's Editor Kerry Diamond
ABC Bloom flower arranging
Tracie Martyn LotuSculpt Eyepad treatments - during the treatment you are able to test the eyepad on one eye, in which you can see a notable difference in just 10 minutes, followed by an introduction to Tracie Martyn's skin care line, including a cleanser, toner, serum and cream.
Rawpothecary juice sampling
Rawpothecary sampling of Defend Me immune support and Restore Me inflammation support shots
Lov Organic tea sampling
Moon Juice sampling
Incausa smudging
JINsoon mini-manicures with the Dandizette Collection in five fall shades
Intelligent Nutrients hand treatments
Sampling of mango juice mixed with Intelligent Nutrients Intellimune Antioxidant Super Seed Oil Complex (antioxidant-omega super-supplement) + Intellimune Antioxidant Super Seed Powder Complex (beauty nutraceutical)
FaceLove Fitness offered a mini version of their FaceLove treatment, which includes a head, neck & shoulder release, muscle rolling with tools, face exercises, muscle toning massage and a closing ritual acupressure, stretch & chilled jade rollers. This type of treatment erases visible stress, cultivates a radiant glow, releases mood boosting endorphins and softens lines. This is something I would definitely love to try a full treatment of. There were nerves in my face I never knew existed, as there were unique ways to exercise/stretch my face.
Malaya Organics mini hand massages
Erbaviva mini hand massages
Goop one-on-one beauty consultations
Indie Lee mini-facials
Ajai Alchemy
The Moon Deck session - tarot cards & oracle guidebook
Yarok hair styling
Yarok did a fabulous as always, adding loose waves to my hair
EiR NYC provided eyebrow waxing + active lifestyle massages. Their skin care line includes an Energizing Mist, Coffee Lip Balm, Savasana Body Oil and other amazing products. Lena from barelywax.com did an amazing, painless job on my eyebrow wax.
This was my first introduction to Captain Blankenship and founder Jana Blankenship, who touched up my hair with the Golden Waves Sea Salt Shimmer Spray. With a Rose Gold Shimmer Spray that's available just in time for the holidays! I look forward to trying out the products, including Mermaid Dry Shampoo, Mermaid Hair Oil, and the Blue Chamomile& Lemon Oil Based Cleanser and Makeup Remover, that can also be used as an eye serum.
Pratima skin consultations
- Kim Weling
