BEVERLY HILLS, CA (LA Elements) 3/19/2015 – “We’re the number one selling lash enhancing serum,” says
Skin Research Laboratories National Sales Manager Angelica Montoya Kanter of neuLash.“We’re the number one selling product in Neiman Marcus and we’re always in the top five with Nordstrom, Bloomingdales and Bergdorf Goodman. Our hero product is neuLash. You use it once a day until you see gorgeous beautiful thicker looking lashes. Once you see results, you don’t have to use it everyday, just maybe three times a week. We have a brow serum, a hair serum and then we just launched a new skin polisher called neuRadiance. It gives you camera-ready skin
neuLash Product
immediately. I call it micro-dermabrasion in a bottle.”
Angelica Montoya Kanter
Acclaimed beauty products were one of many outstanding sponsors that took part in Roger Neal’s 19th Annual Beauty & Couture Academy Award Suite, held on February 18th-February 20th at the Luxe Hotel Penthouse in Beverly Hills. Attendance by Academy Award nominees was impressive and included Alexander Dinelaria, winner for Best Original Screenplay, LauraDern, Best Supporting Actress nominee for Wild, Best Original Song nomineesDanielle Brisebois, for “Lost Stars” from Begin Again, and Diane Warren, for “Grateful” from Beyond the Lights, HelenEstabrook, lead executive producer from Whiplash,Max Frey, Best Original Screenplay nominee for Foxcatcher, Julian Feret, producer of Best Live Action Short Film nominee Butter Lamp, and Stephen Ceretti, nominated for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for Guardians of theGalaxy and film and TV star, Christopher McDonald.
Kevin Sorbo and Rhonda Shear
Rhonda Shear easily brought the “couture” to the Roger Neal Annual Beauty & Couture Academy Award Suite. “I have a line of intimate apparel and I’ve sold a bra called the Ahh Bra which had sales of 35 million worldwide,” says designer Rhonda Shear. “My love of shape wear and bras brought me to start designing gowns that have built-in shape wear in them. Everything has built in either a body suit or cups or shapewear so it’s just making you look better.” Shear revealed her plans to extend her fashion label beyond the realm of couture. “I’m starting out with a one of a kind couture and then I’m going to branch out very soon into cocktail dresses for everybody. I love old Hollywood and I love glamour. My inspiration is I love the body conscious. I like being able to camouflage some things, bging the eye up and maybe even away from certain things.”
Philanthropy was a strong presence at this suite as representatives from a number of outstanding charities were on hand to answer questions from attendees.
“We’re based in Hollywood, we’ve been open since 1880 and we used to be an orphanage,” says Hollygrove Director of Fund Development Julia Connolly. “In fact, Marilyn Monroe was one of our residents at the age of nine. We’ve come a long way since then. We’re no longer an orphanage, we’re now part of one of the largest mental health services providers in the country, EMQ Families First, Hollygrove is the LA representation of EMQ. We serve approximately 1200 children and their famiies on an annual basis who have been through all sorts of emotional and mental traumas and basically we create specialized privately funded programs for them. Everything from therapeutic services to family finding services we try and prevent children who are at risk from being removed from their parents and going into the foster system. We try and re-connect them with blood relatives to prevent them from entering into the foster system and to hopefully keep them with meaningful individualism their lives.
Other outstanding charity sponsors included Andy Transplant Foundation, which raises funds for patients needing organ transplants and their families as well as research development. DonkeyLandRescue seeks to help protect the wild burros, which are federally protected animals.
HELEN EATABROOK Oscar Nominated Lead Producer for “Whiplash”
Literary sponsors were a strong presence at this particular lounge.
“I play Aurora, a fairy of the nigh,” says Jamie Brewer,” of her role in the upcoming film, Snow Moon: Cinderella Chronicles Sage which is based on the book by Alexandria Altman. “It’s a neat story line. It’s her life in a fantasy format.”
Attendees had access to the book Snow Moon: Cinderella Chronicles. Altman,also wrote the screenplay for yet another upcoming film, Black Sally, based on the book by Lisa Luxen, who was present to discuss her work.
“Alexandria and I met about a year ago,” says Luxen.“At the same time that she was starting her book, I was starting my book. We really connected so she wrote the screenplay for my movie, which is based on my book, Evil Storms ofAncestry.It’s an autobiography of my life but it’s not a fairy tale.”
“I was a victim of child abuse and my forefathers kept passing down these sins. It’s called generational curses from one generation to the next. There was a lot of abuse, a lot of prejudice a lot of disowning people. Well, I basically hit rock bottom and almost took my life but I changed when Jesus took over and basically saved my life. I gave my life to Jesus and things all started falling into place.” Now it’s very very important for people to understand that your ancestors do affect you and they affect your children too. The way you break that generational curse is you accept Jesus in your heart. You let Him transform you into the person He wants you to be.”
Nadia Khalil Bradley, was also on hand to discuss and gift copies of her book, Original Love as well as other selections from her writings.
“I write books about self-love because I found out that we can only love people as much as we love ourselves and so we attract people who only love themselves as much as we love us. So, then we get into these cycles of dating the same people over and over again because we find people who reflect us. The interesting part is the over and over again because when you don’t understand self love you need people to take care of you and love you instead of realizing you’re there to share love. So then you get to a point where you outgrow each other and when you outgrow each other one of the two leaves. So this book, Original Loveis an easy book to read. It tells about truth, love and purity. It brings you back to the time before anyone said no to you. When you really thought the world was your oyster. The book take your soul from good to great.”
Laura Dern
Among the outstanding luxury sponsors were historical Belleek Castle in Ballina Ireland where VIP attendees could enjoy a $10,000 stay.Personal Touch Lingerie, which displayed their line of Swarovski Crystal Bras at thesuite, Timmy Woods Beverly Hills Handbags, Dr. Sanda Moldovan gifted nominees with a gift bag worth over $500 in products and services, Shelly Hill from Sparkle Nails worked her magic doing outstanding manicures and pedicures, and artist Mario Della Casa created a diamond embellished Freddie the Flute, a character from the classic children’s series, H.R. Pufnstuf, which was unveiled at the suite.
Kurt Ehrlich, who was the chef for Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan, provided refreshments. Ehrlich, along with Jeannette’s Edelweiss restaurant supplied the food. Lorimar Wine & Champagne served their awards winning wines and champagnes and new dessert wines.
For over 30 years Roger Neal and Neal Public Relations have been handling publicity, in all areas of the entertainment industry including motion picture, television, publishing and more. For additional information about Roger Neal and Neal Public Relations, please visit the Neal Public Relations website.
Julian Ferete and Roger Neal
All photos for this article by Glen Lipton except for photo of Angelica Montoya Kanter taken by Elva Zevallos
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