Sponsors
2012 Sponsors
- WELLA. PASSIONATELY PROFESSIONAL. We unite people who are passionate about hair, in the quest for moments of hair triumph. For us, it’s all about hair. From the beginning it was always like that. Everything inspired by our love of hairdressing to innovate, inspire and enable what we call moments of hair triumph - every day. Professional hair is our reason to be, the stylist our creator, and the consumer our muse.With the stylist we make beauty dreams come true on the stage of life. Igniting the expertise with the spark of passion, succeeding - together. With you, Wella is moving to the next level. Carrying our passion for hair to even greater heights. Sharing our creativity and expertise to bring out the best in all of us. Discover inspirational looks created by passionate professionals at Trend Vision.
- STYLETAG. Chic styles & luxury brands at exclusive styletag prices - handpicked for you. Be a part of the select few to get style tips & interact with the people who make fashion what it is. THE HOUSE OF ffolio PRESENTS STYLETAG.COM. ffolio has been synonymous with some of the finest couturiers and craftsmen from the sub-continent. Founded two decades ago, in 1991, by Yashodhara and Sanjay Shroff, ffolio was the first ever multi designer luxury store in Southern India. It has been the launch pad for several of India’s leading fashion personalities – JJ Valaya, Jason Cherian, Anamika Khanna, Priyadarshini Rao and Ashish Soni to name a few. The store is driven by the latest trends, suited to the refined and sophisticated tastes of its discerning customers.
- FIZZ is a word of mouth marketing agency based in Atlanta, Georgia. Our goal at Fizz is to help you build your brand. Our focus is simple to identify the customers and potential customers most likely to talk about your brand (we call these people influencers) and then use creative tactics to encourage communication. We call this “Influencer Marketing” and it is the most effective technique available to you for growing your brand. Influencer Marketing includes tactics such as evangelist, viral, grassroots and seeding, to name a few. Although these may seem like buzzwords, each is a distinct tactic that has its proper time and place. They are often used together to create great stories about your brand that people will want to share with one another over an extended period of time.
- PUNCHTAB. Founded in January 2011, PunchTab is the world’s first instant loyalty and rewards platform allowing bloggers, brands, and businesses to create free social and mobile-enabled loyalty programs in minutes. Through the PunchTab platform, consumers earn points for engaging on websites, in stores, and social sharing sites like Facebook and Twitter, redeemable for discounts and prizes from a customized catalog. Over 9,000 publishers are using PunchTab’s tightly-integrated rewards program to engage and incentivize over 22 million consumers every month, with no development or marketing costs. Web and mobile app developers can now utilize the PunchTab Developer Tools for a tightly integrated solution. Based in Silicon Valley and led by founders Ranjith Kumaran, co-founder of YouSendIt and Mehdi Ait Oufkir, an early YouSendIt employee and founder of JellyDo.com, a location-based reminder service for Foursquare users, PunchTab is funded by Mohr Davidow Ventures, The Social+Capital Partnership, Crunch Fund, Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman. For more information visit www.punchtab.com
- The Brush Guard is a stretchable, breathable tube which protects your makeup brushes: While drying—bristles dry in perfect shape, in use—handle stays clean and grips better, in storage—no snags or squashing, on the move—perfect packing.
- SHOPIENCE is a social catalog of fashion and trends. It is best place to discover the new, happening fashion. You can either browse finds from community or share your finds from local or online stores. Other fashionistas rate, share and comment on the finds bringing the best of the trends, fashion, products (like shoes, dresses) to everyone. Discover the best trends that are affordable, and accessible.
- INTERN SUSHI gives interns and companies a multimedia platform to tell their stories. Through one minute videos and digital profiles, interns and employers alike are put into the spotlight. Literally. After all, human history is a series of stories well told and the key to unlocking one’s career potential is the ability to create, shape and communicate his or her story. Intern Sushi leverages technology and the social dynamics of the web to connect the brightest and most talented interns with the best companies. Intern Sushi aims to maximize human potential. Intern Sushi was designed to reinvent and reconstruct the internship application and hiring process. Intern Sushi is a new way for interns to land internships and companies to hire interns.
- ASKASALON.COM. Licensed cosmetology professionals, small business owners, independant contractors and distributors competing with huge conglomerates in the beauty industry. Those are our members. Real and true networking, devoid of politics, with the true intent of helping ourselves and those in the industry is the ultimate goal to grow each of our members to their fullest potential. Helping them gain clients, control over the numbers, branding and marketing, and teaching business acumen while showing the latest trends, the how-to’s and tutorial-ing the hell out of the place.
- PIGMENT COSMETICS is fashioned by professional make up artists and stylist who work at the pinnacle of the hair and make up industry. Our background working in educational institutions and salons is extensive. Pigment Cosmetics is endorsed by fashion designers who see what it can do on their runway and photographers who see how it looks behind the lens and in print. Pigment Cosmetics is endorsed by top make up artists who will not settle for anything less than the best.
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Pigment Cosmetics is fashioned by professional make up artists and stylist who work at the pinnacle of the hair and make up industry. Our background working in educational institutions and salons is extensive.
Pigment Cosmetics is endorsed by fashion designers who see what it can do on their runway and photographers who see how it looks behind the lens and in print. Pigment Cosmetics is endorsed by top make up artists who will not settle for anything less than the best.
The colors are fashion colors, and the staying power is a professional make up artist’s dream. We chose our pallet from the fashion colors we use on runway shows and events like fashion week and editorial photo shoots.
Pigment concentration in each element of this line is painstakingly done to ensure its perfect for its application. It will last and stay fresh well beyond anything you’ve ever seen.
The Rock Wall Wine Company represents a new chapter in the East Bay winemaking scene. Founded and operated by a small group of wine industry veterans, including consulting winemaker Kent Rosenblum and his daughter Shauna Rosenblum, the winery offers wine lovers one of the most unique experiences in the wine world.
Rock Wall wines are founded on the philosophy of the right grape in the right place and are the result of many long-term relationships with acclaimed vineyards. Grapes are sourced from all over California which creates a diverse winemaking environment, complete with different grape varieties, styles and regional flavor profiles.
Ideally situated in Alameda, California, the winery boasts spectacular views of the San Francisco skyline, and more importantly its locale allows the winemaking team to be regionally centralized - ensuring that whether Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley, Zinfandel from Sonoma County, Petite Sirah from Contra Costa County or Chardonnay from the Santa Lucia Highlands the winemaking team is able to handle the fruit soon after it is picked.
Gourmet Body Treats was founded by Waleska Agosto for a very important reason. She had very a very sensitive skin condition called rosacea
The daughter of an American Serviceman, she was raised partly in the tropical islands of the Caribbean and later in Germany. In her younger years she worked in gardens, and gained a great respect for the plants and wild life of the local islands. In her teens Waleska went to school in Germany. She gained a great appreciation for products that aren’t far removed from the simple pleasures of the “mom and pop shop”.
Later she would bring those lessons to America. Frustrated with the irritations, and complications she had with the chemical filled bath, body and skin care products that she found in the US; she started making these products for her self. She attended university in Central Texas and was frequently making products for friends and family. Eventually she started a small website, and in the coming years her husband and family would become trusted owner employees.
Today Gourmet Body Treats has grown quite a bit, but we’re still family owned, and we still make our products the old fashioned way. One small batch at a time to insure quality, using the highest quality ingredients money can buy, poured and packaged by hand.
MIRA TORRES is a freelance writer whose links and articles have been featured in various online outlets including San Francisco’s 7×7, Blackbook, and Sashay magazine. You can also find her syndicated work on Myshape, The Bay Area Fashionista , Green Box Top, sustainable and eco fashion website, Green By Design, and her popular Beauty and Accessories column on nationwide news resource Examiner.com. She studied Fashion Merchandising at the Academy of Art University and earned a degree in Psychology at Ashford University. When she’s not indulging in her fashion and beauty product obsession, she likes to paint, horribly sing to music in the car, read trashy fiction, and force feed homemade “gourmet” food to her husband & son. You can e-mail her at torresmira@yahoo.com
The year 2011 will mark Kao Vey Saephanh’s 10th year working in the beauty industry. Throughout those years, Kao has learned both the art of hair styling as well as the practical business skills to embark in a new endeavor, his own business.
Kao recently opened Salon KaoVey. In 2009, Kao got his Masters of Fine Art at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. Although passionate about the art of dance, Kao’s love of fashion and hair styling is where he now devotes his energy and enthusiasm. In 2010, he won “Best Hair Artist” at the San Francisco Fashion Awards and was the First Prize Winner of the KMS Session Stylist Search contest. Kao’s experiences included working for Red Door Spa Elizabeth Arden and Midoma Hair Salon in New York City. In both salons, he was one of the top stylists to create wedding and special occasion hair designs.
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“SET” provides flexible hold for styling all hair textures. It is easy to foam and shares essential properties of both mousse and gel for healthy hair. It can be used as a leave-in detangler/defrizzer conditioner to control natural curly styles. “SET” is a thermal protectant for naturally shiny blow-outs.
Pigment Cosmetics is fashioned by professional make up artists and stylist who work at the pinnacle of the hair and make up industry. Our background working in educational institutions and salons is extensive.
Pigment Cosmetics is endorsed by fashion designers who see what it can do on their runway and photographers who see how it looks behind the lens and in print. Pigment Cosmetics is endorsed by top make up artists who will not settle for anything less than the best.
The colors are fashion colors, and the staying power is a professional make up artist’s dream. We chose our pallet from the fashion colors we use on runway shows and events like fashion week and editorial photo shoots.
Pigment concentration in each element of this line is painstakingly done to ensure its perfect for its application. It will last and stay fresh well beyond anything you’ve ever seen.
SMARTENERGY Cocktails are ordinary cocktails infused with SMARTENERGY SHOTS, a natural energy mixer that can be used to compliment almost any beverage, alcoholic/non-alcoholic to provide a natural energy lift.
Glaceau Smartwater is “The water with all the answers”. Perfect for when you need something a little extra, this not only contains vaper distilled water but also electrolytes to help give you that extra boost.
Clipta was the largest video index on the web, and a destination for Internet users to find, discover, share, and interact with videos from any source worldwide. Clipta’s mission is to give users the freedom to select between hundreds of millions of free online videos as well as premium paid content, and television broadcasts, in one place. Beyond the ability to search for content, Clipta has created multiple platforms that allow users to have a tailored and personal video viewing experience. With a combination of new technologies including deep crawling and video search algorithms, Clipta quickly collects content and delivers relevant video search results based on user behavior. Clipta was founded in April 2008, and is available on 18 different languages.
Hair Play specializes in haircuts, blow dries, flat iron, deep and thermal conditioning, hair relaxers and wave nouveau. This salon also specializes in hairstyling, up-do’s and bridal hair imaging on location or in the salon. Consultation and first run styling starts at $75. Makeup artists are also available. At Hair Play salon, the two way flow of communication between client and stylist makes it possible to combine color, cut and style to enhance anyone’s image to the max.
Hair Play also offers workshops as their goal is to create a community of beauty, fashion and art. They are committed to bringing clients the best in hair care and individual style. Now order SET online! Hair Play’s custom blend product is a weightless detangling moisturizing foam-lotion for all hair textures. Learn more & order at www.HairPlayProducts.com. Voted THE #1 Hair Salon in SF
Vino Moda is a new premiere event company in the wine & fashion industry. As a member you will be invited to experience fine wines, fashion shows, and wine events so join us today!
