Pictures from the 1st Canadian P&G Beauty Awards

Posted by Ali | Friday October 30, 2009

Warning: This post is the product of FujiFilm saying, "Hey! Why don't you play with our shiny new Finepix F70?" combined with a party and a glass of bubbly. I forget that sometimes it's fun to be behind the camera too. So... forgive that I'm in every shot?

Last night ChickAdvisor attended the P&G Beauty awards at the Carlu. The bash celebrated the best in Canadian fashion and beauty, bestowing Tiffany & Co. engraved awards to magazines, blogs, websites, makeup artists, models and photographers.

The Pros of this photo: I'm with Joeffer Caoc, one of my fave Canadian designers. The Cons: The shadows are making it look like my butt just grew several inches and... Joeffer's hand is on it.

The event was hosted by Nia Vardalos, who kept the crowd in stitches with jokes about her own beauty struggles growing up. She even went so far as to share a picture of herself in the awkward years. You know that school photo aged somewhere between 11 and 14 that we'd die if anyone saw? That one.

I'm with Jennifer Campbell, the online editor for FashionMagazine.com. She was the final vote that convinced me to keep the ginormous necklace when we bonded over foundation at a Clarins event.

For some reason Style By Jury's David Clemmer and I ended up doing a series of impromptu posing. The man is really funny. He was one of the presenters of the evening and this is the only photo you're going to see from our shenanigans.

Well loved Beauty Geek, Janine Falcon took home the award for best Beauty or Fashion Blog.

Julia McEwan of Canadian Living always looks amazing and is willing to pose on command. You may recall we've fashion stalked her before.

Liv Judd, editor of Lou Lou Magazine looks like a Barbie doll in her white cocktail dress. But don't hate - this fellow prairie chick is very sweet.

Sandy Gold of Happiface.com and I with our enormous statement jewelry and matching faux hawk pony tails. Do you love it?

Janine accepts her award with her trademark quip that 'the staff' will be very pleased.

That Nia Vardalos. She even talks pretty. Have you ever seen a picture of yourself mid sentence? Me, I'm an ugly talker. My face contorts, my mouth looks crooked and I purse my lips a lot. Nia is a pretty talker.