New York Fashion Week is a total work-out! Attending shows, being pampered by vendors, interviewing my makeup artist icon, Kabuki, and getting to have a cocktail with the Lauder family and makeup artist, Bobbie Brown, is exhausting!

Thankfully Beyond Beauty Basics’ partner, Total Beauty, has provided us a beautiful suite in the Bryant Park Hotel to chill in between shows and events. Better yet, each day a different vendor is in the suite giving us hand massages and hair styling services!

Check out my latest fashion week pictures below! For more, visit our Flickr!

Bobbi Brown and I at the Estee Lauder reception

William Lauder and I in the Estee Lauder offices on 5th Avenue, New York

Me sitting at Estee Lauder’s desk

Sergio Davila

Inside the Main Tent

LOREAL breakfast at the Norwood Club, New York

Makeup Artist Kabuki at Tony Cohen Show

Model at Tony Cohen

After battling harsh winds, rain, and a leaky Amtrak train, I got into New York City last night and collapsed once I got checked in. With a big day lined up for today, I started off right by having breakfast with reps from Thierry Mugler. Their signature fragrance, Angel, is re-vamped with an updated look and new technology to their formula. Launching this fall, Angel now has a time-released system which will last up to 8 hours. I was able to pick up a bottle of the new and improved Angel fragrance at the breakfast so a report on Beyond Beauty Basics will be posted shortly.

Once I wrapped up breakfast, it was off to the Tracy Reese show at Bryant Park. The styles for Spring ’09 included free-flowing fabrics in vibrant colors of peach, yellow, and green. The hair and makeup were of course equally as beautiful with loose low chignon hair styles and rosy cheeks and eyes that literally popped off the runway! Famous faces in attendance included Brandy and Sarah Silverman!

A complimentary skin analysis by Dermalogica closed my day off right! Although, I know I have oily skin! Thankfully they recommended some wonderful products and were generous with samples for trial!

Tired, achy, and just simply done, I sit in my hotel room flipping through pictures from the day and thank my lucky stars for this priceless experience.

For more photos from the Beyond Beauty Basics team, check out our Flickr!

As the newest member of the Beyond Beauty Basics team of Beauty Editors, I will be backstage and in the tents at select shows for New York Fashion Week!. I will be providing the latest news straight from the runway via Beyond Beauty Basics and also keeping a live update, including pictures, on my Twitter and FACEBOOK! Join me!

Please note I will be in New York from Saturday, September 6th through Friday, September 12th!