Purple Lab Parties in a Box
February 16, 10
Definition: Party in a box (noun) - A package you send someone that is full of must-have ingredients for the receiver to host a party.
For the Purple Lab HSN launch, I am sending 30 friends – a mix of mom, beauty and lifestyle bloggers, family, friends, the genius Harvard girls (they’re still seniors) who started Her Campus, who organized screenings on six college campuses.
Above, the inside of ours.
It contains:
Our products: Cheek Implants, Huge Lips Skinny Hips, Luvah, Luxury Squared, Silk Sheets.
(Missing is Lashionista Modelista. Every single last one was sent to HSN’s warehouse and there is not a piece to my name. I don’t even have one. In fact, I may even buy one! I’m still using the ghetto lab sample.)
A Skype web cam. I am actually going to Skype into the big launch party that Sharon is throwing in NYC at Meet in Soho while on air, something HSN has NEVER done! It’s like watching a reality show when they flash to the hometown of a finalist to see them cheering!
A purple boa. A Purple Lab hostess always needs feathers!
Figenza Vodka and cocktail recipes (the bottle is purple, so it matches, completely).
A TON of Pop Chips – healthy munchies at their most delish.
We made little booklets for everyone that details each product, who is hosting, what their Twitter and Skype info is.
If I could have afforded to add more, I would have.
This is what the apartment looked like! Popcorn (the kind you use for packing, not eating) covered the floors by the time we were done. And we had to rearrange the furniture in order to line everything up against the wall in a small box to keep it somewhat organized.
The next day, Todd and I filled out all of the Fedex forms (we had to send them two-day because Monday, today, is a holiday). And we also didn’t get products in our hand until the last minute.
We were frazzled to say the least.
The morning after, it looked like a mail boxes place exploded in our our living room.
I actually tripped over one in the middle of the night and woke up Todd when I took a mean spill.
I have to give Todd massive credit for keeping us organized and together and schlepping it all to the Fedex for us – I literally waited in the car for him for almost two hours to handle it all.
(The real reason – I wrote out the Fedex forms with a Uniball pen and it didn’t go through all of the sheets. Know what I’m talking about? Todd had to rewrite ALL of them!)
Anyway, this is what it looked like as the boxes left the building.
Crazy, right?
If you are tweeting while we’re on, please use our hashtag, #PLonHSN! And if you want to follow all of the party in a box hosts, you can below (not all of them are doing Thrs night and I detailed when they’ll be doing it, however, but they’re all amazing peeps to tweet).
DJ Lips (Friday at 12p.m. ET)
Solessence (Friday at 7p.m. ET)
Jamie3983 (Friday, 2a.m. EST)
Mwah!
Karen
Purple Lab Creatrix
Tags: Beauty, HSN, Makeup, Purple Lab
February 18th, 2010 at 11:59 am
I am SOOO excited for you guys. I have a number of the products in my cart ready to check out for tomorrow’s event. Kick butt Karen!!!
February 19th, 2010 at 12:50 am
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Mwah! K
February 28th, 2010 at 1:06 am
[...] Sharon and I had sent out the 30 parties in a box to friends, family, and bloggers across the country so that they could host their own screening [...]
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:40 am
Good information in your blogpost, I watched a report on tv yesterday about this same thing and since I am going to be married a few weeks from now and the timing couldn’t have been better! thanks for the tip!, I have bookmarked, thanks Tisha Luttrell