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An evening of wine, hot lips & the Kama Sutra

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Last Wed I attended a little evening of socialising organised by Emma King (aka @toothfairysa) – yes this is the lady who ensures everyone in Cape Town has Brite Smiles, including me! ;)   Emma’s quite the networking queen and got a bunch of lovelies together to taste some wine, discover some fun products and pick up tips on how to spice up our sex lives. (yup that’s right – but more about that later…)

One of the first people I bumped into was Willem Venter from ZED Menswear.

Willem says ZED Menswear prides themselves on working with their clients to create a well rounded wardrobe. They import all their fabrics and then everything is locally produced.

How’s this for a small world moment.  Willem is, like me, orginally from little old PE.  And his sister used to be my modelling teacher when I was but just an innocent little teenager. (OK – I was never really all that innocent. haha)  When I got home I just had to go whip out my old model book to show you guys what I looked like at the tender age of 16 doing my schmodel thing.  Check this baby out.  It’s from what I call my “sepia period”.  Giving your pics that brown tinge was like all the rage in PE at the time (and probably still is today – along with shading a heart shape around your face).  In this shot I seem to be going for a bit of a moody “nobody understands me” and “my gawd damn dress is falling off” look.  It’s classic.

Ta da! If I had to add a speech bubble there is would prob say: “Damn, I could kill for a chocolate right now…”

Anyhoo, lets move swiftly along then – I’m sure the happening PE modelling scene is just far too much for you to consume in one go. :)   

Mandi Jarman from Saving Private Rhino was there to give us some background on this very important initiative which aims to protect our endangered rhinos.  They collect funds so they can do things like train game reserve staff in anti-poaching techniques, install high-tech equipment like CCTV surveilance, finance valuable poaching intelligence gathering and tracking of rhino’s via GPS.   You can help by popping over to their website and making a donation.  Every rand counts.

You can also purchase Saving Private Rhino merchandise to help support the cause.

Other people on the scene included actress and TV & radio lovely Natalie Becker, Good Hope FM DJ Ayanda Tini and my very own Clouds from And Lolllipops:

Natalie, Ayanda, Clouds

Then the hunky Dylan Savage from Live is Savage:

Love his blog. I try to read it on a regular basis. He always has some interesting inside scoops.

TV & radio star Elana Afrika, absolute sweetheart Jasna from Fashionjazz, and sexy SA model Lee-Ann Roberts:

Elana, Jasna, Lee-Ann

And then the ladies who make sure you’re looking your best at all times, the team from Just Skin Aesthetic Clinic:

Tenile, Carol (the owner) and Angela

After gulping down our welcome champers we got to play with some make-up stuffs by Maskscara.  I was particularly drawn to this caviar type nail varnish:

Doesn’t that pic in the back look good enough to eat?

And then people got freaky with these Bella Violent lips stick on lip tattoos:

Here is our model, Xavier, rocking a leopard print number (like so hot right now) along with Emma in hot pink:

You can’t see it that well on this pic unfortunately, but Emma’s have the word “Love” on it as well.

Next up we got to taste some – Madonna Wines Shiraz 2011.  Wine maker, Dimitri, told us that he classifies his wine as a very versatile lifestyle wine.

And it was delicious

Here’s Dimitri with his beautiful wife, Dimitra (I know – how random is that – they practically have the same name and she’s all the way from California):

Dimitra is also rocking a pair of glittery gold Violent lips.

But the main event for the evening was for Ms Noble (aka Irit Noble) to teach us a few new things.  She had some seriously interesting goodies in her arsenal, like this strawberries & champagne “stimulating gel”:

Hmmmm…

And then the must do bedtime read, the Kama Sutra:

A book with lots of pictures. That’s totally up my alley!

You see Ms Noble is passionate about sex education and ensuring that people are having the best possible time experimenting with different toys & techniques.  She can be booked for private parties – which would be something fun for a bachelorette jol or girls night out.  Here she is explaining the fun to be had by incorporating a cock ring into the mix: 

You can see everyone is listening very intently. hehe

I also learnt that this is fact NOT a regular lipstick:

It “vibes” as Ms Noble would say

But this is a totally above board energy drink:

I see…

My own tip for getting hot & spicy with your partner?  Just serve up some of these hot sauces from Nando’s which we got to take home:

Feel the burn baby… feel the burn…

A huge thanks to Emma for being such an amazing host.  And to Ms Noble for teaching this “old dog” some new tricks. :)

Irit & Emma

This former PE “supermodel” slash alcohol promo girl (yup - was totes living the glam life back then) had a total blast. ;)

xxx

The Global Party disappoints

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Soooo… after all that hype with the uber fancy invites and the super exclusive silver keys and all (check out my post about it here), I had built up this event in my mind to be something that was going to totally blow me away.

The venue, Fez, did make me nervous.  But I rationalised it by telling myself that surely an event of this magnitude would ensure a night to be remembered, regardless of the venue…

Before I continue, I will point out that I only got to the event at around 10:30pm because I had chosen to first check out the Cosmo Lingerie party (which was awesome btw).  So my view might be slightly scewed due to that.  Maybe cool stuff happened between 8pm and 10:30pm – I dunno.  Some people were like: “Yeah but there was a show and food.”  I saw the tail end of both.  The food was the same as I had at the Playboy Magazine launch party back in May. It looked like their standard snack spread, so nothing special.  The show was the same show they normally have at Fez – again, nothing special.

Venue wise, I still think they could have done better.  Cape Town has so many amazing spots, the Fez just seems like such a blah choice.  Anyhoo, at least it photographs well.  This is the VIP area:

The dance floor area:

The DJ box and a snippet from the show:

Fez was at least packed.  But sadly just with the usual Fri/Sat night Fez crowd.  I couldn’t really spot the “wealthy, well connected types” the Global Party website was aiming to have attend this party.  Actually I had heard earlier in the week that they were handing out free invites at Caprice to random people on the Sunday before.  Then I spoke to other people who mentioned that basically every “event circuit regular” was given a free invite as well.  Hmmmm, me thinks that was a serious FAIL for the PR company handling this thing locally (not sure who they were).  Wasn’t the whole point to collect money for charity?  How are you going to do that with a bunch of people who are just there hoping to score some free food & drinks!?!  (Myself included of course… haha… I’m from PE, it’s part of my genetic makeup! :) Also I’m not rolling in cash.)

We got there just in time for the local charity auction.  They had 9 items up for grabs, mostly luxury getaways and designer items.  But the final item was a VIP box at the Coldplay concert in October for you & 17 friends.  With drinks, snacks, etc. included.

Before the auction kicked off we got to listen to local a’capella group D-Seven, singing The Beatles’ hit “Let it be”, while they introduced the local charity which would be benefiting from the money made on the auction:  Saving Private Rhino.

The Saving Private Rhino initiative’s objective is to ensure the sustainability of the African Rhino by providing an integrated anti-poaching solution free of charge to every private game reserve in Africa that cannot afford to defend its wildlife.  There’s been quite a few horror stories covered in the press recently around this issue, the latest one was of 3 rhino’s which were attacked on 20 Aug at the Aquila game reserve.  Only one survived, while the other 2 did not make it thanks to their gruesome injuries.  The story really pulls at ones heart strings, especially when you see the horrible images of rhino’s with their horns hacked off.  I just don’t understand how anybody could do such horrible things to these amazing animals.

I’m very glad that this worthy cause was selected as the local benefiting charity.  And at least they were able to collect some money towards their amazing cause.  The first 8 items in the auction went for anything between between R7,500 to R30,000.  Then that last item for the Coldplay box went for a whopping R105,000.  That would work out to just over R5800 pp (18 ppl in total in that box) – I thought that one was pretty good going.   It was taken by Sue Main,  CEO of The Grand.

I did a quick calc – they must have collected about R280,000 in total.  That is pretty good.  I don’t want to take away from that achievement, but I still think if they invited the correct “money muscle”, they would have done soooooooo much better.

We didn’t stay too long after the auction.  The vibe just wasn’t great.  Ended up stopping at the 24 Hour Woolies in Orange street for a late night Cream soda & chicken nugget fix.  Mwhahahahaha.  Now that rocked my world. :)

My friend Dax told me that Goodluck played after the auction and that they were brilliant.  I WOULD HAVE stayed for that if I KNEW that they’d be playing.  But we weren’t given any information about the line-up for the evening, so had no clue that there’d be something worth hanging around for.  Aaarrgghh.  That’s just bad communication & planning guys… grrr.

My take away from this:  If the invite seems to good to be true, it very likely is exactly that.

xxx