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Maxim Hot 100 Party

administrator — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:34:28 +0000

I took some hot footage at the Maxim Hot 100 Party !!!!

Beach Bunny Boutique Grand Opening + Kardashians!

Arika — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:20:51 +0000

Beach Bunny is a swimsuit line, and since I shop there quite often, they invited me to their Robertson store grand opening. I thought it was going to be a small gathering of loyal clients, but there was a Huge red carpet and the Kardashians, and Paradiso Girls came! Paparazzi were waiting all night outside and trying to peep in, but obviously they were not allowed to be in there! The Kardashians are actually collaborating with Beach Bunny and designing a swimsuit line, which was on display at the party to each fit their body types individually, and they will be available on May 10th! Here are some of the photos from that night! I wore my Kardashians for bebe top (Black Zip Top available at Bebe Stores), and Kim totally recognized it and told me that she liked it!

xoxo Arika ♥

Drai’s Hollywood Pool Parties

Arika — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:40:32 +0000

Kaitlin & I arriving at Drais Hollywood Pool at 2:00pm

Summer is around the corner, and Hollywood pool parties are the place to be once again! Sorry I haven’t blogged lately, I’ve been swamped with random things but I’ll make sure to blog more asap! This past Sunday Funday, Kaitlin and I decided to go to Drai’s Hollywood’s Pool party during the day to catch some fun in the sun. Drai’s Hollywood which is actually related to the Drai’s in Las Vegas created by Victor Drai and brothers Cy and Jessie Waits (the team behind Steve Wynn’s Tryst and XS) is the hottest hollywood venue yet. Well, they did bring us XS, which is still one of my favorite clubs in Vegas! It’s actually at rooftop of the newly built W Hotel in Hollywood. We arrived around 2:00pm ish which was perfect because it wasn’t completely crowded yet. Around 5:00pm it gets a little chilly so I put on my cover up but everyone still stuck around. There were tons of hot waitresses, a nicely dressed upscale crowd, and cute cabanas, and sexy girls and boys! Here are the pics from that day.. Check them out. And If you want to join me, I’ll be there a lot this summer!

Drais Hollywood Pool Party every Sunday!

xoxo Arika ♥

JPy + House of Glam Presents Industry hosted by Me

Arika — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:32:59 +0000

The new West Hollywood Spot, Club Industry is phenomenal. The club used to be Area, like I told you guys, but they jazzed it up, to be more of a bluish darkish color, and even has a Burger bar inside so people can have snacks while they drink. The crazy part is, AFTER I had the party on Saturday night, a few days later, Kristin Cavalleri and Audrina Partridge filmed The Hills there. Being a huge Hills fan, its cool to know that in their next few episodes club “Industry” is going to be their spot. Here’s the link that tells us all, that they filmed the Hills at the club. Audrina Patridge and Kristin Cavallari hit up Industry, the new hot spot in West Hollywood, California

Right when I arrived there was a red carpet with a huge backdrop with the JPy logo, SBE logo, Industry logo, and the House of Glam Logo, everyone seemed to be so excited because this is the hot spot, and my friends who are JPy magazine and House of Glam got to the first ones to throw an amazing party there!

It was pretty cold that night, I brought a mini faux fur leather lined cropped jacket for the outside, which was 54 degrees in Los Angeles, and to us, that's super cold! Most girls wore mini dresses or skirts with tops. Tights if you wanted to add some class, and always a clutch to hold your essentials. Stilettos are definitely back for the spring, no wedges to the club, and everybody looked very nice and classy. Jeans isn't really an option for these type of upscale parties, for girls that is.

Black pumps are my ultimate fave item for the winter transitioning into spring. They are a basic black super high pump that makes any dress look classy and put together. You can either spend a lot for some super sexy ones like the YSL's or you can get some similar ones at Aldo, Bebe, Steve Madden, or Nordy's.

How I do my makeup, you can find on youtube, where I did my makeup tutorial. Hair curling, I use a 1 inch or a 1.5 inch barrel depending on how I feel and I curl outwards. Spray all the hairspray at the end, bottom up. As for Jewelry, I always wear at least 3 accessories, earrings, bracelets, and a ring (that's three). Another way is Necklace, and bracelet, and ring. Never wear too much, but accessories definitely make you glam, and shinier than others, lol.

It was really a lot of fun that I got to hang out with the JPy girls because I got to talk to them and use my Japanese skills! They were so cute and so much fun! Kana, Jen, and Ayumi really made my night a lot more fun! Thank you girls for hanging out with me, and we will definitely do it again!

xoxo Arika ♥

So excited for SATURDAY!!

Arika — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:51:10 +0000

So the newest club in Hollywood, besides Drai’s Hollywood which also opened last saturday is Club Industry (the newly remodeled AREA) and I was fortunate enough to go to Carl Choi’s Birthday party there this past saturday! It looks amazing!!! This Saturday, I am hosting the party along with JPy Magazine! JPy magazine is the only Japanese American bilingual magazine which brings awareness about the Japanese-American kawaii (cute) culture. It’s a super cute magazine and every girl who is Japanese who lives in LA should totally pick one up! There’s makeup tips, where to shop, things you can wear in LA that’s Japanese influenced! Totally something I would read! I’m so excited to be hosting the party with them! If you want to come please e-mail me your first and last name at arika@arikasato.com or party@thehouseofglam.com love u guys!

xoxo Arika ♥

Girl’s Night Out

Arika — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:56:03 +0000

My best friend Erika and I @ Magnolia on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood

Whether you’re single or married, it’s always tons of fun to have a girl’s night out! This past Friday, my best friend Erika (I know, our names are similar), Laurie, Hiromi and I went out and had a lovely dinner in Hollywood and went clubbing afterwards. I was the party planner this time, so I made dinner reservations at Magnolia off Sunset, and it was perfect! I always feel like when I eat dinner in Hollywood I always do the sushi thing, like going to Katana, Katsuya, or Geisha House, and this time, I really didn’t feel like Sushi, even though I AM Japanese! lol. It’s probably the most “Hollywood” thing to do, but I had sushi the night before so I wasn’t going to eat it again. Anyways, when we got to Magnolia, they were a bit late on our reservation but we got an amazing table, so I was happy about that! The ambience is really chill, it’s pretty quiet, a bit on the smaller side, but it’s dimly lit and the decor is cute and boutique-ish. The Valet parking was 7 dollars, which is a little bit cheaper than the usual 10 or 12 dollar restaurant Valets. The food there was really really good, and I was happy. I ordered the Macadamia Nut crusted Mahi Mahi which came with green beans and Jasmine rice. We got hummus and pita chips for the table, some sweet potato fries, chicken and beef skewers (obviously I didn’t eat that), some calamari, and the most amazing arugula salad. I’m a complete herbivore so I am obsessed with Arugula, lol, I ate the entire thing, clean!

Macadamia Crusted Mahi Mahi with Green Beans and Jasmine Rice

From top to bottom, Sweet Potato Fries, Arugula Salad, and Calamari

girlfriends at the table @ magnolia

We left the restaurant and headed over to Opera, the line covered the entire street of Schrader. Luckily, I was a VIP host for PartyTilAM, I was able to get in immediately with my girlfriends. For those of you who were waiting in line in the cold, arrive early and become friends with promoters, lol, or better yet, pop a bottle! Right when I got there, I ran into one of my friends Khai, who I am a huge fan of! He is a very talented dancer, and I'm obsessed with people who can dance! Like ABDC guys, umm.. love them!! We also got some video footage that night, which Khai directed and I am starring in it, which will be posted on the site soon. You will see what really goes down in the club, following my every step!

Paris’ Fabulous Disco Birthday Party

Arika — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:45:03 +0000

Let’s have some fun, this beat is sick… I wanna go back to the Disco Party!!! Last night was Paris Hilton’s Studio 54 themed birthday party! She decorated her entire house to look like a huge pink disco club with oldies music blasting and crazy pink and green disco lights lighting up the dance floor!

This is a quick snapshot of the dance floor but the photo does no justice to what it really looked like.

Before we even got there, Kaitlin and I made 1000 phone calls and iChat video chats to talk about what we were going to wear at this disco party...but we ended up just wearing our first choice outfits even though we were freaking out

I got ready with Nicole at her house and we headed over to her party. Here's the iPhone photo of me before I left her house.

When I got there, I saw all the BFF's and of course Stephen's best friend Daniel Stabile and we quickly posed for a Disco pose photo!

When we got there they were serving all sorts of finger foods, but they were also giving out Fatburger. I got a vegetarian one, I know its half eaten but Kaitlin and I shared it and we couldnt even finish it. I always end up forgetting to take a photo of the food before I eat it because I'm usually starving! lol

Stephen looked oh so sexy again! I was so glad I got to hang out with him for most of the night!!

I was also super duper excited to see Kassidy Morrow aka parisfan81!! He's one of Paris' biggest fans and gets invited to her events all the time! He's so sweet and so so cute and we totally pole danced together!! so much fun!!

We were sooooo fierce! loves it!

Another amazing part of the decor were the chairs! She had thrones! I remember on BFF every time we got eliminated she sat on a huge throne and started eliminating people! It was similar to it, and way cute! Just had to take a pic!

You guys know Marina from HotforWords on YouTube? well at first I didn't recognize her because she changed her hair 'do but she was looking at pretty as she is on YouTube and was rockin' out with her new brunette 'do!

Of course Onch always beats my outfit, and was weaing M&M's on his silver leotard! So cute, handmade by Onch of course, he is so so crafty!! One of the M&M bags were bedazzled too!

Paris looked so so beautiful as always with the most beautiful Teal flowy dress! Wish I found a dress like that! She for sure wins best dressed always! xo

More photos will be up soon! xoxo Arika ♥

another BFF weekend in Vegas

Arika — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:25:42 +0000

Snapshot with Nicole on the way to Haze @ Aria

It’s been almost a year since we filmed Paris Hilton’s My New BFF Season 2, so our very own Stephen Hampton decided we were in need of a reunion. Overall, I had a blast, because Vegas is always wild, but there was some drama, like always. Almost everyone came, including Me, Nicole, Stephen, Kaitlin, Kristen, Elena, Amanda, and Desi, then we also had our other friends Daniel (Stephen’s bff) and Donna come.

Nicole, Kaitlin, and I drove in the same car since we were coming from L.A., Stephen, Daniel and Donna drove from Upland, and the other BFFs flew in. When we got to the hotel, we all took a picture because there is no trip without a twitpic!

Elena, Nicole and I went shopping and Caesar

Nicole and I roomed in the same room and our bathroom had every possible thing in it, we had bottles of perfume, tubs of tanning lotion and bronzer, and every cosmetic item you could think of.

I took some pictures with the iphone as we got ready!

almost readyyyyyy!!!

After Nicole & I got ready, we were wondering where everyone went, but since we were slow, they went to dinner without us! So we just went back to the room and just chilled. Then they got us and we headed over to Prive where my Vegas promoter friends took care of us and we felt super VIP!

kristen and I wore headbands, I have an obsession with accessories!! xo

After some dancing and having some tasty drinks, some of the BFFs starting getting too wild so we got kicked out. I said thank you to my friends and left the club. Then only 4 of us ended up in the cab I was riding. I felt like 2 am was a bit early for Vegas so Elena, Nicole, Donna, and I headed over to one of my favorite clubs that I always go to which is XS @ Encore.

I had totally wished Stephen came with us, but I think some of the BFFs were tired.

So it was just us four girls at XS and we had like 10 tables for us, it was wild night waiting to happen!

Nicole was Happy for sure

After a struggling morning, and a crazy breakfast and Giorgio's in Mandalay Bay some of the BFFs decided to do separate things due to differences, lol.

A good friend of mine was having his birthday party @ haze @ aria so Nicole & I decided to go there. Aria is the newest hotel built in Vegas and it was phenomenal. There were performers there that were ridiculously talented and crazy looking, and best of all, the guest performer was Timbland! Of course our table was right next to his!!

One of my high school friends from Torrance went to UNLV and now works for Haze @ Aria and I was so excited to run into her, everyone meet Stella! I hope to see more of her real soon since I will be going back to that amazing hotel soon!

Towards the end of the night, Timbaland performed, and I was so stoked. But I was even more happy when someone else came out!......

It was a complete surprise that lil kim showed up. Nicole and I totally flowed to her, she rapped "The Jump Off" "Put Your Lighters Up" two of the best songs by Lil Kim. I had a blast!

xoxo Arika ♥

Las Vegas NYE 2010 :)

administrator — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:02:48 +0000

the NYE dress!!!!! xo

Rewind back to NYE, I wanted to recap on my vegas trip! I was so so excited for New Years 2010 mostly because of my fabulous outfit, and of course moving onto a brand new year! And…so far, 2010 has been phenomenal! My dress that I wore on NYE was designed by Tom Ruemmele and it was a white satin organza tutu dress. Here’s his facebook link if you want him to make you a dress. I loved it so much and I got so many compliments on it. Tom Ruemmele’s Facebook

We left LA on the 30th of December and got there at like 6am, most of my friends fell asleep but my two friends Vicky & Tokee decided they wanted to go out, so I put on a little makeup and we went out!

Pic from my Blackberry so so tireddddd!!

After a little bit of sleep I slipped on my White Satin Organza Tutu Dress designed by Tom Ruemmele and headed out to XS! xo

We went to XS to celebrate our NYE and here is the group photo with the girls! xo

Another group photo!

Met a cute girl named Erica, told me she recognized me. I was so stoked and she was so so sweet xo

yayyyy we are finally ready here!

The next night on January 1st 2010 we decided to check out the new club Vanity at the Hard Rock Hotel. The Hard Rock built a new tower and the club was built there.

The VIP host, the manager, the cocktail waitress, and everyone told us that we had to check out the bathroom, so we did and it was gorgeous! I guess the whole theme of "Vanity" is shown throughout the entire club, and especially the bathroom. The mirrors went all the way to the top of the high-vaulted ceilings and there were tons of vanity mirrors and little dressers for girls to get ready and touch up our makeup!

they had mini screens in there too, HUGE!

Vegas clubs are always so elaborate, loves it. My trip was amazinnnngggg! Can’t wait til I go back to vegas with the BFFs, will be updating very soon with that. We are going the weekend of January 29-31st. it’ll be amazing!!

xoxo Arika ♥

Seth MacFarlane’s Winter Wonderland

Arika — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:21:12 +0000

I know this update is so so late but I wanted to blog about something that I went to about a month ago because it was so much fun. Seth MacFarlane the creator of family guy had a Christmas Winter Wonderland party @ his house. It was the release of “The Something, Something, Something, Dark Side” which was a parody of Star Wars’ Blue Harvest in a Family Guy 1 hour episode. The party was beautifully decorated and thanks to Tomik I was invited! I saw Paris too so it was even more fun. Alyssa Milano & Seth Green was there too! I wore a gold mini dress, gold satin ruffle shoes, a white faux fur coat and a huge ribbon headband in ivory!

DId you know Seth MacFarlane doesn't really like pop/hip-hop music? He likes classical so he had his own orchestra playing the music!!

He sings too, and he's really really good!!

friends! That's Tomik in the purple - he throws the best parties! NIght Vision Entertainment

my girl natassia <333

They had a little star wars "Something, Something, Something Dark Side" performance!! HUGE!

so that’s a recap of the night! It was tons of fun, I can’t wait to go to the next one!
xoxo Arika ♥