GROOMED L.A.'s next new contributing Beauty Editor is the fab-glam Bridget Oberlin. She'll be hitting the North Hollywood and Valley beat.  Here's a bit about her.  I just want to turn her face into a cupcake and eat it – she's that fricken adorable.  Ok, that sounds gross.  But take a look at her photo and you'll get my point.

BRIDGET OBERLIN

Bridget Oberlin is a former on-air radio personality ( XM-Syrius and WSYR,  Syracuse NY) and journalist.  She’s also an actress and comic and just you may recognize from the CMT and a bunch of other commercials.   She's obsessed with all things beauty and spends countless hours on-line and in salons researching the newest beauty breakthroughs in search of the best products and practitioners.   A true “Valley Girl,”  Bridget was raised in the good ol' San Fernando Valley and often finds herself defending the valley’s radness to all the haters.

Bridget currently lives in Toluca Lake and likes to keep her grooming close to home though she has begrudgingly admitted to having driven as far as San Diego for a beauty treatment.  Bridget loves a good deal but is deathly allergic to cheapness and secretly loves that her husband has a tendency to splurge on fine dining and travel.  Now, if only she could convince him that spending money at Sephora is a household necessity…

My current beauty obsessions: Anything skin related (that really works); gorgeous lashes and mascaras that don’t run; curling shampoos, sprays, gels; Enzo Milano curling irons; soft make-up brushes;  The Wonderful Wonderbar;  Zoya nailpolishes; Flash Shiner by Design Nail to name a few.

My current non-beauty obsessions:  my wonderful husband, Rooibos tea, my adorable dog, anything that sparkles,  Dateline NBC,  Bazaar at SLS by Jose Andres where my husband just took me for my birthday, a Stairmaster, buying locally grown and grass feed healthy stuff, See’s candy especially the California Brittle (that counts as local, right?), organizing and downsizing, my gorgeous hydrangea, and vintage jewelry – especially wide 1950’s rhinestone bracelets with hide inside clasps and anything YSL. 

My current beauty missions:  Finding a manicurist who is reasonably priced, by-the-book clean and available last minute. (I know, impossible tri-fecta) and finding the perfect spray tan.