Chillin’ Like A Villain Elite Party

This was my favorite Unilocal Elite event so far! Delicious donuts from The Donut Collective, a massage from pH OREM’s McCabe, and Peace Coffee! Everyone did a great job with their costumes, too.

…as always, I had a super-​fun time at this event. Annie did a great job of putting everything together… in fact, I think that all future Unilocal Elite events should be costumed events. :)
I went as Sarah Palin (she’s a villain, no?) and thoroughly enjoyed myself at pH OREM. I mean… is there anything wrong with defacing pictures of villains, drinking free wine & champagne, shoving donuts into my gob, and getting a mini-​massage? Nope, methinks not.

Great event! I enjoyed all of the activities and I ended up booking a facial for the Hot on Unilocal week.
The SPA is great and the event featured massages, make-​up and facial demonstration, as long as donuts and drinks.
The facial demonstration was pretty convincing and I ended up booking one on the spot. BF and I are also seriously considering booking a massage, the mini massages we got were pretty awesome.
The photographer was also great: he managed to get a couple of great shots of my BF and I and we both don’t usually turn out that well I pics, we both get embarrassed or shy or whatever and I end up with a fixed stare and BF does stupid or funny faces that make him look retarded, but this photographer was patient enough to take multiple pics and pick out the best ones.
Waiting for the next event!

I was lucky enough to be brought as a guest (thank you Mrs. Peacock) and had the most fabulous villain-​esque time! Donuts, champagne, wine tasting, crazy mustache photos, mini massages, goodie bags, and meeting other villain Unilocalers was stellar!
I can’t wait to go back to pH OREM! I am officially a huge fan. The staff was so friendly and the owner Paige showed us the technology used for facials, so cool!
I am awaiting the opening of the Donut Co-​op, my future massages at pH OREM and (hopefully) more events to come! Thanks again Annie D for such a great event!

This was my first Elite Party and I loved it. Donuts, champagne, wine & spa treatments? All I can say is that if this is the life of a villain, I am switching over to the dark side.

I’m officially a pH OREM fan! The champagne and wine were flowing at the event, got a fabulous 10 min. relaxation massage, and they gave away goodie bags at the end to everyone.
The massage was amazing since they brought you into a tranquil room, had you lie down on their comfortable massage table and took the time to address all the pressure points from your shoulders up. My friends told me it automatically cleared their sinuses up. Afterwards I went to get more wine and the wine guys said I looked more relaxed. I’ll most likely be booking my next massage appointment with McCabe!
We also got to meet the owner who gave us an informative and interesting session on facials and skin care. The makeup artist on site also had a nice selection of lip glosses to choose from so she applied some on me that matched my skin tone.
The spa has stellar product collections too. I purchased some fabulous Jasmine cream before I left. It was a fun night and I’ll definitely be back to pH OREM!

Thanks for a great event, Annie! It was a nice excuse to finally pick out a costume for this year and try it out on other people. It was great to see all the costumes, but a little hard to match costume makeup with makeup people. :)
The photographer was wonderful, saw a lot of great pictures taken, and the wine pourers were great — we will definitely be checking out their shop some time soon.
Paige from pH OREM was a great host, introduced herself to us and showed us the really neat facial equipment, how it worked, and seriously tempted me to head back in to try it out for real.
Great conversation, great people, just needed to be an hour longer. hehe. ;) Thanks again!

The costumes, the champaigne, the wine, the mini massages, the pictures, the goody bags! All of it was just fantabulous!
I got a lesson in facials from Toni and a mini massage from McCabe (?). I do have to say, I will be returning to pH OREM in the near, near future. These people know their stuff and I already felt refreshed after such a short meeting.
The donuts where enjoyable (insert sad face here). But I’m guessing it’s because we’ve been spoiled before with spreads of appetizers and goodies. I should just be thankful I got invited to his event! Darn you Unilocal!Way to spoil me!

My first Minneapolis Elite event and it did not disappoint. I thought pH OREM was a fantastic venue and absolutely LOVED my mini massage. So much so that I scheduled my regular length massage for next weekend. The donuts were awesome — can’t wait until The Donut Co-​op opens and I can check out their other offerings, but I loved the Red Hot flavor. The wines were great, the costumes were great.
And a little gift bag at the end never hurts :)

Thanks again Annie for putting together such an awesome event!
The photographer was really fun and got into our ideas. The champagne and wine was great (as were the lovelies who poured both.) pH OREM was pretty much awesome and after my first brief but intoxicating (it wasn’t the wine, I swear!) massage with Julia, I totally booked an appointment for Hot on Unilocal week.
The freebies were totally awesome, as was the Unilocal swag and getting to meet/​see all my fellow Unilocalers.
Can’t wait to see what’s next!

Thanks for another great event Annie!
Lots of fun costumes — amazing wine and a nice space.
The mini massage was heavenly and the spa was a really cool space — I booked a facial for HOY week as I am pretty fascinated by their little machine :).
Definitely a fun little prequel to Halloween!

Spookylicious, fantasmagorical, uberawesome. These are just some of the made-​up words that I can conjure to describe the Chillin’ Like a Villain event put together by our fabu Community Manager, Annie D. + friends. We were most definitely chillin’ long before we stepped into the SoHo building, since Fall decided to finally arrive and hit us with gale-​like winds. No matter, that didn’t stop my friend and I from enjoying some great treats from pH OREM, North Loop Wines, Donut Co-​op, and (my friend’s absolute fave feature) Ryan Siemers.
Everything about the event was wonderful and (dare I say it?) chillaxed. I just learned from St. Louis community manager Abby S. that «Chillax» is a taboo neologism in the Unilocal!workplace. Haha. Anyway, there’s a lot of reasons why I loved this event, but it boils down to two major themes:
1) These events showcase the best of the local businesses: North Loop wines offered delicious libations, I got some new head shots for my ‘porfolio’ (read: Facebook profile pic) courtesy of Ryan Siemers, and tasted some beautiful and delicate-​tasting donuts from the Donut Co-​Op. But, the business where the event was held, pH OREM, had to be the business that most captured my heart/​relaxed my soul. After getting that mini-​massage whilst clad in all black as Yoko Ono (i.e. the biznitch who broke up the Beatles), I felt utterly blissful. pH OREM, you will see me again.
2) Meeting my fellow Unilocalers!: It was so nice meeting other Unilocalers! who share the same passion for giving honest, diverse reviews of different establishments across the US and beyond. It was also fun hobnobbing and sharing tips from where to go for unctuous ramen in Vancouver to services to get from pH OREM on your first visit. I look forward to meeting most of these Unilocal!buddies again soon, even before the next wonderful Unilocal!Elite Event. :)

Tonight’s Unilocal elite event at pH OREM was amazing. Great job by Annie D and the people who put together this event. It was so nice to meet with other Unilocalers.
The spa is beautiful with a very friendly and courteous staff. Kara gave me a very relaxing massage and it felt like much longer than it was actually done. i have to go back and get a full hour massage sometime.
Paige, the owner of the spa, introduced herself to me and the other Unilocalers and talked to us about the spa and the services they offer.
From tonight’s experience at the spa, the 5 stars are very well deserved.