Clean Brow = Happy Brow

I love my brows, I'm not going to even lie. I went through a phase in college when my brows were so thin and I didn't even realize it. I was looking at old photos on Facebook and I asked my mom why she let me walk around with such thin brows and she just simply said "that's what you wanted". I couldn't argue with her after that.

2006
I go through periods when I'm completely in love with a brow product for a few months and then I go onto something else. My old cast member LaZelle is all about defined brows and she told me I should try the Anastasia Brow Wiz pencil. I've always shown this line to clients because she's considered to be the "Brow Expert" but I've never actually tried it on myself. Lets just say I'm in love now. It gives such a nice defined looked to the brows and you can create thicker or thinner shapes within your brow because it blends great and it adheres to the skin well. I finally got my brows threaded after almost three and a half weeks, they were really starting to get obnoxious.

I filled in one so that you could see the difference it makes. I prefer to have a thicker, longer, rectangular shaped brow since I have a rounded heart shaped face. I would advise most people who are filling their brows in for the first time to go along with the natural shape of your brow. Brows frame the face so you always want to make sure that they look somewhat decent, even if you don't necessarily want to fill them in. Brows are the one thing I do everyday because it gives dimension to your face and it looks polished. A clean brow is a happy brow!

Bridal Portraits

I had the pleasure of working with the lovely Sunny Hutchinson, founder of Themba Imagery and Jazzmin Jolly for a Bridal shoot a few weekends ago. Jazzmin isn't actually engaged but you couldn't tell from the photos because they turned out beautifully! This was my first time just being the makeup artist while the photographer worked their magic. Here are some of my favorite photos: 

Check out the whole album on Sunny's Flickr account as well as her other work!

Happy Halloween!

I'm sitting in my living room watching Dusk Till Dawn and handing out candy to the kiddies tonight. October is probably my favorite month out of the year for many reasons: the leaves start to changes, the weather begins to get a little cooler, fall fashions are much more exciting and Halloween of course! Now, I know Halloween isn't a holiday but in my book it is! I put in my request to work an early shift and to have November 1st off back in July- I told you I wasn't kidding.  This year I saved my money and didn't even buy a costume, I'm trying to do this whole "saving money" thing and I'd figured I could put something together with what I already have. Katie and I went to Dharma Lounge for their Le Bang Halloween Party, I ended up making my makeup my costume, I didn't really know where I was going with it but the finished product looked David Bowie inspired.

Katie was an LOLcat and her costume was really cute. If you aren't familiar with LOLcat I'd definitely suggest you to check it out here especially if you like funny cat things.

We were able to dress up in our costumes at work and I was a pin-up girl! I tried to stay true with the pin-up makeup with a subtle cut crease with a matte deep brown, soft peachy cheeks, and the iconic red lip. I had a hard time trying to make my hair look pin-up since it's so short now but I was happy with the way it turned out. I'm still rocking the wavy look just not as polished as yesterday.

Cleopatra

Zombie, Justin Beiber, and a Cat!

Halloween was good this year, I'm just going to be recovering from my post Halloween night cold over the next week.

Mountain Trip 2010

   Two of my favorite things: the mountains and Fall weather.

Andrews, NC.

Upcoming Events

I know we're only a week into October but I'm already loving it. Fall weather always put me in good spirits, it's my favorite season. I'm really looking forward to some awesome upcoming make-up opportunities and well as photography ones. On the 22nd & 23rd, I'll be participating along with some of my Sephora ladies doing the Simon Mall Fashion Show...

 After doing the Belk Fashion Show that Tim Gunn hosted in May, I was really looking forward to doing another one and my Store Director informed me today that I'll be doing makeup for it. Needless to say, I'm very excited. That same weekend I'm going to be working along with the very talented Sunny Hutchinson, Founder of Themba Imagery doing a modern day bridal look with a classic twist. To end the weekend I'll be doing photos of my Store Directors little boys. They are truly adorable, both of them look like that could be be in Baby Gap ads, just precious.

Since Holiday is around the corner, which in the retail world means working longer hours, dealing with even more ridiculous clients but then those checks are oh so wonderful. I'm in dire need of some new photo equipment and I'd figured I would start to buy things in bits and pieces. The first thing on my list is a new flash, I greatly appreciate the one Katie gave me (that I even forgot I had for a while) but I want to buy one for myself. I found one a good on B&H that's in my price range so I'll probably get that within the next month a diffuser but that isn't expensive. 

Business Card!

My first business card courtesy of Vistaprint! Since these are just my "starter" cards I'd figured I would be keep it simple and to the point. I plan to get more professional ones made in the future but I'm very content for now!