Leah (eating dirt blogger) wrote a beautiful blog about her experience with coming through a rather unexpected divorce. She had hired me to do her makeup and hair for her ultimate trash the dress photoshoot and soon after we have become close friends.
A cleansing of fire, with fire, and through fire.
When I realized, without a doubt, that my marriage was over, my immediate reaction was, “I need to drop this last name. I’m not that person anymore. That part of my life is over. I need a new name and I need do something drastic to commemorate my new identity: my reinvention, if you will.”
This is a more personal blog post today: I was targeted for a pretty scary scam.
Ever get a job offer that seems too good to be true? And you hope and hope that it really is! I got a email yesterday from someone at Instyle magazine offering me a job on a photoshoot for them. It was all paid for and a super crazy paying job. Oh god how I was excited and flattered and then my logical self kicked in. Is this a real person?
Here is the full story and what to do when you get one of these emails. There are a few updates at the bottom please read these too!
Questions For Scotia: this month’s question for me was from Nikki.
“how do you go about introducing makeup and skin care to a 13 year old?”
Great question because as we know from so many studies and documentaries like “Killing Us Softly”, that the media starts early and hits hard at our young women with the massive media presented image of “WHAT YOU NEED TO LOOK LIKE”. Which to all us grown ups shake our heads, and shed a tear for all the pain we know our young ones will go through and for some, may never get past.
I will give you my last answer first: the best is always take them to someone who is a professional: a makeup artist at a store or spa, an esthetician, or a hair stylist. They can point you in the right direction for answers.
But now I can in detail answer you.
The other night I finally got to try it: Frog Prince lipstick!
My bff has been talking about this lipstick for months and I wanted to try it so badly. It is a colour changing lipstick that is unique to your own skin.
It’s a neat idea that your lipstick could show the inner you for a unique colour but is it really ph and that unique or is it like mood rings that just change with heat?
If you know me or have been reading my blogs long enough you’ve herd my rants about permanent makeup tattooing and how I think its pretty stupid outside of fixing medical issues like scars, skin graphs and such things.
BUT I will say that the newest trend that falls into this grouping of tattoo makeup is microblading.
In memory of my beloved Grandmother(who passed away 3 years ago) I would like to do a whole post about rose oil.
She grew Theresa Bugnet roses in her garden.
My Grandi loved roses, growing them, and their smell. Her perfumes were rose based and every beauty product that she could get in rose scent she would.
As a makeup artist I am always asked 100 questions a day about different brands, products that I like or don’t like. Sometimes friends get freebies and throw me a few samples from different places.
This sometime was the freebie of a Maybelline “The elixir” lip gloss.
my quick review: Gross.
My long review: Gross… before I even put it on my lips I could smell the parfume that is in this product. The smell wafted from the lid akin to me being rushed through at least 100 nursing homes at the speed of light… or in this case scent.
like the smelloscope from Futurama
Now there are very few times that I think makeup smells gross. I usually like the smells or they are pretty-scentless.
The brush is on a angle that works well for bottom lips but pokes you in the top.
For the few moments that I could stand it being on my hand as a test: its staying power isn’t great.
I would say don’t waste your money on this product it’s a fail.
I know we all know the main use for talcum powder aka baby powder : to keep wet/sweaty areas dry. But googling quickly can get scary, what is it made up of and how did it become such a common house hold beauty product?
Great question because as we know from so many studies and documentaries like “Killing Us Softly”, that the media starts early and hits hard at our young women with the massive media presented image of “WHAT YOU NEED TO LOOK LIKE”. Which to all us grown ups shake our heads, and shed a tear for all the pain we know our young ones will go through and for some, may never get past.
Sweet Cherry Spa 