Senator Burdick and I I am proud to be a working makeup artist in Oregon. Before yesterday, I wasn’t allowed to charge for  makeup services in Oregon without an esthetician license, a license that requires the skills of someone who works in a salon, waxing and doing facials. We all love these services, but that
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I’m home! I just want to express the number one challenge of working on a set are all those dang doughnuts that keep showing up! Here I am working on a Clarisonic commercial while deep fried pimple inducing doughnuts are being served. So I indulged. Now I have pimples. I must use the Clarisonic now.
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Having just returned from the International Makeup Artist Tradeshow, I look back at the flurry of crowds, noise, amazing talent, and a tremendous variety of product. I think how IMATS has changed over the years.  I have been attending IMATS for fifteen years now, so I have seen a lot of change.       
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Carly Rae Jepsen won the Canadian Idol and hit the #1 US Billboard Charts with her hit song “Call Me Maybe” along with the #1 spot in 20 other countries around the world. In the last week I got hired to do her hair and makeup two times…and released two times when her Canadian makeup
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    I was on Sauvie Island Tuesday for a creative test photo shoot. I decided I’m in love with Sauvie Island. It’s beautiful out there. There’s houses that float on the river. For a brief moment I decided I would move there, and then I remembered I had a six year old daughter, we
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   The other day I had a test shoot out on Sauvie Island, the outskirts of Portland where the farms are, where you can pick your own berries in the summertime, swim in the river, and get lost in the corn mazes at Halloween time. It’s not even that far of a drive, so I
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Believe it or not, these clothes were about 3 sizes too big and we had to bunch and clip them where you can’t see in the shot. I can’t believe we somehow made them look like they fit. These girls held these yoga poses for about 4 hours straight. Their legs were burning by the
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Working with all of these athletes makes me feel so out of shape! Ashton Eaton not only won the GOLD for the decathlon for this summer 2012 Olympics, but he holds the WORLD RECORDS in BOTH the Decathlon and Heptathlon events. I’m proud when my daughter spells a word or ties her shoes. Imagine how
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One of the questions I get asked as a makeup artist is, “Can you manage a free-lance career and raise a child?” Well, I did, and I’m still doing it! Being free-lance often means getting last minute jobs, and it isn’t always easy to spontaneously juggle child care and work, especially when you don’t have
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I had the great pleasure of working for the second time in my career with the director of some of your favorite movies, and some of the most memorable and funniest moments in film history, Rob Reiner. I’m sure you know what moment I’m talking about when I mention his film, When Harry Met Sally,
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Only two times in my life have I been truly star struck by a telephone call, and one time just took me plain off guard. The first time I felt star struck by the phone was years ago when Ben Kingsley called me looking for a hairdresser for his wife, and the second time was
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    Constant Contact gave a seminar today on social networking. They talked about how marketing your business today is really not about marketing, it’s about networking. The majority of the population is now trusting total strangers online to make the bulk of their consumer decisions on how to spend your money, which doctors to
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The other day I spoke to my BFF, my confidante, and my advisor since the age of twelve. Conveniently my advisor friend is now a Psychiatrist, which makes her advice to me over the many, many years quite professional. Yes, I have been receiving professional advice for free, and a lot of it. This is
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Being free-lance is not easy. People think that we are lucky to have so much freedom and flexibility, but in actuality, it can be quite the opposite. When you are a free-lancer, every fun activity you schedule in life is mentally categorized as “tentative,” because when you get a job, the job comes first. As
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Bella’s House in Twilight Having lived in Los Angeles my whole life, except for brief winter vacations to the east coast or a quick jaunt to the mountains to play in the snow, I had never really experienced much change in the weather. My working life hadn’t seen the need for much more than sneakers
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