Iceland is so hot right now! I mean “hot” in the way designers describe Hansel the model in Zoolander; its popular and fashionable to do a #stopover in Iceland. It’s not on the other hand hot outside. It’s a quite brisk 9C in the month of July, but when you step into the milky blue […] Read more…
Yes I’m writing a fashion post! I know that this is a beauty blog, but I was so enchanted by the designs of fashion designer Ariel for Swedroebyariel, that I had to share. Recently I had the pleasure of modeling some of Ariel’s gorgeous pieces for their social media accounts and I had a little […] Read more…
It started with the unibrow. When I was a teenager I had thick brows that I felt met in the middle, aka the uni-brow, and I was desperate to pluck them! Now looking back on my photos I realize I had the eyebrow of today’s models, thick and natural, but I was one generation too […] Read more…
by Colleen At the moment I’m writing this post from Singapore, the other side of the world quite literally from Miami! It’s also 13 hours ahead and so now it’s morning of the next day but still the evening of the previous day in Miami. Sound confusing? Well add jet lag to the mix and […] Read more…
by Colleen One of the things I really enjoy about my job as a makeup artist is that I sometimes it takes me to places or events that I might not otherwise have experienced. Case in point, a lavish Indian wedding. I was hired to do makeup for an Indian wedding a couple of weeks […] Read more…
I have always thought that Haute Couture was the ultimate in chic, elegance, luxury, craftsmanship and so very French. It doesn’t exist here, the land of casual dressing and sneakers. So when I went to Paris to model it was a dream of mine to walk in an Haute Couture fashion show, if just for […] Read more…
Bénédicte Blanc-Fontenille Presents “All About You” to Benefit Act4M at The Hangar Gallery 2235 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, 33127 The show will be on exhibit through May 1st, 2015. The artist will donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of any artwork to Act4Me. Bénédicte Blanc-Fontenille is a French artist, a 1985 graduate of […] Read more…
by Colleen The other day I was doing makeup for a shoot and from where I was working I could clearly see the retoucher busy working on a previous photoshoot. A retoucher is a highly skilled person who spends their days photoshopping pictures for clients such as photographers, magazines, catalogues etc. She was working so […] Read more…
by Alix Yesterday night I went to the Guntram von Habsburg Foundation Cocktail, hosted by the Fine Art Auctions Miami (FAAM). A live artists show including Chris Brown aka Konfused x Kai, The London Police, C&R (Christian Volckman and Raphael Thierry) and Federico Massa where international and local artists working live creating custom pieces that will […] Read more…
