Category Archives: Creative

When to hire an Expert for your wedding…Top 3 reasons!

There are a number of reasons to hire a professional on your wedding day, especially when it comes to hair and makeup. Here are my Top 3 Reasons: 1. Your Sister/Aunt/Friend may be good at doing hair or your makeup when you go out on the town dancing, but do they know what it takes...

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How to do a 1970′s Makeup Application

I get so many people asking me about how to do various makeup styles from different genres. Clearly the 1970′s is a really popular era, as my short post on 70′s makeup gets a lot of reader traffic! I don’t get many opportunities to do makeup from different eras, but it seems like the 1970′s...

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Should I Sign up to be a Stella & Dot Stylist?

This is something that I hear from women many times when they are thinking of possibly signing up as a stylist. I really do find that this is a hard question to answer, as everyone has a different story and many reasons to attempt this type of business. But it is the question I get...

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Synesthesia? Who knew?!

In 2006 while I was still working at Benjamin Moore, I took a Colour Training seminar put on by the Natural Color Institute from Stockholm, Sweden. We learned about a Natural Color System which builds on how the human sees color. Color is a subjective visual sensation and to characterize it, you have to describe...

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A 1970′s Disco Party

As I said in my last post, I have been very behind on my blogging and one of my resolutions for 2012 is to make sure I blog at least a few times a month…however I DO have plenty of cool things to blog about from the past few months so I want to start...

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