Yes it’s true….I am violently switching gears today… for eons ( or at least a week) it’s been all about fashion, fashion week etc but after an email from one of my oldest and dearest I just had a to share my tid bits with all you glamorous mom’s out there. In my [...]

Every year at Fall’s early beckoning I find myself desiring a new lip color…something drastic and spontaneous. I have always absolutely swooned over the classic firey red lip shades in old Hollywood movies. I wonder would those iconic images of Jane Mansfield or Marilyn have ever been the same had they been wearing pale pink [...]

What a deliciously crazy few weeks I’ve had, and what a fabulously glam sight I’ve been (not) between painting my new space and schlepping makeup kits with brow sopping from location to location primping goddesses from young to older for every imaginable event, fashion shows, photo shoots TV segments, press junkets. Last year I had [...]

Normally as the autumn approaches I crave that change from light and airy summer garb to darker, richer fall fare. But somehow in my uh- hmmm “advancing” years I seem to gravitate to the same safe go-to shades when it comes to makeup. Yes love, I confess for someone who owns a makeup store and [...]

This time of year as we edge into fall I am flooded with queries as to how one can rid themselves of dark patches and pigmentation that they have acquired over the long, hot summer.  Sadly, girlfriends (and guy-friends) in your 20’s you play and in your 40’s you pay – that means cashing it [...]

I remember my very first formal, I was so “stoked” to wear my super cool bright pink dress and ladylike yet killer heels which I actually had no business even trying to walk in, but of course that is what we do when we want to make a grand entrance. I even remember spending hours [...]

It’s generally at this point in the summer, after a zillion days of one hundred degrees that I start to feel a bit slacking on my beauty routine. I wake up thinking…do I really need to lather rinse and repeat or will just one lather do? If I use an extra bit of self- tanner [...]

Recently I was asked to provide a photograph to go along with an interview I did for a fun little beauty magazine. Having spent the majority of my career behind the camera or next to a photographer who always carries a camera (make that- who’s assistant always carries a camera) I find that unlike the [...]

It’s no secret that I have a thing for late 70’s early 80’s TV. Nobody did the spidery mascara, bronze blush and glossy lips like the women of Charlie’s Angels, and let’s not even talk about that hair… there wasn’t a Jr high girl in my class that didn’t attempt the “Farrah” cut. A few [...]

As a newbie makeup artist cutting my teeth on model portfolio’s and acting headshots, nothing sent fear through my veins more than trying to keep my subjects looking fresh- as- a –daisy instead of a sopping- wilted- mess during outdoor shoots. Luckily those hours of hemming and hawing over the perfect summer formulas resulted in [...]