Happy Halloween

In the spirit of the season, I present to you a zombie and a doll. Believe me when I say they were much cooler in person - my iPhone has dust in the lens and makes everything look faded.

French Twist

Guess what? I can do hair, too!


...Just kidding. I really can't. Kenzie has this innate ability that flows through her fingers to make hair look gorgeous and flattering. I, however, can do an okay job if I'm shown step-by-step what to do.

Behold, le French twist:

Doing hair on a fake head is hard!

Kenzie At Her Finest

It's that time of year again. STAGE MAKEUP TIME!!!!! And for Kenzie, that means sideburn time (and it doesn't get better than that).

I was looking forward to putting sideburns AND a moustache on her, but alas, the other kids in my class took all the good facial hair. So Kenzie got stuck with salt-and-pepper, Mr. Brower sideburns. Voila!

If anyone needs facial hair...I got you. 

P.S. You all better plan now to come to The Holiday at BYU at the end of November/beginning of December, because I'm going to be assisting on the makeup!

Ashley - Bridal Hair

Guten tag! This is Shelbey, but I'm posting Kenzie's work today (yeah, she keeps her blog updated but can't remember to post on here. Maybe if I ask her to put up videos of songs that would be more successful...).

So here's some gorgeous hair done by our residential hair genius! Congratulations, Mrs. Bryton Wood!

 

Allison

This is the gorgeous Allison. She isn't a model, but she definitely should be! I was bored and craving doing makeup and she was nice enough to let me practice on her.

Catwoman

 No words can describe how I felt about The Dark Knight Rises. So I'm not even going to go there. 

But OBVIOUSLY I dressed up and took advantage of Kenzie's mad hair skills and had her do my hair in an elegant bun (called a "chestnut bun" according to my little sister). My makeup was a bit underwhelming as I just threw on some red lipstick, but hey, Catwoman keeps it simple.

'Ze hair:

'Ze makeup

'Ze Bane (am I the only one who found him to be disturbingly hot?)

Oh and a quick shout out to Casey who let us do her hair and makeup yesterday for her wedding (and who also let us use her dressing room to do my hair during her reception...what a nice bride!). Congratulations!

Kitty Purry

If you haven't seen Katy Perry's movie yet and you want to watch an inspiring biography with lots of eye and ear candy, GO WATCH IT.

Naturally, I tried to pay homage to Katy through some girl's makeup. Unfortunately my phone's camera blows and so you can't see how sparkly the eyeshadow was. Alas. But uhhh... I haven't been doing much makeup lately.

Bryn Mawr, Senior Ball

Yes, I do have an endless supply of pretty friends. This is the effervescent Bryn (yes, I just called you "effervescent") from her Senior Ball (...and I did her makeup...obviously..........awkward). She's all right looking, I guess. 

So this bloggity blog reached a thousand views. That's pretty cool! Thanks for stalking me, you guys! If you want to virtually follow me...that would be fine, too :).

And I promise (perhaps emptily) that Kenzie will post soon. You'll know by the centered alignment!

Kthxbai.

Kenzie - Senior Ball

I did Kenzie's makeup for Senior Ball years ago (on the left)... Here's a picture of her and the gorgeous Alicia. I know, I know, I really do have the prettiest friends!

Lady G

My little sister is AWESOME and is also my favorite canvas. Over the years, she's been made up with countless beards and bleeding wounds. For Halloween a couple years ago, she wanted to be Lady Gaga and luckily, her personal makeup artist was willing to do it.

Seriously. She is for real. If you want to see how awesome she is in other ways, check out her bedroom that was featured on Apartment Therapy!

Gueeeeeeesssss who!

Lindsey Orton is a wizard when it comes to photography (and she happens to be my favorite). These are some portraits she took of yours truly and I promise there is a non-self-aggrandizing reason for putting them up - I, obviously, did my makeup. What self-respecting makeup artist would allow someone else to do their makeup? (Answer: none.)

So lucky you - here are some closeups of my face, even a couple with my eyes closed!

Okay bye.

The Dark Mark

So I'm consumed by Harry Potter. The day HP 7.2 came out, I had to work, but naturally could not keep my mind on doing normal makeup for customers. Then my coworker/friend, Anne, told me that she decided to dress up as Bellatrix for the premiere, so I attempted my first Dark Mark on her (using eyeliner and shadow from Bare Minerals). I daresay I did rather well!

prom round 2

my beautiful cousin courtney got asked to her second prom.  

that's a total of about two proms in two weeks...you do the math.

she's popular, that one.

the last time i did her hair, we did a trial run and prepped for the big day. 

today, it was all on a whim.

i think it turned out alright.

   

Anna's Bridals

My best friend, Anna, got married last summer! Warning: you are about to get very jealous of me because I have the most gorgeous friends. These photos were taken by the masterful Travis J Photography (who, by the way, I would recommend not only because of the stunning pictures he takes, but also because he was hilarious).

Meow!

You know how makeup artists will sometimes say, "It wasn't hard to make (insert name) look beautiful!"? Sometimes it's a lie. But it reaches a whole new depth of truth when applied to Anna. I don't think putting makeup on improved her ridiculously photogenic face in the slightest.

Angela - Bridals and wedding

I did this cute girl's makeup just this morning! She came into Nordstrom months ago to try out some bridal looks and I guess she liked the way I did it, because she hired me!

Congratulations, Angela!

Jack Sparrow

Please no one show this to your handsome brothers, cousins, or friends. This is for you, Megan!

Yep. One time I made myself into Jack Sparrow for my Stage Makeup final.

Courtney - Junior Prom

One more for today! My best friend McKenzie (the hair wizard of this blog) has a pretty beautiful family, including her banging 16-year-old cousin, Courtney. We were lucky enough to be her stylists (Hunger Games style) for the biggest event of her high school years - Junior Prom.

That's what's up.

Unfortunately I forgot to get a closeup of her face, but you can still see those sultry, smoky eyes!