SHADES partners with "Simply Weddings"

Thursday, April 16, 2009 was an exciting day for Shades Professional Makeup. Simply Weddings (http://joyofweddings.blogspot.com/) agreed to allow Shades to provide bridal makeup services to their stay-over visitors to the island and introduced a bridal introductory special. http://joyofweddings.blogspot.com/2009/04/grand-cayman-wedding-make-up-artist.html Shortly after the post was blogged, inquiries started flowing in and this beautiful bride was Shades' first bridal client from Simply Weddings.http://joyofweddings.blogspot.com/Photography: Luis Valleci...

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2009 GRADUATION SPECIAL!!

Yup, it's that time again when parents and guardians start thinking about the next step in their child's education. To give another gift of "beauty", Shades Professional Makeup has introduced a Graduation Special. Take advantage of this special today!Special ends on July 15, 2...

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Random Creations

Model: Samantha WidmerPhotographer: Luis VallecilloA truer statement has never been made that if you don't use it, you'll lose it so I try to keep on top on my "game" by creating different looks on my friends and just random people who I meet.These are a few of my random creations. Model: MePhotographer: Angie G. Ford Model: Haleemah HarlingPhotographer: Bernardo Neri Jr. Model: Danielle RobsonPhotographer: Paul Aiken Model: Damaris Castillo-PoweryPhotographer: Luis VallecilloModels: Liz & VanessaPhotographer: Paul AikenModel: Samantha WidmerPhotographer: Luis Vallecillo...

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Spring Flowers

As a makeup artist, one must often keep an eye out for fresh, new faces and be ready to create a look that compliments the faces.I found this young lady on Model Mayhem and asked her if she'd be interested in doing a shoot with me. Within 5 minutes, she responded to my email agreeing that she'd be interested.Standing at about 5ft 2in, this green-eyed beauty had absolutely no idea what the shoot was all about but she was up for it either way. I'm not particularly interested in nude photoshoots but if it's tastefully done, I will "risk" it. The idea for this shoot was to collect fresh bouganvilla flowers and cover the model's body (yes she was completely nude)........well at least all the areas that I didn't want exposed. After explaining to...

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Swamp Fashion ?!?!

When beauty, creativity and awesome talent clash, there's often an explosion of fabulous art and that was exactly the case here.I have been dreaming of the day when I would get the opportunity to work with this model, Treveen Stewart (international model), and that day came unexpectedly. I contacted Treveen through Facebook (which apparently seems to be the way to communicate nowadays) about a photoshoot and she was available. YAY!! She was FINALLY free to do this shoot with me. Because this was the chance of a lifetime, I had to brainstorm the perfect look, the perfect makeup and the perfect location for the shoot AND contact the most brilliant and talented photographers on island, to help me with this project. Luckily for me, both photographers...

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