Leonard Simpson's 10 Best Awards/Fashion Show 2014

This is the second year I've had the opportunity to be a lead at Leonard Simpson's 10 best Dressed Awards. Deena Horeck Von Yokes from Studio Savvy and I worked with our teams to create Angelina Jolie inspired double french twists, sweet hair bows, gold glitter eyes, jeweled lids, deep dramatic red lips, pops of pink and orange. Thank you Leonard for dreaming big!! And, thank you to my amazing team for your talent, time, and positive energy!! I can't wait to work with you all again!! This show is fun because it brings stylists and makeup artists from salons across San Diego and freelance artists together for one night to create something magical. I always learn when I work with someone new.

Hair & Makeup Team

(the few I was about to round up for the picture...busy backstage)

HAIR

1. Connie Novello
2. Dominic Santiago
3. Emily Bondell
4. Jeanie Scoggin
5. Katee Dazey 
6. Kathleen Mulvaney
7. LaTasha Titus
8. Michael Harris
9. Monica Hernandez
10. Monica Stone
11. Stacey Zozula

MAKEUP

1. Ann DeNicolo
2. Brittney Page
3. Danielle Annarumma
4. Erin Oclair
5. Libbey Lazarus
6. Rachel Gallenberger
7. Renee Rhoads
8. Sasha Brinncess 

StudioSavvy Deena Horacek-Von Yokes

 PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY LEONARD SIMPSON FASHION FORWARD ®

Photo Credit:

Sinsay Fitography

Tom Truman Photography

Valentine Studios

Designers that caught my eye:

Alpaca Couture

Karla Lamas

Oseas Villatoro

Rocky Gathercole

Viet Chung Vo

Thank you Leonard Simpson for producing this show! Below is one of my favorite pictures of Leonard with his dear friend Sally Thornton who was one of the founders of the 10 Best Dressed show honoring philanthropists. This is Leonard's 7th year producing the 10 Best Dressed show. His love of fashion and his generosity for local charities come together in a night full of surprises. This year the theme was a moment in time. We walked through history with gladiators, a steam punk group with costumes and bikes from he late 1800's, My Fair Lady fashion, and modern couture. He had Joy Sargis borzoi show dogs, jewels, fur coats, clock cakes, and details to touch every heart. He created "A Moment in Time" with this memorable show.

Hot California

For a shoot like this I set each models hair to give it a sexy, natural texture and added extensions when needed.. For the mermaid, long hair I did braids and twists then flat ironed them to create a beachy softness. Mermaid products: lots of Aquage salt spray. Pureology Strength Control hairspray. Pureology texture twist

Photographer Kevin Roche

Wardrobe Seaweed & Gravel
Wardrobe  Crawford Denim
Band Amerika Bear
Makeup Ann Denicolo
Hair Kira Pinski

click on the pictures to create a slideshow:)

 

 

 

   

Many thanks for fun times, good music, and beautiful fashion.

Photographer Kevin Roche
Wardrobe Seaweed & Gravel
Wardrobe  Crawford Denim
Band Amerika Bear
Makeup Ann Denicolo
Hair Kira Pinski

Celebrating Freedom! Happy 4th of July!!

My family lives in Williamsburg VA where celebrating our independence from Britain is a big deal! I love watching Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry have conversations with the modern visitors. I love spending my time in the wig shop learning about the hair styles of the colonists. I love walking the streets of Colonial Williamsburg and the governors palace thinking about what it was like when America wasn't quite free, and then when we began our revolution for freedom.

On July 4, 1776 the Continental Congress approved it's final wording of the Declaration of Independence. The words that I always remember are the gifts for EVERYONE of "Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness". That sounds like freedom to me:)

What makes me feel Alive, Free, Happy?

friends/family                     new places
rock climbing                      screaming
nature                                  laughing
travel                                   crying
music                                   smiling
hair                                      reading
fashion shows                     ice cream
being in/around water         baby animals
driving in my convertible    sky diving
roller coasters                     kayaking
art                                       rafting
meditation                          learning something new
running                               camp fires
backpacking                       dancing
cooking                              old friends/new friends

always had a crush on old blue eyes...

To my best friends! You are amazing!

Glasses and Hair

Do the hair/glasses combo take over your pretty face? 2 quick tips...

 Part off to the side or just close to center..The glasses are  symmetrical so the hair needs to create balance. Diane Keaton has a short part..just about a knuckles length into the hairline then some teasing for volume with soft messy waves.

Glasses and bangs together can make the face appear smaller....expose a little forehead....sweep your hair high into a knot..to create length in the face.

 Amelie is always an example of bangs I love..And, within a month or 2 they are side sweeping and long:) These bangs would be super cute with glasses.

Warby Parker Eyeglasses has a Home Try On Program you choose 5 frames for 5 days and Warby Parker ships them to you for free (both ways). Many frames are $95 .. $150 prescription. Check out their line of summer surf inspired hues @ www.warbyparker.com
  

dream...anything is possible...

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

T.E. Lawrence