Love When My Brides Show Me Pictures After the Wedding!

You may recall me talking about a Sat. a little less than a mth ago where I had two weddings that day (May 14 th to be exact).  The first bride that day Lori was kind enough to let me know that her photographer Marlen James had posted some pictures on Facebook from the wedding.

I always LOVE when my brides send me photos after the day 1. B/C I sometimes don't get to see them all done up 2. It's a nice way to make sure they looked beautiful throughout the day and the Hair & Makeup held up 3. It's great to add those pics to my website.

The pictures are beautiful and it's so great to see that everything held up that day esp. b/c at some points on that Sat. there were torrential downpours...not the best thing for Hair & Makeup lol!  I contacted the Lori's photographer Marlen James to see if she would mind me using a few of the pictures for publicity purposes (I of course agreed to include her name and website) and she was nice enough to send me some of the pics - Yeah Thank You So Much!  She also said that the Hair & Makeup...esp. the Hair held up beautifully the entire day which of course made me super happy.

One thing I was super excited about was the fact that Marlen took a lot of great pics that specifically featured the Makeup & Hair...unfortunately (for me) that's not always the case w/ pics from the wedding day.

So enjoy some of the pictures from Lori's beautiful day!

Lori & Her New Husband Doug...Such a Beautiful Couple!

 I Love this pic of Lori & her sister Patricia (who I also did Hair & Makeup for)

 Such a Pretty pic of the Hair!

Facebook Fan Page

So anyone that has been reading my blog for awhile knows that I'm technologically challenged (like I've said before it's amazing that I can write this blog AND include pics lol). Anyway, I've had a Fan Page on Facebook for a long time and recently I noticed a few other bloggers had badges on the side directing ppl to their Fan Page. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how it was done...until today!

So if anyone isn't already a member and wants to join my Fan Page here's the badge:

Jessica Jean Myers - Makeup Artist on Facebook

It's also available in the side panel...third thing down I think.

Also I've seen the finished pics from that shoot I did a few wks ago w/ Zach Hertzman that I called "Vintage Romance" and I'm SOOO IN LOVE w/ them...seriously I think they are so gorgeous and I can't wait to share them w/ you...unfortunately I'll probably have to wait a couple of mths until they get published :(

Also I've been working on my Bridal Website lately b/c I want that to be a separate entity from my Fashion/Commercial Website. It should be done in a wk or so so stay tuned :)

If I actually build my Bridal Website w/out any help I think I might actually have to re-think the technologically challenged thing lol.

Career Related New Year's Resolutions!

I definitely have a few New Year's Resolutions this year (some even beyond the usual lose some weight/exercise more)! Not sure if I'm just being ambitious or if I'm somewhat disappointed w/ the way some things in my career have played out in the last year...maybe a bit of both lol!

Overall, I feel I was on the right track this past year but did get a bit lost in the late Summer/Fall. I have found some things to be frustrating...a big one being not doing more editorial shoots since I got back to Canada. I guess I got spoiled the year before b/c I was doing so many but since I got back to Canada it has proved difficult to get all the pieces together and to actually get the shoots done. I've met a lot of great photographers and have started to develop those relationships and hopefully in the coming year all the pieces will start to fall into place.

Resolutions:

1. Start doing more cool editorials and start getting published again...I like seeing my name in print lol!
2. Update my blog more (b/c I'll actually have cool things to update about hopefully lol)
3. Learn how to Airbrush FINALLY...I have the equipment and haven't bothered to learn how to use it yet (no excuse for that one really)
4. Build a Bridal Website separate from my Editorial/Commercial Website (for that matter build my Bridal business)
5. Get going on my Bridal photo shoots I have in the works (to help build my bridal website lol)
6. Improve my Hair Skills to the point that I feel completely comfortable and confident in ANY situation - including doing Bridal Hair (to go along and help w/ that Bridal Business...see a trend here lol)
7. Continue to network w/ and meet more cool photographers, stylists, models etc.

and not related to makeup but of course always important - Workout More, Eat Better and Lose the 15 lbs I've put on since returning to Canada :S

New Website Up FINALLY!!

Wow I'm being so productive during my Detox lol! FINALLY got my new website all up and running! If you know me and computers this is actually a pretty amazing thing that I did it all myself other than the actually launching it online part (got a girl from the resort to help..thanks Toffler ;) )

So I decided to go w/ Dripbook as a lot of artists I love use it and anytime I update my Dripbook it automatically updates my website how cool is that?! So yeah go check it out! Just keep in mind I still have to do a better bio and get a better pic I just wanted to get it online. Plus once I get back to Canada (1 mth away) I'll scan all my tears and actually upload them instead of just having the pics that were used in the magazine.

Yeah I'm excited!! :)

Mini Update - Actually WAY Longer Than Planned Lol!

So I leave for Thailand in 3.5 days (Sunday)!! Getting very excited and luckily enough I'm actually kind of super busy before I leave so at least the time will go by quicker. For the next few days I'm trying to do a raw fruit & veg diet (suggested by spa) as prep for the Detox/Cleanse I'll be doing while in Thailand so that's somewhat interesting but actually not that far removed from what I eat already.

Tomorrow I'm shooting another cover for Drink Magazine. Nothing fancy really but just nice to have a few covers in the portfolio you know.

Speaking of portfolio I'm FINALLY getting my procrastinating ass moving on doing a new website. Anyone who knows me knows I'm a tech tard...seriously! I'm actually impressed w/ myself that I switched hosting/domain companies for my current site lol. I've decided I'm going to go w/ Dripbook and build a site through them which is something they now offer. Their sites look super good (you can choose different colours schemes, layouts etc and change it as often as you want!), are totally affordable and best of all even a tech tard like ME can build and update it apparently!

That's the prob w/ my site now. A girl I use to work w/ built it for me as her final school project and then was suppose to teach me how to update it but she just "disappeared"...it was so odd she wouldn't email me back or return calls. No idea why but it left me w/ an intial site and no way to update it so therefore very quickly useless :( Lots of amazing artists do their sites through Dripbook now too btw like one of my favs - Lottie - so you know it's good ;)

I'm doing an editorial on Sat. night now...I can't remember the mags name at this moment but I'm just happy it's happening before I go. It was all up in the air b/c of the finding a stylist in China issue (surprise, surprise). I thought it might actually be shot while I was gone which made me sad but luckily it got bumped to the night before I leave :)

It's w/ a yummy, foreign male model btw :) Hey, if I'm going to be working a Sat. night at least I'll have some nice eye candy lol! It's so rare that I get to work w/ hot male models so yeah! And it's actually a cool makeup concept for me not just boring male grooming so that's cool. It's inspired by Twilight sort of (don't be jealous Sian Melton lol). We're doing a sort of Vampire at night in Shanghai sort of thing...but not cheesy - fashiony of course. So I'm paling out his complexion a bit and tinting the lips and giving him some structured, high, messy hair alla Robert Pattinson.

Btw apparently DestinAsian really liked the shoot that I did a few wks ago so that's cool and I can't wait to see the pics from that one!

I'll have WiFi at the resort btw so I'll be updating on the Detox/Cleanse!