A few photos from a job done at the St. Regis hotel in Dana Point. Braids seem to be a big thing as of late. Photos by me.








My best friend Michelle who's also a makeup artist. Well she was getting headshots done and called upon her friend to do her hair and makeup. Gosh it was so hard to make her beautiful. (hope you hear the sarcasm in that)




This is Emmalou, one of my clients who is on her way to a fashion show where the look was to be the '60s. So it's all about the lashes, liner and red lips. Beautiful!




I wanted to show how this style can be done on short and long hair. You'll notice the longer version on one of my earlier posts and I had a request for it from someone with shorter hair, to be honest wasn't sure it could be done, but as you can see it worked with beautiful results.

This is Janora and I worked with her on an informercial I did a couple of weeks ago. I made sure to have someone take photos and put her in my portfolio. She's gorgeous and I love working on ethnic skin.

These photos came from www.tonyschreiber.com. He's based in Florida, but came to CA to especially photograph Esther's wedding. He's very innovative in his photographing. You can link up to Tony in my links section.

So I just found out that a film that I keyed hair and makeup on a couple of years back is finally making it's way to DVD release at the end of July. Here's the press release www.edbaran.com/mtihomevideo/pressreleases/2008/adventuresofjohnnytao.pdf. Below are set images along with the poster. I had a great time working on this with some awesome people both cast and crew alike. Thanks to Artie for recommending me for this project and thanks to Ken Scott for giving me the great experience of heading my own department and to my assistant Danielle, couldn't have done it without you.

See the trailer www.johnnytao.com/moviemedium.htm







I must say a bit intimidating to work on the great James Hong who's had the best of makeup artists out there.

Jen came for a preview and showed me her dress and I thought it was so adorable and different for a wedding. You know me, as I mentioned before, I love the personal touches that make every wedding unique. And this one was no exception. Thank you to Jen for putting up with a crazy Monroe during the preview. The day of Jen's wedding we met at Heidi's, her soon to be mother in law, which was a beautiful home on the beach in Venice with great big windows for wonderful light to do both hair and makeup. Heidi was wonderful and it was a pleasure to see that mother in laws can embrace the women who is lucky enough to win the heart of her son. A beautiful family in all.

Sherry and I had the absolute pleasure of working with Jane and her friends and producing our magic. Sherry worked her magic on Jane, not that she needed much magic and I mine on the girls hair. They were all so sweet and fun. I also love when I have new styles to work on and challenges. I especially loved having the fun short hair to work with. It's such a pleasure when you are laughing along with everyone while we work and that day was no exception. Having them practice how to walk to "Going to the Chapel" was wonderful. And the individual ideas that every bride brings to personalize their wedding, like the "Going to the Chapel" song, is such a joy to witness.





Photos by Jasmine Star Photography
www.jasminestarphotography.com

I've been working with Sherry from On Location Beauty now for about 3 years. We previously got to know each other with a different company and when I needed a new "home" I called Sherry and it's been so much fun working with her. Today I worked with her on Megan Casey's wedding. The first BM Katie mentioned she had been growing out her hair and wasn't quite sure what to do and she showed me the photo of a Marilyn Monroesqe hairstyle. I thought it would be fun to do and it fit so nicely with the dresses they were wearing. If the dresses were white, all she needed to do was find a train vent. Anyway, I also did her hair along with Sophie's hair and makeup. Megan had a beautiful color scheme of orange flowers with the cranbury dresses. She also had beautiful orange shoes to go with the dress. I would never have guessed how beautiful that actually looked. Everyone was a great joy to work with and the photographer they hired just happened to be one of the greatest photographers I know. Danielle from skybluphotography. You can check out her link and blog. These photos, by me : ).

Check out link for feature I Keyed hair and makeup. Adventures of Johnny Tao (2007).
www.johnnytao.com/moviemedium.htm

Budoir photos by Danielle www.skyebluphotography.com

Photos by Mary Clavering Photography mareclav@hotmail.com

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