If you haven't, please do.

I'm sure by now you've all heard how delightful the pilot was for this show 'Glee'. If you haven't, or just haven't bothered to watch it yet, please do. It will delight you. Seriously. I am speaking directly to everyone in my family here, except Chris maybe.

This and many other things make me miss singing a LOT. Of course I still sing, around the house, but I mean performing. At least voice lessons. I really wish I could afford them.

hee hee hee

my roommate

Sarah and I are mid-project at the moment which necessitated a photo shoot on the roof. Look at my pretty roommate! Makeup and photography brought to you by yours truly. That second shot was the first one I took as I was seeing what the lighting was like, but I like it.

and I woke up today with very sore and achy muscles. I have too much to do for this nonsense!

I feel...

really afflicted.

bed bugs

very painful infected cyst

allergies going crazy in the head-- eyes, nose, throat, consequent headache

allergies from kneeling on the floor at rehearsal last night? going crazy on the shins-- itching like mad ALL THE TIME

unmentionable on my foot, upon which I stand all day

eczema on my chin

This is too much. What's going on? Two months ago I had NONE of these afflictions. (though my roommate had bed bugs, so I knew that was inevitable.)

Please PLEASE  go away. I don't have time for this nonsense!

Today I...

consulted with a Solver of Medical Mysteries. I don't have one, I just have an infected cyst. But he saw me anyway because I don't have health insurance. WEIRD experience.

played in the candyland of Dylan's.

picked up a prescription for CHEAP (accidentally).

discovered some beautiful art in the Washington Heights Library (The Three Incestuous Sisters by Audrey Niffenegger). (Who knew the W.H. Library would have such an impressive selection?)

battled with a team of Perseus ne'er-do-wells. It was frustrating. Yes, yes, we certainly do deserve a rent reduction.

went to a conversation with Kenneth Branagh. I love smart people. If he asked me to marry him I would say yes. His two-minute scene brought me nigh to tears.

put the dishes in the dishwasher, and collapsed into my beddingless bed (bed bug exterminators coming tomorrow) to sleep on my side not afflicted with an infected cyst.

Naturally

As I previously wrote about, I teamed up a couple of groups I'm involved with a couple of weeks ago for Earth Day. Earth Day NY, partnering with Green Drinks (a networking organization for eco-conscious Manhattanites and companies), were hosting a big Earth Day celebration/event, which would feature a fashion show. Well fashion shows go hand in hand with Seph0ra and its makeup artists. I thought doing the makeup with our plethora of natural cosmetics was a fantastic idea, and then setting up a table for mini-makeovers with natural cosmetics, and maybe even throw in some info about natural skincare, even better. My store manager passed my idea on to corporate, who loved it and supported by calling on the Seph0ra Pro Team and sending lots of Natural samples to hand out. I finagled lots of goodies from the generous Maragaret of Cargo Plantlove, and voila! Success!
The furniture showroom wherein the event took place. It was gorgeous.

These are not my pictures by the way. I stupidly left my camera at home because I didn't think I would have any time to use it. These are from a photographer who comes to all Green Drinks event, and all pictures can be found on their website.

The models we made-over were first-timers. This is a Before shot. My model is on the left.

My model being given the once-over by our leader, Nikki, from the Pro Team. She created the Look and approved all models before they hit the runway.

That's mine on the left! I was a little nervous about being there because, as you know, I've been in Skin for a while, and never been given "real" makeup artistry training. But I fit right in. It was really fun to do a fashion show that had a Look to recreate. I'm a little hooked, I've got to be honest. I received special praise for my work on the cheekbones.

The artists.

The main floor. There was a basement, and the top floor which you can see here, where we were located. You can't really tell in this picture, but there were LOTS of people there. Other companies were there too like Lush, plenty of organic food companies, and organic alcohol (one of my jobs at Earth Day NY was, incidentally, to find companies to donate alcohol to the evening. So I reached out to organic alcohol companies. Thank you organic vodka company I don't now remember, how generous of you to get everyone drunk without the use of herbicides, pesticides, or insecticides. Success.) And of course the organic clothing store whose wares were displayed in the fashion show.

All of the models wore recycled newspaper headdresses, which I of course loved.

Look how proud I am of my work!

This was my favorite "garment" as they say.

The experience was fun, successful (we touched a lot of people and talked up our Naturals quite a bit), and definitely one of my highlights with this company.

Work is keeping me pretty busy at the moment. This next week I get to teach my entire cast "Service Express", a new consultation program the company is rolling out. I will be teaching them three looks. I am not a Color Expert. Go me. I will also be hosting Master Classes at our store starting next week or the following week for our clients, featuring a Mermaid Summer look, a classic smoky eye, and a trendy *new* look with a new palette off our shelves. We will be doing these every week from now on!

I am participating in this:

AIDS Walk New York, the world’s largest AIDS fundraising event, benefits Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) and over 30 other tri-state area AIDS service organizations. GMHC is the nation’s oldest and most comprehensive AIDS service organization, serving approximately 15,000 people living with HIV and AIDS and their families each year, and countless more through its prevention and advocacy work locally and nationally.

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