“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.” From the movie The Help

I have recently watched The Help, which is a really nice movie,
I would definitely recommend watching it. It tells a very inspiring story and is full of great 50′s looks.
And I learned what to tell my future kids every day: “You is kind. You is smart. You is important. ”
I guess it’s a good thing to tell yourself as well, whenever you face a challenging day.
It feels very uplifting, don’t you think?

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Today the latest issue of Dashing Magazine has been published.
I love the whole magazine and read it today for breakfast with a cup of green tea.
Delicious.
Here are some screenshots I wanted to share with you of the shoot for that I have designed the hair and make up have done for Dashing.
(Click on the images to enlarge them!)
Working with the ladies behind Dashing Magazine has been a great experience.
If this looks like your cup of tea, check out the magazine here.

Happy Springtime!

It’s the little things in life that are making me very happy, like coffee in the sunshine,
or a new nail polish.
Nails are huge at the moment. Which makes me happy, since I have always loved nail colours a lot.
I am still staying away from nail art and sticking with simple uni colourings.
The other day I met the girls behind the hip nail polish brand Rococo Nail Apparel, Ange and Vernice Walker.
The talented sisters have worked as nail designers and celebrity manicurists with all the big names and started their own successful little family business.
At the same time they are also 2 very humble and extremely kind sisters. No wonder they came so far. Real team work.
And not only where this two interesting to chat to and told me about their passion for everything Japanese, including a slight very healthy obsession with Japanese food, they also offered to paint my nails and chose the coolest colour, which I now own as well (it’s LabNude 6.0).
A mannequin nude, somehow vintagey, somehow clean but edgy at the same time. Or in Rococo’s words: Supernatural.
Thanks ladies! So very nice to meet you, you have made my day.

I have had some interesting collaborations lately.
One of the photo-shoots I have done within a great Team lately was
The Olympian Goddess inspired shoot for that I designed hair and make up, that just got published in Racing Mind Magazine titled “Muse” p88-97
London life became very sweet lately. And I am so in love with my job. I am thankful every day for this new career.
It feels good to see so much colour in fashion recently, especially pastels, which have always been my favorites.
I will share some pastel make up trend goodness with you soon…

image via complexgeometries

Happy New Year!
2012 is going to be a great one.
Some major changes are lying ahead of me:
We are planning to move to Sydney, Australia by the end of the year.

My little new year resolutions include being colorful.
In general I am trying to be more graceful and grateful.
I will do my best to inspire and support my friends and family.
I hope to make people laugh even more than the year before.
Also I won’t be too hard on myself anymore and accept that my best will always be enough.

And we will no longer throw clothes around in our room, which was David’s brilliant idea.

What are you up to this year?

Work it harder, make it better, do it faster, makes us stronger, more than ever hour after our work is never over.
That has been the motto of the last weeks. I had a lot of great make up artist jobs.
One that I definitely recommend you guys to check out is the new online mag
Dashing Magazine, that has just launched now in December. I will do step by step make up tutorials in every issue, where I let you in to some professional make up tricks.
I absolutely adore the magazine, and hope you will enjoy it too.
December should now get a little more quiet so I can catch up with blogging and updating my website.
And for Christmas cookies and tea.
Have a wonderful Christmas time!

The happy-list game is no new one in the blog-sphere, but it is so much fun.
Writing lists is satisfying somehow, don’t you think?
Especially when it’s listing all good things in life, the ones you are grateful for or just the ones that are making you happy right now. So I followed the invitation of blogging beauty TJ of Mr.Taylor and his Lady to write a happy-list.
It was great to play!
See what makes me terribly happy here:

1. dancing a silly dance in pajamas to Dave‘s beat-boxing in the morning
2. being a woman
3. having breakfast in bed (on a day off, so cozy)
4. doing yoga
5. little packages from my mum in Germany with homemade jam and sweet letters
6. the smell of fresh roasted coffee
7. being a make-up artist, playing with colors is my job!
8. fresh ripe mangoes from the market
9. getting the giggles together with my man out of the blue and not being able to stop laughing
10. knowing that happiness is a decision that I make every day

Last week we were invited to see Gabby Young And Other Animals live at Koko in Camden.
Because Gabby has been wearing my dresses on stage at her Europe tour, her outstanding stylist Katie Antoniou invited us to the fabulous show,
along with a few other London based bloggers.
If you want to learn more about her style check out her blog here.

I was so deeply impressed with Gabby’s voice and her personality.
She seems to be very present, very alive and very… just herself.
She will take you into her very own playful and magical little circus world.
She is not trying hard to please anyone.
She is having a good time, and so is everyone in the audience.
Gabby was classically trained before being diagnosed with thyroid cancer in her early twenties. After recovering she continued her musical career, establishing her own record label, Gift of the Gab records as well as her own genre of music;
‘circus swing’. She is truly inspiring.
It was one of these concerts you are going to and you are feeling all warm and fuzzy inside afterwards, do you know what I mean?

Thank you, David for the best company, for claiming my camera back from security and for taking the great photos.

During London Fashion Week we went to the B store party, where Dave I.D. was playing live.
I discovered him a few months before that gig and was blown away by his music.
We even bought the album!
He seemed to be more shy than a show pony when I told him how great he was after his performance.
Down to earth, zero attitude and a music genius. Check him out!

I really tried to not wear tights until October, but now Fall finally arrived in London.
Fashion week is still going and I have been really busy.
The nights are getting really chilly. I am hoping for a pretty and sunny Autumn with loads of beautiful colored leaves.
Speaking of Fall….
It might be not the most recent discovery but I saw THE FALL the other night for the first time and was completely blown away. I wonder how I never got round to seeing it earlier.
Such a beautifully photographed and incredibly detailed film. If you haven’t seen it yet, try and get it!
Movie season started for me. I love snuggling up in bed when it’s cold outside and watching movies with my man.