Today I am honored to share my favorite creative tools with everyone, over at
Promise Tangeman’s blog.
She is a great inspiration and I love the idea behind her creative toolbox post.
Check out her blog and great work as graphic designer and artist.
I made a personal list of little things that keep my creativity as make-up artist going.
Thank you Promise for having me!

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!

Liv in Melbourne photo by Dave
I am back!
Back from the most amazing holiday in Australia to still cold and rainy London.
The stress of the big city kicked right in but I start to like it back it here as well.
The new year started incredibly good and now it’s time to focus on the brand new job
and mostly the new career as make up artist.
I am excited.
My move to London, didn’t bring me anything that I have expected but loads of unexpected things.
And lot’s of wonderful things.
A new love, a huge holiday and starting a new career.
One that I have fancied since being a kid, and never seriously followed it, though I had lots of opportunities.
And it came back and knocked again, and this time I opened the door.
It means stepping back and starting in many ways from scratch again in other ways it means that a lot of skills
that I developed over the years will be coming together.
(hopefully!) It’s scary and exciting at the same time.
I am just hoping that things will fall in place, while I am working hard on my progress.
I will keep you up to date ; )

I just got home from a fantastic concert at my local coffee shop/bar and music venue:
Cafe Oto. Though all three acts were great, one was mind blowing for me.
Kyrie Kristmanson
Not only that she has an incredible voice, and has been on stage without any support:
“The 18-year-old Ottawa native is blessed with a seriously haunting voice, comparable maybe to a Bjork/Feist hybrid. Unusual songs, occasionally plucked on a nylon-stringed guitar, sometimes supported by double bass, and other times performed with nothing but her voice… Kristmanson is one to watch out for.” – The Edmonton Sun
Not to mention her presence on stage and the way she interacted with the crowd.
I want to see her again, hear her again, I want to hang out.
If you ever get the chance: Go for it.
This girl has it all.

Calling all creative minds out there:
The last weeks really got me thinking.
Through the circumstances I had to step back from everything
and set the job hunting as highest priority.
Why? Because I need to eat, pay rent and need money to live.
That’s the reality.
But how far does one have to go for a job?
Is it really possible that you have to earn money with something that
is not satisfying nor has got anything to do with yourself and your talents?
And would this in the long term lead to a borderline personality, because you need to deny yourself everyday from 9-5!?
Would you just forget about yourself and your dreams in the daily struggle to survive after a while?
Would it ever feel right?
I do tend to think that even this thought is a luxury and I start blaming myself for it.
I know a lot of people that do random jobs and are doing quite well.
And on the other hand how much can you risk for following your dreams,
and how to keep the faith in your work if you can’t pay the bills.
How to find the balance? How to stay true?
As long as you can’t make a living as an artist or creative mind your work will be judged as worthless.
And it’s hard to remind yourself that this is obviously not the case.
As an artist you have to keep going because you have to.
And your work has a meaning and is worth being there.
It’s tempting to question your work in bad times and sabotage yourself and your work.
I will keep it real -somehow- in London.
What about you?