This month it’s all about keeping the balance for me.
The weather is holding up strong over here, we are having still summer temperatures,
while I have been super busy buzzing around. Having early starts and late nights.
So what keeps me sane and strong for all the work?

Here are my essentials for balance this month:
Green Smoothies: Healthy fresh food makes all the difference, and although I don’t have the time to prepare complicated meals right now,
chucking some fruit and veggies into a blender and pressing a button can be done in 5min. I make a different one every day.
My Favourite right now: 1 banana, 1 pear, 1 apple, 1 handful of baby spinach, 1/2 cup of soya or almond milk, 1 tsp. chia seeds, 1/2 cup water, 1 tsp Supergreens Powder. This recipe makes about 3 sundae glasses of smoothie! Enjoy.
Comfy shoes: I do like to look somewhat professional at work and won’t rock up to a shoot or wedding in flip flops (although I sometimes have to bring them along when shooting on the beach!) So: Comfortable chic shoes, that look like I am happy to work in them all day, but still somewhat stylish.
The ones above are from Geox. There is nothing worse then painful feet, on a long day of work, it’s so distracting, flat shoes are the way to go!
Little Lunch Break Swims: Whenever I can I sneak out for a quick swim in my lunch break, not just a little exercise and movement, but also great relaxation for sore muscles. I also get the best ideas why swimming and find it clears my head.
Love Balm: So small, it fits in every pocket, it keeps my lips nicely moisturized, soothes any dehydrated areas or dry patches and makes a great cuticle balm too. It smells divine of natural rose oil too, the smell that opens the heart chakra. Jurlique Love Balm in Rose, sooo goood!
What keeps you balanced when you are super busy?

I think this quote is very true. My yoga teacher in NYC taught me to watch my thoughts whenever I leave the house.
We always check our image in the mirror, which is fine, but wouldn’t help if we leave with miserable or fearful thoughts.
Good thoughts will make you look beautiful! Inside and out.

I am surprised how often I hear women I work with say things like: “I hate my skin.” Or “My skin looks awful/terrible…” etc.
Everyone has bad skin days, stressful days, or a flu from time to time, but there is no need to be that tough on yourself.
Have you ever noticed how your skin changes, when you are stressed, or ill?
I can tell the difference in my own skin straight away.

You can enhance your skin with makeup and enjoy and experiment with it.
Makeup can transform you, and of course you can cover uneven skin tone, blemishes and dark circles
with the right products and techniques.
I love makeup, I love my job. It’s so creative and versatile, and constantly inspiring.
I see makeup as a fun celebration of your own beauty, an artistic tool that can enhance your unique beauty.
I wish I could teach women in my makeup classes and makeovers how to love their skin more.
And to understand what an important and fantastic organ it really is.

Watch your thoughts! Love the skin you live in.

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!

Today I am featured at the wonderful fashion blog over at Misslkey.
Go check it out here.
Currently we are busy preparing for our big move.
I am so excited to be a Sydney based make up artist very soon.
I will mainly work freelance and hopefully plenty of gorgeous bridal makeup.
We got our tickets and I got butterflies in my belly.
Have you ever moved across the world?

If you want to check out more on how to wear bright lipstick check out my guest post I have written for Lena from Musings to write a guest post for her beautiful blog here. As well as been interviewed by Elie for Punctuation Mark her inspiring blog about design and photography here.
Thank you so much Ladies, for these great features.

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…

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