Wednesday, June 17, 2009

I Scream Sunday

So Last weekend, I drove to Hot Springs, AR, did a wedding makeup demo, then went out to a bar called Maxine's, where I met an amazing illustrator, who's paintings I had photographed off the street earlier that day, (Can't recall his name)
and also I met my very first "fan" who happened to be the guitarist of the live band playing. He just came up to me and asked me if I was Danielle Nichole and told me he had been a follower of my modeling work, really inspired by it.

I meant to drive home but I ended up grabbing a hotel in Little Rock because two eighteen wheelers crashed and burned, literally, in my path, so I woke up the next morning expecting to go to a modeling convention in Little Rock, when I then realized that I had a 3.5 hour drive to Fayetteville for the convention. I stopped at a very unique and highly recommended boutique named "MAUDE" (I suggest you buy everything there, so chic, not cheap but also not expensive, think 50 bucks for a dress and 40-70 bucks for a shoe.. 12 for a bangle. Really great place, nice decor)
I then headed to the modeling convention for networking purposes. Upon arriving, I was asked to fill in as a MUA, which I did and met the owner of the restaurant location named "Savor" and
she was a wonderful lady who invited me to a fashion show/music video party in
September, which Samantha Ronson will be DJing at.


I bought these items plus a dress that I wore in a shoot-

I also got asked to model and in the shoot, I was put with an old college
buddy (completely random)and we made some fine artistic shots together, (will post soon)

Anyway, I drove back to Little Rock, crashed at my sister's apt and began driving home the next day (mind you I didn't even have a toothbrush, except for the hotel toothbrush and deo that i had to request from the front desk) and I receive a call from Kim, the owner and founder of Faces, Inc. who put on the convention..
She asked me to assist her next week for three days in Branson, Missouri, where I'll be doing make-up for a TV pilot. To name a few that I'll be pampering and making up - Jessica Simpson, Norah Jones...
It's some songwriter show that Warner Bros is putting on. If in case, the show gets picked up, I'll have the opportunity to go to Las Vegas/L.A. for 15 weeks for the filming of the entire show. What just happened?? What? What?!
I go Sunday..

I took these photos in downtown hot springs, right before my cam died.





The Maude images are from their myspace. I posted items that I bought and the dress I modeled will be posted later.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

la Sucrerie a Enduit






Photo by Ernie Rice, concept, styling, makeup, and graphics by me

I did this photo in a series of shoots this past weekend. As a child of the 80s, I've always been inspired by the colorful worlds of Rainbow Brite, My Little Pony, Barbie and Lisa Frank, especially Lisa Frank. Not to mention the Wizard of Oz was my favorite movie. Here's to a world of color-


Tarina Tarantino

My fav Tarina Tarantino earrings $88 USD
Tarina Tarantino Jewelry Collage


I'm so inspired by these technicolor models and the glitter they bring to the world of fashion.

Audrey Kitching




Raquel Reed




Major Designer's this season inspired by the rainbow


Isaac Mizrahi Resort 2010

WWD slideshow


Monday, June 8, 2009

Sucre Féerique




Fairy Tale

A police officer walked by me as I was crouched down behind the LANCÔME makeup counter (where I make women more beautiful daily) and asks me what I'm doing as I am reading a text from my hunky Aussie boyfriend, noticing he affectionately calls me "tinkerbell" so I look up at the cop and say "I am a fairy and I'm doing secret fairy things that are very mischievous," which immediately distracted him into tripping and falling over the counter and knocking things down. Of course I giggled and he'll swear to you that I blew pixie dust his way. Then as usual, I thought of fashion, and that I haven't seen any cool designer labels come out with any fairy trends recently so I'd just have to do some research of my own and find some inspiring images.



I am a fairy, see?


Pixie Photography















Prada 2007 Fairy Prints




I'm not really a fan of this, although it may be inspirational for prints



Jennifer Connelly in Balmain Article Link


Balmain Spring RTW 2009 - My little pixie heart started humming when I saw these!







perfect. just perfect.


Just when I thought it couldn't get better I saw this dress and literally took my breath away.
I've never seen anything on the runway that was remotely close to my idea of pretty until I saw these dresses.



I found this book very inspiring, also.




Fairie-ality
www.fairie-ality.com The Fashion Collection from the House of Ellwand
author: Eugenie Bird
illustrator: David Downton
photographer: David Ellwand





etsy