Natural Beauty Inspiration - Tanya

Beautiful picture of Tanya.

Turn your blog into a book

For everyone that has a blog, we have this great option to turn our sites into a book. I think this is a great idea. I may at some point decide to turn this all into a book for memories. To see how you can turn your blog into a book, check out the following sites:

Blog Book
LuLu
Blog2Print
and more...                        

- Below, see an example of the kind of books you can make from Blog Book.

Just Beautiful x 2

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

And my eyes behold... err... well, let's just say I could stare at this dynamic duo for an 'excessive' allotment of time... (And perhaps still come away not sure exactly who I'd deem more gorgeous between the two ). In a previous era perhaps a poll might've sprung up from this shot, but considering some past complaints, I figure I'll simply play it safe and classify this pair as Just Beautiful... x 2 ...

Half is enough...

Despite his only being half of the Clippinger duo, he's certainly enough to rock my beautiful scale ...

And in spite of his only being one half of the Clippinger duo... The fact that he's currently shooting with one of my photography icons is possibly enough to... well, let's just say perhaps shatter that scale altogether... (and then some )...

26 year-old model Allen Clippinger needs no introduction at this point. Both he and his brother are about two of the most recognizable/prolific models of the late 2000s. And... as some of you might be well aware, they've just about shot with a veritable who's who list of leading industry photographers...

...That said... this set features the first-ever encounter between either one of them (in this case brother Allen), and the atheistically sophisticated eye of one of my icons; photographer David Vance...(who's work I'm assuming some of you might still recall from his utterly phenomenal book released around this time last year )...

Long story short and photography rendezvous out of the way, the end results as you can see (both above and below) are nothing short of Just Beautiful.

As I've been told by the man kind enough to provide these shots, apparently there's yet another coffee-table book currently in the conceptual phase. Whether Allen's photos appear within remains to be seen, however... I've got a feeling it should be something special to look out for hopefully in the future...(that and perhaps a couple more shots of Allen currently in the works as well ).

Colourful

I love this fashion shoot featured in W Magazine celebrating admirable women in Spring attire! It's so colourful and so Bohemian and how gorgeous is that patchwork vintage style sofa in the picture above!

Photographer - Bruce Weber, Stylist - Camilla Nickerson

Mother's Day Special - From iHeartMyHair.com

Check out this coupon from iHeartmyHair.  This mother's day special was inspired by the "lack of mother and daughter images and representation among the Black/African communities."

If you would like to read more about the inspiration behind this event, click here.  For those of you that live in Canada, and want to take advantage of this great special, this is what your package will include:

❤ Headshot Stylist
❤ Make-up Artist
❤ 8X10 Printed Photo
❤ CD of all images
You will receive your printed 8X10 photo just in time for Mother's Day.

For just: $55 per sitting (4 ppl maximum) you will enjoy professional photography by: Sean Anthony.

Awakening of Spring Boys

26 year-old actor Jesse Lee Soffers is not exactly the Jonathan Groff, but he'll do ...

Boyish good-looks, check... super cute/dreamy appeal, check... incredibly be-freckled visage, check... making out with another cute actor in the Here! televised adaptation of Spring Awakening, che... wait, no . That's not Jesse in the second two screencaps of my Awakening of Spring capture is it ?... Dammit.

I totally caught this movie this weekend hoping/crossing my fingers for perhaps a Jesse disrobing or kiss, and I wound up getting neither. Nevertheless, as someone who missed out on the stage adaptation of Spring awakening back when Glee's Lea Michelle and Jonathan Groff were headlining, I can't say I was disappointed with this admittedly low-budget version (I have no frame of reference to judge this film against, so I can't complain ). Dreamy Jesse did quite well with what he was given...

And... of course the two actors in the above clip (Jan Milligan and Nicholas Downs) more than made up for previous mis-identification prior to seeing this movie/play. Very err... sensual, is how I'll put it .

Anyhow, you can check out more of the Awakening of Spring over on HereTV... Along with checking out the DVD either on Amazon or Netflix.