Razzle Dazzle

Yesterday, I kind of played around with make-up on Courtney's face-- once again. We'll just call her my canvas from now on. lol. Her face is so easy to make up and we don't HAVE to use fake lashes all the time because she has great natural ones.Instead of using MAC eye shadow, this time I decided to use Cover Girl eye shadow, and I filled her eyebrows in this time with black eye brow filler. I think cover girl is a great inexpensive line and their eye shadow's are great. I just can't use their foundation.

Below is the finished piece and the cosmetics used.

• MAC Studio Moisture Tint SPF15 Deep Dark
• Bobby Brown Creamy Concealer Honey
• MAC Mineralize Medium Deep
• Cover Girl Dazzling Metallics 119
• Dior Show Mascara 090
• Baked Sugar wet/dry eye shadow V043

MY new but old talent

Ever since I can remember, I've loved everything about being a girl and making others look good. In the eighth grade, I started designing clothes which I still have the name and sketches for. I also used to do my friends hair. From sew ins, hair color and even braids. I haven't mastered the quick weaves yet because I hate the way they look but I plan on practicing on someone soon. When I got to high school, I started corn rowing the guys in my neighborhoods hair and even doing acrylic nails out of my house for extra money.

I started experimenting with make-up in high school as well. I didn't wear much of it to school because it apparently wasn't appropriate. I've always been fascinated with make-up and how it can transform a natural beauty into someone GORGEOUS and GLAMEROUS.

What I have decided to do is start a little "log" on "creations" I come up with and some make up looks that inspire me to do it either on myself or others.

I started out using my friend Courtney (@courtneydion on twitter).

This is her BEFORE

It may seem as if I used a ton of different products on her face but I didn't. For her face, I used

MAC Studio Moisture Tint SPF15 Deep Dark to cover her entire face. (It's translucent so it made applying the rest of the make up easy). Under her eyes used Bobby Brown creamy concealer in "Honey". I also used MAC Mineralize Skin Finish:Medium Deep for a tint of bronze. I cleaned up under her brows with the stainless steel razor then used a fine tooth comb with gel to style them with out chopping them all up.

For her eyes, I applied MAC NC35 concealer to her eye lids and applied the listed eye shadows: MAC Satin Taupe, MAC Sketch Velvet and Cover Girl Pearl. To her natural eye lashes I applied Dior Show Mascara 090 and Maybelline Great Lash Mascara in Black to the bottom lashes. Then I applied false lashes to the top lid.
For her lips, I used Chanel Lip gloss no.65, MAC Lip gloss' Chi and Underage

HERE IS THE FINISHED PRODUCT. *please excuse my horrible camera as this will get better*lol

I also styled her natural hair and took these photos in natural light.

Welcome To The Lions Den

A lot of people don't know that I write poetry or even have a love for it, for that matter.This is a poem I wrote a little while back.( It is Copy Written) It actually is based on a true life situation... Enjoy.

WELCOME TO THE LIONS DEN
by: Iyuana-Nichole

The sun sets, rain falls
he led me down a narrow hall.
Suddenly he stops and is close to me
my back against the wall.
Whispering in my ear
"Welcome To The Lions Den".
Then he disappeared.
Closed doors open circus music playing.
Took a quick turn around saw hanging souls decaying.
Bright colors, blues reds yellows and green
can't believe what I'm seeing.
The sweet nothings that were whisperd in my ear
and then again I hear
Welcome To The Lions Den.
The lights cut off then back on
all of a sudden a beautiful drawing
four gorgeous women then it was gone.
Standing in the middle
of all these broken hearted souls
a young woman appears and goes
Welcome To The Lions Den
she grinned and then again-
Welcome To The Lions Den.
Darkness came again the music got softer
I could smell him,I couldn't see him.
All at once,
fell backwards on a bed.
Then the lights came on again
"Welcome To The Lions Den,
all of your problems are dead
love me never leave me
and ill apease thee"
the lights off again
Welcome To The Lions Den
a long time went by
then my half nude body was set free.
Sitting in the darkness.
I was a piece of candy
just devoured, how grotesc.
the lights back on
suddenly I'm sitting on an automon
with a glass of dry gin
chillin, ponderin "how'd this begin?"
All the things he said and did.
Whispers of different women
'he said he loved me',
'he adored me',
'he gave the best to me'.
Breaking down in tears then I shout
'he left my heart to bleed'
only because it was broken
here then gone.
then again welcome to the lions den.
Like a fish without fins unable to move
my heart pounds harder again and again
still thinking about what was did
Welcome To The Lions Den
where women get devoured again and again.
This man is like a lion who keeps on lying
uses women as his pray
leaving their broken hearted souls to grow mold
he always exits with no remourse
now I stand

at the end of the narrow hall to say
"Welcome To The Lions Den"

Fly Shit

Check me out in this Chip Tha Ripper Video. If you want you can see me starting at the 1:44 mark. I'm not doing much but sitting there...lol...

ENJOY!

You Might Be.

Someone sent me a link to a blog post today titled "Naked With Socks On: Revealing Everything While Still Leaving Something To The Imagination." [I might be a little bit late finding out about this site] (http://nwso.net/) The topic is: What Women In Love Do

Being that obviously I am a woman, I completely agree with the whole post. I was completely shocked because every sign that explained what the woman would do or is doing is complete truth. Although, love is over rated because people do not know how to communicate and most men want their cake and eat it too. When a woman is showing her love, support, affection and concern GENUINELY then I do believe that it's time for the man to open his eyes a little bit wider to see what's going on. Men do not understand that every woman is not out to "get them" in a bad way and they have up some sort of wall or guard that they are afraid to let down. Men should not let one horrible incident change their way of thinking or what they are used to. Keep in mind that if the man is truly interested in you, he will make it CLEAR what he wants from you and will show you in every way that you are the one for him. Every one is different. If these following bullet points apply to you then you just might be in love...

• cook for him.
• learn about his favorite sport
• watch/do something you wouldn't normally
• won't nag
• compromise
• you completely trust him

To get the full details of the bullet points CLICK HERE

It's impossible to love someone that isn't showing you any love back.

What are your thoughts?

Frida Kahlo

I love art and my favorite artist is Mexican surrealist painter, Frida Kahlo. Her life story is interesting as well as her art. She was born on July 6, 1907, near Mexico City. She studied medicine, but she turned her attention away from it after a serious bus accident in 1925. Kahlo began a full-time painting career and while she was recovering from the accident she painted to occupy her time. She created 143 surrealist paintings, although only 55 of them are self-portraits that often symbolic wounds. Frida Kahlo was influenced by the Mexican mythology and the Mexican culture in general, christian and Jewish themes often appear in her artwork. Feel free to watch the slide show of her paintings. I'm pretty sure you'll love them as much as I do. Enjoy!

-sigh-

where can i find a love like this? point me in the direction...

Lil Jon and The East Side Boyz, Fat Joe, Trick Daddy, Oobie - Play No ...

THIS USED TO BE MY SH*T!!

Look What I Found.

I was checking my Model Mayhem today and found this cute lil photo of cute lil me in R.Lamar Photography's portfolio. He's a great photograper based out of Cleveland. I actually forgot all about this set. We did a few shots outside and I actually should work with him more often because I love the way my photos came out when I looked through the images on his camera. If you'd like to add him as a friend on model mayhem CLICK HERE