Passionate Hair

Even with my busy schedule, I still find time to take my hair clients that have decided to follow me out of school. I love it that I can do everything that I love and that I am passionate about: Hair, makeup, and fashion. I love it even more when my clients are brave enough to let me do something out of the box. If you cant tell by now, I love color! I am a big fan of bright colors! One of my regular clients, Jackie let me do a hot pink/indigo mix on her hair last night.

I cant seem to ever remember to take before and after pics when working, so she took these photos when she got home and sent them to me. I had fun doing this on her hair. With her previous colors, the bright colors did their own thing and created a beautiful ombre'd mixture. Once I blowdried and styled her hair, I was really happy with the results and so was Jackie!

I must say that I have come to love this industry and not because I get to have fun with color and makeup all day, But I am in love with the transformation of hair and makeup does to a person. I have seen energies change completely and not just from a beauty service, but the relationship that develops between a client and a stylist/artist.

I love all my clients and I hope they all know that! I cant wait until I have my studio set up and I can have my clients enjoy all the services that it will offer! I just wanted to share this fun color with all my readers!

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
Paul Klee quotes 

80's Flashback

Who doesnt like dressing up and taking a trip back into time? The 80's were known for so many things, music, fashion, movies and so much more. Some say they were the best of times and I agree! I was born in 83' so I have alot of fond memories in my childhood growing up in the 80's. I wore my legwarmers and neon colored tights to my dance classes. I rocked out to the music along with my mom and my 2 aunts. I loved it, especially the hair and makeup. The 80's still serve as inspiration to many people including designers and artists.

me and jak jak gettin ready!

My friend Jackie and I were invited to go to a birthday celebration of a friend of ours where an 80's tribute band, The Legwarmers were playing. We got all decked out in our colored tights and chucks and bright colors and we got there and it was sold out. I WAS SOOOOOO BUMMED. I really needed a night out to let loose and have fun and be completely silly. Not wanting to waste the night,. we met up with a few of my friends and just kinda hung out.

So colorful and bright!

We felt a lil silly because we were the only ones in 80's attire- but we didnt care! We didnt stay out too long, because we were back home by 1230am. Were definetly getting old! LOL

silly face

I love 80's parties! I called up my cousin, Jessica to find out when our local tribute band, The Deloreans will be playing, and they will be playing this friday! I cant wait! I have gone to 80's parties before, last year we went and saw the Deloreans play. Here are some photos from that night!

My hubby bunny and I!

my cousins and I!

the girls!

Friday were going to go out again all 80's! I cant wait! I hope you enjoyed this mini flashback!

Do you and the girls go out and get 80'sed out? Well, if you dont, you should!

Thanks for stopping by and Ill see  you in the next post! You can check out Jackie's blog too here

Cheetah, Leopard or Peacock?

I just dont know what to call this look. I am not very good at naming my makeup tutorials. hahaha
I made this video about 3 weeks ago and I honestly just forgot to edit it, since I started working at Xotic Eyes and freelancing as a makeup artist, I have been so busy. (but I am not complaining! )

I love this weird face I am making hahaha

I wanna call this a bluish/purplyish pink and white smokey eye with a black cheetah/leopard or peacock design. I had worn this same look on New Years Eve, and recreated it for all of my viewers!

If you saw my last makeup tutorial Hello Kitty Pop,( I did a look inspired by these hello kitty vans my friend Jacki gave to me for Christmas), you saw a sneak peek of this tutorial.

So, without further delay, here is my lil video- watch for funny surprises.....my phone rang and went off and my dad even walked in during my video...geezzzz...cant a girl get some privacy to film a tutorial??? hahaha Enjoy!




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Xotic New Products

IF you are a follower or a reader of Sweet Surrender, you know that I work At Xotic Eyes here in Virginia Beach and the past few weeks, we have been working hard coming up with new designs, bringing them to life and then getting beautiful models to wear the designs and photographing them.

I have been showing behind the scenes shots in recent posts, and now, I have some of the photos that Shannon has edited and posted. I wanted to share with my Sweet Surrender Family some of the designs! I hope you enjoy!

Hawaiin

Pink Flamingo

Mini Monster!

There are more photos that have not been edited yet. We have been prepping for Xotic Eyes to go to the Halloween and Party Expo that is taking place in Houston this weekend to show off our products, so we have been busy! Making the new designs for the models to wear, designing the hair styles for models to wear, styling wigs, and so much more. It will be hectic with all the orders that will be pouring in!

I hope you liked these new designs! We have so much more too you can check out on our website!

www.xoticeyes.com

Thanks for stopping by! See you soon!



SONday, a glorious day

I redid my hair with Turqouis and Purple...You really cant see it though . Just wanted to share!

While my daughter was celebrating her birthday with her father, my son and I, Matthias got a rare chance for mom and son time yesterday. Saturday night, him and his step dad, (my hubby) Jermie had a "guys night" and stayed up watching movies and playing around with the countless Nerf guns scattered around the house. We were stuffed Saturday night from eating Icecream Cake. I finally got time to upload the photos so you could see.

 I was supposed to have a few clients yesterday to do a quick trim and a color application ( she wanted a deep fuscia pink) but both ladies cancelled...which usually happens on rainy days.

Matthias and I took the time and went out together. I Met up with a friend I went to school with to catch up and she had some fabric she saved for me. I have been wanting to check out a different antique store in my area and wanted to see if Matti would enjoy it. I invited my friend, Jackie to roll with us after she finished up a photoshoot.

Matthias, I think was more excited about all the antiques than I was. He found really cool old tin cars and toy trains and old sewing machines since he knows I love to sew.

Jackie found this painting and this girl looks like Arabella!

I love Chaise Lounges!

I love this hat and the color of it!

I love these statues. Remind me of my hubby and I. Awwwwwww...thinking about getting them if they are still there for Valentines Day.

We found a cat toy and the cat came out to investigate. This siamese cat was preggos....she was cautious of everyone but she liked me....she could sense I am a cat person. :)

I want this! The owner of the antiques was there finally, I have wanted this for over a year! And she said it was not for sale this whole time.But she mentioned she may be going out of business. So I left my info. I want it soooooooooo bad. This is a JCP size 10 industrial dress form from the Garment District in California. She bought it for $250, So I am hoping She contacts me soon.

I am in love with this mini collection above. These are Mystic Topaz. See the ring in the center? I want this ring as a wedding ring. My husband and I now, we have been married for almost a year and a half and we have rings now (spinner silver rings) but I want this. I love all the colors that are hidden inside. It is an enigma and reminds me of colors of the stars and universe. (enter geek moment) I would love this whole collection...one day.

I didntget anything on this trip "Antiquing", but Matthias found a toy and I gave in. I am glad he had such a good time. I want to have these fun memories with him while he is young before he grows up and doesnt wanna be around mom. hahaha

I hope you enjoyed our trip :) Do any of you like to go to Antique Stores? What treasures do you find?

Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Unknown quotes 

The 8th Year

Today, 8 years ago, I gave birth to my beautiful daughter Arabella.  I know what I am about to say is cliche and is said alot in regards to children- but I dont care! I cant believe how fast time has flown by. Last year, I remember baking her a topsy turvy cake and decorating it all crazy with candy and fondant!

Arabella is an amazing lil girl who I swear is a mini me. Everyday, she does something that makes me bust out laughing. Her imagination and stories are so creative. She is growing into a fabulous young girl.

This year,we celebrated her birthday throughout the whole weekend. We went to Planet Pizza by the oceanfront which was yummy. None of us had eaten there before, I loved all the images and art on the walls. We played it lowkey and took the kids to the REC center for swimming yesterday. We ordered a strawberry icecream cake from Cold Stone Creamery. Oh and thanks to my friend from work who had shared her birthday Icecream cupcakes with me, I grabbed a 6 pack of those too from Cold Stone. And they were soooo good. Arabella never had an Icecream cake before and she was soooo excited.

To add more fun to the day, my dad treated her to Build-A-bear to add another stuffed animal to the collection. We treated Matthias to getting a new bear too..well, he picked a fox this time. We ate dinner, opened present and she finally got her Easy Bake Oven that she has been begging for.

She baked us so many desserts. Red velvet cupcakes, brownies and icing. We went to Micheals craft store and I bought a few things to decorate her oven with ( and dont worry, I made sure that they wouldnt catch on fire) hahahaha

I am too tired to upload more photos as it is 130am and I have work tomorrow or today I should say. This week is gonna be soooooo busy because some of the team is heading out to the Halloween Expo Trade Show in Houston to prepare and show our new products. I will be helping them all prep even though I will not be going, but will help make sure they all have everything they need!

I will try to blog more about everything else I have been up to. Just been busy! Thanks for stopping by! You dont know how much it means to me that I have so many viewers everyday! Thank you!

<3 Cecilia

Dear SOPA and PIPA, I hate you. The End

I do not like politics. At all. One of the reasons I got out of the US ARMY is because of politics. I normally dont get involved or get myself worked up over it unless of course it directly affects me. Like many of you today who get on the internet daily, I am sure you are well aware of this PIPA and SOPA bill that congress is trying to pass.

Today, well not that it is past midnight, the strike is over, I tried to blackout my site and now have remived my image accidently. but that is not important as I am about to revamp my whole site anyways. I may also be switching from blogger to wordpress but I am not sure.

To go back to the topic, I signed countless petitions today to help bring awareness that these two laws should not be passed. This affects so many businesses and sites online. The biggest ones that come to mind are Google, Youtube, Blogger, I mean I could go on.

This affects me personally because I love blogging about all sorts of things from clothing, to makeup to entertainers, music. I write about inspiration and how I am creative. Any reviews or any music I use in videos or in blogs can be blocked, taken down and sued for infringement.

This could cause some serious reactions. Wednesday was a day to protest, and I know I am a lil late since I worked all day, but I had to share this. Check out the link below.




The video above discusses the Senate version of the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In the Senate the bill is called the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). SOPA has gotten more attention than PIPA because it was moving faster in the legislative process. But PIPA is just as dangerous, and now it is moving faster.
PIPA would give the government new powers to block Americans' access websites that corporations don't like. The bill lets corporations and the US government censor entire websites and cut sites off from advertising, payments and donations.
This legislation will stifle free speech and innovation, and even threaten popular web services like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.
The bill is scheduled for a test vote in the Senate on Jan. 24th: We need to act now to let our lawmakers know just how terrible it is. Will you fill out the form above to ask your lawmakers to oppose the legislation and support a filibuster?



http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/artists
http://sopastrike.com/#how-to-strike
http://americancensorship.org/
http://bloggingbestdancecrew.blogspot.com/2012/01/sopapipa-awareness.html

So many other bloggers and online businesses are doing the same-helping to stop this and protesting.

Just wanted to help pass this along!

Staying Dry

I wish I could post some of the images from the underwater photoshoot we had with Xotic Eyes, but I cant get those proofs, but I do have this one image of our two models having a lil too much fun on set.

I have been collaborating on many shoots with Dana lately which I am loving. Its nice to find a photographer that you work well with. :) I get along with most people in general, but you know, Im still thankful I work with some cool people.

I didnt of course, get a chance to shoot a quick behind the scenes photo of my first model, Maggie, whose boyfriend, Chris, I knew from like 12 years ago growing up. Its such a small world sometimes. Here is a quick snapshot she wanted me to take of the two them while taking a break from shooting. They are so cute!

My second model, Krystal came in, and Dana wanted to do a more Avant Garde look with bright colors such as blue, yellow and green. Weeks ago I bought the Maybelline 24 hour tattoo eyeshadows for my first shoot with Dana, and since then I bought all the colors that they made. They work so perfect. Here are a few behind the scenes of Krystal's makeup (taken courtesy of my friend, Jackie, who came along to see what type of makeup I use so she can do these fun shoots too)

Using Maybelline 14 hour lipstick

Using Sinful Lip Gloss I got on sale from Walgreens for a dollar!

The finished look before getting underwater.

Lately I have been maing funny faces whenever a camera is near me on shoots. hahaha I get so awkward when I am in front of a camera....except when I am at home and pretending to be cute and sexy. hahahah

Thanks to Jackie for taking these pics and posting them so I can actually use them. Jackie just recently started a blog and a youtube channel. Swing by her page and say hello! Follow this link here

Thanks for stopping by! I want to write more, but I am wiped out and I have a full day of work tomorrow. :) Nighty Nighty my Sweet Surrender Family!