22 Days Left!

Last week, we launched our IndieGogo Project and so far have raised $235. We have been pushing it across all social media and to all our friends and family. I appreciate everyone that has donated, and even if we do not meet our goal, the money will still be put away until we reach our goal! We have 22 days left, so please take a look at our campaign to the link on the right hand side! Anything you contribute even if it is $5 will help because it all adds up.
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Here is some more images of our work so you can see what all we do and why we want a studio- so we have a creative space to be well, creative haha.
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I wanted to share our inspiration for our studio. We want to create a very artsy, laid back studio where it looks and feels like a barbershop/tattoo studio but it is for us girls, where we do hair, nails and body paint! These images were found on pinterest and serve as our inspiration for our studio! This will give you an idea of what we are trying to do.
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So there is a glimpse of what we would like to do in the Hampton Roads Area.
Please check out our indiegogo project and contribute what you can, or share it to everyone you know!!!! Help support local artists/stylists!
Thank you so much!

Indiegogo LahCia Studios Campaign

After what seems like forever……we finally got it organized and we have launched our Indiegogo crowd funding project!
You can check out our page here at indiegogo.
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We signed our lease and are gearing up to start our build out! Here is where you come in, we are trying to avoid having a huge overhead and be able to hit the ground running, so of course we have more time to work on our crafts! We are offering an array of perks in exchange for your contribution to our salon. Here is your chance to help real people with a real dream and you get to be apart of it!
Here are our smaller perks that you can purchase:
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We have many other custom perks to include artwork, tattoo designs, wood burnings, services at the salon and membership cards!
We will be updating the campaign frequently so please stay tuned. If you cant afford to donate anything, that’s ok, all we ask is that you share our campaign with your friends and family in hopes that they would like to contribute to our studio!
Thank you for your support!
xoxox, Cia

April Showers

Hello my beautiful readers! It’s April, can you believe it? March has gone by so fast and it seemed like everything picked up so fast that I am still catching my breath. I have been doing so much in between drawing, painting, face and body painting and now in the works of opening up a studio, I haven’t had much time to blog. Yesterday I took a day to myself and did nothing but watch redbox movings and lay in bed. Hey, we all need days like that don’t we?
I wanted to share with you some of the things I have been up to.
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A couple weeks ago, I took my daughter and brother to go see our brother perform with his band Full Fledge at the Norva here in Norfolk. Can you believe how bog she is getting? I cant believe I get to be her mom. How lucky am I? It was her first concert and she had so much fun because she looks up to her big uncle.
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I am so proud of my lil brother and his band to play at The Norva. I know they are gonna do big things!
I also got a chance to facepaint for a SYSCO Event at the Virginia Beach Convention Center for their spring product review. Since my mom is a culinary student, she was also at the event so it was pretty cool to see her there!
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I also got to see my friend Mandy who actually I used to work with at Xotic Eyes and she put in the good word for me to become a facepainter with Magical Solutions Inc, which is who I get some of these jobs through. She is a silk aerialist, hoop dancer and flame performer. Oh and did I mention she also does suspensions. I always love seeing her and cant wait to work with her during the summer.
One of the photographers that was there for my brother’s band at the Norva asked me to be the MUA for a last minute photoshoot and of course I’m down to work, especially with friends!
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This was a lot of fun to do. I haven’t done beauty photoshoots in a while so it was nice to switch it up from all the other things I am doing. You can check out the photog, Kevin Watkins for his work and contact info! He is very fun and professional to work with, so if you are in the area looking for a photog, I def recommend him!
This past Sunday was a very busy day! And it prolly deserves a full post by itself, but here is a sneak peek which if you follow my Instagram (sweetsurrenderart)  you may have already seen a few images. I will do a proper post on it tomorrow.
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I will post more on that tomorrow, so stayed tuned! Thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog. I really appreciate all my readers!
XOXOXO, Cecilia
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