i was so honored to see that one of my dear friends, who is like a brother to me....
posted a blog post about me and my situation....
I am so blessed to have amazing friends and people that care about...and that really know my heart....
click here to read it....www.ianruhter.blogspot.com
thank you all for your love and support.....
may your day be filled with joy and love-overflowing.....your friend kandee
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Surprised....
Glaminar Update!!!
Hi Dolls!!!!
here's what I was up til' 5am uploading!!! And aren't you proud of me, I figured out how to add music! ha ha ha ha ha......Youtube makes it real hard for "gurus" or partners to use music.....but I did it! ha ha ha ha...
Here's the scoop....! I am working on more surprises....after glammy meet and greet....some special surprises.....
*We have St. Tropez Mousse Bronzer (my fav!!!!) to give away in to some lucky winners!
*Also Zuca Bags is giving us 1 bag per class to give away!!!! This is huge!!! They are valued at $285.00 each (and this is what I'm traveling with, too!)!!!
*Model-In-A-Bottle to give away! (love this stuff)
and so much more is still being finalized...just don't want to mention it til it's locked in for sure!!!
here's a little video telling you more.....starring yours truly...hee hee hee...
I've got to go back to my huge list of things to get ready......
-make sure sound guy is ready
-find a stage
-confirm sponsors
-confirm secret surprises
-type up hand outs
...and so much more!!!!!! I WANT TO MAKE THIS SO WONDERFUL FOR YOU GUYS!!!!
giant hugs.......the kandiest of them all
Foxy Monday
just be warned that sometimes...the people you see in front of you, on your tv screens....may not have been born that way! I've worked with many make-up artists that have told me, hidden scar stories of some of your favorite stars...from work they had done and the weird ways they've hidden scars!
Megan Fox is a flaming, hot request! So here it is... and yes, it may seem like a lot of make-up, to look "naturally" beautiful...but that's how it goes sometimes.
I would like to shed some "unlfattering" light on the truth of celebrity beauty...
Most celebs have make-up artists that make them look amazing...they wear fake lashes and no one can tell, they can afford fancy "procedures" to look even more flawless...and don't get me started on the photoshop magic done in pictures!
I have so many things I think are wrong with my face....I could write a huge list. And everytime I look at my face, I see all that stuff. But I know, a smile is a smile, no matter what it looks like, it touches peoples hearts.
My teeth went through my lip when I was little, leaving a scar tissue souvenir for me! I have never liked my nose....or my freckles, or my teeth (I was told in an angry little sister fight, that they look like the ends of bones...and it stuck in my head)...and the list goes on....
so here's the videos...you don't need to do all the steps, but I'm just showing them all, as a good teacher would....
I think Megan Fox is beautiful, she looks very old-hollywood-starlet actress, to me...I love all her looks...and I'll be doing more of her looks too!
And remember, Greta Garbo, traveled with her own special light that made her look young and flawless! If only I could find that light! ha ha ha ha
video 1...the flawless foundation
what i used:
laura gellar face spackle (get it at Sephora)
Make-Up Forever HD foundation & HD powder (get Make-Up Forever at Sephora)
Lise Watier Concealer wheel (get it at naimies.com, type in this code for a discount for Kandee Friends:
Lise Watier Concealer wheel (get a discount at www.naimies.com and enter this coupon code:
Coupon Code: KANDEE1C9
Discount From Retail: 10%
Expiration Date: 9/30/2009
MAC shade stick concealer
Tarte Creme Blush Stick in GREEN SIREN
Make-Up Forever Diamond Creme (pearly peach)
(get ready for me without make-up! then is the video on the make-up)
video 1...the flawless foundation
what i used:
laura gellar face spackle (get it at Sephora)
Make-Up Forever HD foundation & HD powder (get Make-Up Forever at Sephora)
Lise Watier Concealer wheel (get it at naimies.com, type in this code for a discount for Kandee Friends:
Lise Watier Concealer wheel (get a discount at www.naimies.com and enter this coupon code:
Coupon Code: KANDEE1C9
Discount From Retail: 10%
Expiration Date: 9/30/2009
MAC shade stick concealer
Tarte Creme Blush Stick in GREEN SIREN
Make-Up Forever Diamond Creme (pearly peach)
(get ready for me without make-up! then is the video on the make-up)
Connie Chung is a new hero!
6:20am
In front of Harrah's Casino in South Lake Tahoe
(a beautiful place that is very familiar to me)...
a RED CARPET went from the front of the hotel to a long white limo...
and guess who got to walk down that red carpet and get into that limo?!?
lil' ol me!
I saw the the tiny, Connie Chung, walking up to the limo...she greeted me with a huge smile, Starbucks in hand, and said, "HI Kandee!!!"....she new my name!
Her tall hubby, Mr. Maury Povich, climbed in the limo after her....as I reached out to introduce myself...he already new my name too....!
We talked about their house in Montana..how I've always thought I wanted a big ranch there...even though I've never even been there..ha ha ha
Connie was the most gracious, kind, friendly, and funny woman! She asked me if it was alright to listen in on the tv show she would be joining...so as not to be rude and interrupt me talking to her. She was so kind, sweet, genuine, and adorable. She made funny faces at me while we were filming...made me laugh...and inspired me.
if I wrote her a letter it would say this:
dear connie,
thank you for showing me the true meaning of being a gracious and kind, successful woman...
you thanked everyone, told them they did great jobs, you treated everyone the same way...and didn't act as if you were too important to be kind and willing to help...
you have inspired me to greatness!
Her face lit up with kindness, she had loving eyes, and you felt her being honestly interested in what you were saying. She included and made everyone feel equally important, from me to the camera man, to the photogaphers...to the man that was working with the celebrity golf tournament there. She made fun of her herself, she made others feel special and important...that is what I always want to do.
At the end of this life....who cares about what you've accomplished...but if you've touched other people, made their hearts feel better...then, and only then are you a success.
She was talking about Walter Cronkite, who was a legend in news...he told her to always be herself. And that is when people really like you....when you are genuinely the you that your heart wants to be, not the you, you think is safe to show the world...but the real you that will shine brightly!
I have more...but it'll have to wait til tomorrow...
I saw the sunrise
I saw a hot air balloon rise up over lake tahoe
I saw the majesty of the mountains hugging the lake and it made me feel small...and I liked it
And I have Connie Chung's phone number in my cell phone...I feel like Oprah or some important person with important person's numbers in my phone! ha ha ha ha
like Where's Waldo.....where's kandee.....click here and hunt me down:
Oh Shoot! (with Ian Ruhter)
Who: Me as the photographee
Ian Ruhter as the super-freshest, master photographer (that made me look pretty)
you can see more shoot photos at www.ianruhter.blogspot.com
John Alvino as the creative director invisionaire
Jordan Thomas as the pro bubble blower on the right
Mark McClanahan as the lighting genius (lighting will make you look great or gross) and master Hello Kitty bubble machine operator
Why:
This shoot is for the "launching", "catapulting", "sparkly explosion", of my new webdazzzler AKA website!!!!
I am so excited to show it to you all...I feel like it's show and tell at school and I hope you all will love it!
This shoot was so fun...I loved all the people that worked on it...I loved the colors....I loved the blue in the background....like the beautiful turquoise sky that's in old cowboy paintings!
Ian Ruhter, is an amazing photographer that sees things in ways you'd never imagine. He has made some of the most moving and captivating images...He made me look pretty in ways that I've never seen a good picture of myself...! I feel so honored to have Ian photograph me, he is going to be one of the most moving, powerful, and brilliant photographers in the world...wait til you see what else he's working on....
We did a little test photo shoot a few weeks ago.....
and I felt super self conscious....that I wold look funny, fat, weird, ugly...not be able to look nice or thin...all the things we hear in our minds every day. And lo and behold.....I looked like all of the things I was concentrating on not looking like! GREAT! I felt horrible as was a little nervous that I would make more ugly looks....
This shoot was a bagillion times better....I felt happy, more confident, and safe in the arms of all the other people there working to do all this work, to make lil' ol' me look good!
I could feel when the self-conscious me would creep up....and the second I said, "I don't care....just have fun..."...then that's when the good pictures happened....
I think it's the same in life...when you are worrying about all the bad things that could happen and feel bad about yourself....it just gives you, unhappy photographs of life....
and when you say, "no i don't care what everyone will think...or say....I will just do what's in my heart...what really feels fun and ME!!!!" That's when the true you comes out to say hello, and shines brighter than anything else....and everyone loves it!
I couldn't wait to show you guys the pictures from the shoot...these are just the funny ones...wait to you see the rest......I really felt pretty...which is what every girl wants....and from a girl who always thinks I look horrible in pictures and picks out all my flaws....the bump on lip, how I smile too big, how I show my gums when I smile that big, to how I don't like my nose, and my teeth...and so on....that's a wonderful feeling...to not just look pretty, but to FEEL pretty!
The feeling is what makes you walk with a little pep in your step! ha ha ha ha
Have the sparkliest, pretty feeling day!!!!
a day in LA
i love sundays...and here's why this one was a favorite....
I went to meet my friend Tessa for breakfast at her friends loft across from where I'm staying with my other friend that was working on a shoot...
I got a free pair of Ashbury (the super cool sunnies, pictured above) sunglasses from her friend Adam, who photographs the sunglasses....
we then had a really fun breakfast....with lots of laughing..my favorite past time...
then we all went to a sample sale up in one of the lofts...as, again, pictured above.....ha ha ha...they had free cupcakes!!!
and picture booths...as seen in the buildings in the background......
then we all went to the Renegade Craft Show in the craft mart building in downtown...please note the extreme heat coming off the hot sidewalk in downtown LA....sweat was rolling down my back.....and I smelled like I should have worn a stick of deodorant around my neck...ha ha ha
it was so fun to be swimming in a sea of creativity....I got a really cool necklace at the craft-bonanza....it says SUPREME from a Cutlass Supreme car sign thing....I'll show you more later....it's AWESOME!
I got a free shirt to go with my free sunglassers.....
and I got a bracelet from my friend...turquoise and black leather!!!! me fav!
I had a great meeting in a Starbucks....
had a yummy burger from the same place i ate breakfast....
had a whole deck of people at the rooftop pool all yell, "good bye KANDEE!!!".....like 30 or 40 people......i felt so cool in that moment!!! hee hee
so long for a moment to that "not-as-popular-as-the-rest" girl in high school....
and with every ounce of my creativity....My heart rejoiced when someone gave me a compliment for my lil' creation of things I found fun to wear, that I bought these super fun leggings...even thought i thought, what if people think they are dumb...and I got more compliments on them than anything else.....
I love when i am brave and I wear and say or do the things that I really want.... or that brings me joy....
today i did:
recap of what I wore...
80's leggins
belt
white tank with orange big shirt from Urban Outfitters
black boots I bought on Melrose (they were $40...but I asked if they'd take $30, after I said to myself, "just ask, what can they say....no?"...and I got what I asked for.....yay!!!!
80's style glasses from Ashbury (model Smokestack Lightning)
and I had cake with one of my favorite people.....to wrap it up....I had berry cake with whipped cream icing....
TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY!!!!
Awesome Weekend!!!!
I huge-gantic thanks to all my precious friends that helped make our first "Glaminars", amazing....
here's a quick recap from the adorable Debbie from San Francisco...and thank you soooooo much for my gifts!!! here's a little sample of the glaminar from Debbie's blog....enjoy this little peek! thanks debbie.....here's a bunch of fun pictures.....
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