Photo Shoot

I love doing Photo Shoots! they are my favorite part of doing hair. I am not the type of hair stylist that likes to take clientelle day in and day out same thing over and over...I like to be way more creative with my talent..! I do that with Photo Shoots. right now I am building up my portfolio with pictures of what I like to do most a variety in all shapes and colors of...beautiful, sexy, curly, spunky, a-line, long,short, hair!! it's sooo fun to have this idea in your head, find a model, pick out the clothes, do the hair, have someone do their makeup the way you want it done and create this picture that you saw in your head. you know all the pictures you see in magazines..adds that are selling jewelery, clothes, purses, etc. those are Photo Shoots...thats what i ultimatly want to be hired out to do...sooo fun, but so much work. it wouldn't seem like it but really, there is hours and hours of work on those models and then an hour or so of shooting the right angle to catch the hair just right, the body language just right and the whole over effect just right. for example: yesterday I did two photo shoots. My first model I put extensions in her hair the night before..that took 2 hours. then yesterday I got to school at 8 AM. her photo shoot was scheduled downtown at 1:45 (should be plenty of time right?) well, one thing I learned from my last photo shoots NOTHING EVER GOES AS PLANNED. So My model finally shows up at 10. I wash her hair blow dry it and get started on the curling..I set it in pin curl pins to set the curls just right and we are out the door at 12 to get her outfit at the mall! (she didn't have time the night before to get it, as planned) But I rocked it...we were in and out of the mall in a half hour with exactly the shoes, shirt, hat and shorts needed. we got back to school at 1 and my brilliant makeup artist had been waiting for 45 minutes to get started (oops) well, I decided to cancel our 1:45 shoot time and take the 3:45 open slot!! which was perfect, we finished makeup and hair at around 3 and we were off...the shoot site was AMAZING!! it was downtown off 4th south and its an old building with amazing graffiti all over it...her photo shoot was out of this world and I am very excited to see them in a few weeks (i'll post them when I get them so you can see). My next photoshoot is scheduled for 6:15, my model for that shoot showed up as I was leaving for my first, so I had my M.A.C. make up artist work on her while I was gone. I got back to school at 4:45. traffic is bad so I need to account for that going back. we were missing a white shirt for her outfit, so we run to the local Genex and can't find a small white shirt anywhere..they were all large and medium (and this model is tiny) so luckily I find one that is hidden by someone that I think was planning on coming back to buy it later (sucker, I got it first) so we end up getting back to school at 5 and i whip out a "Dusti Do" up do in 15 minutes. and we are off!!! ( I'm starving) and we get to the photo shoot where Abby (the most amazing photographer) was wrapping up with the photo shoot before us! luckily time change had happened on Saturday and the sun was still giving us something to work with!! we got done shooting around 6:45 and there you have it...started at 8AM and allmost 12 hours later I will have 2 great pictures for my portfolio!!! I stayed for the next appointment which was for Phil...He's my little brother..I've adopted him. he's my age but...I feel like I am his big sis..he calls me his mom and his conscience, cause I keep him in line !! ( just kidden) but anyways, he's soo soo talented at hair and his model looked ridiculously amazing and his shoot should be in a magazine. it was freezing at this point and we were there till 8...then we all went to my favorite..Litza Pizza downtown, and stuffed ourselves silly, then we headed back to school where I had to clean up and then helped a teacher apply color and lock up the school. I pulled into the drive way at 12AM...LONG DAY!!! but so fun. nate watched the kids in the morning and my mother in law took the day off to help ...(she's my angel). great thing about that day is I got 16 hours in at school and thats 16 hours closer to graduation!!!! ( middle of may I should hit my 2000 hours) and then Im outa there baby!!! so excited!!

Pregnancy SCARE!!

Let me take you back 3 years ago to 2004...my first pregnancy SCARE!! I was training at the Gateway Applebees and as they were training me I got really really dizzy and felt like i was going to faint...went to the bathroom and dry heaved. As I came out of the bathroom my trainer stared at my pail pail face and sent me home. I was so sick I couldn't even drive, so I called Nate, he came quickly to pick me up, as I got into the car he had a big smile on his face..."your pregnant"? the thought hadn't even passed my mind,...( i had just gotten out of a two year marriage where I never even had a pregnancy scare and lets just say..I should have) so volts of terrified electricity zoomed through my allready messed up body and I almost threw up again. Results: TAVIS MURRAY born March 2005. Hailey wasn't a scare...she was planned. this time around I had an IUD placed so that We did not have a baby till atleast 3 years after the last. well it's only been 15 months and here I am... a couple weeks ago I started to feel really really tired and even a little throwy uppy, but i put it off cuz theres no way, I have had this wonderful no period IUD in for over a year now, and that just can't happen. well, i was telling julie my friend at school about this all, and she looks at me, puts her hand on my shoulder and with a somewhat sympathetic voice says "Dusti, you know that IUDs can be knocked out of place"? the same terrifying Volts streamed through my veins faster than any blood in my body and I felt like I had to throw up again. well....here goes...Result: NOT PREGNANT!!!! (hahaha I had you all going) well now you know how I have felt the past 2 weeks of my life. Doctor says IUD is in great and I should be baby free for as long as I want. sigh of relief. cuz let me tell you, we are going to be baby free for atleast 2 years. so...today I slept all DAY, not even kidding couldn't get up and i feel throwy uppy...whats the deal? am I just over doing it? my life is really really over tooo toooo busy , and I don't take my vitamins very well...tell me thats it and that a pee test is just as good as a blood test? plus he checked my uterus out with and ultra sound and I didn't see anything..could you at 2 weeks? I'm trippen myself out here, cuz i usually don't feel this way... unless...no its not so and im going to leave it at that.