I’m such a dork sometimes. I totally spaced on checking in with Lisa for these photos after Lauren’s wedding, and I just noticed them on her blog today! Duhhh, Katie. Anyway, I’m completely geeking out on these photos!! Well done, as always, Lisa.
And Congrats to Lauren! You made a very very beautiful bride and it looks like you had a fantastic wedding! 
It’s been a LOOONNG time since I posted a wedding. I am a crappy blogger fo’ sho’. 
However I am back in the game, and I just HAD to post this wedding ASAP!
Clare is one of the most easy-going, fun fun fun brides I’ve had ever. She is SO full of life and love and that just radiates from her every pore. You can’t NOT smile around Clare. When I did her engagement portrait makeup she went for a natural look, which is great for e-pics since the focus is on the couple, not on the makeup or the bride individually. But when I arrived at Chateau Bellevue and she sat down in the makeup chair, she was ready for something more interesting and fun! So we took inspiration from her very colorfully tropical bouquet and did a look with bright pinks, purples, and corals. Voila! A gorgeous late spring look for a gorgeous bride!
Congrats Clare and Ramsay!! (and thanks Eric Von L. of Studio 563 for the stellar photos!!)
Best wedding shoes…EVER!!
Due to popular request, I’ve decided to start offering some makeup how-to seminars at our Urban Wedding Divas Studio on East 6th! We’ll likely run the seminars starting later this year, but I wanted to get some feedback from clients, customers, and friends as to what you’d be most interested in learning. So, please cast your votes!! The topic that receives the most votes will become the first seminar, the topic that recieves the second most votes will be the next seminar, and so on. Thanks a million for your input!!
Hi everyone! It’s been a while. Things have been crazy in the makeup world. Lots of big changes happening here at Modern Muse Makeup! Let’s start from the begining, shall we?
So, first thing’s first. MMM has finally put some roots down here in the ATX! We are proud to announce that we have relocated out of our 100 square feet of home-office space in Cedar Park to 600 glorious square feet of real live studio space in East Austin! We are now located at 2235 East 6th Street Suite 104 in the beautiful ESTE building. We are also pleased as pink lip gloss to share the studio with Austin’s Wonder Women of photograpy, Lisa Woods of Now and Then Photography, Shannon Cunningham Photography, and Sherry Hammonds Photography. Collectively we are known as Urban Wedding Divas! Check us out on Facebook!
Now, you’ll notice I’m saying “We” a lot…that is because MMM is now a three person makeup team! I’ll be posting more on this shortly, including staff introductions and bios. For now, let me just say that having two more gals to hang out with and play with makeup all day has got to be the most fun I’ve had ever with this job – as if my job could get any better!
Lastly, there is another reason for all the “we” talk. In December I (Katie) found out that I’m going to have a baby! It was the best Christmas present ever. I am due September 1, 2009, which means I’ll be unavailable for weddings and events between the end of August and the beginning of November. However, I will still happily book you with one of my team members, Bonnie or Kristen. You can also arrange to have a trial with one or all of us prior to your wedding date. We’ll be glad to help you out!
So with all that said, thanks to my loyal readers who have been patiently waiting for me to update this blog, and please visit soon for details on all the new happenings here at MMM. There are a few events coming up soon so stay tuned!
Katie (and Baby!)
Happy Holidays everyone! I hope you are enjoying our wonderfuly cool weather!
Just a quick like to let everyone know that I’m offering $10 off holiday makeup services – so now’s the time to book a session for that special party or gathering for which you’d love to look extra glam! I’ve even got a couple of awesome holiday signature looks I’ve been developing to go perfectly with that new sparkly holiday outfit. The holidays are a great time to play with a fun new look that you’d never normally try, so book now and save!
…since I posted recent work. So, here are some awesome photos of beautiful ladies I did over the summer and so far this fall. Stunning! Gosh, I love my job!
The lovely Emily… who I adore because she is like THE SWEETEST person in the world. In the world, y’all. And she and her fiancee Jordan are so perfect together – you can really tell that they are in love, love, love! Both are ridiculously attractive people. Just look:
And, just Emily:
I actually tagged along for this shoot. both Emily and Lisa were very patient and tolerant of me as I fumbled around with my camera and asked all sorts of silly photo-related questions! I have not edited the pics yet (Photoshop/Lightroom are HARD!) but I can’t wait to see what I got!
Another fun client I had recently was Melissa. I did her sister Amanda’s wedding a few months ago, and so I was THRILLED to hang out with these gals again! They are just beautiful so it makes putting makeup on them VERY easy. Melissa was photographed by Sherry Hammonds. I’ve not had the pleasure of meeting Sherry in person yet, but I’m already obsessed with her work! Take a look at these:
Doesn’t she look like a model??
And here’s Jennifer – I love that Jennifer decided to let me go a little bolder on her lips that a lot of gals do…brighter, bolder lips can really be beautiful! Check her out, courtesy of Pam Hults:
I seriously don’t think I could get any luckier when it comes to my job. I work with beautiful people every single day. Supermodels have nothing on these ladies!!
Yep, a client and I once ate the bacon from the very same pig, many many moons ago.
How is it possible that I know this for a fact, you ask? Well the short version of the story is this – Once upon a time in the tiny town of Cut-And-Shoot, Texas lived a young man named Billy, who happens to be my cousin. (Yes, everyone has a little backwoods country in their family!) Billy and the rest of his brothers participated in the famous Montgomery County Fair every year. They raised all manner of livestock on their land to show at the fair, but the pigs were the prizes of the bunch. My cousins usually won prizes for their fantastic show pigs…and then we would bid the pigs farewell only to meet them again shortly on our breakfast plate.
The Fair was a big deal – my family and I would drive to Cut-And-Shoot, stay at the farm with my aunt, uncle, and cousins, and attend the fair. Of course, Cousin Billy’s long-time girlfriend was always there for just about every big family occasion, so it wouldn’t be too long after the fair when we’d all sit down to break bread together in one of Aunt Barbara’s big country breakfasts and enjoy whichever prize hog got slaughtered that spring.
Fast forward about 15 years – a lovely gal by the name of Amy hires me to do her makeup for her wedding. As we are talking over her wedding preparations, she mentions she’s from Conroe (about 6 miles from Cut-And-Shoot). I reply that I think she’s probably familiar with Cut-And-Shoot, where my cousins were from. “I dated a boy from Cut-And-Shoot all during high school!” she says. Of course I’m thinking, what are the odds? But I say, “You and cousin Billy are about the same age…” and she interrupts and says “Billy P—-??” We both freak out. Amy was the very same girlfriend that spent every holiday, birthday, New Years Eve, soccer game, and County Fair bounty with us all those years! How crazy is that???
So, courtesy of Brad Helgerson of Rewrites Media, here is the link to the video of me doing Amy’s wedding makeup and her telling the story of how, once upon a time, we ate the same pig.
Kerne Bride Prep from Bradley Helgerson on Vimeo.
Just a note, the first 3 minutes are the bride and me doing her makeup. The vid is actually about 6 minutes long and the last half is the groom Dane, but feel free to watch all the way thorough and check out Brad’s work!
It’s been a long while since I’ve done an engagement portrait makeup session. Quite honestly I think I like engagement sessions better than bridals because everyone is always so chill and happy. You’re still in that blissfull “I’m having fun planning my wedding” stage and not yet to the “I’m going insane planning my wedding which is in 60 days OMG 60 days!!” stage. Oh how I remember those days all too well. But Jill was still chill even at less than 60 days out!
Anyway, I met up with Jill (Deron in tow) at the Ikea-worthy home of the fabulous Lisa Woods for makeup, coffee, and conversation. Deron entertained us with chit chat while I worked. (He and Jill are quite possibly the only two other people on this earth that know where Okmulgee, Oklahoma is, aside from myself, my friend Brooke, and the 12 residents of Okmulgee. And maybe a few people in Tulsa.) It was great to chat with some fellow Oklahoma lovers.
Jill was a dear and pretty much let me do whatever I wanted on her. I chose a really cool toned look for her. We used Mary Kay’s new Mineral Eyeshadow in Granite as an accent color and polished her off with a coat of Dusty Pink lip liner, Sweet Nectar lipstick, and a coat of Pink Diamonds lip gloss. Cool and natural! Now, get a load of her eyelashes!! Those are not fakes, people – Jills eyes are the real deal!
Congrats Jill and Deron! Looking forward to your wedding!
Um, yeah that is BEFORE lengthening thickening mascara. Hello lashes!
And after mascara. (as a side note let me just say that it is really too bad that makeup can’t do anything about the enormity of my schnoz.
Three keys to my survival at 9am: Mineral foundation, the Treo, and Starbucks.
The happy couple!
Sting stole Beauty Blender’s logo, or Beauty Blender stole Sting’s logo? You decide.
