Archive for April, 2010

The “I Dos” of Wedding Make-Up – Guest Blogger Jen Opkea Returns

| April 15th, 2010 | No Comments »

The fabulous Jen Opkea is back!  You may remember her from the Brow 101 article she wrote for us a while back.  This time Jen shares her tips for achieving your best wedding look. The “I Dos” of Wedding Make-Up So, you want to look like the most beautiful version of yourself when heading down the wedding aisle, right? Here are some tips on what to do from the neck up to prep for your big day. Build a Portfolio. Start collecting magazine pages of make-up looks that appeal to you.   This will help you identify your style and give your artist a vision of how you want to look on your wedding day. Keep it Timeless. Your wedding day is not the occasion for you to rock a make-up trend. You would hate to look back at your photos and wonder: “what was I thinking?” Nothing about your

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Strawberry Road, meet Strawberry Road. A story…

| April 1st, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The name Strawberry Road is an amalgam.  It’s a blending of Abbey Road and Strawberry Fields.  Pretty simple, but it means a lot to us.  We don’t know the etymology of how a storied racehorse from Australia got the same name, but we were thrilled at the potential of the cross-branding of our work with the successes of this equine wunderkind! When the first google alert for ‘Strawberry Road’ revealed the existence of this fabulous horse, we immediately booked a flight (Qantas of course) for Australia to meet with the horse’s owner. We jetted out to LAX to pick up our Qantas connection.  We got on the luxurious 747 and strapped in for the umpteen hour flight over the pacific.  Somewhere between Hawaii and Australia, our plane crashed into an island.  There was a whole cast of characters on the plane with us and a bunch already on the island:

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