Introductions...

Hello, and welcome!! My name is Lauren Pedigo, or Lolo as my instructor affectionately calls me. I'm 24 years old and I attend Douglas J Aveda Institute in East Lansing, MI where I study esthiology. I started in November of 2010.
Next week is a very big week for my educationally. It's the week where I start taking what I've learned and apply it in the spa, working on customers, doing facials and what not.
A few weeks ago I saw a poster in the break-room at school for a contest called Beacon. I remember that Liza entered the contest when she went here last year and I model for her portfolio. I already really want to build my make-up portfolio, but this gives me an even better excuse to hustle with it. The deadline is March 1st I believe? I can totally make this work.
Since I already wanted to build my make-up portfolio I posted an ad on Craigslist for a photographer who wants to do the same. I got an overwhelming number of responses. Out of them all I really like two of them. One is a woman named Heather who generally does weddings, engagement, trash the dress shoots and so on. The other one I have not yet met in person, but he seems very promising.
So I met Heather the other day for the first time at Biggby's coffee here in East Lansing. Her work is lovely and professional. We discussed what I want to gain from this partnership and what we could do together business wise. She said it would be nice to have an on-call make-up artist for clients that would like that, and I personally love the idea!! I also told her about Beacon and what it's about, when the deadline is and such. She said she would be more then happy to help me with that! I'm so excited.
So my homework for the week-end is to contact all of my modely looking friends, see what days work for them and what days work for Heather and me and try to get everyone together in one day. It will be easier on Heather and myself if we just cranked it out in one setting.
My other assignment is to experiment with make-up more. I have been wanting to hot glue my eyebrows down to see how well and smooth it will look. It's a trick I've always wanted to try :)
Well I must take my leave and get ready for work at David's Bridal, then school from 5-10.
::SIGH:: I just want to play with my new make-up palette all day :(