My uber stylish friend Radio Rose who’s a stylist in NYC posted the music video of singer/songwriter Shyvonne’s newest hit *DAMN* on her Face Book page. My jaw dropped I was PUMPED! I loved the makeup, the clothes, the energy, all of it  and said I have got to interview her for LM, I know our readers will love her so here it is!Peep the interview Love & Lipstick…

In case you didn’t know Shyvonne from NY  is making her mark and I’m loving everything about her!

The look is around the way girl swag!

Makeup and hair boldly on point

Her voice  is butter!

Tell the people who you are and where you’re from?
Shyvonne, singer/songwriter from NY.

Are you more of a singer/rapper or a little bit of both?

Definitely a singer. I only rap when I freestyle with friends (and yes I can spit lol) but only for fun. I love music, and I am a singer in every way.

I loved your song “Second Chances”, who are some of your musical influences?

Thanks, that’s a little bit of a throw back. “Second chances” was produced by Melo X, and its def one of my favorites but I tend to only perform it with live band. I have so many musical influences, I’m really all over the place.  From Robin S and 90s house music, to
Adele, Beyonce, Cee-lo, NERD, Kelis. The list goes on…

The video of your new single “DAMN” is crazy hot! What’s the inspiration behind the track?

I was recording a song with producer Kingdom one day and I had messed up and said “damn”. When we listened to the playback I was like wow that sounds like a song. Kingdom then did his thing and looped the word, and made the track. On the way home from the studio that night, I saw a cutie on the train and that was the inspiration for the song. I wanted to have a female empowering song that encouraged woman to go get what they want! DAMN!

Your looks in video for “DAMN” are so fun, and “around the way girl”! How much does the role of makeup and hair play when it comes to your “Look”?

Anyone who says makeup and hair doesn’t play much into their look is lying lol. Its one of the many great things (although also at times frustrating) about being a woman. I express myself through my hair a lot. I change the color very often, and my stylist Paul Lodge has been amazing at dealing with my hair ADD lol. As for makeup I’m lucky enough to have an amazing makeup artist as my sister, Renee Sanganoo. I tend to be a little simpler with my makeup because I do the most with my hair. But a bright lip, long black wing, and bronzer is always essential, and she always knows how to make me look my best. So that combined with Radio Rose who styled the video, we have lots of colors, and fun accessories.  I wanted the video to feel real, to feel NY, to feel like us, and to me it definitely does.

What’s one thing people always notice when they meet you?

People are always like wow your hair is _____. Lol as if I didn’t know it was a normal color. But I don’t mind, it comes with the territory of having had every color hair in the rainbow, definately a conversation starter.

If given the opportunity to be a makeup artist for a day who would you want to makeover and why?

Oh man that’s a hard one. I’m a firm believer in to each his or her own, and just being confident and making it your own. I’m just gonna leave my answer as that for now lol…..

When audiences come out to your shows what can they expect from Shyvonne?

Tonight  Lipstick Mixtapes is  doing an interview LIVE yes LIVE with Orlando’s #1 Leader in Cutting-Edge Entertainment Orlando Live Streaming. We will be talking with host Peter Murphy about Spring/Summer Beauty trends for 2011. The show is filmed at downtown Orlando’s most Stylish Gallery City Arts Factory and goes LIVE at 10pm. So click on Orlando Live Streaming around 9:50 pm to make sure you catch the whole show and see us dishing out Spring /Summer Beauty and fashion tips!

Love & Lipstick

So here I am getting dressed for what I would consider an important dinner, I’m meeting my bf’s closest friends for the 1st time. Of course I want them to like me, I’m already nervous and I just want them to see me in all of my fierce glory with beauty and brains, lol. I do my hair, I get dressed in my best, I grab my makeup box, open it and I think for about 3 seconds my brain went about as blank as what was in that box. I HAD NOTHING!!  I’m a Makeup Artist… I HAD NOTHING!!! Since I have so much makeup I like to keep things organized for when I do jobs and I realized at that moment instead of grabbing my personal makeup kit before I left home, I took the kit that had nothing but all lipsticks and blushes!!! Now that doesn’t seem so bad right?? HA! I HAD NO BRUSHES, NO EYELINER, NO MASCARA… I DIDN’T HAVE THE PRODUCTS I USE TO MAKE ME LOOK LIKE ME!

I had a 2 minute freak out session in my bf’s bathroom and then I went into auto pilot, after all I wasn’t about to be defeated. I lucked up and had my foundation in my purse, which even Safia Michelle would tell you is rare for me. I was in total MAKE IT WORK MODE. I turned my fingers into brushes and those blushes into eye shadows! I contoured my cheeks with bronzer, rolled some tissue up to apply highlighters and blush to my skin and cheeks. I used a q-tip to smudge a old discontinued blush I had into my lash line and the only mascara I had was BLUE! Ha, chile boo I made that thang work! 10 mins and a hot flash later I looked great, and I also changed my point on view on makeup application. Being put in uncomfortable situations forces us to fight or flee, so what you got??? And the boy didn’t even know I had a makeup meltdown! #GIRLPOWER!

Here’s what I used:

Lipstick Mixtapes x CultureClimax from Culture Climax on Vimeo.

The Wait is over, the wait is over, the wait is over! The first Lipstick Mixtapes makeup video is finally here and we are so excited! For months we having been hearing do a makeup video, and I never was really interested until a sweet young lady by the name of Mandie B said Safia, “Lipstick Mixtapes should do a makeup video”, and just like timing is everything we were finally willing and ready! The Culture Climax production team was great to work with Vanessa, Arielle and, Miss Mandie B directed us thru the process like PRO’s. Somebody hit Vanessa’s car that night but frazzled she was not she came to the set and put us into action, while Arielle was moving furniture, positioning us for the camera, and Mandie B was cranking out the questions as great host and and interviewer. You all are truly “The BEST”!

The Crew: CultureClimax.com
The Model: Imani K. Simmons
The Look: Spring/Summer Makeup 2011

*behind the scenes