I absolutely loved last night first episode of  NBC’s Fashion Star! This is truly a designers dream, the designers have a opportunity to show their designs directly to the buyers  on stage  and designers either offer them thousands of dollars to buy the pieces or a straight up “No Offer” . With a grand prize  of a lifetime – $6,000,000 in orders for capsule collections in Macy’s, H&M and Saks Fifth Avenue stores, this is definitely different from all the other fashion designer reality shows this one gets straight to the point I love it! The panel of mentors are  trendy designers Jessica Simpson, John Vavartos and Nicole Richie and the  buyers from H&M, Macy’s and Saks 5th Avenue are diverse and they are looking for the next great brand to sell in their stores . This is truly the business side of  what it means to be a  designer, it’s wonderful ! This is artist dream come true!

Maybeline is the official makeup sponsor  and Suave  is the hair sponsor. Last nights looks were fresh and trendy and I thought the models looked great! The models that walked for Sarah Parrot were my favorite, her designs were bought by H&M super trendy, colorful a fashionitas dream, I would definitely wear her  designs.

Well be sure to watch the show which will be airing Tuesdays nights 10 O’clock on NBC.

Here’s what I had to say on Vogue Italia’s website (” ART making ridicule of culture,lifestyle again Who in Italy cares about this anyway, couldn’t the creative team come up with something dare i say creative instead of bringing more ridicule and negative depiction to someones lifestyle. Although this is in the pages of a magazine, it’s girls around my way that really do look like this #notcool “)

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How did everyone like last night’s Grammy Awards? I was so excited to watch the show and overall there were some really awesome moments like Bruno Mars opening performance. I really didn’t know he was that popular sorry I’ve been sleep on him but now I know. But for real lets get to the real reason why I’m here 3 things makeup, fashion and glamour!

Almost everyone looked  amazing, I chose  3 artist from each category and I’m starting with ADELE for the Winner of Best Makeup…

ADELE, she looked  beautiful, I know everyone is saying that , but seriously from a makeup artist perspective, that face was painted and girlfriend looked GOOD! I love the vintage inspired look rich red lip and light sultry eye and that contoured cheek was the greatest, you go ADELE .Honestly I’ve seen her in this look so many times and, I wouldn’t mind seeing her in something different, but for the Grammy Awards this was the perfect choice #winning

Fashion was interesting but I’ve come to expect the extremes and the cookie cutter safe taste of most artist . So the winner of Best Fashion goes to  RIHANNA

That dress is  BODY honey and she looked sexy as all get out and I just want that dress so bad!

And lastly the winner for Best overall Glamour goes to the lovely Carrie Underwood

Anyone that does a duet with Tony Bennett has to be certified Glamorous and Carrie looks stunning. Her makeup is flawless, and the lashes she’s wearing screams I am a glamour girl!

And no show would be complete without a what the hell moment and it goes to Niki Minaj I’m so mad I just can’t even get into anymore take a look and the rest is history…

There you have it my makeup, fashion, and glamour update from the 54th Grammy Awards.

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Last week in Orlando the  popular reality TV show Master of the Mix made it’s final stop in  our beautiful city and it brought out everyone ! Orlando’s very own Dj M-Squared is one of  the shows finalist and all of the  creative and most stylish crowd  came out  in full effect Saturday night to support him and to show how we do it down here! Can I tell you I was so proud,  just about everyone represented well! Makeup, Fashion and Glamor was on point, just about everyone  we  snapped looked great,  there were just a few that missed the memo and the mirror, #imjustsaying. So peep the pics and see how the  young, fashionable  and fabulous crowd represented !

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This was one of my fav couples of the night. Their looks compliment each other to a T!   Her natural makeup  and hair look is perfect giving her  girly Bohemian chic look sexy sophiscatin and style.

These ladies are so on point! Natural Hair was in full effect! I love the color blocking on Miss Thang to the right, and her earrings! I die! Major cute. Both of these ladies brought their accessories game! I  absolutely love the fact that they got  made up, I see color on the lips which is this seasons trend, so many girls rock nudes which is great, but it nice to see a  colorful lip to  compliment  the outfits.

The mens! Yes Honey, they donned the wife beaters and baseball caps and grown man style was in full effect. #REFRESHING. The sweaters and button downs are  working for them,  I did a double take. I love how my man on the right went with color. Traditionally most guys opt for black, but these men embraced new mens style which is adding color, texture, and shape to the ensemble and they did well!

Girls, girls, Girls! This bunch is  absolutely adorable and sexy! I love the array of colors, everyone looks like they belong, they all represented well! Take note this is what LM is all about Makeup, Fashion, and Glamour and they did that!

He’s just  FINE!

Photos by Ben Stitzer

Dana of OPP is so fast! ; D

Thank you to Brink Mag as always for the awesome support

Other People’s Property for hot outfits for the guys and the girls!

Jessica Castro whom I can now add to my list of favorite photographers

Sarah doing GREAT things with hair,

and the models, can’t forget the models, without models there would be no images ha!

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Today’s Feature Friday goes to two ladies LM  enjoys working with so much, Nicole Mitchem photography and Tina Jackson of Style Attic! We started early  and boy did we start off well! Mrs. Jackson was not only the one styling the shoot, she was the model in FRONT of the camera! Yes she held it down doing new bio and promo pics for her site which is coming soon! When I tell you there is nothing better than a stylist, styling themselves there is NOTHING better! Every single thing she wore was friggin HOT! I didn’t take to many pics because they are so epic, I don’t want to spoil the surprise but these 2 here are certified bangers. I  could see  see myself wearing this  so I had to twit pic . My BB pics do the blue ensemble no justice but believe me when i say it was on point.

Throughout  the shoot we did beautiful clean natural makeup, natural eye and lip, which was perfect for  her, she has the most beautiful big eyes which is a makeup artist dream but I chose to keep it simple. As  for the last look I brought the eye color up! I added a  purple-bluish looking  loose eyeshadow and a slightly thicker  black eyeliner and a soft lavender  lip, ummmm gorgeous! I did choose to  mostly play up her skin, Tina has beautiful skin so I  used my new highlighter pen form MAC  in Bright Forecast and a old beauty powder called Brunette. Since  we were outside most of the day I wanted to keep the skin luminous and not work against nature because so that glow you see is all Tina’s  , she  looked AMAZING!

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!

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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