It's time for another speed edit! This image is from the "Punk Princess" shoot of the collaboration I am currently working on with Mystic Myne Jewelry. Over the next month and a half, we’ll be sharing each of the crowns in the collection, along with fun behind the scenes content detailing the creation of each of these shoots. I’ve prepared fun material like speed edits, before and afters, vlog updates, and access to the full set of images from each shoot (I’ll only be sharing a a couple images from each shoot with my Instagram and Facebook followers)! For each [...]

Today I'm sharing part two of the behind the scenes material from the Sinister Siren shoot, and today it's a vlog detailing how I created the costume featured in this piece! In case you missed Tuesday's post: I'm excited to (finally) officially be announcing my second collaboration with Mystic Myne Jewelry to release her latest Villains Collection of crystal crowns! Over the next month and a half, we'll be sharing each of the crowns in the collection, along with fun behind the scenes content detailing the creation of each of these shoots. I've prepared fun material like speed edits, before [...]

There’s been a trend on social media lately towards the authentic. I think this is happening because for a lot of us, we could feel the humanity disappearing from our feeds. Like everything had become staged for the perfect cinematic production instead of the honest happenings of our lives.   Over the past few years, I’ll admit that I too started to fall into this trap of perfection. Sharing only the staged images with captions that made me sound like some perfectly poised artist living a fairytale life. And a few months ago, it all caught up with me. I [...]

It was my birthday a few days ago! TWENTY. NINE! As I was driving home with Hoki the evening of my birthday, I kept thinking to myself that 29 felt... scary. It’s the first time in my life I’ve felt that on a birthday. Usually I’m filled with a combination of optimism and (more recently) relief that the previous year was over. But unlike 24 - 27, 28 was an absolutely wonderful year! So many good, rewarding things happened and I have absolutely zero regrets about any of the big decisions I made these last twelve months. So just like [...]

I was thinking the other day about how much I’ve changed and grown since I was a teenager. (Funny how time does that to you).   When I was in high school, I MASSIVELY struggled with self-confidence. Some combination of shyness and perfectionism made it really hard for me to ever be satisfied with my work and too timid to be able to share anything less than perfect. Obviously that’s not a good combination, and because of it, I never shared my talents and I never put myself out there, which is a shame. A huge shame. But I don’t [...]