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MOONJUICE Presents INSPIRE 2010 - A Dinner Benefiting the YWCA Charity

MOONJUICE Presents INSPIRE 2010 - A Dinner Benefiting the YWCA Charity

Nav Sidhu is a wonderful makeup artist who was in my training class at Blanche Macdonald. We both completed the masters makeup artist diploma in August 2009 and are now working in the wonderful world of makeup. I would speak to Nav on occasion and knew that she was recovering from injury and taking time off work for a little while. It wasnt long before I heard from her again. She was back in action and well on the way to recover. She was contacting me to ask if I would like to help her do makeup for a charity event that her friends had organised.

The charity was the YWCA, http://www.ywcavan.org/index.php and the event being organised by the workers of a clothing company named MOONJUICE. Prior to the event I asked Manay Chima, the main organiser of the event, to give me some information so I knew who I was supporting and why.

Manay Chima - "I own a clothing company called MoonJuice. We had a charity fundraiser for the YWCA in 2008 where we had almost 200 guests arrive at the Starlight Casino to raise funds to help fund the amazing programs the Y has to help single moms. We raised over $4000 in one night! We went into business wanting to help less fortunate women. This year due to "life" getting in the way...we put a hold on buying new stock and pushing MoonJuice but we wanted to still start the year by helping the "Y" women. What we are doing with this event is selling tickets for $40 which covers a buffet meal and "makeovers" for 5 abused/single moms who are unable to ahead with their careers due to financial and emotional troubles. This is where your support really means a lot. The YWCA does an amazing job helping the women on the inside while we wanted to make these women feel beautiful on the outside"

I of course jumped at the opportunity to work this wonderful event and before I knew it I was back stage of the Starlight Casino in New Westminster doing makeup on 3 lovely ladies, dancing and having fun with them all at the same time.

The lucky ladies had the opportunity to be pampered all evening receiving new hair cuts, colours and styles, beautiful makeovers, a new wardrobe and a big stage reveal to end the evening. What more could a lady ask for. What a transformation and beautiful end result. A big congratulations to all volunteers involved in this event.

Raja Kalsi has also written a blog to which I am featured in - http://www.rajakalsi.com/?p=679 - check it out!

Raja Kalsi Photography - www.rajakalsi.com
Nav Sidhu Makeup Artist
Lounge Hair Studio
MOONJUICE
and more...

Faye Smith
Makeup & Hair Artist
Vancouver, BC, Canada
7787883552
www.modelmayhem.com/FayeSmithMakeUpArtist
Twitter - FayeSmithMAKEUP

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Artist's Review on Vancouver Makeup Artists Beauty Lovers FIRST MEETUP

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Artist's Review on the first meetup of Vancouver Makeup Artists Beauty Lovers

Vancouver Makeup Artists and Beauty Lovers is a group that has recently been opened and organised using www.meetup.com. Myself and a wonderful and kind man named Constantin Rotariu organised the event in order to bring makeup artists in Vancouver together to exchange networking tips, advise and more. The group can be found at http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Makeup-Artists-Beauty-Lovers/ and I would advise any student, post grad or experienced makeup artist to join the group and begin attending our meetings. Even if you havn't gone into a makeup course yet but are perhaps thinking about it, this group will be amazingly useful and beneficial to you.

Our first meetup was held last night, 30th March 2010, at a stunning restaurant and lounge named Townhouse on Alberni and Burrard in Downtown Vancouver. The meetup location may be visually appealing but the music sound levels were what I would consider to be too high for a serious meeting to take place. We will be searching for a new, more suitable location for our second meeting. For our first meetup we were expecting around 20 people to show. Unfortunately only 6 showed up, 2 of which were makeup artists. This lead me to the decision to hold off my speech until the next meeting where hopefully we will have a whole lot more artists in the audience to listen to the words of advise I have to give.

To those of you who missed this first meetup, it is a huge shame. We were lucky enough to have Sandi Lesueur from Makeup Artist Magazine, http://www.makeupmag.com/, come along to give out free copies of the latest issue, enter us into a prize draw to win a weekend ticket to the IMATS and give us some useful contacts and words of advise. Myself and fellow makeup artist, Dina Koop were the only artists there to benefit from Sandi's visit.

The meetup was certainly worth while and appreciated. I will be making a facebook group for the next event to spread awareness so look out for it!

Faye Smith
Makeup & Hair Artist
7787883552
fmsmith@live.co.uk
www.modelmayhem.com/FayeSmithMakeUpArtist
Twitter - FayeSmithMAKEUP