Beacon Honorable Mention

So a while back Jay and I did a photo shoot at the North Haven Academy Paul Mitchell Partner School for some of the students that were interested in entering the Beacon Competition. “Beacon is produced by the Professional Beauty Association (PBA), a non-profit trade association. Led by industry volunteers, PBA represents the interests of the professional beauty industry from manufacturers and distributors to salons and spas. PBA started the Beacon program to help young salon/spa innovators gain an early understanding of the business side of the industry.” Even the actual process of entering Beacon is designed to help students really evolve into professionals. Students are required to submit a professional portfolio as a part of the application process which as much of you probably know is something that everyone needs to not only impress potential clients, but to really WOW future employers.

Anyways it is our great pleasure to announce that two of the students that we had the opportunity to work with have received HONORABLE MENTION!!!!!! Seriously how incredibly awesome is that.

So we wanted to take a minute to give a huge shout out to those amazing ladies.

Congratulations on your achievement!

And because you know we would never leave you hanging here are the models, and photos that won honorable mention!!!

Chelsea Morgan who really did an awesome job doing up the girls hair

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Kristyn Ceruti who rocked the guys hair!

Again Congratulations ladies on your amazing achievement. You girls rocked it!

<3 Maggie and Jay

Side Show

So a few months back I started my last semester in college. Ahhhhh it feels good to say that!! A requirement of being a studio art major at Southern is to put on a Senior Show Photo exhibition. So Maggie and I sat and pondered about ideas to do as a theme for the show. With all this in mind I reminded myself that it’s the things like this that allow us to push our creativity to the next level and stay in front of the pack.

Personal work is super important to grow as a artist and a person. It allows us to build new relationships and open new doors. We are blessed to be able to meet new people and with each shoot there is a new starting point. With a top notch team of hair stylists, make-up artists, and friends/models we had a great time.

After determining that we were going to do the circus theme, research began. Most of the inspiration came from looking at old circus photos and side show banners. Maggie put together an awesome inspiration board that everyone worked from and we were all on the same page.

So without further ado

The Tattooed Woman

Sword Swallower

Check out the fortune teller!

The Harlequin

The Knife Thrower

And the Ring Master

A special thanks to everyone that participated and helped make this shoot everything I could have hoped for.

MUA: Tiffany Hall

Hair: Nicole Ziobo

Models: Sheridan Nicole, Vanessa Destiny, Kari, Julianne, Mikey, Jen Z, and Jamie J.

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Kayla's Sweet 16

A few weekends ago Jay and I had the pleasure to spend some time hanging out with a truly awesome 16 year old. Ms. Kayla is a very fun, unique and awesome young lady who by the way had a killer outfit for her birthday! If you don’t believe me check it out for your self!!

Seriously what an awesome outfit!!! The outfit was actually from Atiana's Boutique And the yellow shoes seriously… loving it!!

What’s a party without the staff and the staff at the Country House Restaurant totally rocked the party!

Happy Birthday Kayla!!! Ps the cupcakes were awesome!!!!!!!!!

Having some fun and dancing the night away!

Having some fun in the photobooth!

Oh yea we joined in on the photobooth fun!

Yep, yep we totally joined in on the action and rocked it out in the photobooth! We also want to give a huge shout out to Jess C. who rocked the photobooth for Kayla's birthday! Thank you so much for coming and hanging out with us for the evening!

Kayla it was such a pleasure being able to spend time with you and your friends and family! I hope you enjoyed your day as much as we did.

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And to see even more check out on 5/9/2011 jasonhenriques.com and click on proofing