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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Vicki and Tom are getting married!!

Tomorrow two of our very good friends Vicki and Tom are going to enter into life as a married couple. Over the past year we have seen how much they love and care for each other. Maggie and I are very excited to be able to share and photograph their wedding day.

to check out some of the photos of the engagement shoot click here :)

Make sure to keep checking in for the wedding photos......

Wine Tasting

“Each year, Future Professionals from Paul Mitchell Schools across the country team up to “FUNraise” for charitable organizations. With grassroots, dollar-by-dollar events like cut-a-thons, fashion shows, bake sales, and “Casual for a Cause” days, they’ve raised over $4.6 million to build homes for needy families, feed hungry kids, and support the victims of AIDS, cancer, homelessness, hurricanes, abuse, and more.” The North Haven Academy Paul Mitchell Partner School located in North Haven, CT, has been raising money for charitable organizations through Cut-a-thons, Walk-a-thons, and Wine Tastings among other fundraising events. The donation from all of the fundraisers will be contributed to several organization to read more about which charities the Paul Mitchell Schools are supporting this year and what your money can do to help someone else in need visit the website http://www.paulmitchellschoolsfunraising.org/charities .

With that said, Jay and I have had the privilege to photograph a few of the recent events. One of which was the Wine Tasting

The ladies rocking out at the raffle table

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Some of the amazing food!

The amazing wine guy

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result”.

To see more pictures from the wine tasting event among others go to www.facebook.com/jasonandmaggie

Sheridan and Vanessa's Boudoir Session

Jay and I wanted to try our hand at boudoir photography and see what we could come up with and were extremely fortunate to be able to work with two very fabulous ladies Sheridan Nicole and Vanessa Destiny. We also were lucky to have Nicole Ziobo doing hair and Tiffany Hall-Scarmana rocking out the make up. All of these ladies really helped bring this shoot to life and we all had a ton of fun. So as always without further ado lets get to the pictures!

First up is Ms. Sheridan Nicole! For Sheridan we did much more of a casual boudoir session. With a mix of sexy jeans, booty shorts, a Giants jersey, and some other fun elements.

So in prepping for this shoot Jay and I made a couple of purchases like that of these pink curtains. I really loved how the shots came out and both of our models really rocked the curtains. So here is Sheridan with the curtains!

And here is Vanessa working the curtains!

As you can see Vanessa had a different look that was not as casual as Sheridan's. But no matter what style you like, or what your comfort level is in front of the camera we can format a boudoir shoot for you!! Now after that shameless plug, here is Vanessa being "Sasha Fierce" as our makeup artist for this shoot Tiffany would say!

We also bought a bright red back drop for the shoot and Vanessa totally rocked it out! Here is one of her close ups in front of the back drop.

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Thank you to everyone involved in this shoot you all did fabulous and we really can’t wait to work with you all again!

Models: Sheridan Nicole, Vanessa Destiny
Hair: Nicole Ziobo --> www.EXCLUSIVELYNICOLE.com
Make up: Tiffany Hall-Scarmana --> www.tiffanyhallbeauty.com

Jen Z's Photo Shoot

Jen, Jen, Jen what else can I say! This chick totally rocked it. But let me rewind back around January we offered a contest to the NHAPMPS evening class and well Jen WON!!!! So what did she get:

• 1 hour of shooting time with Jay and Me and our awesome assistant Frankie!!


• 5 edited images for her to start building her portfolio


• And of course an all around fun time!!!

So without further ado our fun shoot with Jen and her models!!!

Jen’s first model Lizzie

Another one of Lizzie

Check out Jen’s cousin

Now check out this cool rocker chick who just might be Jen!!

Okay so even though these aren’t her zebra shears they worked for the shot and she totally rocked it!

So if anyone needs some hair styling, cut, color, highlighting go check her out at the North Haven Academy Paul Mitchell Partner School!!!!!

Jen, we truly want to thank you for an awesome time. Hopefully you had as much fun as we did! We look forward to working with you again in the near future!!

<3 Maggie and Jay (oh and Frankie says Hi too!!!)

NHAPMPS style a model assignment

A few weeks ago Jay had the opportunity to take some pictures of some students at the North Haven Academy Paul Mitchell Partner School’s talent. The assignment was for the students to style a model and participate in a photo shoot. Here are some of the results of that assignment.

One of my fave shots!

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Until next time, Maggie & Jay

Mother's Day Special 2011

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Meet Ellerie

A few days ago we had the pleasure of meeting and photographing Ellerie. She is a beautiful little girl and has some totally awsome accessories.

Look at that face! What a cutie

Look at that smile

So much personality

Look at the pretty shoes!!!

Chilling on the couch!

This little outfit is actually what Ellerie was supposed to come home from the hospital in.

She is adorable

Ellerie it was a pleasure meeting you and seeing your family again. I look forward to seeing you again and taking more pictures.

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