EVOLUCIÓN

Hello all you lovelies.

I trust you are well and doing good things with your lives?

A very dear friend of mine (we go back 17 years) her my housemate and a friend of her’s made this animation (using the camera on a mobile phone!) It’s 1 minute long. They are trying to make the world a cleaner/ better/ more sustainable place.

I was really blown away by this little stop animation they put together. It’s simple yet effective. Although it is in Spanish, it speaks a universal language of truth. Go check it out. Pass it on. VOTE for it if you like.

[http://tuminutosostenible.fundacioncanal.es/Video/Evolucion,221.html]

Have a happy, healthy, green day!

peace.

Inspired, I am

Whilst catching up on admin and perusing the interweb, I came across some makeups that made me feel inspired…

I love being inspired.

Over the past week, I have been very inspired…mostly by the people I have been privileged enough to have worked with, namely:
Fiona Waddell, Mary Gouveia, Mike Ordye, Alice (Max Models), Latisha Duarte and last, but not least Bryan Little.
Its been a truly amazing week filled with inspiration!!

I hope you week is filled with it too <3


By ismael blanco, image from Trendland


By Sylvia Dell’ Orto, image from Trendland

Hair Course with Merle Titus

MUKUP Creative in cahoots with the fabulous Merle Titus will be hosting a 8 part hair course.

The course begins on February 2, 2010 and will run for the month on a Tuesday and Thursday evening. Classes are 3 hours each. The course cost is R2 500.00.

If you are interested in attending this course, please contact Khandiz as space is limited.

x

Fathers

Ok, so it’s no where near Fathers Day, but I think its about time we take a moment and think about them, these fathers of ours…

Now, I don’t know what your relationship is like with your father. He may been the man that deserves the ‘Best Father in the World Award’. He may be a fireman, a businessman, a preacher, a DIY guy, the stay-at-home husband kind, or just a sperm donor? So what ever he his - good or bad, lets take a moment and be thankful that he is one half of the reason you are here (reading this blog)!

My father is a thinker, a problem solver and a scholar of light and dark. I have been spending some time with my father lately (which is obviously the inspiration for this post). It has been an enlightening experience - excuse the pun! (the majority of our conversations these days are lengthly talks about fermions and bosons and dark matter, in lay persons terms its about astrophysics.)

Although we don’t always take the same thinking path to reach our mutual conclusions, and we fight a battle or two along the way, I am learning to see the light in the darkness. I am learning that they way he reacts to things is simply a mechanism of protection, because he too, is a simply sensitive guy. And we are more alike than we know!

If I have a problem - he is my go-to-guy. Sure, battles are fought, but we fight on the same side of the war at the end of the day.
If you open a dictionary, he is not the picture you will see next to “father” - but who saids thats a bad thing? My dad has afforded me many things in my life. He is a very big part of the reason I am who I am today (whether by defiance or acceptance). He is who he is. He is my father, and I love him! He is one half of the reason I am here today (writing this post).

Once upon a time, A (free) neutron shuddered and shaked in a moment of dark matter set free two little bits of a magic - a proton and an electron. And together they took over the universe. From darkness comes light…

I know most of you are going “What the hell?” That’s ok because this is not about my unconventional analogies of my relationship with my father, its about your conclusions with yours. Take some time today and think of a your dad and how he affects your story.

x

Happenings

I am really glad that my new years resolution was not to write on this blog everyday! I would have failed dismally already. So, I am writing now and trust that it suffices. Season is in full swing and lots has been happening since my last post.

I shot a beautiful story with an English photographer named Mark Newton, and the delightful Chrisna de Bruyn (stylist). Really looking forward to seeing the end result. www.marknewton.com / www.chrisnadebruyn.com The models were of course gorgeous, which always helps!

Regarding MUKUP Creative, I have had about five calls in the past two days about artists joining the books. So I am really looking forward to meeting them and possibly representing them. Our current creative’s have been working hard on a variety of projects since the start of the new year.

Merle Titus - The ever fabulous - will be running a hair styling course for the creative’s during February 2010.

Imagination is more important than knowledge…” Albert Einstein

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Ok, ok, so I know I’m a couple of days late with my well wishes to all of you - and know it was not because I was all partied out. I was WORKING! So I will take this opportunity to wish all of you a truly wonderful year filled with colour and magic, love and light.

A few good words to embrace the new year:
“Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.” - Brooks Atkinson

change is as good as a holiday, and there is no time like the present!

I trust you are having a healthy, happy festive season! I certainly have. Now lets get down to the title of this latest post… If you have not noticed by now that our website has had a “wee ‘ol” revamp, well, then you must be blind or male - you know the kind that don’t notice when your girlfriend has cut her long dark hair off and dyed it pink![apologies to the exception to this rule!]

Well, I am over the moon, with my plate and my spoon (sorry, simply could not resist). In fact, I cut my holiday short so I could get cracking on this major overhaul, and this is my present to all of you (and to me).

Please peruse the new site. Feedback and comments are most welcome. Lots more exciting stuff happening very soon, so keep posted!

Love and light. xxx

love zuca

I am on a never-ending quest to find the “ultimate” make-up box. I finally found it!

When I was in London earlier this year, my mom (my personal shopper) came home to tell me she had seen the best make-up case in the world. Im sure I dismissed it a little as I had set my sites on another case that I could not get my hands on, but, being the shopaholics we are, she got me down there…and low and behold!! THE BEST MAKE-UP CASE IN THE WORLD!!

I have used this little guy all over the show, and recently took it to Mauritius for a job. It doubles up as a chair too…so when Unit is being usless and gives me those back-breakers, I can just pop my cast member on my super ZUCA, and hey presto, Im a happy camper.

I LOVE MY ZUCA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pleased to announce

I am delighted to announce to very exciting developments to MUKUP: MUKUP Creative and Mukup Cosmetics.

MUKUP Creative now represents Quimaine Fourie (Assistant) and Talia Barak (for stills).

Watch this space for more details.

Peace. x

Filing Season

I have been up since the early hours this morning sorting through all the files and folders on my computer. My new computer. My teeny tiny teeny weeny computer.

There is nothing like a good “decluttering-session” to get the head ready for a busy season. And yes folks, I do believe it will be a busy one…

Whilst sorting through my referencing files filled with delightful pictures of made-up faces in a multituide of hues, I continued to reference for the up-coming season’s latest make-up/hair trends.
Here are some of my favourite for Spring/Summer 2009:
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Who says blank aint cheerful?

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It’s all about the roses…

10423_145090952698_89851962698_2513975_1459472_n.jpg A little splash of colour goes a long way!

softsmokydetail.jpg (Smashbox)
Bronzed is…BRONZED.

Now I’m off to go declutter the closet!

Enjoy
Kx.