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Generally around October I start to pace my floors and pray that I make it through hiatus to see the New Year. Winter Hiatus in LA is no joke! Nobody works, it’s absolutely terrible. Between Thanksgiving and New Years eve god help you. My first one in LA was nearly lethal and not of the Mel Gibson Chris Tucker variety.
This year worked out really well. Aside picking up new clients I revisited old projects. During mid December I worked on my 2nd episode of CSI NY. I wore a blue wig and looked like something out of tron. Alison Brown was the director and she was lovely. My hair guy was the fist TV hair guy I ever had when I used to work on the show Numb3rs. He specializes in strange color and hair pieces. Met some awesome new girls on the show and ran into a few I had worked with before.
In addition too a HUGE project I’m filming right now that I cant talk about. It’s will be stellar and I cant wait for everybody to see it.

In October the episode Fat Girl, Skinny Girl aired of The Doctors. This was my first leap into daytime TV and let me tell you they work for their Emmy’s over there!

A couple days before the show taped I went to a different studio to film my interstitial interview. My assistant Steven Kaufmann came along to handle my wardrobe choices and be there for moral support. They did a standing interview and a b roll pose loop. With extra emphasis on my nails, shoes and out fit.  It was much quicker than I anticipated.  When they played this during the show my face looked way shiny, for the record it wasn’t.

The day of the taping of the actual show was a bit more involved.  Arrived at the Paramount lot parked and the golf cart was unavailable which didn’t suit as I had to walk all the way to stage 30 with my hair in rollers.  Upon arrival a PA took me to my green room.  I was sharing with another girl as there was a panel of 14 women.  They hung my wardrobe and I was quickly visited by the 2nd 2nd for paper work.  After video and written release I was quickly sent to make up. After make up was hair where I ran into my hair lady i worked with on Franklin & Bash. On from hair to a run through with the Co Producer on dialog and camera positions. I ran to get dressed and got miked at the same time.

Being seated for stage went fine, then once the hosts came down things change really quickly. I have never been so frustrated with a TV show in my life. This was nobodies fault but it was absolutely irritating that the whole show came back to the same topic of “what do men like?” Men do not have day time talk shows trying to figure out what ladies like. Anyway, Once I can formulate what I want to say about the on air barb with Teddy who decided to get Jerry Springer with it I will continue with this post.

This was taken from WWW.Fashionista.COM

Here’s a new development in the never ending saga that is France’s apparent disregard for age-appropriateness (or our extreme prudishness and over-sensitivity–depending on your persective): a new line of “loungerie” (that’s lingerie plus loungewear) for girls aged three months and up has just been brought to our attention. It’s called Jours Après Lunes, and it bills itself as “the first designer brand dedicated to ‘loungerie’ for children and teenagers, comprised of loungewear and lingerie to be worn over and under, inside and outside.”

It basically looks like lingerie–with maybe a tad more coverage–and would be totally okay for adults to wear but Jours Après Lunes is producing this stuff for girls ages 4-12 (the “loungerie” for the 3 month – 36 month age range is actually age-appropriate and cute, thankfully), so that mother and daughter can match. According to the site, the designer has a long background in designing lingerie (for grown ups) and she’s designed a “femme” collection for the over-tween set.

What’s disturbing about Jours Après Lunes is not just the fact that it’s lingerie for people who probably shouldn’t be old enough to even know what lingerie is, but the photographs on their website. The little “filles” are styled like grown women with Amy Winehouse hair, sunglasses and pearls and there are a few instances of Thylane Blondeau-esque seductive gazing and reclining poses.

We now know what Thylane Blondeau’s mother was talking about when she said her daughter’s French Vogue spread wasn’t that bad–at least Thylane was fully clothed!

Despite being more age-appropriate, even the photographs for the “femme” collection are unsettling. The way the young-looking model is posed with that sunglasses-wearing teddy bear–she’s made to look like a child, while the actual children are made to look like adults.

What do you think? Should four-year-olds be hanging out in bras and panties…with nothing over them…with pearls? Is there any context in which that makes sense?

Take a look at the collection.

My thoughts on this.  I have zero issues with the composition of this campaign.  I don’t think this girl feels very sexy, I think she’s just feeling like she has ” big girl stuff”  I don’t see anything sexy here, maybe if you do you’re looking in the wrong place.  If I was a 6 year old again this stuff would have been way nicer to wear then then licensed character underwear out of a plastic pack at target.  Let the kids have their cutesy stuff if they want it.  Some little girls can tell the difference from the target stuff and the nice stuff.  People are missing that women don’t really dress for men they dress in what they like.  McQueen Armadillo heels are an item some people would kick their grandma to be able to wear and I highly doubt men like amradillo heels.  The reason a four year old wants a bra is because kids want what ever they see.  As for the styling maybe more kids should have hair styles, not cheap $10 hair cuts from because their parents don’t think its worth it to keep up their child’s hair.

For some reason these days everybody uses the word model as such a loose term.

Everybody that is able to operate the camera on their cell phone is a “Model”.  Why is this, I really want to know?  It seems that everybody except working models has no clue what the difintion of model is.  The people who do porn, escort, girls on myspace, GWC’s excetera NOT MODELS, nasty hair, skin and ghetto nails…. not a model….. never made a pay check from modeling…. not a model… beauty pageants…not modeling

I found this article on fashionista .com

Its really easy to say “oh that person just relies on looks.” If you think modeling, entertainment or fashion is a easy job you have obviously never experienced any of the above. So to combat those who judge or just plain hate try this line. “Your little 8 dollar an hour job must be easy because your time isn’t worth very much$”.  Bottom line this isn’t glamorous. Like I’ve always said I love my career more than words but its not as fun as it looks.  Everybody has a rough go at things at one point or another.  Some people have it rough forever or usually just as long as they have their head up their ass.
I reassess my direction and priorities on a weekly and monthly basis. Being able to adapt to that it is key. Make note in writing of what your trying to do and the steps to get there IN DETAIL!  I cannot stress enough how important it is to write out specific things that need to be done to get you where you need to be.  An actual plan of action,  not just a heading but a footing as well.  When a couple months pass review your old notes and see what ideas you made a reality.   It really helps keep a perspective of what is going on.  I always forget what things I’ve done and sometimes I need a reminder of where I was and where I am.  Sometimes its just looking at my resume or thinking about “I remember when I didn’t think that was possible but now its old news”.  Keep things moving everyday. Get up and attack.

Last week my good friend Eddie Barojas called to ask me to do a belly flop on the Jimmy Kimmel show which thank god is not actually live.  At first I wasn’t very into the idea because drawing attention to my belly on national tv didn’t sound flattering.  However, my love of days that make for good stories IE blogging material; worked on overcoming my belly flopping fears.

We were supposed to be there at 6 for paper work and jumping by 7.  The jumping by 7 didn’t go as planned.  There were at least 14 people that they were going to have jump.  Which didn’t happen there were 6 at best. Of course Edddie won and was dubbed the “Micheal Jordan of belly flopping” by Jimmy Kimmel.  His trophy that Kara Dioguardi gave him for his high score for 26 belly flopping points was amazing.  Eddie had no idea who she was.    After a few test runs of standing on the platform that was very high off the pool and not jumping they finally told me to jump.  What you didn’t see was that the pool was only 4 feet deep with a 5 foot drop.  If you did anything but belly flop you would hit the bottom of the pool and maybe hurt yourself.  For future reference belly flopping hurts your nose the most.  My sinuses were unhappy for almost 2 days.  There really is no graceful recovery from a belly flop you’re just forced to own the flop.  My boob did jump out of my suit in case anybody wanted to know.  All in all good experience one of those things I did for the sake of being adventurous.

Rachel Mullins and Eddie Barojas at Jimmy Kimmel Live

Work Out from Quake on Vimeo.

Last week I danced on the new video Work Out for J Cole.  It was a long shoot but the best crafty that I have had on a video.  However, the night catering wasn’t very good.  Drake showed up just to hang out for a few hours towards the end of the shoot.  He didn’t do anything about the icky catering.  I wore a blue dress and heels that I had worn to the BET awards 2 years ago.  The girls who worked on this video were hands own the best group of videos girls I have ever worked with.  They were all loads of fun. Jake Davis directed and most of the crew were females.  On rare occasion are there female crew members that are not in the beauty departments.  Made for a nice change of pace over dirty, furry crew guys who make bad jokes and ask stupid questions.  Kerri whose last name I don’t know but is kind of my hero because she is an executive producer on a lot of projects.  She really kept this shoot moving by yelling at the 1st AD to get his shit moving so we didn’t need to extend our permit.  J Cole had his homies at the shoot and they were great sports on the long hours.  They had lots of questions on how these things come together.

Yes we called the guy with the mouse Jesus hehe

WTF THEY SHOT TWO VIDEOS

This video was posted on Vevo

At the world famous muscle beach stages in Venice beach I walked in the Dominque Ansari  fashion show.  BET 106 & Park has a talent show every year around the country called Blaze the Stage.  There was acts going on all day, two of which were fashion shows.  Our hair and make up team did a great job keeping our looks intact while on a windy beach.  I was really glad I packed lots of clothes because it was cold in the morning and hot in the evening.  We did have a serious gawker problem.  A random man with a camera came into my make up tent ad started taking pictures inside my face.  He truly didn’t think that it would be a bother for him to be in the way and take pictures he didn’t have permission to take.  Always tell gawkers off if they are acting out of line tell them.  You don’t need to have unnecessary people in your work environment.

BET 106 & Park Blaze the Stage Runway Show Venice Beach, CA