HUSH HUSH - Chambray is HERE! POLITIX

Where is the final sequel to the Bombshell shoot you ask? 

Well you see I love to hold the suspense & kill you slowly ..... haha not really!!! Well I am ensuring that the photos go through a very thorough photoshop and detailing process, and they will be ready to be launched about tomorrow! So rest assured they will be out TOMORROW!!!! YAY

For today, I decided to put up some photos of my chambray metallic shirt that I wore to my bestie's VIP HUSH HUSH B'day Party! I had bought the shirt from melbourne for a discounted price of $69 from $190! We all know what a good buy that is, seeing how Politix is an expensive brand! But I love me some Politix shirt, they're stylish and they're made to enhance your body! 

So this particular shirt that I'm wearing is chambray, metallic and well tailored! It's gorgeous and it catches the eye as it says "I'm here & I ain't messing around"!!! 

So enjoy the pics! 

GLAMMING UP!!!! - & then enter the lenses, chambray shirt & accessories!!! 

 WALAO! We're all set to go!! Lights/ Camera/ Action!!!! 

Simple yet elegant a color the chambray shirt is!!! You must buy one for yourself!! Hop into your nearest POLITIX store to get your fix today! 

All in All - A PERFECT NIGHT for FASHION/ FUN/ PRESENTS/ DANCING/ FLIRTING! haha, but most importantly, the celebration of Friendship & having each other!!! 

<3 u guys to bits!

ps. My special ring is by Lovisa! It's a great store along Hay St. where you can get all your unique accessories!!!! 

Anyway Have a great day!

& tune in tomorrow for theunveiling of our final part of the Bombshell shoot with our very own Bombshell - Catherine Bardot!

God Bless

-JRF-

Bombshell Shoot Part II: Behind the Scenes

O wow I can't believe the amount of views the BLOG gets these days! Yesterday's views alone topped at 108 from all around the world! 

Brazil, USA, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Trinidad & Tobago & much more! WOW WOW WOW!! A big TQ to all my readers! Without you I am writing to myself! hahaha 

So anyway as promised, here is the follow up to our Bombshell Shoot Sequel inspired by Brigitte Bardot! 

BOMBSHELL Shoot PART II : BEHIND THE SCENES 

(Brigitte Bardot inspired shoot)

with my model: Catherine Gallo Martinez

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Make-Up consisted mainly of Coastal Scenes eye shadow palette/ Maybelline eyeliners & Dior bronzer

The model before the JRF stylings!

JRF with Cath after BB eyeliner & Remy extensions inserted! 

BLOW DRYING & STYLING HAIR TO MAKE FOR A BIG VOLUMINOUS HAIR! ON a side NOTE - Don't you think she looks like Mariah Carey here!!! haha

ALMOST there....an hour later!!!

DID CATH LOOK LIKE THIS IN THE END?????? QUESTIONS EVERYWHERE!!!  

DRESS PUT ON, HAIR STYLED, FINISHING BRONZER & JAWLINE SPLIT! 

Bring on the SHOES by BCBGMAXAZRIA - &69.95

DRESS BY UJENA - $64.95
Accessories - Model's own!

AND WHAT DO WE GET IN THE END?????
Did we succeed in making Catherine look like BBardot???

Now that's the BIG Question!!

& it will be answered......within the "Final Sequel" of this BB shoot! hahahahaha

Stay tuned!

-JRF-

OFF WE WENT TO THE SET!!!!!! LIGHTS / ACTION!!!! 

Bombshell Shoot Part I: Introduction

PREPARE YOURSELF for a shoot that will blow your mind & your socks away! 

This shoot will be presented in 3 segments over 3 posts! 

Bombshell Shoot Part I: Introduction

Bombshell Shoot Part II: Behind the Scenes

Bombshell Shoot Part III: Photo-shoot Spread

I'm so excited to present this shoot on my blog because styling & shooting my bestie Catherine Gallo Martinez on the re-interpretation of Brigitte Bardot has been nothing but AMAZING! 

Who is Brigitte Bardot you ask? See that's why we need an Introduction! Brigitte Anne - Marie Bardot is the famous French model/singer & actor who was catapulted to stardom with her pin-up classic girl look & her tumultuous/ turbulent relationships! 

A very sexy looking lady of the 90s! You know back when a star looked and dressed like a STAR! So anyway laying around with this classic look of sheer elegance with 'buffed' up hair and sharp defined black lined eyes - we created our Bombshell Shoot! 

End of Introduction ...

Part 2 & 3 to follow!

Stay tuned!!! 

We just shot the whole thing today but I can't wait to showcase it because it was that AWESOME!  

However, staying to my word - it will all only be out in sequence till the third post!!! ahahah! Building suspense! 

However, here's a quick sneak preview of Catherine in our modern interpretation of Brigitte Bardot Bombshell shoot! Well more like half a photo! I can't give anything away yet can I? haha

Model = Catherine Gallo Martinez

 JUST LOOK AT THIS Cath - Isn't she gorgeous???

So you want to see the end product?

Stay tuned!

- JRF -

Tonight We Gonna Get ON THE FLOOR!

It was only a matter of time before I wrote about the stylings and beauty of this woman - but what better time to write about her then today, when she was just named People's Choice for Most Beautiful Woman Of the Year 2011!!! 

Who you ask.....?

Let me see....she's been a favourite of ours! Especially with classic songs like. ...WAITING FOR TONIGHT & If You Had My Love!!! Woooooo! And now she's come back better with twins, a stint as the judge on American Idol, her chart-topping hit 'On The Floor'!!!!....still doesn't ring a bell???

OMG 

It's 

JENNY FROM THE BLOCK!!

Jennifer Lopez

or simply known as

J-LO

It's great to see powerful, independent colored women paving the way for generations of women to come! 

JLO is definitely one of them! I fell in love with her way back when she starred in her first movie called 'SELENA' (God Bless Selena's soul)! It's not only her beauty and BOUNTIFUL curves that gets to everyone - it's her HONESTY, her inner beauty and ability to combine brains and substance with her gorgeous face that has made her this year's People's choice! 

From the bronx till today -  it has been a long ride! Who doesn't love a great success story! Owner of her own fragrance, clothing line called JLO and many chart-topping singles under her belt! But let's just revel at her style and her beauty that radiates from within - and applaud the Most Beautiful Woman of 2011!!! 

WHO COULD FORGET THIS DRESS?


Ok ok, close your mouth! You can check out more photos from Google Image!

All in All - a very deserving woman! Congratulations Jenny from the Block!

That's all for today!

And RMBR - Don't be fooled by the Rocks that I got, I'm still JRF from the BLOCK!

& Rmbr Tonight we Gonna Get On THE Floor!

-JRF-

Back to BLACK?

So I know that I haven't blogged in a few days now, but I've been a little busy with interviews and try outs! I just had a trial and interview day with this Fashion House in Perth called Pierucci! It went well and it really gave me time to look through the geniusness of the Pierucci collection. More of that on the next post...for today it's BACK TO BLACK! 

So anyway, I bought the current issue of Vogue about a week ago (the one with Rihanna on the front cover), and was really ecstatic to see a number of black models representing fashion brands and campaigns within the pages! 

Furthermore, I came to find out that Beyonce will grace the cover of the following issue of Vogue! (April) You can only imagine how much I'm itching to buy this issue! 

"Fashion reporters are caught flabbergasted as a black woman is placed on the covers of the fashion bible twice back to back! Is there a wind of change within Anna Wintour?" 

This is actually a huge surprise as black women do not grace the covers of Vogue much! And to hear that it will be back to back makes me, an ethnic person VERY HAPPY!  

However, hearing this news and skimming through the March edition of Vogue, my happiness turn to thoughts and questions of whether black women or ethnic models for that matter, still face the limited opportunities that bind and define the fashion industry! 

This also led me to believe that by having to celebrate the fact that there's a back to back black woman on the cover, already brings to fore the opportunities that are still not available to colored and ethnic models as opposed to Caucasian models! If you see a caucasian model on the cover of a magazine you simply shrug it off and act normal because it's the norm - but it's a celebration when it's an ethnic model on the front cover of some huge fashion magazine! 

The fashion industry has come a long way in accepting and embracing the ethnic look in models, but is it enough? The 'IT' look is still supposedly the long and lean white girl next door! A sad but true fact! If you don't believe me, pick up Vogue or any other fashion magazine for that matter and have a look

We have come TOO far to go back NOW! Black models/ colored models/ ethnic models are gorgeous and really exude a natural beauty that cannot be made up! I think it's something in the air of the country (hahaha) - No No, I lie - or am I? 

That is why many designers are opting for the Brazilian, African-American, African bevy of beauties to represent their brands...but it's not enough in comparison to the rate of equal-opportunity or the population of ethnicity within a country! Classic example - the ratio of black models on covers to the ration of black people in America!!! Nuff said? 

So to all ethnic models keep working hard to put yourself out there! It is only a matter of time till seeing a colored model on the front cover is a thing of the norm! If not for now, you lay the bricks for generations to come to shatter all these differences and stereotypical notions! 

Cheers to ethnicity & Culture! 

Love

 - DA BLACK JRF -

ps. Pris' Hush VIP party was fun HOT fun! I'll release pics of the fashion of the night on my next post! It was indeed a night to remember - it was just one of those days when you dress up, look good & ROCK ROCK ROCK on a Saturday Night ;) Sneak peek =

LOOK AT THAT ASS!! haha

JRF

Don't just FREAKIN CUT my hair!! Style It!

So I didn't have any intention of blogging today - but after yesterday's experience - I told myself I had to for my fans! hahah

So what was so good that I did yesterday? 

But before that, tell me this! Have you ever gone to like 100 different hairstylists and feel like you have to spoon-feed them with everything, and yet  after all that come out frustrated with the result?

O TRUST ME I HAVE! But all that ended when I walked into Latino Hair Studio in Bull Creek Shopping Centre! My hairstylist Fidel Rodriguez hailing from Peru really is the best! All I have to do is sit down, and he tells me what I shloud do for my head shape etc! Now that's a real hairstylist! BUT I will do a special post on Latino Hair Studio very soon! 

Today I want to talk about this other place I came across called MAKASI within the PERTH CBD! (Shop 3, 138 Barrack Street!) - Next to Taka Jap Restaurant! 

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So there I was with my friends Priscilla and Tiffany on the way to the city when I mentioned that my eyebrows were really out of shape and needed some IMMEDIATE attention! The previous stored I had been to were total rip-offs! Charging me 17 dollars just to do a clean-up! STUPID REALLY! BTW meet my two gorgeous friends Tiffany and Priscilla! 

Pretty ain't it? 


So anyway, Priscilla tells me about this place called MAKASI that she had been to before and that's how my day turned around! 

We walk into MAKASI, this quaint store along the busy streets of the the city centre! THE store owner SONIA, hailing from Kenya but being of Indian origins was really nice and sweet. I told her that I wanted my eyebrows SAVED/SHAPED but still have the AU NATURALE finish at the end! 


Oh come on......I mean I love TO groom but not LOOK like I've BEEN GROOMED! right? haha

I sat down and it only took her 10 seconds to thread here and there! My eyes was obviously tearing by then! BTW I will never get use to the threading pain! It is always going to feel like 1000 million ants eating your eyebrows haha! But yet I still do it because it gives a very natural finish as opposed to looking very shaped and touched! 

I was surprised by the 10 minutes - but as soon as I saw the mirror I was like WOW! This lady knows what she's doing! 

She then told me that my copper highlights need to be changed! She said that she can help me repair my hair by removing the copper and restoring it to a BLACK/GREEN tint with Matte Brown highlight! At first I was hesitant, but after talking it over with friends and being tempted by the 75 dollar price, we sat down to get our hair done! She told us each what she thinks would be the best look for us! She brought out the colors told us why it'd suit our face etc! 

My heart leapt for joy the moment I sat on that chair because I knew I was dealing with A STYLIST and not just some person who CUTS HAIR! I love being able to sit and tell the stylist to surprise me! And with SONIA I could do that!

Priscilla - Going for light chocolate brown streaks/ highlights! 

After having the dye cream on, I was so tempted to have this look as the FINISH! haha

Tiffy - going for a full copper finish! 

Work in Progress! You're lucky you get to see this picture! haha

Let me tell you after 4 hours, I was so happy with my result! And even before I could tell Sonia that my hair was thick and needed texturizing, she told me that she's going to texturize my hair for me! Genius? You tell me! 

Tiffy/ Priscilla were also happy with their hair! We 3 looked fabulous in the end! There was a sudden rush in the store, so Sonia put the threading on the house! 

It really felt like a good old time when you can go into a saloon, talk about your life, share, feel at home, and just fully trust the stylist with your hair! The service was second to none! Sonia and her team of stylist moved around well and helped each other out! They were genuinely EXPERTS at their field and I take my hats off to Sonia for running such a cozy saloon! 

SO GUYZ & GALS...what are you waiting for? Run on down to MAKASI and I'm very sure you will be well taken care of & come out looking fabulous! All you have to say is SONIA, my hair NEEDS YOUR HELP!!! And be prepared for some transformations! haha ;) 

The rice range is mid to high! Not too pricy and not too cheap! Just be assured you get your money's worth! There was even a girl who walked in asking the stylist to style her with extensions like Kim Kardashian! And let me tell you, I was blown away! The guy did a great job! 

Here are some MAKASI reviews - ( http://www.truelocal.com.au/business/makasi-for-hair-and-beauty/perth) - just blot out the bad reviews! Trust me you have to be there to believe SONIA's work and hospitality! Nuff said?

- JRF -


ps.1 - You'll see the end result in the next post! I'll be showcasing the fashion within Pris' VIP bday party! Ok Ok I'll at least show you the eyebrows! VAGUELY!!!

ps.2 - Ill see you in 3 weeks Sonia, to get my eyebrows adjusted again! Finally, my eyebrows can breathe a sigh of relieve!