Hangover in Vegas?

We were recently in las Vegas for the Olympia, staying at our favorite place – the hard rock hotel.
After a long and scorching hot shoot in the desert, we pull up to our hotel and guess who’s just standing there?

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Illustrations galore!

Check out my newest illustrations!

My girlies :)

Me with Lori Fabrizio and Sarah Scotford at Paul Buceta’s Annual Caribbean Pool Party.

Just so you know, Lori and Sarah are, amongst many things, incredible makeup artists. If you want killer makeup and hair – be sure to contact one of us.

XO

i love drawing!

Recently, I found myself going back to my roots – drawing. Little did I know I would embark on a new career. Hello world, I am now an illustrator.

I love the simplicity of drawing – how a line can instantaneously turn into a little piece of beautiful art.

I am now officially illustrating for Oxygen magazine on a monthly basis. Keep a look out for the illustrated exercise routines and let me know what you think!

XO

Trish Stratus

What can I say?

Former WWE Diva, original Oxygen cover girl, owner of a gorgeous yoga studio…

I worked with Trish for her most recent Oxygen cover and you know what? She had AMAZING hair.

Happy New Year!!!

Hey my lil dudettes!

I want to wish you all the very best for 2011…health, happiness, success, some good people and yummy food, killer makeup and sexy shoes ;)

Hope you had an amazing NYE…here’s me wishing you a “HAPPY NEW YEAR”!

Its not a great shot, but you get the picture…CHEERS!

xo

Monica Brant

SOOOOOO…long story short. Monica Brant joins the WBFF. Every year at WBFF, Paul Buceta and I shoot a bunch of the WBFF prospects for Oxygen. Monica (and a slew of hot fitness models) shows up at Paul’s studio, we shoot her, she wins WBFF and gets and OXYGEN cover….

I honestly don’t know what to say. SPEECHLESS. It is such an honor to share an Oxygen cover with Monica Brant ‘cuz she’s such a rock star in the fitness industry.

xo

the infamous Sarah Scotford shoot

On the last day of shooting at the pool party this year, Paul, Sarah and I teamed up on an ultra-sexy, very edgy, rock and roll beach shoot.

I give Sarah a killer smoky eye and huge hair; Sarah puts on some sexy pantyhose and strikes a pose; Buceta composes an impossibly beautiful shot…AND the rest is history!

This is hands-down one of my favourite shoots of all-time…

High five, team!

PLAYBOY

OMG!!! Guys!!!

It’s my very first Playboy cover. EVER!

I’m ecstatic!!!! xo

Paul Buceta Pool Party 2010!

What an amazing week! This year 75 (yeah. i know) flew down to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic for a week long photoshoot/networking session.

It was incredible to see everyone break off into groups and start shooting. Models and photographers find each other, set a date and go shoot. You could see at least 4 photo shoots happening on our stretch of beach at any given time.

Paul and I worked every single day and we have some incredible shots to show for it.

Stay tuned!

Lindsay Messina

I was stoked to finally work with Lindsay Messina for Oxygen. This lil’ blonde is the cutest firecracker…with the best New York accent!

I love our cover together!

Summum’s newest cover!

Hey guys!

Check out Summum’s cover featuring WWE’s Maryse Ouellet…

Isn’t it SmOkiN’  HOT ?!?

I’ll take the credit for makeup and hair, but as you can see Maryse barely needs my help. She just works it.

xo

a lil’ baby of a painting study

Sitting around with my best friend, I decided I should be DOING something creative…

So while Hanna was art-ing on her macbook…I grabbed a mini canvas and some paint and doodled this sucker from a photo.

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Brooke Stacey’s Oxygen shoot

A couple of weeks ago, Oxygen had Brooke Stacey in for training routines. I loved doing her makeup and hair, since Brooke has a real ‘southern belle’ beauty about her. The shoot went really well; she was a natural and we got along great.

Despite the overall success of the shoot, I was still pretty surprised to get a  ”Thank You” card from Brooke after the fact. The card included a couple of great photos from our day at Oxygen.

Check ‘em out!

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beauty update

I am completely in love with Make Up Forever’s HD line.

The foundation is like liquid gold. I swear. It makes skin look virtually flawless in photos.

Combine the foundation with Make Up Forever’s primers, powder and HD blush and you’re one step closer to an airbrushed you  ;)

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new sketch

I started drawing. Again.

It’s been YEARS since I drew for fun and have totally forgotten how much fun it is to “doodle.”

With this particular sketch, I played around using pencil crayon…

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summer of rock

I recently concluded that I haven’t been to enough concerts. I decided to take matters into my own hands and buy tickets to some of the main rock shows coming to Toronto.

My sweet summer concert line-up:

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I’m also going to see Lady Gaga with the studio gang.

Oh. and I just got tickets for Aerosmith in August.

ROCK ON!

me in NYC

Here I am…standing in front of the M.E.T in New York.

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Holy windy much? lol.

NYC!!!

Recently, Paul Buceta and I flew down to New York to shoot for Muscle Mag at the New York Pro show.

WHAT an experience! It was my first time in New York and I instantly fell in love. I am going back there immediately.

Here’s what I got to experience:

the subway, the yellow taxi’s, the MET, Times Square, WTC, Brooklyn, $$$ sushi, a $30 tan, lotsa walking, my heart skipping a beat (LOL)

I LOVED: the art, the buildings (the fire escapes!) the people….

ANYWHO. So on our way home, Paul and I got talkin’ about art and creativity and such and he challenged me to paint a painting inspired by my first trip to New York…..hhhhhhmmmmmmmm. toughie. I generally paint hot chicks.

But I thought it out and started looking for random images of what NYC means to me. After gathering a pile of pics, I decided to melt them all together using photoshop

THIS is my sketch for the NYC painting. I’ll keep ya posted.

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Eat Clean :)

How amazing! Look at us…

This is a photo from a clean eating shoot with Tosca Reno

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(L to R) Rachel Burton (stylist), Jennifer Mackeznie (art for clean eating), Alicia Rewega (editor in chief for clean eating), ME, Tosca Reno