My Glam Studio is a GREAT place to come to try your hair and makeup (a bridal consult), or get bridal makeup done before a portrait! Its also a great place to come and learn makeup application! It's located in Hanover Virginia and is convienant to Lewis Ginter and only 20 Minutes from Maymont park. Both popular portrait locations!
The Glam studio is dressed up in a vintage, shabby Chic style, but this past week I gave her an upgrade STRAIGHT from Hollywood!
I found the PREFECT mirror while searching the internet! Its from a company called Vanity Girl! Now when clients come in they can enjoy a little "Hollywood flair". So the seat is ready right in front of the new mirror! The Glam Studio is waiting for YOU!

Brides Hair and Makeup Face by Joy

I never got the chance to share with you the Rice/Gardner Wedding that we attended BEFORE Easter Break! What a WONDERFUL location and Bridal party!!
There are more photos to come, but I had to share the teasers I got from the Bride! We were at the BEAUTIFUL WINTERHAM Plantation in Amelia! I met Angel Morton, photographer, as you see a sneak peak of some photos below of hers! She is GREAT! Can't wait to get some more stunners!!  It was an all around GREAT time!

brides hair and makeup and most of Bridal party hair and/or makeup FBJ

Joyce setting hair

One rainy Saturday in Richmond VA, did not hold back any Brides! We were thrilled to be able to help one of them at the Jefferson on Saturday! Hair and Makeup among the beauty and splendor of one of Virgina's finest locations! We had a wonderful time with Danielle and her Bridal Party. I can't wait to get the photos back from her photographer! These are just a few from my camera!

working on a side Chignon

Just starting to get her Dress together....

Then Sunday came and the rain dried up and flew away as we drove to Northern Virginia to prepare another Bride and her Bridal Party for her Wedding at the beautiful Glen Gardens in Fredericksburg Virginia!

Just getting an idea of Veil placement before the big ceremony!

Almost done!

This a GREAT time to save on COVERGIRL Mascara.  Let me tell you! They have a new LASH Blast Mascara. Now, its not that I am so in LOVE with the LASH BLAST, but what i am in love with is that it comes in a variety of cool colors!! You don't ALWAYS need to use black!! Especially with my Brides, I tend to shy away from using black mascara. Often times with the suede's and milk chocolates I use in bridal makeup, black is too overpowering! I lean towards using a dark chocolate mascara (which is hard to find). Most of the companies make a "glam brown" -which is still black...and too much. I have a great little Waterproof, Milk Chocolate ( REAL HARD to find) Mascara from Avon, that is very nice and fitting for my Brides that don't like much mascara-and it looks amazing with the lighter tones of brown hues for Weddings. OK, let me get back to my Covergirl...you can pick this up with shades of DARK WINE(Burgundy) which looks AMAZING with Darker Chocolates and Creams with hues of purple, Dark Blues, which highlights Darker Eye Colors and Skin and of course Brown. SO KROGER has an E-Coupon for 3 bucks off, paired with the Covergirl $1.oo off coupon from this past Sunday and you have your self a COOL 4 bucks off to try a different color mascara! Yesterday I Got mine for a cool $2.69! ENJOY! 

As the weekend comes to an end, I am a wee bit tired and ready for a good long slumber! But I will be having little dreams of an incredible weekend in the books! Joyce and I enjoyed working on Weddings Saturday and Sunday, one in Mechanicsville and one in Powhatan at the Mill at Fine Creek. Both Brides and Bridesmaids we amazing and we had so much fun! Here is a little sneak peak with "my camera" from today at The Mill at Fine Creek! BEAUTIFUL PLACE!

Looking for a GREAT product that is well worth the price? Last week I got a bottle of BED HEAD After Party. I started using it with my flyaways in my hair after straightening it, using the product for a smoothing cream and it was an INSTANT LOVE. I have since used it on Wedding updos and styles and even smells good to boot. Its easy to use and smooths for silky, healthy looking hair. Its my favorite hair product right now! Here is the FUN PART! I was in GREAT Clips with my kids getting their hair cut and the woman told me that GREAT CLIPS always has BED HEAD products 2 for $20! So check with your local Great Clips-that's a GREAT price!

My friend Kacie Lynch of Kacie Lynch Photography sent me over a facebook message a few weeks ago and asked me if I would like to be a part of a Vintage style "Trash the Dress" session! I was not sure what a Trash the Dress session really was? Kacie explained to me that it is a photo session post-Wedding where the Bride will get photos done in places she would have NEVER thought about doing before hand since it would surly ruin her dress. Places like under water, in the rain, and so forth. The twist was that she was shooting a vintage style Trash Session! So I would be doing makeup for a vintage style look. In my research I found that women of the 40's loved Glamour and Mascara!
Eye shadow was not so difficult and really just shadowing the crease, avoiding the brow bone, keeping a creamy undertone to almost a fleshy beige color completed the eye shadow. To complete the look it was black liquid eyeliner on the upper lids ,and sweep up to create an arch for that sexy and glamorous touch,  then tons of black mascara for the top lashes. False eyelashes were also used in abundance to give that increased glamour! I also found that women would fill in their eye brows even making them wider and fuller. Topped with Red Lips, the 40's vintage look is a classic modestly sexy starlet, with an innocent attitude in my opinion.
 
Keeping ALL of this in mind I had a GREAT time giving our Bride Emily the "look" she desired!

One of my favorites! I love this!

Over the past several weeks I have had many Bride to Be's come into the Glam Studio with the same compliant. Dry Skin and Scalp. Its that time of year isn't it? With the heat up in our homes and the air outside so cold. Its hard to keep moisture in our skin. I feel so bad for our chapped lips, and eyelids!
I have been on the look out for a great coupon to get myself some facial moisturizer with out spending a fortune. I just wanted a nice day to day lotion to soothe my facial skin this winter. TODAY I found a GREAT coupon!!

What you need to do, is FISH out the PARADE section of your Sunday paper. Cut out the Garnier coupon with $2 bucks off! THEN go to the Target coupon web site to get another $2.00 off Garnier coupon! YES at Target you can USE both!! Meaning you can STACK them!

I scored a NEW Moisture Rescue Refreshing Gel-Cream  full of vitamin E and Grape water extract. *oil Free. The product was on sale for $6.64 - my ($4.00) in coupons= $2.64!  Yep! I paid $2.64 for my new moisturizer!

If you were not looking for a moisturizer, then I would HIGHLY recommend trying the Garnier Nutritioniste Detoxifying Wet Cleansing Towelettes. I use Towelettes everyday to take off makeup and my skin has NEVER, i repeat NEVER looked better in YEARS! I had adult acne BEFORE I started using Cleansing Towlettes. I can thank my beautiful friend LaDaria for that tip! I use most any brand. AND i totally would have gotten the Towlettes and paid a WHOPPING .49 cents for them too(they were 4.49), if I was not looking for a moisturizer!




I can not take all of the credit for finding this little gem. Thanks to the Web site Totally Target, I was able to score a GREAT deal today on Garnier!

Have you ever tried cream blush? Its something that I used to use a while ago and then got away from.  But for my Brides and Bridesmaids its making a come back in my book!

I am lovin' cream blush from MAC!

•  it goes on fabulously over the airbrush foundation
• its sheer
• gives you a hydrated+ glowing+ natural looking cheek

I recently order a MAC creamy lush blush called POSSE. Now when i first got this cream blush I was like..WHOA! its really bright! But after I gently smudged it into my fingers and tapped it just lightly under the cheek bone with a tad on the apple of the cheek it is delightful! I love to top it off with a cream or sheer pink powder blush to give it an added dimension on top of the cheek bone blending it ever so lightly down into the cream. It's utterly BRIDALICIOUS!

AND THAT then brings me to my 4 week upcoming SEGMENT called BRIDALICIOUS! I am going to take you though a 4 week beauty COUNTDOWN. EACH week what YOU should be focusing on just 4 sweet beauty weeks before your Wedding! Starting NEXT WEEK! With "beauty" guests to weigh in on the FUN!! BRIDALICIOUS STARTS SUNDAY NIGHT!

If your a bride and your seeking beauty then you have come to the right place! These are easy finds that you can  use on your wedding day or pre-wedding to get beautified on the cheap!

Remember last week I told you that I was going to FIND that long lasting lip stick on sale from Maybelline? I got it!
So...to be a FBJ BRIDE on a Budget you have to CLIP the beauty coupons each week out of the Sunday circular. Put them into a small pouch and stick them all in your purse. You have to have them at all times! You will need to pull them out when you see things that are on sale or something you see on the blog here that I have found! You will save a TON on your beauty!
I always tell my Brides that the best thing they can do for lip stick is to find a "colorstay" that wont kiss off during the ceremony! It will last into the reception and you will only need to gloss over it! SMART!
Over the past 2 weeks I have collected Covergirl $2.00 off any lip stick and Maybelline $2.00 off Superstay lip gloss. I had 4 coupons in all just waiting for the right moment. Be sure to read your coupons too...I had Covergirl and Maybelline. Often, although they are featuring a certain product on the coupon, it applies to ALL of their products, not always, but most of the time. So although my Maybelline ones said they were for the 24 hour colorstay, I still got it off the Maybelline16 hour. Today I arrived a CVS and low and behold they are running 50% and 75% off certain makeup brands/colors/products!! They do this a few times per year and I LOVE it! I took out my 4 coupons and here is the break down.....
With the 50% off my Covergirl double outlast came to $5.89- $2.00 coupon=$3.89! My Maybelline Superstay at 50% off came to 5.65-$2.00=$3.65!
Now I of course bought 4 since I do makeup for a living! BUT you could have gotten one for your big day for as little as $3.65! I bought shades: nude glaze, rose quartz, born with it, and tutu. ALL great Wedding day colors!!
SUPER!! On top of that I had to take advantage of the buy one get one free GOT2B Rock'in It  and GOT2B Guardian Angel Heat protectant for bridal hair.  I got both of these Schwartzkopf products for $7.29!

Not a bad beauty afternoon!!! GOOD LUCK!!!

Kristin Springfield Founder Womanly Journey C:  434-203-1066 O:  800-417-4066 www.womanlyjourney.com