Pin Up and Boudoir Makeup | Jessica Giblin Photography
Let's rewind the clock a bit to 6 years ago ...
It was 2006. I was working at MAC as a counter manager running around like a crazy woman: writing schedules, organizing trainings and events, hiring artists, holding meetings, trying to please the big wigs at both MAC and Nordstrom, pulling super long shifts and the most ungodly hours..but smiling smiling smiling and schlepping lipsticks, all the while trying to wear my business manager hat and makeup artist tool belt at once.
It was a great job.
Really!
After all, I started at MAC in 2001 after working at two other lines for a few years to pursue becoming a full fledged makeup artist. But someone's gotta pay the bills, so I became a manager.
And with all teh managerial duties, and much to MAC's chagrin, sometimes my poor makeup tool belt was often left untouched for days.
I missed being just an artist.
But, I was knee deep in debt, living pay check to paycheck, and supporting myself in a little apartment. Even my big job at the MAC counter wasn't cutting it, and I truly missed makeup artistry, so I started squeezing in bridal makeups every Saturday before my shifts at the counter.
(note: Any of you that have EVER worked at a MAC counter know what Saturdays are like. Especially when the market was good. Especially in Roseville, California. Thank goodness for good ol' Redbull!)
I was a bit younger then, so doing a bridal party's makeup for 4 hours before my 9 hour stint at Nordies' was a bit less painful, and so worth it. Financially, and for my soul. Facebook and really good social networking, (besides Myspace, which served me pretty well for what it was, as far as posting photos went) wasn't much of a presence to me then, so I really had to work it.
I was loving this new cottage industry I had created for myself! I loved makeup, I loved my brides, and I loved meeting and networking with photographers. (I didn't know it then, but my future beyond retail cosmetics had just begun.)
Then one day, this really pretty girl came up to me at the counter and said, "Hey-I am doing a..kinda sexy..kinda Pin-Up-y photo shoot with a professional photographer, and I was wondering if you would do my makeup for it?"
I'd never done anything like this before, so I of course said yes, excited to see my work photographed by a professional, and to work with this sweet girl on something so special.
A couple weeks later, the sweet girl came back by the counter with a CD of images for me. I was so excited to run home and see what we had created.
And it was born: My very first Boudoir session, and actually, the first professional photos ever taken of my boudoir work. (To my knowledge and credit! Pretty sure there's some magazine and calendar stuff floating around out there I have never seen!) And also born was a long lasting friendship with the photographer, Jessica Giblin of www.jessicagiblinphotography.com and Nichole, who also became a bridal client of mine right after this very pretty, and timeless shoot.
I am currently booking Boudoir Sessions with Jessica for Valentines day! Either contact me at my website at www.makeupbychristi.com or book with Jessica directly at www.jessicagiblinphotography.com
It was 2006. I was working at MAC as a counter manager running around like a crazy woman: writing schedules, organizing trainings and events, hiring artists, holding meetings, trying to please the big wigs at both MAC and Nordstrom, pulling super long shifts and the most ungodly hours..but smiling smiling smiling and schlepping lipsticks, all the while trying to wear my business manager hat and makeup artist tool belt at once.
It was a great job.
Really!
After all, I started at MAC in 2001 after working at two other lines for a few years to pursue becoming a full fledged makeup artist. But someone's gotta pay the bills, so I became a manager.
And with all teh managerial duties, and much to MAC's chagrin, sometimes my poor makeup tool belt was often left untouched for days.
I missed being just an artist.
But, I was knee deep in debt, living pay check to paycheck, and supporting myself in a little apartment. Even my big job at the MAC counter wasn't cutting it, and I truly missed makeup artistry, so I started squeezing in bridal makeups every Saturday before my shifts at the counter.
(note: Any of you that have EVER worked at a MAC counter know what Saturdays are like. Especially when the market was good. Especially in Roseville, California. Thank goodness for good ol' Redbull!)
I was a bit younger then, so doing a bridal party's makeup for 4 hours before my 9 hour stint at Nordies' was a bit less painful, and so worth it. Financially, and for my soul. Facebook and really good social networking, (besides Myspace, which served me pretty well for what it was, as far as posting photos went) wasn't much of a presence to me then, so I really had to work it.
I was loving this new cottage industry I had created for myself! I loved makeup, I loved my brides, and I loved meeting and networking with photographers. (I didn't know it then, but my future beyond retail cosmetics had just begun.)
Then one day, this really pretty girl came up to me at the counter and said, "Hey-I am doing a..kinda sexy..kinda Pin-Up-y photo shoot with a professional photographer, and I was wondering if you would do my makeup for it?"
I'd never done anything like this before, so I of course said yes, excited to see my work photographed by a professional, and to work with this sweet girl on something so special.
A couple weeks later, the sweet girl came back by the counter with a CD of images for me. I was so excited to run home and see what we had created.
And it was born: My very first Boudoir session, and actually, the first professional photos ever taken of my boudoir work. (To my knowledge and credit! Pretty sure there's some magazine and calendar stuff floating around out there I have never seen!) And also born was a long lasting friendship with the photographer, Jessica Giblin of www.jessicagiblinphotography.com and Nichole, who also became a bridal client of mine right after this very pretty, and timeless shoot.
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| Makeup by Christi www.makeupbychristi.com Photographed by Jessica Giblin www.jessicagiblinphotography.com |
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| Makeup by Christi www.makeupbychristi.com Photographed by Jessica Giblin www.jessicagiblinphotography.com |
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| Makeup by Christi www.makeupbychristi.com Photographed by Jessica Giblin www.jessicagiblinphotography.com |
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| Makeup by Christi www.makeupbychristi.com Photographed by Jessica Giblin www.jessicagiblinphotography.com |
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| Makeup by Christi www.makeupbychristi.com Photographed by Jessica Giblin www.jessicagiblinphotography.com |
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