Tackling the Challenge and Achieving your Beauty Best - Contributor Fonda Lee

If you’ve read our posts about Fonda Lee (you can find them here and here), you know we think she is nothing short of fabulous inside and out. If you read our post from earlier this week written by contributor Cheryl Maeder, you’ll see that we appreciate artistic design. Fonda Lee is a true artist. Yes, she is philanthropic (beauty from the inside), yes she is a business woman who has built her business from the ground up (an entrepreneur of the first degree), however, importantly her artistry is nothing short of divine. She doesn’t just apply makeup or pattern facial colors, she paints a picture, specific to the person, specific to the need in a manner that only she can achieve. As Tracie Kreiger once put it “Fonda just makes you feel pretty”. We’ll get more into her make-up artistry specific to event, modeling needs or costume makeup, but for today she shares a relationship and project most personal and motivational to her. This is the Fonda Lee that everyone knows; the Fonda Lee that everyone loves. If you haven’t had the pleasure of meeting her, you must stop by The Beauty Bar in Palm Beach Gardens, FL! It seemed only appropriate, having just highlighted Cheryl’s artistic ability to create an artistic moment, to follow up with Fonda Lee’s ability to do the same through make-up artistry.

 After being diagnosed with breast cancer, Sarah realized she wanted her challenge to go by un-noticed as possible to keep as close to her work and social schedule

Sara is not a big Make up wearer to start with. In showing her how to shade on eyebrows along with a few of the basics she was armed and ready to be her best, in and day out, along with the down days where she felt she needed to work even harder to tap into her inner beauty and some basic touches on the outside.

We also worked with soothing facial products to keep Sarah's skin looking hydrated and feeling refreshed. It always comes down to taking the time that it takes to tackle the challenge, whether) it be appearance, set-backs from Cancer treatments or looking your best for the Big meeting or interview.

Thank you, Fonda for sharing your experience. We look forward to your next post appropriate to the holidays! You can check out Fonda Lee’s website at www.fondaleebeauty.com and follow her on Facebook at www.facebook.comFonda-Lee-Beauty-Bar-Event-Boutique.

 

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Rediscovering Barbie - Post by Contributor Cheryl Maeder

We are so honored to have Cheryl Maeder, a talent introduced a few posts back, blogging for us today. She is truly a gem of a person who's work always causes us to reflect, dream and remember how very important art, photography and object transformation truly are. Below is a perfect example of how she does just that. The world of marketing and event planning can be so broad that our blog commonly lends itself to posts about style, artistic creation and photography. What happens when you put them together and draw emotive response based on past memories and current opinion? Voila, you have an inspired work of art that only the one-of-a-kind Cheryl Maeder could present. She is capable of taking so many elements of art and creation and melding them into a single, powerfully inspired moment. Thank you, Cheryl for taking the time to share your work and stream of consciousness...

Rediscovering Barbie

 

As a child, growing up,  I was not into Barbie at all. I thought she was just a little too perfect for my tastes, a little too cute and girlie.   My next close encounter with Barbie came as an adult.  When my studio was located in San Francisco, I would weekend at my brother’s home in Los Gatos.  My niece Rory, who was ten at the time, would hold me hostage in her room.  She would take out her huge  collection of Barbie & Ken dolls.  I would reluctantly play Barbie with Rory, and find every excuse to try to leave her room. 

Which brings me to the present.  About a month ago, my friend, Julie Dungan Holdefehr, mentioned that she was going to her friend, Jeff Todd’s home, where he had this wonderful collection of retro Barbies.  I thought his collection of Barbies would be really great to photograph for my Suburbia Series so I asked to come along.

Jeff Todd is a former stylist for Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein.  He now is a restorer of antiques and fine art in Palm Beach.

As we walked into his home and were greeted by several different variety of cats, I knew that the Barbie collection would be a great one.  Jeff pulled out boxes of retro Barbies and Ken’s.  I felt a natural infinity to the Barbies of the 60’s & 70’s. Jeff neatly took the Barbies out of their boxes, and of course,  Ken. As he gently lined them up along side each other, fixing their outfits every so carefully.  It was right there, that I fell in love with retro Barbie & her boyfriend Ken.  I took out my camera and began shooting.  At first,  I photographed the whole row of Barbies,  in their various outfits and hairdos, and then I photographed them each individually.  That is when each of the Barbies came alive to me. 

 

 

 

Ironically, I discovered, after my Barbie photoshoot, that the Norton Museum, was having an exhibition on Barbie!  It always amazes me how trends in art and design always recycle around.  It only becomes new, when the artist discovers and captures it,  in his or her own self expression.  That is Art.

 
 

Written by Cheryl Maeder, fine art photographer & designer of Gardenhouse.  www.gardenhousedecor.net  & www.maederphotography.com