Sneaky preview of work lately

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Happy Easter Everyone! Though I have mainly been brainstorming new ideas and concepts as well as feeding myself delicious cakes and coffees, I have also been doing a lot of make-up designs and great collaborations lately. And it seems like outdoor location has started too, which is extra exciting. The sneaky preview below was a project with the great photographer Claire Huish and the fantastic Stylist Rosie Williams. Next to the tall beautiful model I look so very short. I am looking forward to all the exciting work for this Spring and Summer.

Pastel Spring Pixie

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image via Dashing Magazine, Make Up & Hair by Liv Lundelius

This morning I had some Yoga time in the sunshine through our living room window and painted my toe nails in pastels. Yoga in the morning is a great exercise, and if you'd like to get started, you can use this great coupon for Patagonia gear to help you save. Someone played the piano in our courtyard that someone has thrown out. The latest issue of Dashing Magazine has been published this week. I love the whole magazine and read it today for breakfast. You can see above some of the shots of the hair and make up I have done for the Spring issue. Now I am really in Spring mood. The sun tingels and looking at all these pretty pastels get's me really excited. For Spring.

about supernatural nails and japanese food

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It’s the little things in life that are making me very happy, like coffee in the sunshine, or a new nail polish. Nails are huge at the moment. Which makes me happy, since I have always loved nail colours a lot. I am still staying away from nail art and sticking with simple uni colourings. The other day I met the girls behind the hip nail polish brand Rococo Nail Apparel, Ange and Vernice Walker. The talented sisters have worked as nail designers and celebrity manicurists with all the big names and started their own successful little family business. At the same time they are also 2 very humble and extremely kind sisters. No wonder they came so far. Real team work. And not only where this two interesting to chat to and told me about their passion for everything Japanese, including a slight very healthy obsession with Japanese food, they also offered to paint my nails and chose the coolest colour, which I now own as well (it’s LabNude 6.0). A mannequin nude, somehow vintagey, somehow clean but edgy at the same time. Or in Rococo’s words: Supernatural. Thanks ladies! So very nice to meet you, you have made my day.

Wonderful quotes on marriage

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I am not married myself, but I love the whole philosophy behind it from a yogic point of view. I find it very inspiring. The following quotes are taken from Yogi Bhajan Lecture Archive

"The one act to perform is for a man and a woman to merge as one. If from this minute they merge as one, they amalgamate now, they shall succeed.

To make an alloy, you take two elements and put them together. The alloy cannot be separated. You can boil it, you can form the alloy into a liquid, you can totally burn it, but once it becomes an alloy, it will totally keep its own quality, own quantity, own weight, own molecules, own electrons, protons and neutrons, and own combination. Whatever made brass doesn’t matter. Brass has its own faculty, own quality, own weight and own property.

Marriage brings happiness. It’s an amalgamation of two psyches. And when these two psyches are amalgamated, neither one is an individual. There is no question of he and she. That’s it. There is no loss, there is no gain and there is no bank account.

And that is what love is, that is what marriage is, that is what life is, that is what good luck is. There are no two opinions about it; when a male and a female merge together. That’s why we do it before God. "

© Yogi Bhajan 2002