IF YOU COULD BE HAPPIEST IN YOUR OWN SKIN, WOULD YOU BE WHO YOU ARE TODAY?

If you could be happiest in your own skin, would you be who you are today? I would love to have you write me about beauty....how do you think of beauty? When do you feel your most beautiful? Are you happy in your own skin? Are you harsher on yourself more than on others, and why? Do you realize you are as a flower on this Earth, unique and lovely, blossoming in to the only you that has ever been and will ever be?

I want to hear from you...I think this is an important subject and it is my mission to write about it and help everyone, especially young women, all women including myself to know, really really know and understand our beauty.

I want to photograph beauty as well, so if you are willing to be interviewed, perhaps photographed, please contact me!

The day after 1/11/11!! Yay for the Golden Globes this weekend!

Have you been having fun this year...how was 1/11/11?? I was at the greatest yoga class at 11am, transformational yoga in L.A. at Golden Bridge Yoga...the best class I have ever taken!! I hope you have been allowing yourself to have fun, laughter, romance, and take care of that beautiful you in every way you know how. I know I need to give myself the time to sit quietly daily to allow intuition to be strong within me. I believe this because I used to be quite devoted to meditation morning and night having built up from a few moments a day to an hour a couple of times a day. When I walked in NYC, I always meditated as I was walking, and thoughts just came, especially creative thoughts as to how to approach an acting scene, etc.

2011 finds me adjusting to my new city of Los Angeles! I am still an intrepid New Yorker and have to practice driving, which I have been, but I love to walk and am doing that as well as buses. All this is acclimating me to my new home.

This weekend starts the awards season!! What fun, and I will be working this Sunday morning til afternoon doing makeup on Melrose Ave. and then running home to watch the arrivals and show. It starts 5pm here, which is another thing I must adjust to. I am so excited to be a part of a team that is enhancing the beauty of clients going to the event!

Wanted to mention that as a fan of every season of DANCING WITH THE STARS, I was tickled to see a backstage clip of one of their makeup artists doing a touchup on Bristol Palin with the Beauty Blender Sponge!! Have any of you tried it yet?

I am also attempting to widen my range and start to use the airbrush machines out there more...at this moment, I don't have a final opinion, but am still a hands on kind of artist.

Any of you who have a question or would like to book me or recommend me for your or your friends' events/weddings, lessons, brow shapings, etc. can email me at simplycocobeauty@gmail.com. I would love to hear from you.

I have added a fun shot of one of my favorite clients who had her makeup done last Halloween before dressing as Lady Gaga...this is one of my favorite shots as well as it really shows off a most dramatic smoky eye!

I look forward to hearing from you in 2011!!