Hello, folks!
It's been quite a while, sorry. Life has been beautifully busy.
I graduated from massage therapy school in September. Hooray!
Right after that I got to work with the Windward Community College theatre department for their production of "O'okala 100", written by Susan Stanton and directed by Taurie Kinoshita. Nicolas Logue's Drama 260 students worked hard to bring the story to life. I designed and taught the students how to do their makeup for the show. It's a bit morbid, the director wanted them to have them look like how they died. The play is a based on tragic deaths in Hawai'i from the past 100 years. So it was a bit on the gory side. I'm proud of them, they really dedicated themselves into putting the makeup on according to the design.
Around that time, I was also one of the makeup artists for the Honolulu Zombie Crawl. Always a fun event. One couple got their zombie makeup done and had photos taken at the Zombie Chapel because it was their wedding anniversary.
Halloween was a blast. We had awesome DIY costumes. My son was Jack Skellington for school and for the audience in Honolulu Symphony Orchestra pops production of "A Nightmare Before Christmas". He was also a "Fade Eyes" creature, brought partially with his allowance. Bf and I were Matt Hooper and Bruce the Shark from "Jaws".
Not long after that, I got asked to help with applying makeup for Leeward Community College's "A Dark and Stormy Knight", written by Kemuel De Moville and directed by Betty Burdick. It's always nice to go back to my theatre roots and help out. Part of the reason why I wanted to help out was to work with the production team. Don Ranney's set design, Sarah Whitehead's lighting design, and Sami Akuna's creative input with costume design and movement, and Jon Signor's musical direction are always special elements to LCC shows. I loved being part of the magic of the production. I'm thankful Jonathan Reyn asked me to help out, we had such a fun time blasting music and sharing laughs as we helped the performers get ready.
I also got to do hair and makeup for a couple of weddings as well as hair for the Poison rockabilly event. Of course I carved out some time to practice and receive massages as well as study for my state board licensing exam.
Speaking of which, I am proud to say I passed my massage state board licensing exam. Official dual license status is coming up, as I'm waiting for the DCCA to mail my massage license. Woo hoo!
I plan to continue to freelance with hair and makeup as well as massage while I'm in school. I just want to finish my Art History degree for the sake of finishing it. We'll see where I end up with after that.
I'll come back and add photos later. Oh, the lucky ones who are on IG get to see them for now! That doesn't mean I'll add you if I don't know you, though. I'll post more later. I'm trying to avoid ridiculously long posts. I tend to ramble. Haha.
Happy holidays!
