Monthly Archives: August 2010

When you have a big event coming up and you are female, it’s inevitable that you want your hair and make-up professionally done.  It just perfectly accents a night out on the town, a wedding, a red carpet ordeal, a high school reunion, or any situation where the goal is to shock and awe with your looks.  One thing to consider is that when you hire hair and make-up people, they are in your house for a long time.  I got my hair and make-up done for my wedding and spent a good 3 and a half hours bonding with my lady.  She was nice, but there wasn’t anything unique about her and I found myself resorting to the ‘go to’ questions: Isn’t the weather nice?  Where are you from?  How long have you been doing make-up?  We got through it, but there were a lot of moments when the concept of ‘silence is golden’ keep fluttering into my head.

I recently stumbled upon the perfect solution to my quest for make-up/hair artists with finesse, the Classic Glamour Dolls.  Specializing in preparing you for everything from photo shoots, to performances, red carpet appearances, film, bachelor/bachelorette parties, birthdays, and special events, the Classic Glamour Doll “Team” consists of a group of make-up and hair artists whose motto is to bring you “Make-up and hair with a Hollywood flair.”  The gals live out the 1920’s to 1950’s glam eras and show up to get their clients event-ready fully decked out in an old school Hollywood get-up that Fergie would describe as the definition of G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S.  When I witnessed them in action, they explained to me that the look must always include: red lipstick, fake eyelashes, cat eyeliner, flowers or big jewels in the hair, very clean and shapely defined eyebrows, and a victory roll in their hair – obtained with hot rollers, curling irons, lots of hair spray and “thousands and thousands of bobby pins,” and of course fun rockabilly-inspired clothing.

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