Stephanie

Today I had the pleasure of working with Stephanie Rae Anderson doing her Hair & Makeup for her new headshots out in studio city. We did 3 looks and her manager Harold who is also an awesome photographer took these shots;

100 cool benefits of meditation

Physiological benefits:
1- It lowers oxygen consumption.
2- It decreases respiratory rate.
3- It increases blood flow and slows the heart rate.
4- Increases exercise tolerance.
5- Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation.
6- Good for people with high blood pressure.
7- Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.
8- Decreases muscle tension
9- Helps in chronic diseases like allergies, arthritis etc.
10- Reduces Pre-menstrual Syndrome symptoms.
11- Helps in post-operative healing.
12- Enhances the immune system.
13- Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress
14- Enhances energy, strength and vigour.
15- Helps with weight loss
16- Reduction of free radicals, less tissue damage
17- Higher skin resistance
18- Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.
19- Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing.
20- Decreases the aging process.
21- Higher levels of DHEAS (Dehydroepiandrosterone)
22- prevented, slowed or controlled pain of chronic diseases
23- Makes you sweat less
24- Cure headaches & migraines
25- Greater Orderliness of Brain Functioning
26- Reduced Need for Medical Care
27- Less energy wasted
28- More inclined to sports, activities
29- Significant relief from asthma
30- improved performance in athletic events
31- Normalizes to your ideal weight
32- harmonizes our endocrine system
33- relaxes our nervous system
34- produce lasting beneficial changes in brain electrical activity
35- Cure infertility (the stresses of infertility can interfere with the release of hormones that regulate ovulation).

Psychological benefits:
36- Builds self-confidence.
37- Increases serotonin level, influences mood and behaviour.
38- Resolve phobias & fears
39- Helps control own thoughts
40- Helps with focus & concentration
41- Increase creativity
42- Increased brain wave coherence.
43- Improved learning ability and memory.
44- Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation.
45- Increased emotional stability.
46- improved relationships
47- Mind ages at slower rate
48- Easier to remove bad habits
49- Develops intuition
50- Increased Productivity
51- Improved relations at home & at work
52- Able to see the larger picture in a given situation
53- Helps ignore petty issues
54- Increased ability to solve complex problems
55- Purifies your character
56- Develop will power
57- greater communication between the two brain hemispheres
58- react more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event.
59- increases one’s perceptual ability and motor performance
60- higher intelligence growth rate
61- Increased job satisfaction
62- increase in the capacity for intimate contact with loved ones
63- decrease in potential mental illness
64- Better, more sociable behaviour
65- Less aggressiveness
66- Helps in quitting smoking, alcohol addiction
67- Reduces need and dependency on drugs, pills & pharmaceuticals
68- Need less sleep to recover from sleep deprivation
69- Require less time to fall asleep, helps cure insomnia
70- Increases sense of responsibility
71- Reduces road rage
72- Decrease in restless thinking
73- Decreased tendency to worry
74- Increases listening skills and empathy
75- Helps make more accurate judgements
76- Greater tolerance
77- Gives composure to act in considered & constructive ways
78- Grows a stable, more balanced personality
79- Develops emotional maturity

Spiritual benefits:
80- Helps keep things in perspective
81- Provides peace of mind, happiness
82- Helps you discover your purpose
83- Increased self-actualization.
84- Increased compassion
85- Growing wisdom
86- Deeper understanding of yourself and others
87- Brings body, mind, spirit in harmony
88- Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation
89- Increased acceptance of oneself
90- helps learn forgiveness
91- Changes attitude toward life
92- Creates a deeper relationship with your God
93- Attain enlightenment
94- greater inner-directedness
95- Helps living in the present moment
96- Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love
97- Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego
98- Experience an inner sense of “Assurance or Knowingness”
99- Experience a sense of “Oneness”
100- Increases the synchronicity in your life

Reasons to Run

Running is an awesome way to get in shape for summer and LIFE!
Heres some benefits of running:
- Increase metabolism, Decrease body fat &
increase lean body mass
- Restore lost hair and hair color
- Restore collagen levels to erase lines and
wrinkles
- Improve mood, sleep, and organ functioning
- Increase energy and endurance
- Increase mental energy and clarity
- Increase in sense of well-being and emotional
stability
- Increase in bone and joint flexibility
- Live longer
- Removes stress
- Better well-being

Annmarie Herbal Products

All natural cleansers, scrubs & skin care created by AnnMarie, with cute packaging and reasonable prices I definitely recommend trying these products out. They are all Natural, the first ingredient on all her products is *Love*! :). She has different products for oil, normal and dry skin types. To find out your skin type;
A good way to see what kind of skin you have is
to do this simple test.

>Wash your face at night before you go to bed.Dry it.When you wake up in the morning, take a tissue,lay it flat on your face and pat it against your
skin.

>If the tissue has no oily spots, you have dry
skin.

>If the tissue has oily spots in your t-zone which
is your nose, forehead and chin, you have combination
skin.

>If the tissue is oily everywhere, then you have
oily skin

Here is a link to her products,http://store.renegadehealth.com/Bath-Beauty-c5 also explore the rest of this website its freaking awesome! and full of good info!!

Julia

last Sunday I did a Lingerie shoot with the Beautiful Julia heres a quick pic :)

LUCK

This week for 5 days I am working on an amazing documentary about LUCK how to get it? does it exist? how to be successful in all areas of life. For this project we have been interviewing some really inspiring people and I have learned so much each day, getting some great tips! Yesterday I had the pleasure of working with Christen Brown the Author of Star Quality, and David Kennedy Author of Fen Shui for Dummies. Today I worked with Joe Rubino, Joe Nunsiata- Breakthrough specialist (to get 3 free e-books check out Joe's site at http://www.jnunziata.com/, Sherry Murphy & her daughter from Elite Matching Making Agency and the Psychic Karen Garvey (heres a link to her blog http://theanswersunlimited.blogspot.com/ . I cant wait for the rest of the week!

Power Balance for Athletic Performance

According to Power Balance, the bands feature a performance technology using holograms embedded with frequencies that react positively with the body’s natural energy field to improve balance, strength and flexibility. I thought this was pretty awesome, you do 3 tests without the bracelet and then with it & wow, OMG you feel strength and balance straight away! Its surreal, I was skeptical but then I tried one of the tests a few times with a Power Balance bracelet my Dad has and I couldn't believe how much it worked & that I could see a difference straight away! So I came home and did some research and you can buy these bracelets from places like Footlocker, Fitness Line and Amazon for only $30!
I read alot of Athletes use these to increase performance like Shaquille O’Neal, Lamar Odom, Trevor Ariza, Lance Armstrong and Paul Pierce. (See pics above!)
Heres a link to amazon; http://www.amazon.com/Power-Balance-Bracelet-Wristband-Lettering/dp/B003KWNDKE =)

Playboy Audition

I had an awesome 2 mornings working with the lovely Suzette Edwards http://www.suzetteedwards.com/ from Australia getting her Hair & Makeup ready for her Playboy audition @ the mansion!
Here are some pics I snapped on my phone.... I hope she wins and ends up moving out here to LA!! She deserves it!