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“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” – Oprah Winfrey

We did it, ladies! You helped me achieve over 10,000+ subscribers on YouTube! 10,000+ subscribers is a milestone for my video career and thanks to you for all your support, comments, good vibes and love I have achieved this goal. I have a picture frame on my desk at my home office that says “Dream It. Plan It. Live It. and that’s precisely what I am doing. It’s been a long time coming with lots of twists and turns in my YouTube career. I started out with just a flip camera, not knowing what I was doing with video, filming, lighting, and editing just the desire to help other women with their beauty and share what I knew as a licensed Esthetician and multi-media makeup artist.

Fast forward to eight years later, over a hundred of videos, a supportive visionary husband that raised my video game I now have a full professional filming studio. If you told me eight years ago that I would know how to edit on Adobe Premiere Pro, do slider shots, B-roll, shoot with two cameras, boom sound mic, and in 4K I would have told you to keep on dreaming sister. This is now my reality, and I am obsessed with bringing you the best level of content I can film. I read all your comments and listen to what you want to see, learn and put into practice in your beauty routines so keep them coming.

I had a little derailment from filming when I went through infertility in 2014 which I thought would last maybe a month or two (how silly, but hopeful lol) but instead lasted four years. I thought I could keep up with my studio and seeing clients on the hour AND filming videos each week all while going through daily doctor appointments not only in Florida but also in Colorado for IVF. Sounds a little unrealistic but my desire to keep up was so strong but in the end, I just couldn’t. I was so taxed with the emotional and physical aspects from infertility I couldn’t drag myself in front of the camera plus my spirits were so down I don’t think my beauty videos would have been that inspiring or entertaining. I wasn’t too far from my channel; I started a second YouTube channel vlog style to document my infertility journey. Not only did my professional career take a beating so did my YouTube career. YOU ladies helped me get back into the swing of things with all your positive comments and encouragement.

Photo Credit: Rick Gomez Photography

I feel very connected to my message about Owning Your Beauty and not conforming to what the beauty industry or society says is beautiful. My channel is for the woman that wants to feel confident in her skin.

I usually don’t do Giveaways,’ but I felt that this was an extraordinary milestone and I wanted to send out the love to you. To enter you need to have an Instagram account, here are the rules to enter my giveaway.

Make sure you are following me on Instagram @freshbeautystudio
Tag 2 friends in the comments, I love meeting new Fierce women that are owning their beauty.
Share in your Instagram Stories tagging me for an extra entry! (DM me a screenshot).

That’s it, ladies, I will draw a winner one week from today March 10th, 2018. Good Luck and happy tagging.

Welcome to Beauty Reinvented where women are encouraged and live a life free of beauty stigmas. I am so excited to launch this website and create a safe space for women to connect and feel empowered. This website is dedicated to YOU the woman who is going through unexpected beauty changes at any age. Dealing with aging, gray hair, hormone issues, beauty overwhelm? Maybe you have lost yourself and want to feel beautiful again. This website is for You.

If you have been following me through my life and beauty challenges from infertility to gray hair you know, I don’t sugar coat my content. I tell you how it is right from the very start because being authentic is extremely important to me especially in a time where social media makes everything look perfect which it’s not. I am a beauty expert that keeps things real; it’s not about trying to be something you are not. I got to the point where I felt so disconnected from beauty when I was going gray that I told myself I have two choices. (1) I could allow my gray hair in my thirties to dictate how I thought about myself and my self-confidence or (2) I could embrace and accept what was happening and let other women know it’s OK to be different. It’s OK to not look like everyone else. Celebrate yourself, your hair, your difference because THAT ladies is what is beautiful.

I am on a mission to break through the gray hair stereotypes, the “You will look older,” “Gray hair is not flattering,” “Gray hair ages you.” ENOUGH with the dated thinking and comments. 2018 is the year of Gray Hair according to Allure magazine, the year you take back control of your thoughts on aging and who you are inside. Beauty is subjective, and I want you ladies to celebrate yourself each and every day. Social media doesn’t tell you what’s right and wrong with beauty; YouTube doesn’t tell you what beauty is, YOU say to yourself what beauty is and means to you. I want you to empower yourself and to embrace your age. It’s essential that you support other women going through beauty changes also.

Gray hair is not a solo journey but a journey worth exploring together. No judgment, no cattiness, no negative comments, no jealousy. Try it, ladies, try complimenting another woman something authentic and meaningful that will boost her day.

Photo Credit: Rick Gomez Photography

We all get our heel stuck in the groove of the pavement from time to time, but we don’t stop. Join me in the Beauty Reinvented conversation over on my private Facebook group; this is where women get BOLD and Fearless about their beauty with no apologies. I think it’s about time ladies that we get this beauty started.