Well actually, I’m a woman. I just have a weird way of always incorporating movie quotes in every day life. Which brings me here, the story of this brand, the story of myself and how I ended up working across the globe and developing attention for beauty and detail I apply to every session I photograph.

This is me in high school with a very awkward hair grow-out of my Drew Barrymore pixie cut. This is also me pre high school in my coolest skate gear and a thrifted Pearl Jam tshirt, which I never listened to Pearl Jam. But I did know thrifted band tees were bonus cool points.

I was always mad creative and never wanted to do anything to the norm. That just wasn’t cool for me. So very early on, I knew I wanted to be a creative and live like a creative. I got my very first 35mm Pentax camera from my step father who was in my life since I was 14. I had zero clue what I was doing but I checked out books from the library, which I have yet to return, that help guide me to at least not wasting any film. I didn’t really know at the time where this camera would take me but somehow I knew that film work was major for me. Specifically I loved cinematography since I am such a huge movie nerd and I decided I either wanted to go to SCAD in Georgia where I grew up, or NY Film Academy in New York.

Well neither happened…as I went down a bit of a rebellious road and after losing two friends in a car crash in high school and not knowing how to navigate that loss, I kinda gave up on a lot. I dropped out of high school (don’t worry, redeeming story coming up!), moved in with a boyfriend out of state – still don’t understand why my mom let me do that. Then within a year, I moved out to Las Vegas where my older sister was living and helped her raise her small child together.

Fast forward through a stint of working at a famous Strip restaurant while shooting bands on the side (still can’t believe I don’t have any of those images), I landed a job at MAC Cosmetics. In their Pro store at The Forum Shopps! That was kinda unheard of. They usually would only transfer artists from other stores and counters to a Pro store, but I was lucky and got to start as a cashier while I learned the ropes of makeup. Which lead me to leading teams during major launch events, working with celebrities and the only artist in the store who could airbrush and teach airbrushing.

Which then lead me into starting my first business as a professional makeup artist working in the wedding industry with brides and working across the Las Vegas strip and on billboards and promoting clubs. It was a whirlwind and amazing!

I was then lead into a wonderous opportunity of working with MAKE UP FOR EVER as an educator. I was able to finally make it to New York for the first time and live and work there for a bit, then later offered a job in NY which I turned down to stay and get married to my husband. I did choose love over a whole different life I could be living right now. No regrets.

While working for this amazing brand, I got to work in Paris multiple times along with Quebec, Mexico, Brazil and more! It was a beautiful journey into developing me into the artist and creative I am today.

Photography was always there, but I never made it a focus and capture my journey as a professional makeup artist well. I did try to build some of my portfolio with photography but I never made photography the center focus. I regret not doing this. I only focused on makeup and the next gig that was coming. It was a very fast paced life and things were just starting to build up.

I decided to leave MUFE because the retail life was still that, retail. I was able to travel and educate and create a name for myself and I wanted to capitalize on that. So I left and took an opportunity to be a full time makeup educator at a local makeup school. It was short lived as I hit my next big opportunity. Be a featured artist on a very popular tv show on SyFy called Face Off.

I competed on season 9 and made it soooooo much further than I ever thought I’d make it. Then was asked to come back for the All Stars season 12 which I only made through the first episode, whaa whaaaaa. BUT! I was then asked to come compete on a spin off show called Game Face to which I won the very first episode judged by non other than Rick Baker! Who if you don’t know, is the godfather of special FX makeup.

After appearing on those show, my special fx makeup career took off! I went on to work in many movies and tv shows which brought me back to living and working in Atlanta, GA. Production mecca and beautiful city. I started a family with my husband during covid lockdown and veered away from the makeup world as we we’re not sure how to work effectively in peoples faces while the first maddness of covid of racing around. So I started baking from my love for french macarons and pastries and ended up starting my next busines, Bisoux Bakery. It blew up as well and quickly I was back working in the industry and wedding industry proving gorgeous cakes and treats for weddings, custom bespoke cookies for industry wrap parties and providing yearly custom cakes for celebrities NFL players and musicians including Ludacris.

I have been obsessively creative to say the least. Every job I’ve had, every opportunity that’s come my way, I’ve chased it with a hunger to provide not only the best but the most researched. The most thought out. The most creative. I want to be great at everything I do. It’s just who I am. So when the time came, and it came quicker than I thought, I had to shut down my luxury bakery. The hours were more grueling than any film I’ve working on or tv show I’ve be in. Honestly, it was tough. Especially with a little baby at home. So as I was feeling the itch to try something different, I needed to find something that was natural for me to do. I thought educate. My only issue, I had no high school diploma. So I needed to get that if I wanted to go to college and become an educator. I went at it and within a week I got my high school diploma. Something I had nagging me, weighing me down and keeping me wondering how I would explain my drop out story to my growing child. I did it and could cross it off my list. But, I just wasn’t sure about college and becoming an educator. The world is wild right now and how am I going to walk into education when educators are fleeing the school systems in droves? It just didn’t feel right. So I turned to my camera, the one my step dad who at that time was battling cancer and said, can I do this? Can I fulfill this lifelong dream and really make photography my thing? Can I do this for my step dad? And before he passed, I told him I would and he fully supported me. So every time I pick up my Pentax K100 all manual camera…I think of him and all the beauty I get to create for him, for me and for you.