THE ROLANDO SANTANA SHOW-PART ONE

I am so proud to give you a behind-the-scenes look at the Rolando Santana show.  I was the shows beauty director, I keyed makeup, hair and nails and production.  Gathering together the crew of over 30 people to make this show a beauty success can only be done with an amazing group of people.  The sponsorship I was able to obtain was nothing less then phenomenal all high-end and incredible.

To create the no makeup-makeup look I used the luxurious makeup from I NUOVI-- a fabulous company out of Singapore soon to come to the United States.  Not only did they give enough makeup for the models they gave enough makeup for every makeup artists.  Each artist walked away with over $300 worth of makeup and they deserved every bit.  I NUOVI was generous giving each makeup artist several foundations, blushes, eyeshadows, lipsticks and so many other products.  The makeup was more tonal --it flowed so beautifully with Rolando's wonderful designs and didn't compete.

Hair products were provided by the fab people of Farouk the makers of Bio Silk and the worlds best flat iron the Chi.  My hair artists had to create a slick precise ponytail .  Farouk provided all Biosilk products, shampoos,conditioners, moouse, shine on spray strate and so many other great products. Every hair artists got to take home several products for their kits

THE SHOW

THE ROLANDO SANTANA 2011 SPRING FASHIONS

I am very proud to show you the day, but to also show you why I was there--Rolando Santana's designs. This seasons designs were nothing less then beautiful. The colors of taupe, beige, browns and greys were far from boring. The intricate detailing was simple and daring all in one. He is a designer to lookout for. He's already in Nieman Marcus and in boutiques across the country. I do believe he will be around for a very long time. He is classic and timely much like his designs  http://www.rolandosantana.com/

Just some of the beautiful designs

 of Rolando Santana Designs

2011 Spring Collection

BEHIND THE SCENE

MAKEUP-CLEAN BUT NOT BORING

INUOVI COSMETICS

THE CREW W/ THEIR CHOICE AND THEY DESERVED THEM





SOME OF THE HAIR ARTIST TEAM



To help make those ponytails bone straight were even more fabulous products from Italy Hair Fashions--they provided the pro tools flat irons and blow dryers.  I am so happy to say my hair team walked away with a great thank you gift--an array of Biosilk products and Blow dryers and Flat Irons from Italy Hair Fashions for their kits.  A value of well over $400

Not to leave out the nails I was so lucky to get Color Club to come in at the 12th hour and provide us with the right shade of Love Em Leave Em.  The color went along so well with the beautiful tones of Rolando's collection  I was fortunate to get some nail people all the way from MD/DC to come down and lend a hand in beautifying all of the models

AND IT  BEGAN

 It was an amazing day one that started with a 8 am meeting with the set up crew (without them nothing could have happened)  They each received an Italy Hair Fashions product of their choice.  They walked away with either a blow dryer or flat iron valued $150 each.  It was fun being Oprah again and letting them know. Man, that Oprah has a great job.  To see their faces when I told them what they were getting just filled my heart

I had a breakfast at my studio, STUDIO D  I bellieve in feeding people can't have starving people--can we. The meeting was to discuss production duties, how to set up stations, who will be responsible for various duties, what is expected and what I was grateful for.   My studio was an explosion of emptied boxes and products I looked like I was setting up shop. We gathered everything that was shipped and off to NYC we were . The hardest part of the whole morning was getting the car service to come with three cars to take us all and all of the products to the venues. There was so much product we filled up three empty trunks and several laps--now that's a lot of products 

We arrived at The Griffin  around 11:30 and set up began--the crew was amazing within an hour everything was set up mirrors, light, tables, chairs etc.  All tables had products beautifully displayed for the beauty crew  I'm a bit annal when it comes to presentation..  Around 1:15 the beauty crew began to arrive--no time for prolong talking just big hugs for my beauty crew followed with instructions and a big old thank you.   The models began to arrive at 1:30  and it was on. Everything ran on time--told you I am annal :).

Once all settled in I showed the makeup artists "the look" I designed for makeup,  Hair artist Owen Sandy and I showed the hair artists the ponytail  I designed with Rolando.  A simple ponytail isn't so simple when there are 30 models and every single ponytail must be placed precisely at the same place on the head and have hair attached  



STUDIO D LOOKING A LITTLE TRASHY





We grabbed Rolando as he was walking by



MORE PICTURES TO COME