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VOL.1 ISSUE 3 SPRING 2012

FGM A G A Z I N E

FAVORITE LOVE SONGS?Allee Willis - Carole Bayer Sager - Diane Warren - Jody WatleyMelissa Manchester- Tyler Posey and many more!

Etta JamesR E M E M B E R E D

MUSICR E V I E W S

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CONTENTS

Valentine’s Issue

Special Thanks To:To all my customers, friends and family for thier constant love and support!

My super model Katherine Kendall and to my entire staff led by Vanessa Chandler for thier tireless efforts.

The opinions expressed here are those of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the publishers or management of FG Magazine. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. Publication of the name or photo of any person or organization in FG Magazine should not be construed as an indication of that person’s expressed opinion. Advertisers and their agencies assume responsibility and liability for the content in their advertisement

in FG Magazine. Photographers work that is published in any advertising or editorial content within FG Magazine agrees to indemnify and save harmless the publishers from all liability, loss and expense due to a photographer’s failure to gain a model release.

Features

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FAVORITE LOVE SONGSCan you pick just ONE?

Model: Katherine KendallPhotographer and Design:

Vanessa Chandler

CHESS MOVESEtta James Remembered

FASHION INTERVIEWJudi Mann

FGON THE COVER

Goodies

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LOVE 101

BEAUTY HIGHWAY with Robin McDonald

FG’S FAVES

LET’S GO

30 MAKE-UP with Julie Hewett

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All submissions to FG Magazine are welcome!Please send Photos, Articles, Products, Stories, Art or anything you want to share

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My Perfect Valentine’s Day ❤

Wake up early and leave cards, flowers and hershey kisses on the kitchen table for all my peeps.

Carpool with my favorite kids and give them each a special Valentine’s Day treat.

Go to Tree People and take a long walk and look out at the gorgeous views from the top of the world.

Drive to my fave West Hollywood cafeOrder: Dante’s Breakfast Special - Two Eggs, two pumpkin pancakes with warm maple syrup, turkey sausage and piping hot coffee with steamed milk.

Grab my my well worn copy of Mark Nepo’s “Book Of Awakening” stored in my trunk and walk along the dirt path on Santa Monica Blvd., find a cozy spot, look up February 14th, read, meditate on it and then write a page in my journal.

Go home, shower and dress for the rest of my day.

Pack up a big bag of goodies, i.e. individually wrapped chocolates, chocolate dipped fortune cookies, bags of jelly beans, fun jewelry, hair-ties, candles and cards to pass out randomly to whomever I run into over the next few hours, followed by dropping in on friends and acquaintances. Take in the delight.

Check my email and find a message from my husband with an invitation to dinner.

Come home and find fresh flowers and cards from my family and my extended family. Rest.

Spend time with my daughter when she gets home from school.

Dress for a romantic dinner at one of my fave restaurants where I’ll drink champagne, eat sand dabs, cole slaw, shoe string fries and dare I have a piece of Key Lime pie?

I’ll leave the ending up to you……..XO

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Everyone seems to have a favorite love song. Music or lyrics that remind them of a time, place or person - that brings up an emotional feeling that lives deep within them. A teenager can listen to Etta James’ “At Last” and obsess over the boy they sit across from in math class, while a man in his 80s can listen to the same song and reminisce about the last 40 years spent with his partner. However different the lives of the listeners may be, each person defines and feels the song in their own way. Love songs are inescapable. Each one is different, and yet, exactly the same. Some are gleeful, others more poignant, but each pulls at our heartstrings.

A vast collection of songs begs the question, “Which is your favorite?” This is what FG Magazine asked some of our favorite people. Their replies were as varied as their life experiences—evidence that truly great love songs come in all shapes and sizes, but share in common the characteristic of making the listener simultaneously feel less alone in their experience of love and as though the song could have only been written for them.

whats your favorite love song?

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Allee Willis- Songwriter and Performer “AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH” - A totally joyful and jubilant expression of toe-tappin’ love. There can’t be a bad version of this song it’s so good. All love should be so good. ___________________________________________________

Carole Bayer Sager- SongwriterMy favorite love song is, “SOMETHING” by George Harrison. Beatles. Though choosing one is nearly impossible. ________________________________________

Diane Warren- SongwriterJaded romantic. Hmmm I have a lot of favorite love songs. I think one of my alltime favorites is “YOU’RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY” by the great Ashford and Simpson. Rip Nick Ashford. ____________________________

Ellen Shipley- Songwriter, Performer, ArtistMy Favorite Love Song: ANYONE WHO HAD A HEARTAh! The passion, the drama, the yearning!! This is the real thing--sing it at the top of your lungs!! Best melody and lyrics ever!! ________________________________________

Jay Landers- SVP A&R Universal MusicWhat a question! So many songs, so little space. I’m going to bend the rules and pick two: “IF I LOVED YOU” from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Carousel”. The song was introduced on Broadway by the great John Raitt

(father of Bonnie) playing the role of “Billy Bigelow” and Jan Clayton as “Julie”. It’s one of the most beautiful melodies ever composed, with brilliant lyrics that allow the listener to eavesdrop on the inner-thoughts of the two characters. They’ve obviously fallen hard for each other, but neither is willing to admit it, even to themselves. Instead of saying the words, “I love you,” they’re only willing to suggest how things would be “IF I loved you.” The other favorite is “MARIE” by Randy Newman. The character singing to Marie is a bastard…a guy who has to drink in order to let his guard down. Newman has him grasping for clumsy expressions to explain his true feelings. With the most plain-spoken language possible, the lyrics are both ironic and profoundly honest.

INTRO BY KIRA COLE

CAROLE BAYER-SAGER

DIANE WARREN

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Jody Watley- Performer“AS” - Stevie Wonder from his masterpiece “Songs in The Key of Life.” The lyric says it all. He knocked it out of the park with this one. One of the best songs not to mention love songs of all time, for me. His performance captures every word and note as well. _______________________________________

Laura Bahr- TeacherMy favorite love song is Death Cab for Cutie’s “SOUL MEETS BODY” This song is a special one of mine and my sweetheart. We had just started dating and I was singing the chorus just as he was thinking of that song. “I do believe it’s true that there are roads left in both of our shoes/ But if the silence takes you then I hope it takes me too.” Six years later, we are still traveling this road together. ___________________________________________________

Marsha Malamet- SongwriterI think my favorite love song is Rodgers and Hammerstein’s, “IF I LOVED YOU”. Of course this will date me, however, I don’t care. It is truly perfection. How many love songs have been written directly expressing ...a love, the love, our love, my love, this love, etc. Zillions. This song takes a unique and circuitous route, and in so doing, it makes the most simple, ironic, and ultimately direct statement about the greatest feeling a human can have. Typing this now, I’m getting an itch to play it. So I’m gonna go to my itunes and hit: Barbra Streisand...If I Loved You...and play it loud!”A close second is...of course...SOMEWHERE.

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Matt Wallace, Dancer and sometime Record Producer- My favorite love song is “MY FUNNY VALENTINE” by Chet Baker. Former trumpet player turned into unpolished but deeply resonant vocalist who wore the song like a well loved and well worn overcoat. Natural, pure, unassuming, sensual, and sexy. Emotionally stunning. grounded, genuine, and real in every sense of the word. ___________________________________________________

Melissa Manchester- Recording Artist and SongwriterOne of my favorite love songs is OUR LOVE IS HERE TO STAY.It was the last song written by George and Ira Gershwin.It’s touching, witty, thoughtful and peaceful and sure at its core.That said it is impossible for me to choose a number one favorite as there are so many sterling examples of great love songs. ___________________________________

Paul Fox- Record Producer and Manager“SOMETHING” George Harrison. Beatles.A beautiful song sung by George Harrison of the Beatles. Something in the way she moves, attracts me like no other lover. That’s the truth, and to this day still is. _________________________________

Robin Lerner- SongwriterI would have to say my favorite love song (for the sheer exercise of the lyric writing) is “SAD EYED LADY OF THE LOWLANDS” which Bob Dylan wrote for his wife of three

MARSHA MALAMET

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months (at the time) Sara Lownds. It took up all of side four (oh the days of double albums) of “Blonde On Blonde”. He then references it again in 1975 on the desire” album in the song “Sara” (in the midst of their breaking up), saying “Staying up for days, in the chelsea hotel, writing Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands for you” which isn’t entirely true. He wrote the lyric to “Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands” in a nashville studio over the course of many hours, while the session musicians waited for him to finish. But still, it’s the most romantic song ever written (in my opinion) to a lover, in it’s poetry, pageantry, and sheer scope. And then of course there’s “Somewhere” from “West Side Story” which is probably the greatest love song ever written hands down, but then that entire score is in a category of its own - exists almost as some otherworldly piece of art - that occupies it’s own oeuvre, given voice by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.

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Robin McDonald- Facialist, Actress, Writer My favorite love song is “THAT’S ALL” written in 1952 by Allan Brandt and Bob Haymes, recorded by many jazz greats, but my favorite version is by Kenny Rankin. My Dad used to sing it to us and a few years ago, I sang it for him in a karaoke competition on a cruise ship. Now THAT’S love! ___________________________________

Tyler Posey- ActorMy favorite love song is called “GOING AWAY TO COLLEGE” by Blink-182. It’s an awesome song about a loved one who goes off, leaving behind another. The lyrics are really relatable. ___________________________________

At lastMy love has come alongMy lonely days are overAnd life is like a song

Ooh Yeah, Yeah, At lastThe skies above are blueMy heart was wrapped up in cloverThe night I looked at you

I found a dreamThat I could speak toA dream that I can call my ownI found a thrillTo press my cheek toA thrill that I have never known

You smileYou smileOh and then the spell was castAnd here we are in heavenFor you are mine at last

And in honor of Miss Etta - AT LAST

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Blouse Self-Titled (November 1, 2011)Blouse, a dreampop trio from Portland, Oregon, came together in 2010 after members Charlie Hilton and Patrick Adams met in Los Angeles. By way of the internet, their synth tracks caught the attention of Captured Tracks of Brooklyn, New York, who released their 7” single Into Black in March of 2011. By No-vember, their full-length album was released and indie blog-gers quickly took notice. Their self-titled is reminiscent of the new wave of the late 80s, with a soft, pop touch. “Videotapes” juxtaposes melancholy lyrics – “What it would be like to see you again?/ You’re not in my hands,/ But I see you often in my head.” –with a bright, synth-driven soundscape. While elec-tronic elements serve as the album’s common thread, their first single, “Into Black,” features more traditional instrumentation and an unbearably catchy guitar hook. Hilton’s indifferent de-

livery makes this the perfect album for the age of apathy.

Chairlift Something (January 23, 2012)Originally from Boulder, Colorado, and now based in Brooklyn, New York, the story of Chairlift can only be described as a 21st century fairy tale. After rising to prominence thanks to the ap-pearance of their song “Bruises” in an iPod Nano commercial, Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly have just released their second full length on Columbia Records/Young Turks – their first album since 2008. While the opening mo-ments of the album sound like they come straight from a video game soundtrack, it quickly finds its footing. The album’s first single, “Amanaemonesia,” is equal parts 80s jangle and con-temporary Williamsburg electropop. What sets Chairlift apart from the try-hards are Polachek’s convincingly confessional lyrics, as in “Wrong Opinion”; “I lay my guts out on the table/ and you said no.” Eschewing the overwrought poeticism that

has become the common lyrical faire of indie stars, Polachek’s lyrics are better for their compara-tively raw simplicity. In Something, Chairlift have delivered a bare bones approach to electronic pop music and proved the maxim that less is more.

Hospitality Self-Titled (January 31, 2012)Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, the indie pop capital of the world, Hospitality’s new self-titled released by Merge records is not as inviting as their name would suggest. The track titles—“Friends of Friends,” “Sleepover,” “Argonauts,” and “Liberal Arts” in particular—read like the lineup card of a Wednesday night gig at a Williamsburg dive bar, and do little, if anything, to suggest what this band may or may not stand for. There is nothing particularly offensive about this music to be sure, but Amber Papini’s vocals and guitar do little to galvanize me either. The album begins promisingly enough—a simple chord pattern gives way to seemingly authentic voice—but by “The Birthday” the music has veered wildly toward Eastern Euro-pean folk worship. The end result is an album that feels com-pletely disjointed and without definable character. If trying to

please too many people at once is the worst sin a band can commit, Hospitality seems doomed to an eternity of flames.

by Kira ColeMUSIC REVIEWS

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Good Night Dear Etta - I’m republishing this chapter as a tribute to Etta James who recently past away, but left a lasting legacy.

Chess Moves It was an amazing time for me. My band -- the one I created with beau-tiful, moody, brilliant Tony Zito -- was the hottest ticket in Chicago. Frannie and Zoey could do no wrong. Fans lined up, critics ran out of su-perlatives.

Then, in a moment, it was gone. Tony wanted to finish his ‘serious’ rock opera and I wanted to do the Sonny & Cher show. I thought both were pos-sible. They weren’t. F&Z had been my life but Tony was done and I was done in. All I knew for sure was that music was my emotional liberation and I would make music and I’d make a living at it. I just didn’t know the next step. I drifted for a few months, and one day my dad opened the door to a magic kingdom. I walked through it, into the opportunity of a lifetime.

“Sweetheart,” he said in his ‘Daddy’s here’ kind of way, “I’ve got a cli-ent, a great guy named Ralph Bass, really knows the music business. He has a room you could work in.” A room? What kind of room? And who is Ralph Bass anyway?

I’ve always felt blessed by a heavenly force that helps guide me through periods of trouble and transition. This time, my angel landed in the form of a living music legend. Ralph was a record producer, writer and A&R man whose fingerprints had been all over the greatest black music since the 1940s. His list of collaborators was a who’s who of rhythm & blues: James Brown, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Lena Horne, Sam Cooke, The Platters and more. Ralph was a pioneer who brought black music into the American mainstream. And I was about to meet him.

I hopped into dad’s Cadi and we drove up Lake Shore Drive across the city to East 21st Street on Chicago’s South Side. We pulled up in front of the double glass doors of an age-stained red brick building. I had no clue what I was about to walk into.

Chess Records was, at one time, Chicago’s temple of rhythm and blues, home to the gifted, tortured and resilient legendary blues and soul singers. The ones who poured it all into infectious grooves, haunting melodies and heartfelt lyrics filled with love, rebellion, sex and bittersweet longing? Yes, Ralph was doing my father a favor but what did I know?

Of course, by the time I got there Chess was long past its prime. It had passed from its namesakes, the Chess Brothers, into the corporate hands

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of GRT. Still, there was a steady stream of greats who came to make their music. And there was Ralph, a tall man with shaggy light brown hair, a goatee, aviator glasses, cowboy boots and a Smokey Joe’s shirt unbuttoned just enough to reveal chest hair and a Star of David.

He shook my dad’s hand vigorously and flashed a warm smile in my direction. “Ya dad tells me you a singer-songwriter.” Ralph’s drawl surprised me. A middle-aged Jew talking pure South Side blues?

“Yes I am!” I said, sounding a lot more sure of myself than I was.

Ralph nodded, excited to have some fresh blood in the building. He led us down a long hallway lined with studios and gold records, opened one of the double doors and ushered us into a small, musty room. He turned up all the dimmers and looked at me with a glint in his eye. This is it,” he said. The studio was small, maybe 300 square feet. It looked unused and unloved. There was a gutted control room with wires hanging from every angle, funky equipment and a few broken chairs gathering dust. On the other side of the glass window was a recording area with an ebony grand piano, a B3 organ and a Wollensak reel-to-reel ¼ inch tape recorder propped on a brown metal folding chair.

I knew instantly that this was home, the new center of my universe. It became my office, my classroom, my writing retreat and rehearsal space. And I was the only white girl in the building, roaming the halls bursting with energy and making friends. Lots of them.

The energy of the place got my juices flowing. Within weeks, I found a new on-stage partner, Artie Feldman, and we resolved to become the white Marvin Gaye and Tammi Tyrell. Sometimes Ralph sent in one of the iconic studio musicians who hung around Chess to jam with us. One afternoon, the great session guitarist Cash McCall breezed in unannounced and started playing along to one of our songs as though he’d been in my band forever. I was floating on a cloud of sweetness and connection, the unspoken lan-guage between musicians. I was inspired and confident and happy. That was who I wanted to be all the time. Sometimes Ralph would stop by and listen to one of our new songs. His ear was impeccable and, just as important, he was honest. Everyone trusted him. A low-key “keep at it” was code for “this needs work.” When he liked something, he’d slap the nearest hand a hard high five. “That be the shit,” Ralph would holla. “Fire and brimstone.” I lived for those words.

Ralph, aka Big B, quickly became my main man. He was kind and generous, the perfect father precisely because there were no parent-child compli-cations. He’d mesmerize me for hours with his gravelly voice and stories about Aretha, Muddy, and Chuck Berry, how he discovered James Brown and Ike Turner in the same month.

I loved his stories. I’d track him down just to hear another one that would inspire me to run back to my piano to spill my guts trying to write the next “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”

“I’mo play you sumpin not many people get to hear,” Ralph said one swel-tering summer day. I followed him into a small, cold, soundproof room. He pulled out a tape from the countless treasures in the Chess vault.

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“Recorded this in the ‘50s,” he explained as he effortlessly threaded the half-inch machine. He cranked up the sound and blew my mind.“You know who that is?” He laughed at my bliss. “Thas Aretha Franklin. Thirteen years ol’. I was one–a the first to record her.”

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing – an otherworldly voice from an un-known dimension, already ripe. And I’m thinking “13? “Do you know who Etta James is?” he said, weaving another tape into the machine. One of the greatest blues singers of our time. She be the real thang.”

By the time the last notes of “All I Could Do Is Cry” poured out, I’d died and gone to heaven. “Ralph, you’re killin’ me. She’s a-MA-zing.”Ralph plugged me into the heart of my own music.

A couple of weeks later, just as I was walking through the Chess doors, Ralph pulled up in his ‘59 cherry red ’Vette. He rolled down his window and called out, “Stop by Studio A later this afternoon.” If Ralph was in-viting, I was going.

The lights in the studio control room were so dim it took a few seconds for my eyes to adjust. Then I saw him. A giant of a black man, all 6-foot-3, 250 pounds of him writhing on the linoleum floor, dripping wet in a white short-sleeved shirt and a loose tie, wailing into a microphone that was almost smothered by his large hands and thick fingers. The spiky rasp of his gut-shaking voice made the room -- and my world -- tremble.

Ralph stood at the board smiling like a little kid. “That’s the Wolf, Howlin’ Wolf.”

“Can you record him like that?” I shouted above the dangerous, wondrous decibel level.

“When it’s the Wolf you can.”

The Wolf pulled out his harp and his band kicked into overdrive. Everyone and everything was moving. I wanted to give out that kind of energy so badly it made my body ache.

Ralph was lost in the flow as though it were the first time he’d ever heard anything like this. And at that moment, I understood the secret of Big B’s genius. It wasn’t just his accomplished musicianship, production chops or flawless instincts. Ralph was first and foremost a diehard fan, passionate about the blues and everyone who had them, played them, sang them. It’s what set him apart and made him special. This was his love, and it was contagious. I was only too happy to come down with a bad case of it.

I was in a near-constant state of being blown away. I’d drop by a Tom Tom Washington session with full horns and strings or watch Corky Segal wail on his harmonica in front of his Segal Schwall band. I’d hear the aston-ishing Minnie Riperton run up and down four or five octaves over her band The Rotary Connection. I’d bump into Muddy Waters, Jerry Butler or the Dells. And then there were the Chess regulars, brilliant studio musicians like Phil Upchurch, Richard Evans, Morris Jennings and Louis Satterfield among them.

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I thought I was becoming a pretty seasoned vet, but Ralph always had an-other surprise up his paisley sleeve.

“Girl, we goin’ start about five. You don’ wanna miss Etta. Trus’ me.” By late afternoon the whole place was buzzing. The studio, maybe 1000 square feet, bristled with radio programmers, DJs, A&R and promotion people and reporters from The Sun-Times, The Tribune, Ebony, Jet and The Chicago Defender. This was going to be big, mind blowing, incredible.

As 5 o’clock turned into 6 the crowd, now about 75 in all, grew restless.“What’s she doin’, recordin’ a pop album?”

“Hey shuddup. It’s Etta.” The shouts were escalating when finally, at 6:30 the lights dimmed. Etta arrived and no one breathed.

Eerie strings, then drums and then the unmistakable Chuck Rainey bass. More strings layered into the fierce arrangement. Horns joined the strings, teasing and taunting over the heavy funk.

Chills rippled down my arms and back.

Etta emerged slowly from behind a black baffle. Maybe she was stoned -- hard to tell -- but she was definitely lost in the groove. I was so close I could see the glaze in her eyes and the veins pop in her neck. She closed her eyes.

“Out on the street the summer heat, boyfriend games, changing their names, pullin’ tricks, getting their kicks.” She growled the chorus, “All the way down let it ride...” Tears ran down my cheeks, I glanced at Ralph and he shook his head, “I know, I know.”

Etta was a hurricane, unfiltered and open. I lost consciousness of anyone or anything else in the room, or the universe. When the song ended, whis-pers rippled the room.

“She’s strung out again. “Nah. I hear she’s on Methadone, trying to beat the H.” Then Etta’s voice rang out again and it didn’t matter what any-one supposed. We were in the company of greatness, of genius. And we all knew it.

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Etta sang from a place I longed to find within myself, and I sensed that if I could find that place and bring it into the world, maybe I’d outwit the childhood ghosts that haunted me. Watching her, I was inspired to transform the damage and the dark feelings I’d been so good at hiding into something gritty and beautiful. Just like Miss Etta.

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INTERVIEW

WHEN DID YOU START JUDE?Jude is 3 years old.

WHAT DID YOU DO PRIOR TO STARTING JUDE?I was, and continue to be a Sales Rep in the garment industry. I Represent Jude as well as a beautiful, classic sportswear collection called Zelda. This means that I sell these lines to the stores that you shop in.

DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL TO STUDY DESIGN?I actually studied Interior Design at UCLA! I would say that Design is my passion, whether it be Interiors, or Fashion....I am a visual person, and beauty inspires me.

HOW DID YOU GET INTO FASHION?I started in fashion long ago, when I was in my 20’s. I’ve been in and out of sales all my life. I left for a while to do the Costumes on the TV show, “The Nanny”! I shopped and helped to find all the costumes for all the women on the show, including the guest stars and of course, Fran Drescher too. It was a lot of work and a great experience!!

I also had an Interior Design and Antique business for a while. I would travel to far away places a buy beautiful antiques and then show them at Antique shows. I have helped many home owners find their inner beauty as well.

WHAT INSPIRES YOUR DESIGNS?I am most influenced by comfort. I have lived in Los Angeles all my life and I love the casual life style here. I try to design things that are practical, comfortable, and of course beautiful and flattering!

WHAT’S MOST CHALLANGING FOR YOU AS A DESIGNER AND BUSINESS OWNER?

There are so many challenges as a designer to stay fresh and current and always be aware of the trends. Fashion is constantly changing. I find watching people out in the world, living their lives, reveals a lot of trends and inspiring styles.

Being a business owner has totally different challenges and stresses. Of course money is always an issue. “It takes money to make money”, that is for sure. For me, I just keep looking forward, never back. I keep doing whatever it takes to keep the machine well tuned. I write everything down! I work hard but I get great satisfaction from creating something that people really enjoy wearing!

WHO OR WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST INFLUENCE?My Mother had a great eye for beauty. Her home was always comfortable and stylish. I guess I learned a great deal from her. She always went out in the world looking her best and she got great pleasure from entertaining and sharing her talents with her friends.

AND FINALLY OUR QUESTION OF THE MONTH:WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LOVE SONG AND MAYBE TELL US WHY?

This question comes at a very relevant time for me because I just happen to be in a very new love with a wonderful man. We’ve known each other for years but just started dating a few months ago. However, I feel he has been in my heart for a very long time. “Make someone Happy” by Barbara Streisand is my choice for love songs! “Once you’ve found him, build your world around him”.

Judith MannJudith Mann is an American success story. Everyone loves her easy to wear, super comfy, Made In America clothing line. Her spirit, her smile and her infectious sense of humor are the icing on the cake.

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LOVE 101

The Beauty of Receivingby Lisa Zimmerman

In a world focused on giving, the gift of receiving is not often talked about or understood. Many people aren’t even sure what it means to be a good receiver, that is, to accept love and kindness with grace rather than discomfort.

Some believe the opposite of giving is taking, which has a much more negative connotation than receiving. Have you ever heard someone say, “Can’t you take a compliment?” It’s not taking, it’s receiving!

The beauty of receiving happens when you are able to accept a compliment or any gift with gratitude — without any need to explain, return the compliment, change the subject, or divert attention away from yourself.

When you truly receive you allow the energy into your heart. In order for that to happen your heart must be open and undefended, you must feel emotionally safe.

To experience being in “receptive mode,” picture your self grounded, shoulders back, heart chakra open, arms gently outstretched. You are connected to the earth and your center, breathing fully and deeply, and balanced energetically. This is an expression of Divine Feminine energy – the ultimate in receptivity!

You may be an excellent “giver,” but not a great “receiver.” Why is it so much easier to give than to receive? Because when you’re giving you are in control; when you’re receiving you are vulnerable. And that can be uncomfortable for several reasons having to do with emotional safety, a tendency to self-sufficiency (DIY), or associating receiving with weakness. Or it may just feel wrong to receive attention. If any of these are true, you need a healing!

Receiving is a spiritual practice. When someone gives you a gift, a compliment, assistance, opens a door for you – whatever – no matter what your head tells you, just say a heartfelt “Thank you,” and then when nobody’s looking, you can rub the goodness into your heart.

If you can’t receive, you can’t receive love. To be in the flow, you must learn to receive as well as you give. This is my wish for all.

Lisa E. Zimmerman is a Transformational Consultant, Avatar Master and Spiritual Teacher in NYC utilizing Intuitive Astrology, Deep Coaching, and other energetic techniques to enable clients to connect with their Authentic Self, speak their truth, find their purpose, and step into their power. www.soullevelsolutions.com

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Installing LOVETech Support: Yes, how can I help you?Customer: Well , after much consideration, I’ve decided to install Love. Can you guide me through the process?

Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?Customer: Well, I’m not very technical, but I think I’m ready. What do I do first?

Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart?Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to install Love while they are running?

Tech Support: What programs are running?Customer: Let’s see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and Resentment running right now.

Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However, you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed. Can you turn those off? Customer: I don’t Know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?

Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been completely erased. Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?

Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades. Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, “Error – Program not running on internal components.” What should I do?

Tech Support: Don’t worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before you can Love others.Customer: So, what should I do?

Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Release Attachments To Belief In Limitations.Customer: Okay, done.

Tech Support: Now, copy them to the “My Heart” directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming. Also, you need to delete Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back. Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?

Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually everything gets it at the proper time. So Love is installed and running.One more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you. Customer: Thank you!

LE

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A bowl of strawberriesA cup of cocoa powder1 tablespoon of honey2 tablespoons of sour cream1 glass bowlA facial mask brush or clean, soft blush brushA bottle of really good champagne… splurge if you can, you deserve it!_________________________________________________________________

Every year, some of us honor the romance in our lives on the 14th of February by going to dinner and making sweet love to our partners at the end of the night. And then there are those of us who might just curl up on the coach with our dog/cat, hook into a sappy Lifetime movie and weep into a glass of cheap wine. DON’T DO IT KIDS!

Here’s my plan. Instead of the thinking that there is no better benefit to looking and feeling beautiful than to share it with your loved ones, let’s share it with ourselves! Let’s dig ourselves this Valentine’s Day! Here’s what you’ll need to concoct a romantic evening for YOURSELF (or your partner if you are feeling generous!) that will delight your soul and your SKIN!!

Slice strawberries in half and put aside. Mix sour cream, honey and cocoa together in a small glass bowl. Whip up until nice and creamy. Use your brush to apply on clean dry skin. Open champagne, pour into your best glassware, drop in a few strawberries, crank up some James Brown, “I Feel Good…!”, and dance!

On a side note, give your taste buds a treat by dipping some strawberries into the left over mask. As a matter of fact you may want to lick the mask off your face, this is where a partner really does come in handy.

In any event, real beauty comes from how we honor our bodies, hearts and minds. Let’s not wait for a holiday to swing around in order for us to love ourselves a little more.

BEAUTY

You can catch Robin at BELLADONNA Face and Body Clinic230 South Robertson Boulevard Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Phone: 310.360.6300

by Robin McDonald

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Julie Hewett has created a stellar line of cosmetics straight from the heart, with passion, as a labor of love for her craft.

She is one of the foremost beauty makeup artists actively working in Hollywood today. and is also a member of the exclusive Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, of which there are only 150 members internationally in the Hair and Makeup Category. This honor is bestowed to those having demonstrated exceptional accomplishments in the art of Motion Pictures

An idea born of necessity on the set of Pearl Harbor , Julie needed to create her own line of long-lasting technicolor reds. The Noir Collection was the answer to the call for good, old-fashioned red lipstick made with today’s updated, more natural ingredients.

Julie’s philosophy has always been to work from the lips up. She was Inspired by her love of 1940’s French black and white films, where the eyelid was clean and the lips were a strong sensual focal point. Throughout history red lipstick has been an absolute beauty staple, like the “little black dress”. Embracing the divine, Julie has created these classic film noir colors which are ageless and timeless.

For every woman who never thought they could wear red lipstick, this is their line. Julie Hewett takes the intimidation out of wearing red. From sheer to matte with matching lip liners you’ll be confident and feel beautiful.

Julie saw that even in this overcrowded marketplace there was still a lack of absolute beauty classics. Collaborating with leading chemists, Julie has made lipsticks of the highest quality natural ingredients. The lipsticks are made of a Camellia oil base, which is said to be the closest to human skin oil, creating a perfect natural texture. Also using pure essential oils for fragrance, such as rosebud and orange blossom oil. Julie Hewett’s products perform to makeup artist’s standards.

Celebrities have relied on Julie Hewett’s exquisite eye for beauty for 20 years.

Julie has 20 years of experience working with such award-winning actresses as:

Barbara StreisandAmy AdamsSusan SarandonDiane LaneAnnette BeningJodie FosterNicole KidmanLiv TylerAnjelica HoustonHilary Swank

Winona RyderKate BeckinsaleMary Louise ParkerMandy MooreDebra MessingMiley CyrusEvan Rachael WoodMarisa TomeiBereneice Bejo

The ArtistSecretariatThe WomenSolarisLeatherheadsOcean’s ElevenNancy DrewThe Man from Elysian FieldsOcean’s ThirteenPearl HarborBecause I Said SoThe KidThe Good GermanCupid & CateRunning with ScissorsAmerican Beauty

FlightplanPaybackMrs. HarrisLethal Weapon 4Ocean’s TwelveMousehuntSpider-Man 2The PeacemakerIron Jawed AngelsInventing the AbbottsOpen RangeThe Last SongThe DescendentsThe Ides of MarchJack and JillMy Mother’s CurseCinema Verite

Julie Hewett our featured guest

Famous Faces Film Credits

MAKE-UP

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Film Credits

FEMME NOIR LIPSTICK - TRY THIS ON YOUR VALENTINE!

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OSCAR DE LE RENTA - Wish I could wear these without breaking my back. Funny thing is I have those socks!

PRADA RED WALLET - Don’t need this, but it wouldn’tit be nice?

VAN CLEEF & ARPELS - A Ruby and Diamond Ring, of 8.24 carats. A gift to Liz from Richard Burton, Christmas 1968SOLD FOR $4,226,500

FAVES

EMILY’S CHOCOLATE COVEREDFORTUNE COOKIES - Love these! They are my favorite gift to give and get especially on Valentine’s Day. Their sandwich cookies are out of this world! Hint Hint!!

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SPRING NAIL POLISH COLORS - I’m going with the Dior Forget-Me-Not. Hmm or maybe the MAC Toco Toucan.

VICTORIA SECRET - I really like the teddy and the shoes, but I have to say I’d love that that red divan in my bedroom!

EMI JAY -I live in my Emi Jay hair ties - It’s become my signature. My favorites are chocolate, navy, taupe and of course black. If they’re not in my hair, which is rare, they are around my wrist!

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This month remember, If you have the passion, fire and desire to live.

Take care of your heart.

Heart disease is the #1 killer of women in the United States.