My HELLO KITTY DEBIT CARD and other cute things of the day!

Puh-leeeeeeze look at this Debit Card....it is the cutest thing in my wallet! ha ha ha
Yes, I just got a HELLO KITTY DEBIT CARD...some banks offer free custom designs for your debit cards....I was flipping through their little book...and after like 5 pages of sports team card options..... I saw HELLO KITTY!!! It was free too!
Now my hello kitty card will rest safely in my Hello Kitty Pursey!!!

 Now for the cutest laptop bag I've ever seen! I got this super cute laptop bag from FLUFF, at Whole Foods, of all places to find a laptop bag! ha ha ha
I love this bag...it's padded inside and has 2 interior pockets, and velcro straps to hold your computee in place!
I absolutely love this bag...and the little doll face on it!!!
FLUFF makes other cute, funky, and super fun laptop bags too!

There was a little style snack for the day from your bestie, Kandee!

laptops and hello kitty....kandee

Fashionista: maternity style

Fashion through the Trimesters! ha ha ha

First Trimester....and not one of these items is a maternity piece of clothing!

(everything was from H &M, Charlotte Russe, Old Navy, or Forever 21!)...

as I searched through my closet today to find a shirt to wear...

my big belly...has grown even bigger....

I had about 4 shirts to choose from...

ha ha ha ha...

that is the true sense of creativity...

when you've got nothing to wear and make some outfit, out of that "nothingness"....

ha ha ha ha

My favorite pregnancy and ANY time items of clothing:

legging

long shirts over the leggings

boots

hats

and any shirts from American Apparel 

and all the stores I mentioned above!  hee hee

I'm thinking of doing a maternity fashion haul video...would that be interesting!?! Let me know what you think?

huge love from kandee and her getting even bigger belly....

They said WHAT!?!

My precious Jordan is a melting pot of nationalities...from me he gets a mixture of:

Danish, Spanish, Mexican, Native American, Swedish, Irish and a dash of English...

from his dad he gets:

Native American (Cherokee & Choctaw), Japanese, African American, English and Jewish...

I think he is so handsome...with all his many different pieces of nationalities...just like a beautiful mosiac...the more differences their are...the more beautiful it becomes!

and so much more interesting with all his combinations...

Once Jordan came home from school during Black History Month...

and told me what some unkind kids had told him at school:

"if this was back then,  you'd have to ride in the back of the bus!"

My reaction was: "what!?!?"

Jordan said: 

"you want to know what I told them?.....

I said, I'm kinda light skinned...so I'd actually sit in the middle of the bus!"

Me and Jordan both started laughing so hard!!!!

He is so smart and witty...I couldn't have thought up a better response!

It's a little ironic that people would leave all kinds of racist comments about my Jordan on youtube, the day before Martin Luther King Day...

Martin Luther King was an incredible man, with remarkable wisdom, and he showed God's love and wisdom to so many people filled with hate and anger...and so many people who were hurt and crushed...

here's a beautiful part from his famous, "I have a Dream" speech, that I love:

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

One of my Grandma,

Barbara Johnson's, favorite saying was about having boomerang joy...

you throw out a boomerang of joy and love, and it will always come back and fill you up with more love and joy....

some sad people throw out their boomerangs of hate and anger...and the sad thing is...it will always come back and hit them with a huge dose of hate and anger!

Let's start throwing out those boomerangs of love and joy! 
love and boomerangs....kandee

No power to the Haters!

"is this hater worth giving away my happiness to them?"....

NO WAY!

On Youtube, yesterday one of my "due date" videos got featured on the homepage....which means that thousands of people that normally wouldn't ever see my videos, will.

It means I will read some of the most discusting, evil, cruel and horrible things below my video....

Some people wrote things calling me all kinds of awful names...saying horrible things like they hope I die in labor and I can't even say the disgusting and cruel things they said about this precious baby that is still growing in love in my belly.

It went on to my other videos where people were saying disgusting and racist things about my Jordan...who is part African American, Japanese, Native American and English and that's not inlcuding all the nationalities that I donated to him.

Sometimes you need to take a break from something that is just spewing out badness....

as I read all these awful comments....

the ones about me are not nice...but when you insult one of my precious babies, or anyone that I love...it bothers me because I don't EVER want any of my loved ones to read that!

WE HAVE THE POWER TO LET THINGS OFFEND US....

I will not give my joy and happiness away to someone who is writing cruel things from behind the safety of their silly username and computer, or someone that cuts me off in traffic, or like all the grumpy people we come in contact with everyday!

The  DO NOT GET the power to take my joy away!

I will not give it to them.

My HAPPINESS is here to stay.

Instead of praying for people to be nicer to me....

I'm going to pray that no matter how mean people are to me...that I won't allow them the power to take an ounce of my happiness or peace!

No one knows us truly...people can hurl all kinds of assumptions, opinions, and cruel things at us...

but I will not give them the honor of having the power to let it effect me!

Since I am ready to have baby any day know, and wisdom speaks to our hearts that we need to surround ourselves with positivity, love and happiness...

not cruel and evil things (like the comments were...which I finally went on youtube and disabled)...

it was time to recharge and take a break from reading that!

I want to thank all my precious Kandee Family for leaving each one of your kind words and comments...

you have no idea how much I treasure the love in everything you take time to type!

I feel like my heart is this big treasure chest filled with sparkly jewels of love that each one of you have placed there....

thank you so much!!!!

I love you all so dearly...and I thank you so much for letting me into your hearts!

Let's stand strong....and say, "sure you are entitled to you opinion, however wrong, ridiculous, or mean it might be.....but I am entitled to not let anything you say be powerful enough for me to hand you over my happiness!"

huge love...and hugs...your kandee

Peek in My Closet & today's make-up!

 I am in the process of "unpacking" my closet....(and yes I think I will be having an "ebay-garage-sale" after going though a bunch of my stuff...I'll post it here or on facebook...but it won't be for a few weeks or so!)

I have fallen in love with a hanger! These "skinny hangers", that are velvety, and feel like they are flocked, like a christmas tree- are amazing! Not only can you fit like 50% more clothes in your closet because of their "skinny-ness"....but your clothes do not slip off the hangers! I love these...I got mine for super cheap at Marshall's and in hot pink!...they were way more expensive at Bed Bath & Beyond...and they only had cream and black.

DAILY QUOTE: 

FASHIONS FADE, STYLE IS ETERNAL - Yves Saint Laurent

And here's a special treat for my "blog family"...it's just a fun "non-tutorial-ish", peek into my daily make-up routine...and some hair teasing...and Blaker running around in the background! ha ha

Let me know if you like this little bonus video...this will not be on youtube either....I want to do some special stuff for all my "kandee blog family"....I heart you guys and all your comments that make my heart so happy!!!

HAVE FUN AND COME WITH ME AS I GET READY!!

dancing while putting make-up on.....your kandee

It's My DUE DATE!!!!

Hi my precious Kandee family! I can't wait to introduce you to new baby!!!
So this is the day for baby to show up...or so the calender says! ha ha ha
This is also the only "pregnancy portrait" I have available to show you!  (which I took myself...as most of my photos are...ha ha ha) I see other people with blogs...and it looks like they have a photographer with them at all times to take pictures of them....all I have is me, maybe my mom or my kids to take a picture of me! ha ha ha

My mom (who used to have a photography business) took some really awesome, kinda rock n' roll -ish, pregnancy portraits of me when we were in NYC...but she can't find the memory card anywhere!

(maybe it will pop up! ha ha ha)
don't forget to check my www.kandeeland.com blog for all things baby-ness!

I have a big day today...especially if baby "Princess & the White Stick" shows up today!

This is my new all-time favorite video....

due date lady.....your kandee

Don't know how I forgot to BLOG about this!!!!

Look at the EXCITEMENT on my face!

I was so excited when I won The Cover Girl Beauty Guru Challenge....

 I felt like I won the lottery or something amazing.....

 but there was even something more amazing....

that I forgot to post!

How could I forget to share this!?!

oh my golly!

this was one of my first "Congratulation" cards that came from ELLE MAGAZINE to lil' ol me!!!!

The wonderfully sweet, beauty editor at ELLE Magazine, Emily Dougherty...she was so fun and nice...I felt like we had been friends forever! She INVITED me to go into the ELLE BEAUTY CLOSET!!!!
This is the moment I felt like the kid that won the, "shopping spree in Toys R'Us"!!!!

Me with Emily in the beauty closet!!! I wish I had a beauty closet at my house! ha ha ha

There was every brand of anything...and things I'd never heard of! Beauty Heaven!

 She told me because I won, I could pick out a box full of treasure!

I wanted to scream with excitement! I had never owned a DIOR eyeshadow palette before...and was so excited....I still have it, and only use it on rare, special occasions! ha ha ha

Just wanted to bring you with me into "real" beauty closet at a magazine!!! ELLE Magazine! I can't believe that was a real day in my life!!!! I will treasure it always!!!

beauty closets!!!!! your KANDEE

2 DAYS TIL DUE DATE!!!!

 2 days.....til baby due date!!!! This only took me all day to upload and edit...so I really hope you like it! ha ha My computer wouldn't turn on...then it wouldn't let me upload the from my memory card....so on my almost last day of not having baby...I spent the whole day working on this...I super hope you enjoy it! ha ha ah
(And remember if you wanna see my baby blog and a special video that is not on youtube..click here: www.kandeeland.com )

Here's my earlier today!!!! Coming up with baby names...and showing how I put my car seat cover together...well after a minute I figured it out! ha ha ha)

2 days...til baby-ness (maybe)...kandee

3 Days Til Due Date!

The Countdown has begun!

3 DAYS UNTIL MY DUE DATE!!!

Here's my PREGNANCY UPDATE VIDEO....check out all my other pregnancy videos on my "newer" and "incredibly un-popular" (ha ha ha) other channel on youtube, for all things non-make-up-y:

www.youtube.com/thekandeejohnsonshow

 

You can read my personal bloggeroonie, KANDEELAND, where I talk about my daily life, my babies, being preggy, and all kinds of other random things...

www.kandeeland.com...

and on with show...

bring on the Love Belly!!!

Come one, come all! Get your tutu's, corsets, and hats here!

ME and Cosmo 

from the store SPEED on Melrose Ave...he is so hilarious...and fab-U-lous at putting together fun outfits!

(He is the one I met in my Shopping on Melrose video...and I think he is just wonderful...since then we've become friends..had dinner, he has come help style a photo shoot for me...he styled this shoot from the picture below...that was his amazing GOLD Luis Vuitton Bag! Cosmo made the corset...and Stephen made the hat!)

...and loaned me some amazing outfits!)

I got a bunch of people asking where I got this hat and feather jacket!

Well, Cosmo's friend Stephen...made the hats and these amazing jackets at SPEED! HE had a sewing machine right in the store and would work away at his creations!

Me and Stephen

(who is from the UK...love his accent!....he is like the John Galliano of Hollywood!

Do you love his pink-ness or what? HE made the jacket and hat he is wearing...I tried to get him to sell me the pink hat!

ME & Stephen

on another day....(this was after my window-leg accident)...I love the hat he has on in this one too!

If you want to know where to get the tutu's, hats, jackets or corsets....CALL SPEED (the store on Melrose) and ask for COSMO (make sure to tell him that Kandee sent you...he will be extra nice! ha ha ha):

(323) 655-8498

you can ask for Cosmo and he can tell you where to get the hats from Stephen...

here you come and watch as I take you shopping with me...and I first meet Cosmo... 

Brightly colored TUTU's.....KANDEE

Small Towns breed people with BIG Creativity

I was born in LA...and moved to a small town near Lake Tahoe when I was some age right before 12-ish.

And the first chance I had to leave...I took it...left for Asia when I was 16...after that I lived in all kinds of states...and finally back in LA....

I miss LA...I've lived all over LA...from Hollywood to Orange County to Santa Monica...and I've loved everywhere.

I am currently living back in the "mountainy" area near Lake Tahoe and Reno...

and even though I may be desperately missing LA...my creativity isn't limited to where I am!

I will have a creative haven no matter where I live...I will make my house a creative sanctuary ...ha ha ha...It will be like an art gallery/creative studio...ready to rival any studio in any big city! ha ha ha

If you are living somewhere that is a small town...that you feel isn't creative enough.... 

you are the creativity..not the city you live in!

Here's some super cool and creative people that have come out of the same area I live...

just to show you....amazingly creative people that have come from small towns...they all are taking up residence in LA now...

IAN RUHTER 

- he will be world famous for his photography soon,

his images amaze anyone no matter where he is, no matter what he is shooting...

he does things with photography that no one has thought of...

JUSTIN SULLIVAN 

- fun, sweet, and knows the best places to eat, it's hard to decide which is more captivating...his personality or his photography...as well as being a creative force to be reckoned with...and he takes a darn good picture.

 ADAM RINDY- 

another friend that shows you, creativity is not where you came from "the creativity comes from your heart"...Adam smiles makes you smile...(he was, ME and Tessa's sidekick when I got my SUPREME necklace, and he's the one that gave me the Ashbury sunglasses...

...he had just shot for their catalog. Please check out this blogpost about this wedding he shot...so cool!

TESSA YOUNG AKA DJ TESS LOVE-

my pretty friend...who is a skillful wardrobe stylist, has been in the make-up artist world, has modeled and is now a super cool, girl DJ! We've worked together on shoots- I dazzled hair and make-up...and she dazzled the wardrobe..the funny thing is we met in LA, even though we were both from the same "land of the boonies"! ha ha ha

BETHANIE TRIPLETT

can do some awesome hair...she is adorable and even though we are both living  far too north of LA for our liking...she looks more stylish than most girls in LA on any day! (photo of Bethanie by our fab friend from above, Justin Sullivan..whom I met through Tessa! ha ha)
Me and Bethanie have worked on fashion shows together...and man she does some of the best glam hair ever!

SOME AMAZING MAKE-UP ARTISTs and TALENTED PEOPLE FROM SMALL TOWNS TOO:

Kevyn Aucoin - Louisiana

Billy B-  Mississippi

Christian Siriano (project runway fame)- Maryland

Many more...but I'd have a super long blog! ha ha ha

Some of my most creative friends don't live anywhere near a metropolis of any kind! My friend who made my watches...lived in the middle of the forest for while...and left LA to go to Portland...

LAWRENCE NEWMAN- 

he has too many skills and talents to list....he is a furniture designer and craftsman now, BUT he made all my cuff watches that I have...he doesn't make them anymore, but I think if he did he'd have a blooming business!

I hope this inspires you...

no matter where you live...

where you feel "stuck"...

it takes more creativity and bravery to be creative in a small town...

stand out of the crowd...be different...

some people from "little" towns...have the biggest creativity...

especially when your only inspiration was your own thoughts...

it's easy to be creative in a creative place...but the true test is when the only inspiration is you!

Shine that creativity from where ever you are...

your house in a little town in Texas can be cooler than any New York City loft...I've seen some of the coolest dressed, most individual-styled people in places other than NY and LA!

If you in a big city...hooray...I love NY and LA! And if you're not...

it doesn't matter...the internet can be your window to the world...

keep rockin that style no matter where you are...

and your creativity doesn't care what it looks like outside your window...it just cares that you're creating!

HUGE LOVE AND THE BIGGEST DOSES OF CREATIVITY....

love the girl who lived on a ranch and had to go out and feed our cows and Llamas, but would listen to old jazz records and paint for hours when I came home from school.....kandee

Thank you POPCREATOR!!!

Dear Popcreator,
I may have never met you in real life...but you have given me a gift that I will treasure always. You have captured my essence in probably countless hours of editing...to make this beautiful glimpse of the joy I love sharing with the world!
I can't thank you enough...this is like a virtual photo album...of video and pictures...
tears fell down my face as  I watched this..and I could feel the love put into it...and as I read the comments below the video...my heart definitely grew in size, feeling everyone's love...
my heart is so happy...and I want you all to know how much I love, cherish, and appreciate every love-filled word you write....
I am humbled and honored to be a part of your hearts and lives...
"souls don't need to meet each other...they can feel the love of someone they've never even seen up close with their own eyes".....
and if no one has told you yet today....

"I believe in you and I LOVE YOU!"

.....your kandee

Strawberry Shortcake Hair...

i wish my hair grew out of my scalp this color! ha ha ha My little Alani and I both wish our hair was this color.
(this is actually a wig I used to do the Jessica Rabbit Make-Up Look i did!)

I've had red hair before...it was pretty short, right below my ears....but I loved it! ha ha ha I should do a blog about all the different hair styles, cut and colors I've had! Right after I finished beauty school...I would change my hair color almost every month!

my platinum hair (AKA white..ha ha ha)...nad my super short cut was one of my favorites too!
I'm feeling a new hair change coming up!!! Not sure what I want to do....but something fun!
haircuts and strawberry shortcake hair..kandee

Treasures in my PO Box!

I hadn't gone to my PO Box in a looooong time...it's not so near my house. I thought the postman was joking when he said he needed a dolly to bring it all out! hee hee

OH WHAT WONDERFUL TREASURES AWAITED ME IN ALL THIS CARDBOARD COVERING!

Look at all this "fun-ness"...that was just waiting for me at the Post Office! Everyone knows me so well...I get things that I absolutely love!!!! My kids love it...they sit or help me open things and we all get so excited!!! (The Kitchenaid wasn't a gift...just another box that needs to be unpacked! ha ha)

 I love this lollipop...it is the size of my head!!! love everything in this picture!!!

I won't publish everyone's names on the internet here...but I must tell each of your precious heart that sent me a treasure box...brightened my kitchen, my day, and all my little people's day so much with your love-filled-and-beautifully-wrapped treasures from your heart!

Even my friend, Cardi sent me a new feather earring because I lost my last one! I love this one...and she knows how I love turquoise! hee hee You can email her here: cardibeutler@hotmail.com

and sometimes..the decorations of the boxes, cards and letters are so beautiful I just want to frame them!
Thank you everyone who sent me treasures of gift or treasures of words..in precious hand written cards and envelopes! I read every card and letter...and I wish I had time to personally respond to each one! Thank you so much, it felt like Christmas and my birthday all rolled into one!
huge love....and rhinestone encrusted letters...your kandee

The day I got Supreme!

There are things I love that sit on my dresser...my supreme necklace...my turquoise bow ring that I got in London at Camden Market...and my yellow flower ring my sister go me, my leather cuff I made, and my leather watch that my friend Lawrence made me.

This was the day that I got my Supreme necklace at the Renegade Craft Fair in downtown LA, with my friend Tessa, who's a fellow make-up artist, a dj, a model, and just a cool girl!

we went to a sample sale too...we found nothing except little knitted hats!
Legging: Forever 21 Boots: vintage store belt: one I've had for like 1o years Orange Shirt: Urban Outfitters Orange Earrings: Forever 21 White Tank Top: Hanes Men's Tank Top from Wal-Mart Purse: Urban Outfitters Sunglasses: Ashbury Big Necklace: I can't remember!

this was the very next day...with my SURPEME necklace...it's pretty much been my constant neck decoration since! ha ha ha (can you even see it in this picture?! ha ha ha)

(maybe I'll wear it while I'm in labor! ha ha ha)... (only 7 days left til baby's due date!)
SEE!



Thanks Cutlass Supreme for making a car with such cool emblems that some cool girl made a necklace out of it, for me to buy....kandee

How to Highlight Cheekbones Like a Pro!

People always ask me how I get a "dewy" skin look even though I make-up on...(foundation, concealer, powder...all that jazz)...and how I highlight my cheekbones!
So here's my Pro tips for highlighting those cheekies and a bonus nose slenderizing and straightening trick!

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
cream highlighter (I've tried so many, and these are  the ones I've tested on tv and film shoots, in magazines and in HD, and on location for live appearances on tv and weddings...and these are the ones that look amazing..not all crazy sparkly and glittery!)

~I love SHELL (cream color) from MAC (Shell is great for medium to dark skin tones) a soft beige pink

~Pearl (cream color) from MAC is good too (great for more fair skin) a light gold with icy shimmer

~SIN from Urban Decay is gorgeous too! A beautiful Champagne color.

And remember my "make-it-last" rule-  

WHENEVER YOU USE A CREAM, YOU NEED TO LOCK IT IN PLACE WITH A POWDER ON TOP

 My Favorite powder highlight colors are:

MAC Iridescent Loose Powder in SILVER DUSK- a pinky beige with silver shimmer-

*great for pale to medium skin tones

MAC Iridescent Loose Powder in Golden Bronze - a golden brown with bronze shimmer

*great for medium to dark skin tones

And this is the best make-up brush for applying a highlighter...

A Duo Fiber (it will probably be made of Taklon) Make-Up Brush~ it will give you the lightest application, which is essential for highlighting

WHAT TO DO: (besides watch the video below!ha ha ha)
STEP 1~ First apply your foundation like normal. Do any contouring...and blush....LAST THING
YOU PUT ON...think of it as the sprinkles on top of the icing!
PAT your cream highlighter onto the top of the cheekbones and down the center of the nose (as I show in the picture above in the hot pink areas)
STEP 2~
Apply the loose highlight powder on top of the cream with a Duo Fiber Brush

It's FAST, EASY and adds so much glowy, dewy, cheekbone goodness!

Do the steps in the video on the bridge and plane of your nose, to make your nose look straighter and more symmetrical too!

Now watch me demonstrate how to do it!

highlights and sparkles....kandee