Look Through The Eyes of Charmed Eyes
I want to introduce you to a group of professional makeup artists in Puerto Rico called Charmed Eyes. I saw their work at a fashion show, Ruins Night Runway Fashion Show, a while back and they did an amazing job.
Namir Perez is a professional makeup artist that is excelled in all types of makeup. Her fantasy makeup is amazing. She is the founder of Charmed Eyes, which consist of eleven fabulous makeup artist and stylist.
They also do body painting and are called for many activities. I have seen their work and was at awe. It is simply amazing. Their underwater pics are simply stunning. They have worked for renowned designers on the Island for events and photoshoots.
I want to share some of their work with you because I want you to see the talent that these professionals have. Enjoy!!
Marta
Plus Size Brides Finally Have A Go To Source
I’m a wedding junkie. One day I hope to plan the wedding of my dreams, but until then I will continue to look through the countless bridal magazines and websites to gauk at other and their special day. But have you ever noticed, there are NO plus size bridal pictures or issues addressed in any of those popular bridal magazines. Wedding planner, Shafonne Myers noticed that too so she started the first plus size bridal online community, digital magazine and now printed magazine, Pretty Pear Bride.
Pretty Pear Bride Magazine
Aesthetic Design Style House/Ruby Leonne Plus is honored to have Pretty Pear Bride Magazine as its client for Public Relations and Distribution!
The quarterly magazine features wonderful editorial features and photoshoots, tips for the plus size bride including travel, planning your big day, and a plethora of other information designed to help the plus size bride navigate though her special day. The magazine promotes vendors, salons, and shops from around the country that are experts in plus size bridal information and products. The magazine also features submissions from real brides boasting about there special day and promoting plus size love.
Pretty Pear Bride Magazine will also be featured at Full Figured Fashion Week in New York City this upcoming June. We are excited for PPB and Shafonne!
Feel free to help us welcome Pretty Pear Bride to the Aesthetic Design Style House/Ruby Leonne Plus family and stop by their website, www.prettypearbride.com and be a fan on Facebook! The plus size fashion industry continues to blossom and Ruby Leonne Plus is still here promoting and advocating for the plus size woman!
Janelle
Ruby Leonne Merges with Aesthetic Design Style House
I’m overwhelmed by the responses we are receiving about the deletion of the Ruby Leonne blog. I’m so happy this blog has touched so many people around the world. It’s unbelievable!
Yesterday, I talked to my friend, advisor, partner in crime, and owner of Aesthetic Design Style House, Julia Rutland, about my dilemna…should the blog stay or go and how can I make it fit with what I’m trying to do in my professional career? We came up with the PERFECT solution! Ruby Leonne with merge with Aesthetic Design Style House!
What does that mean to you? Ruby Leonne will now be known as Ruby Leonne Plus. Ruby Leonne Plus will still be an advocate to the plus size community. It means Ruby Leonne’s blog will continue to exist, but as an addition to the Aesthetic Design Style House blog. It means Ruby Leonne Plus will be able to do public relations, marketing and sales for plus size designers and boutiques (just like I do for Aesthetic Design Style House). It means Aesthetic Design Style House will now promote and sell plus size designers along side it’s standard size designers. Ruby Leonne Plus will still have guest bloggers, talk, and promote the issues that concern you as a plus size woman.
The Facebook page will still be going away in 14 days. Make sure you join the Aesthetic Design Style House fan page for all Ruby Leonne Plus updates and blog post.
Any plus size designers that would like to have their product in stores or would like representation, please email me at janelle@aestheticdesignstyle.com. We are looking for plus size designers to sell and promote.
I like to thank ALL of Ruby Leonne’s supporters and readers and hope you will follow me through this journey!
Janelle
Goodbye Ruby Leonne Blog
I have been struggling with this for a long time.
I started Ruby Leonne as an outlet for me. RL was a personal fashion blog to help establish my career in fashion public relations. I wasn’t the best blogger, but it was exciting to see other people read my stories and share my voice. I wanted to let people know what was going on in my backyard within the plus size fashion industry. I was contacted by a few people to guest blog for the site. Two years and many guest writers and blogs later, you have what you see before you as Ruby Leonne.
I felt at the beginning of the year, I lost my creative voice. RL started to get so far away from the vision I had for it; it became a chore to do. It was no longer a blog about my personal life…my style…my love for fashion. I looked at it one day and the only thing that was mine was the logo and name (that I derived from a family member). I lost my passion for it and the other writers carried it. In February, I went to the writers and wanted to shut it down. I shortly decided to keep with the blog until November 2012, when the domain name would run out.
So I decided to continue the blog and work through whatever internal issues I had, but just recently we’ve had some issues with WordPress and/or computer issues not loading pictures. So I’ve (and the other writers) taken this as a sign that it is time to end the Ruby Leonne blog.
Ruby Leonne, the brand, is NOT going anywhere. Ruby Leonne is my family name and I will still be conducting business in the fashion industry with Aesthetic Design Style House (ADSH), with my friend and colleague, Julia Rutland. I will also use the pen name Ruby Leonne as I guest blog, edit, write, and conduct public relation services with ADSH. Ruby Leonne will rebrand itself and be a force in the Midwest fashion industry.
I would like to thank all our writers, supporters, friends and readers. It was a GREAT journey, it is time for RL to focus on it’s new journey. Goodbye guys!
I will be shutting down the Facebook page March 23rd and just stick with my personal Facebook page…make sure you friend or subscribe to me! You can also follow me on Aesthetic Design Style House’s FB fan page. Make sure you subscribe to Castelar and Marta’s Facebook page as well.
Janelle
Hotel Sponsor of Fashion Passport: Plus Size Edition
We now know the official hotel of Fashion Passport: Plus Size Edition, the Verdanza Hotel San Juan en Carolina.
This beautiful hotel in San Juan is offering Fashion Passport: Plus Size Edition visitors $85 a night for single and double rooms and junior suites at $115 a night! Fashion Passport: Plus Size Edition is so excited about partnering with the Verdanza Hotel and truly appreciates it’s efforts in supporting the plus size community!
Check out more about the Verdanza Hotel official hotel of Fashion Passport: Plus Size Edition!
802o Tartak Street,
Isla Verde Carolina, Puerto Rico 00979
Caribbean Bridal Expo
Getting to cover the Caribbean Bridal Expo in Puerto Rico was amazing! I arrived and I was in literally in bridal heaven.
Bridal Fashion Show
Infoboda is the Caribbean’s largest and most widely recognized producer of trade shows for the wedding industry. With over 12 years of event excellence, over 15,000 people visit Infoboda events annually. The Caribbean Bridal Expo had 300 exhibitors showing everything that couples will need on their wedding day, honeymoon, or new home.
Nelly Fortuño, Fashion Passport Model at the Eurythmia Booth
You could search for Photographers, Videographers, Catering Services, Receptions Locations, Bridal Gowns, Men’s Formalwear – Tuxedos, Bridal Registry, Cruises, Honeymoon Destinations, Hotels, Wedding Destinations, Travel Agents, Florists, Wedding Coordinators, Gift, Gown Preservations, Health and Beauty, Hotels and Air Traveling, Invitations, Insurance and Investments, Mortgages, Jewelers, Limousine and Transport, Music for Ceremony, Rehearsal Dinner/ Restaurants, Lingerie, Furniture Stores, home furnishings and among others.
Leonardo's Fashion Show
Marta with Vanessa Velez at her Photography Booth
Everything was so organized. I got a chance to go by Vanessa Velez’s photography booth. Her husband, Enuel Viera, is also an amazing photographer on the Island.
CAKE!!!
Furniture
Blossom Boutique had a beautiful booth showcasing their lingerie and the cakes that were on exhibition to die for!
Blossom Boutique Booth
They also had a Marilyn Monroe look alike posing with guests, I loved her. I am posting some pics I took so you can see how beautiful everything was.
Marilyn Monroe look alike
If you ever get a chance go to one of these events, you will not be disappointed at all…trust me!!
Blessings to all,
Marta
Curvy & Thin Models Unite
Last weekend, something amazing happened in Puerto Rico for the Plus Size Community!
Ana Garcia- Photographed by Vanessa Velez
Nanette Rodriguez, owner of Blossom Boutique, had a fashion show at the Bridal Expo in San Juan. She wanted to use a plus size model for the show modeling her beautiful lingerie, but there was something different about the fashion show; the plus size model would be modeling with the beautiful Element models that are all thin!
When I heard the news, I was a bit surprised because it had never been done and this event attracts thousands of people. Rodriguez contacted Ana Garcia and she said yes, because she wanted to walk the runway with the thin models to let everyone know curvy models can also model lingerie and look great.
Ana Garcia with Nanette Rodriguez owner of Blossom Boutique backstage
I went to cover the event for Ruby Leonne and I am not going to deny it I was a nervous wreck; it had never been done before and I didn’t know what the reaction would be. I went backstage and talked to the model who was so relaxed and that surprised me. I got a chance to meet Ann La Place, the Element director, a very beautiful and charming lady. The models were also very beautiful.
I sat in the audience in the middle of curvy girls and thin girls. I was so anxious for their reaction. Ana was the first one out and she looked fabulous! She exuded confidence and she rocked that runway! The comments were great, no negative response from anyone; I saw a smile on some plus size ladies when they saw her saying that finally they saw a model they could relate too.
Element Model- Lingerie Blossom Boutique
After the show was over, I asked the plus size ladies what they thought about the plus size model and they were so happy because they could see themselves in that beautiful lingerie. Then I asked the thinner ladies, their reaction surprised me. They loved it and told me the model looked beautiful just like the other thin models and then I was so relieved because Nanette Rodriguez’s idea was a hit.
A curvy model and thin models united on the runway in Puerto Rico…priceless. It was an experience I will never forget!
Blessings to all,
Marta
Castelar at the Movies: The Grey
Sadness can give a person a lot of grief and drive them into a path that is full of bitterness and remorse. John Ottway who is portrayed by Liam Neeson is a man who has lost his sense of purpose and he feels that his life is meaningless since there is a big void in his heart that keeps telling him his life is worthless. This is a person whose personal solitude is driving him into an abyss of madness that is hard to escape. The only thing that keeps him going is that he is waiting for one memorable moment where he will face an arduous challenge that will surpass his own expectations.
In this film, there is a tumultuous plane crash which puts the cast of this movie into an isolated piece of land where such natural elements like the weather, the terrain, and the dangerous animals that stalk them will make them fight for their lives. In other words, they have become the prey in a dangerous landscape which pits them against the ferocious side of nature which doesn’t have any pity or remorse for any type of weakness and it will bend your will if you don’t adapt to it.
It takes a great amount of tolerance and grit to face this savage environment that can strike fear into the human soul in a variety of ways. There are many lethal animals that lurk in the darkness and they will hunt any intruders that don’t belong without mercy. All of the survivors are constantly stalked by a pack of wolves that protect their territory. This is a bloody showdown that leaves a trail of suffering, fear, and death. After all, this is a ferocious fight for survival which plays by its own rules.
The scenery of this film perfectly captures the harsh ordeal these men go through and it also shows the viewers a bleak atmosphere which creates a disturbing environment that is ominous and full of raw power at every turn. Another positive aspect from this movie is the sound is simply spectacular as it instantly immersed me into what was happening in this film. The effectiveness of building a great amount of tension was terrific as there are some moments that are truly startling.
The Grey is a journey where its main characters reflect on their own lives while cherishing the memories that drive them to extreme lengths to try to survive. Furthermore, John is a man that is haunted by the memories of his past and in a way he is seeking for a way to end his own personal curse. Fate can be a very cruel and sinister force, but it can also let us know how much we want to live if we are confronted with the specter of our own mortality.
Castelar
New Entertainment Spot on the Island
Amazing news for people who love to have a good time on the Island, Broadway Theater and Lounge will be opening their doors on March 3, 2012. I spoke to Ektor Gomez one of the administrators and he told me the concept of Broadway is a place where people can go and express their art in all forms and dimensions. There will be music, theater, comedy, and more etc.
It will be a place where you can go with friends, relax, and have fun for a couple of hours; forgetting your worries and just having a great time! I can assure you it will be a hit, because I went to a musical this year that had many of the stars that will be participating in the shows and I loved it!!
Ektor Gomez and partner Jay Avalon ~ Administrators of Broadway Theater and Lounge
I wish you the best of luck in this new venture Ektor and Jay and God willing I will be there to support you on opening night.
Blessings to all,
Marta
Sensual Delights Debut
I love blogging about what is going on with fashion in Puerto Rico especially when my curvy models get recognized.
Designer Nelly Trinidad
Fashion designer, Nelly Trinidad, will be presenting her new collection named Sensual Delights with fellow Designer Yolyne Negron at the Marriot Hotel in San Juan on March 2, 2012. I loved the name of the collection because Castelar García, who is also a writer for Ruby Leonne, came up with it and when she presented it to the committee they loved it so congrats to him.
I met up with her last Saturday because she wants me to cover the event. She was telling me her collection will be inspired on the movie Burlesque. Her designs will be sexy and classy and when her models hit the stage they will blow it away!! Trinidad told me she will use some curvy models because she feels there are beautiful curvy models in Puerto Rico and she wants to give them a chance to shine along with her straight models. I loved that idea.
She showed me part of her collection which was simply beautiful! God willing I will be there on March 2 and I know this will be a fashion show that will be the talk of the town.
Designer Yolyne Negron
Good luck Nelly I admire you because of your professionalism, your talent, and your humbleness. I am honored to call you my friend!
Blessings to all,
Marta
Me encanta escribir sobre la moda en Puerto Rico especialmente cuando envuelve a mis modelos con curvas. La diseñadora Nelly Trinidad y su asistente Yolyne Negron estarán presentando su colección “Sensual Delights” el 2 de Marzo de 2012 en el Hotel Marriot de San Juan. El nombre fue sugerido por Castelar García, otro de los escritores de Ruby Leonne y cuando lo sometieron al comité les encanto, felicidades para él!
Designed by Nelly Trinidad ~ Photography: Luis Fosse EGO Magazine
Nelly me cuenta que su colección será inspirada en la película Burlesque y cuando sus modelos entren a la tarima la van a retumbar. La diseñadora dijo que va a usar modelos plus porque piensa que también son tan bellas como las delgadas. Pude ver parte de su colección y esta preciosa. Dios mediante estaré allí para cubrir el evento. Le deseo mucha suerte a Nelly, la admiro por su profesionalismo, su talento y por su humildad, es un honor para mi llamarla mi amiga!!
Bendiciones,
