Happy New Year!
Hope you all had an amazing year but if not, guess what? There’s a new one RIGHT HERE! Holla, 2019! đ I love beginnings. I love fresh starts. I love symbolism. Which is why I cleaned my house spotless, took out the trash, did the dishes, cleaned out my closet and kitchen cabinets – giiiirrrrlll,…
All about hair and make-up
Does the fact that I offer hair and makeup services to all my clients DESPITE the fact that I rarely wear makeup (donât even own foundation and donât even get me started on contouring) make me a hypocrite? I donât think so. Hear me out. First of all. One of my three big rules in…
Whatâs this life all about?
I have been going thru an existential crisis of sorts lately and Iâve been trying to understand what is the point in all this. What is the point in life? Are we all just born to work and dream away our lives, work ourselves to the bone, fantasizing about that one moment when we have…
On being a social chameleon
I like to think of myself as a social chameleon – all part of my immigrant background, I’m sure. You see, when my family moved to the United States, I wanted nothing more than to blend in. So I started adapting – quiet and studious with my straight A friends, swearing like a sailor with…
Senior Portraits, Izabelle
You know how you just meet people and you like them instantly and you have no idea why? That’s how I feel about Iza. I met her and I liked her instantly. End of story. She’s modeled for me a few times now so when it came to her senior pictures, OF COURSE I had…
Summer
 I donât exactly know when I went from being âsilly-no-need-to-worry-thereâs-plenty-of-time-laaaaterâ Irina to âstressed-sleep-deprived-work-hard-hustleâ Irina. It was so subtle. A night spent editing until 3-4 am here and there, a few hours spent polishing an article instead of going to the lake with my family… next thing I know I found myself red-eyed, eternally tired and…
âA normal lifeâ
I wish we could get rid of the concept of a normal life. What the fuck is that? I have friends who went thru horrible divorces and friends who married their soulmates. And you know what? Theyâre all ok. Theyâre all on amazing paths that should never be compared because our path belongs to us…
“Photogenic”
I hate that word. What is that?! Photogenic. What, some people are just meant to live a life of shitty pictures? HECK NO. To me there’s no such thing as photogenic or not photogenic. There’s good photographers and bad photographers. That means, if you’ve ever been photographed by a pro and hated your pictures, it’s…
Welcome back!
Phew! It’s been a good long while since I wrote on my blog but I’m back, I’m fired up and boy do I have a LOT to say! As you can see, my website has undergone a quiet fab transformation – more on that later – but I wanted to wait until it was finished…