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text 2021-06-13 08:24
FREE E-BOOK- The BIG PICTURE

FREE E-BOOK

The BIG PICTURE

A Young Woman, a Camera, an Uncompromising Ethic

June 13-17

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Young, talented, ambitious, Freyja Brynjarrson’s a photographer struggling to crash the art establishment, the challenges presented by her family, and keep true to her uncompromising ethic.

Fate places her on the front line of a political demonstration where soldiers open fire on civilians. She photographs death for the first time and the intensity makes everything she’s done previously in art and life seem inconsequential.

The current government is concerned these highly charged images could sway the voters against them. With a closely contested election only three days away, they’re doing whatever they can to attempt to suppress their publication. But someone far more unscrupulous than government spin-doctors also wants these images destroyed.

Gunnar Brynjarrson, Freyja’s eldest brother is the head of an illegal narcotics empire. He’s concerned about the opposition party’s platform to decriminalize drugs. His sister’s photographs could influence the outcome of a close election and put his business in jeopardy.

As events unfold, Freyja slowly becomes aware of the far-reaching impact the billions of narco dollars have on the government, the economy, friends, family and even herself. Something insidious has infected society and like a superbug, it’s resilient, opportunistic and appears as a mutation in the most unexpected places.

Freyja refuses to compromise and is intolerant and unforgiving of those who succumb to this evil or are complicit in their acceptance of it. If she stays at home, she’s afraid she’ll be infected and never attain success on her own terms. She takes an assignment with an international agency photographing the chaos and casualties of Mexico’s drug war. Freyja soon discovers she’s shot only one frame of ‘the big picture’.

The Big Picture focuses on dramatic action, zooms in on political intrigue, and takes a candid snapshot of modern romance. The plot also reveals how narco dollars, overtly and covertly, influence every level of our lives; the wars we fight, the governments we elect, the impact on healthcare, and most importantly and tragically, our personal relationships.

 

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... (there are) moral issues in The Big Picture. The drugs, corruption, the way people with beliefs and principles slowly drop them in the treadmill of politics and re-elections. What drug money does to each of the Brynjarssons. Freyja's ethics against Gunnar's power."
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text 2020-12-16 06:12
Planning to Get Pierced? Know These Things

No matter whether you are tiptoeing into the world of piercing with the basic earlobe piercing or you are trying something different, there are a few things that you should know. If you want that perfect piercing which does not make you uncomfortable even after so many weeks, there are a few things that you should know. The first and unsaid rule of getting piercing Sint-Niklaas is to pick a trusted and experienced professional.

 


See, what happens is that when you go to someone who does not have much knowledge about piercing, things might go wrong. And you would not like it. However, if you choose an experienced professional for the work, you can easily trust the process because you know things would not go wrong.

Besides this, there are many other things that you should consider. And to make things easier, we have made a list of all those things here.

· Believe Your Instincts: A pop quiz. Can you tell us what will you do if you enter a piercing and you get a bad vibe? Well, you should walk away. If you don’t feel comfortable in a piercing studio, you should walk away.

· Clean and Clean: The next thing that you should do is clean your piercing. After getting pierced, people don’t understand that cleaning is important. They take hygiene lightly. And because of this attitude, most people even develop a certain kind of infection. If you don’t want this thing to happen to you, make sure that you are not taking hygiene lightly.

· Take Your Time: It is obvious to get excited after getting pierced. But remember that you should not change the original earring for at least 2 months.

If you think that you are ready to get that beautiful piercing Oost-Vlaanderen, you can head straight to Inksane Tattoo & Piercing. It is a trusted tattoo and piercing studio that works with a team of highly trained European tattoo artists. The experts working here have got years of experience and they can easily help you get that perfect piercing.

Besides piercing, this incredible studio is also known for tattoos. One interesting thing about Inksane Tattoo & Piercing is that it only works with a team of professionals who have got years of experience. So if you are interested, contact Inksane Tattoo & Piercing today.

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text 2020-09-08 19:38
Giving You Everything

Giving You Everything

 

This is the first Single entitled; Giving You Everything by Sharon Musgrave from her new EP project entitled Jewelweed. The EP reflects her thoughts put to music, she relates it to the weed that grows in abundance with all it’s healing properties, JEWELWEED. Giving You Everything, is a free download!!! click on the link below if you would like to have the mp3 and spread the word.  https://www.sharonmusgrave.com/jewelweedpt1.html

Sharon Musgrave has a distinct soothing vocal style with with an added blast of wail. She’s traveled the world with top notch musicians. She wrote a top 10 Pop hit called “Fascinating Rhythm,” with Producer, William Orbit Then she accompanied Jazz Musician Julian Joseph on his album Language of Truth.  Her slick musical accompaniment of cool funky grooves, accompanies her jazzy style with positive energy that is consciously tasteful. Her EP drops this September.

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text 2019-10-04 13:22
Market yourself and build Fortune as a Makeup Artist

So, you are a BHI Academy Makeup Artist now about to launch yourself in this cluttered world, where the competition is cut-throat, and opportunities are scarce if you are not prepared well to take this world by horns. But if you have the skill and the attitude the sky is the limit, and the horizons are bright and widen enough to wing your aspirations to succeed with leaps and bounds. Opportunities are unlimited your calibre could be. Their Makeup Artist course in Mumbai is the most sought course by the makeup artists.

 

Said so far, let’s take a deep dive in the vast sea of opportunities available for the BHI Academy Makeup Artist. Being a professionally trained artist, you have many paths to tread on like Hollywood and Bollywood, Films and Television, Beauty contests, Runway events, Fashion shows, Red carpet theatre, Bridal makeup, Spa and beauty, Costume makeup and much more.

 

Wow! There are a plethora of opportunities waiting for you to see you soaring high and becoming a millionaire in the very first year of your career itself. You have to select your pick and then believe us there’s no looking back. That’s for sure.

 

You could start as a Freelancer working on your own without any constraints or restrictions. A freelancer has to do several tasks, like Profile building, managing IT, writing creatives, collecting feedbacks, invoicing and above all, marketing himself.

 

 

But what exactly it takes to be successful?

Marketing yourself, and that’s it. If you have learned to market yourself, then now being a makeup artist, you need nothing else. Skills get you in the game while building on your skills make you play the game, and marketing makes you win the game. What matters is winning and nothing else. So, if you want to be successful, you need to market yourself well.

 

 

But is marketing you that tough?

No, it’s no so. You need to adjust your sail in line with the market, and the good fortune will roll on, and prosperity will keep you taking from one milestone to another. You follow a few basic steps, and you are on the runway to take off.

 

 

Believe in yourself. Look smart and stand confident

You are what you perceive. Your perception about yourself matters the most. We become what we thought about ourselves. We all have strength and weaknesses. We have to bank upon our strengths and reflect on our unique talents which can stand us out of the crowd. You have to present your professional achievements to stand with proud. Painting a trustworthy portrait of yourself is vital to appear confident. If you are successful in presenting yourself as confident, then it won’t take you more than 30 seconds to convince your client and bag the business. Your confident look gets you in the business and keeps you stay ahead of your competitors. Your confident look stems the client’s faith in you that only you are the one who can deliver the results, what they are looking for.

Trust us; you are born awesome; you have to make people see-through.

 

 

Refine your pitch and Master it hard.

You are judged within 30 seconds of your speech and many times just in 7 seconds from the time you start your pitch. Your elevator pitch is the most important to get you your clients. Spend days not hours, but master it the way no one could. You may be amazing, but a poor elevator pitch can kill the business, and not once but every time you open up. So, while introducing yourself, see to that you are at your best or otherwise don’t open the client. Look smart, make confident eye contact with a pleasant smile, give a warm handshake and deliver your elevator pitch like no one delivered earlier. Your tone should be clear, crisp, to the point and crafted with the best possible relevant words or phrases and above well memorized with precise perfection to not to murmur, repeat or get stuck up.

 

Your pitch should be encouraging and compelling to make the client enjoy the conversation and remain continued till you receive the advance of your new order.

 

You can imagine that you are in front of the President of India, who is about to board a flight to some foreign visit, and you are given with only 2 seconds to make your mark and persuade him to take you along on the board.

 

Start Networking

Once mastered your elevator pitch, it’s time to go live. Meet people, chat at live events, connect on social platforms, walk in your local market, talk to your competitor’s clients for availing better service from you. There’s nothing better advertising than the mouth of words as Mark Zuckerberg well said that nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. As per him, a trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising.

 

Attend events, parties, shows, expos, fairs, exhibitions, seminars, and wherever you feel, you could meet prospective people. Exchange cards, do follow up, send thanks message, drop greetings and remain connected. They can become your clients or forward you referrals or can instead become your word of mouth advertisers to their knowns. The world is too big, and so should be our approach.

Your one appreciated makeup of some client would get you with more than a hundred referrals, as we all love boasting compliments, we receive on looking beautiful. And, complemented for looking attractive is something one can’t get tired of boasting among their family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances, and all others.

 

 

Become social

Mark Zuckerberg, well said that when it comes to a mass audience, social media is an easy and affordable way to promote yourself to a mass audience. Building a page and expecting people to come on their own, doesn’t work. You have to be regular on social media and work hard continuously to have a visually strong social media branding. Whether it’s Facebook or Instagram or Pinterest, you have to make a profound impact to delve deep into your clients or prospects heart and mind. You have to be always their attention without a miss. Your single day miss on social media should engulf you with missing you mails. You should keep on posting your makeup photos and celebrity meet ups daily and keep a close eye that people are watching and responding positively.

 

 

Build a portfolio

Building a good portfolio deliver results and makes a difference. A good portfolio let you network with the best industry professionals. Your portfolio is as good as you are present in real and speaking about best of your yourself. Every posted photograph of your work is the testimonial of your expertise, professionalism and the magic you can weave, what others can’t. It also informs others with all whom you have worked and the level of quality work you have done for them.

Your every makeup matter. What can impress one may not impress all. But if you have a good collection of work, then it can’t happen that someone visited and was left unimpressed and untouched. Must select your photographers who align with your style and taste, and are either an equal or a better brand than you are. Any mismatch can deliver a negative impact on your business, and if you have to remain ahead of the curve, everything matters, howsoever small it may be.

 

 

Care your clients without selling

Attention is short, and so is the time when you have to impress a client. It’s better not to sell while trying to attain attention. The catch lies in serving and caring for not selling. We all are interested in what matters to us and what is relevant as per our requirement and interest. People are more interested in knowing how you can help them rather what you sell. It’s better first to understand the client and then start from what they need and not from what you sell. Your sales technique should be gentle, polite, calm, touching and rejuvenating. Otherwise, it would become noise and a disturbance to the client bringing in the damage, not the business. Never bombard your information and never be pushy to your clients. Your honesty and shining passion make your clients interested.

Inform your clients what you can do with their present outlook to make them look beautiful, impressive and awesome, rather than telling them what all you can do or what all you have done. What interests them is themselves and not your success or boasting.

 

 

Create engaging videos

The best way to quickly launch yourself is to make videos on YouTube. The YouTube videos of Makeup tutorials, Beauty advice and other product reviews are rocking the internet. Your videos are essential to let people develop an interest in your services besides making them have a closer look on how you can make a difference for them, and how your skill set is different from your competitors.

Ensure that your videos are in High Definition, attractive, focussed and appealing with a clear voice and friendly tone illustrating the quality of your services you are delivering rather than your sale pitch.

Partnerships on YouTube will also supplement your income in addition to building your business. You could float videos regarding other interesting topics or live incidents and beauty shows to keep your clients informed and educated about future trends and latest updates.

 

 

Don’t give up taking further training

Training keep you updated, in demand and in line with the latest prevailing trends to let your services rock like hotcakes. It’s the training which keeps you evergreen in the market. You are known for your knowledge and demanded your style. Training gets you both. Otherwise, it doesn’t take long to become obsolete and outdate in the industry.

 

 

Conclusion — Training is good, but marketing yourself is what makes the difference. You may be the best-talented makeup artist but if you don’t know how to promote and market yourself to get business, then where’s the point in getting trained and being a talented artist, besides learning so much. Marketing yourself is not challenging the way it scares; it’s easy. But it needs a consistent effort and wants you to follow a particular tested track which has already driven many before to grand success.

The makeup industry is on the boom as never before, and it’s the time to grow and make a fortune. We need to be trained, learn trends, do our marketing and earn revenue. The makeup artists in the world are flourishing around.

 

BHI Academy has launched various courses to cater to the sprawling demand of the makeup artists. Their makeup artist course are designed to be accepted and appreciated internationally. These courses are created by the experienced hardcore professionals who have provided their personal services to Hollywood and Bollywood celebrities besides excelling in several beauty contests and fashion shows. Their courses are in line with the futuristic international trends that are in huge demand across the world.

They have recently announced for their next Makeup Course for those who want to make millions buck, a grand career and crave to enter the social circle of Bollywood and Hollywood celebrities. Their makeup artists are spinning money like anything.

 

Their courses are making rounds and are the favourites of all aficionados who settle for nothing but the best whatsoever comes the way, and whatsoever it takes.

They have limited seats left with more than eighty percent of the seats booked the very day the course was launched. If you wish to be a millionaire makeup artist then don’t waste time and get yourself enrolled before it becomes too late.

 

Source: https://medium.com/@bhimakeupacdmy/market-yourself-and-build-fortune-as-a-makeup-artist-de630eae839

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review 2019-09-24 10:55
Release Day Review! The Trouble With Christmas (Creedence, Colorado #2) Amy Andrews!

 

 

 

More great reading experiences for this week! Today, I am off to Credence, Colorado where an artists convinces her surly landlord to be her "fake rancher boyfriend who just loves everything Christmas"! Enjoy and don't forget to add THE TROUBLE WITH CHRISTMAS by Amy Andrews to your shelves!

 

 

 

 

 

All Suzanne St. Michelle wants is an over-the-top, eggnog-induced holiday with her best friend in Credence, Colorado. But when her hoity-toity parents insist she come home for Christmas in New York, she blurts out that her sexy landlord is actually her boyfriend and she can’t leave him—Joshy loves Christmas. The more twinkle lights the better.

 

Rancher Joshua Grady does not love Christmas. Or company, or chatty women. Unfortunately for him, the chattiest woman ever has rented the cottage on his ranch, invited her rich, art-scene parents, and now insists he play “fake rancher boyfriend” in a production of the Hokiest Christmas Ever. And somehow…she gets him to agree.

 

Apparently, he’ll do anything to get his quiet life back. At least there’s mistletoe every two feet—and kissing Suzy is surprisingly easy. But in the midst of acres of tinsel, far too many tacky Christmas sweaters, and a tree that can be seen from space, he’s starting to want what he lost when he was a kid—a family. Too bad it’s with a woman heading back to New York before the ball drops…

 

 

 

All she wants in an over-the-top, eggnog-induced holiday with her best friend, but her parents insists she comes home for a boring Christmas in New York, so Suzanne St. Michelle does what any sane rational woman would do, she claims her landlord is really her boyfriend who really loves Christmas. He does not love Christmas or company or chatty women, unfortunately Joshua Grady finds himself agreeing to Suzanne’s charade.

 

This ‘Credence Colorado’ holiday romance an emotional gripping tale with the most delightful hokiest Christmas ever to tickle the readers' holiday spirit . Although a bit hard to get into at first, the story soon picks up and the strong, captivating characters subtly draw readers into their story and before readers know it, they are hooked. The chemistry between Suzanne and Joshua is quite electrical and leaps off the pages but this relationship is one where the hero fights tooth and nail against opening his heart and letting anyone due to his past and the heroine has her own issues to deal with, so while this couple ‘fits’, the relationship is full of sparks, clashes and emotional turmoil that keeps things quite interesting. 

 

The plot of the story happens at a steady pace and is quite suspenseful as readers wonder how this unlikely couple will manage to pull this elaborate charade. This results in lots of chuckles and fun, especially as the couple go to some pretty cut throat negotiations to get through this holiday and readers just have to turn the pages to find just what will happen next as it spreads some holiday cheer the readers' way. 

 

 

 

 

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THE TROUBLE WITH CHRISTMAS is the 2nd book in the Creedence, Colorado series.

 

 

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Nothing But Trouble

 

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Amy is an award-winning, USA Today best-selling Aussie author who has written seventy contemporary romances in both the traditional and digital markets. Her books bring all the feels from sass and quirk and laughter to emotional grit to panty-melting heat. She loves frequent travel, good books and great booze although she’ll take mediocre booze if there’s nothing else. For many, many years she was a registered nurse. Which means she knows things. Anatomical things. And she’s not afraid to use them! She’s just moved back to her central Queensland roots taking a sea change in the pretty little coastal town of Yeppoon where she gets to stare at the ocean all day.

 

 

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