anna-lee and jesse do stuff

Pink

2012-01-14T01:34:00.000-08:00

I'm in Vegas right now for the Miss America Pageant, and then I'm flying off to the east coast for Wen shows on QVC, and right when I get back to LA a Wildfox shoot! It's going to be a crazy, crazy busy month, leading into an even crazier February!

Starting off the year right!

Daydream

2012-01-06T01:36:00.000-08:00

More Wildfox photos! Daydream T's and Pony Tale were released today from the ss2012 line. I love them!!!! It was such a fun shoot!

See more here and here!

Photos: Kimberley Gordon

Model: Amanda Booth

Hair: Anna Lee Fiorino

Make up: Carlene K

Visualization: Emily Faulstich, Kimberley Gordon

brushes.

2012-01-04T00:21:00.000-08:00

one of the most annoying thing about makeup brushes is finding the one you need out of a bunch. so i came up with this convenient way to organize my brushes, the rocks hold the brushes up and apart, and i have them organized in a specific order to coincide with the way i apply my makeup. i love how they all stand up and stay neat!

oooo i should be getting some Sigma brushes and Bdellium brushes soon. with all the rave reviews on youtube, i got curious. i can't wait to try them!

for sale.

2012-01-02T00:09:00.000-08:00

just a few of the shoes and boots going up for sale very soon on eBay. stay tuned for updates!

new years eve 2012

2012-01-01T00:05:00.000-08:00

perfect timing.

2011-12-31T23:59:00.000-08:00

Even Cowgirls get the Blues, WILDFOX, SS2012

2011-12-21T17:28:00.000-08:00

SHE WAS 16 SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH A COWBOY SHE HAD A PALAMINO PONY

THEY LIVED FOR ADVENTURE HE BROKE HER HEART SHE WENT WEST

SHE BROKE THE LAW

"Kissing is the supreme achievement of the Western world." -Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

PHOTOS BY EMIR ERALP
STARRING
OLGA MALIOUK
ALI STEPHENS
CRISHELL STUBBS
CHANTAL STAFFORD ABBOTT

MAKE UP BY CARLENE K
HAIR BY ANNA LEE FIORINO

STYLING TEAM
CASSANDRA KELLOGG
EMILY FAULSTICH
KIMBERLEY GORDON
MEREDITH LEYERZAPH

EDITED BY KIMBERLEY GORDON

POLAROIDS BY EMILY FAULSTICH

CONCEPT BY EMILY FAULSTICH & KIMBERLEY GORDON

MADE POSSIBLE BY JIMMY SOMMERS

Wildfox Couture’s Spring 2012 collection is a nod to the western film genre, encapsulating its movie stars like Faye Dunaway and Clint Eastwood on set in costume with big hair, cowboy boots, prop guns strapped to their hips, and the romanticism behind spaghetti westerns of the 1960’s. Designers Emily Faulstich and Kimberley Gordon say, “We drew a large part of inspiration from the eloquent, romantic book by Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues – which is littered with incredible euphemisms and powerful insights into the lonely but astonishing lives of outcast cowgirls. Robbins reveals the power, pain, and humor behind the life of a solitary cowgirl with words that are moving, touching and hilarious. We hope to have captured the same feelings with our new collection.”

Spring graphics are inspired by vintage style western t-shirts and western gothic romance with crosses and guns, cow skulls and birds, and old sayings in western fonts. The color palette is an array of soft pastels focused on lavender, baby blue and baby pink, with splashes of Desert Sun neon yellow and Cactus Cooler tangerine.

spellbound

2011-12-18T22:29:00.000-08:00

Here are my cutie boys! We try to take mookie everywhere so he gets socalized in a lot of situations. (for those who ask, we do still have cooper but mookie learns better on his own. Once he's been in enough situations we'll bring coopy.)

High Five!

So last night at the salon's holiday party(pix to come!) our good friend samantha was wearing the most amazing dress. she got it at Spellbound Sky which was hosting a sample sale for brian lichtenberg and grey antic. so today we decided to check it out hoping there would still be some stuff left and OMG there was!!! major score! I got 2 brian lichtenberg dresses, 2 tank tops and 6 grey antic desses for crazy cheap!

first brian lichtenberg dress... with hood!!!(jessica simpson shoes)

second brian lichtenberg dress... amazing!(Lanvin shoes)

one of the grey antics dresses. they are all so cute!

Marc

2011-12-17T00:03:00.000-08:00

i totally forgot about these booties! they are so cute! i had them in the closet for some reason and not on my shoe shelf. i scored them last year in a 70% off sale they were having in the store on Melrose.

-----------------
dress - H&M
boots - Marc Jacobs
bag - rebecca minkoff

Made Well.

2011-12-16T00:49:00.000-08:00

----------------
blazer - madewell
dress - urban outfitters
boots - co-op barneys new york

hollywood to silver lake to dtla to yummytown.

2011-12-14T00:39:00.000-08:00

i got these tory burch shoes from nordstrom rack on a crazy sale. I LOVE THEM, but they kinda hurt... so i had to change into boots half way thru today. oh and i love my hair! thanks again chaz dean!!! thaaaank you!!!!

los feliz / fred 62 run

2011-12-14T00:37:00.000-08:00

Breaking news...

2011-12-03T23:55:00.001-08:00

yes i'm a nerd.

The Chop.

2011-11-28T21:00:00.001-08:00

yay! i got my hair cut!

i was thinking something like this, but maggie and jesse talked me out of it.

so i told chaz he could cut it however he wanted. :)

and i love it! it looks so amazing and my head feels so light now. it really shows more of my natural hair color without losing too much of the ombre effect! thank you chaz!

Mmmmmmmmmm. Pork Belly

2011-11-17T23:32:00.001-08:00

so this is the most delicious thing in the whole world right now... it's the berkshire pork belly at gingergrass. this was our second meal there this week. it's SO GOOD... mmm hungry now. if you haven't been to gingergrass before now is the perfect time, they added a bunch of stuff to their menu and it's all super delish. check it out!

and this is of course the utility/phone box dealie that Anna and I had our first real conversation next to on our first real date for an hour or so waiting for a table. there might not have been an annaleeandjesse without it. :)

new tattoos

2011-11-14T23:20:00.001-08:00

Yay! we got our anniversary tattoos today! Adam @ Dark Horse Tattoo did them, and it was a great experience. Anna came up with the idea this morning when we were printing out samples of fonts. We'd been thinking of ideas forever and had been really back and forth on a lot of them... sometimes the best ideas just pop into your head at the right time. We drove down there without an appointment and luckily got them done right away. They turned out so rad! They both really compliment the tattoo's we got from Taku (who is super rad and also at Dark Horse - he's done almost all of Anna's tattoos) last year for our anniversary.

mini post

2011-11-13T20:03:00.001-08:00

We've been crazy busy with the pup and work still but we snuck out to the rose bowl flea market after an early morning booking today. we were looking for house stuff, but the selection was pretty disappointing and everything is TOO expensive. boo. and i didn't buy that hat, as you can see it looks too small! no hat for me :(

i did score a cute bag for $15 bucks though, so it wasn't a total loss.

And last night we brought mookie out for some art appreciation at Greene Park Gallery. He was the star of the show!

bonus cute brothers pic.

update

2011-11-13T12:00:00.000-08:00

October you were a crazy month!!! Packed with shoots. Wen By Chaz Dean shows. Traveling back east for work. Traveling to Hawaii for work with Wildfox. Yes. I finally can say I've been to Hawaii! Rockin out lovely hair with my lovely clients at the studio. A new puppy and a few concerts here and there.

And it seems that November you are gonna be busy too. It already has been. And I can't believe it's half way over.... Just came back from a Wen by Chaz Dean work trip, booked and busy days at the studio, did a commercial casting shoot for Wen by Chaz Dean international market! And a super quick early booking this morning. Jesse is shooting tomorrow, and I get to see my man in action! I love it! Please don't stop! *knock on wood.. Oh wait, it's not, Starting November 26-December 13. I'll be back east on a 18 day work trip for Wen by Chaz Dean on QVC. He's gonna have a TSV and lots and lots of shows going on! So watch and buy! :)

So yea, December you're looking pretty busy too! Yes! I'm ready! Loves it!!

..... O. M. G.

Exciting news that I haven't mentioned here. after NY fashion week, I was invited to join L'Oreal Professionnel Master Session Artists team! Yeaaaaa!! I am so excited and I am very honored to be part of an amazing group of passionate and majorly talented group of hairstylists! I can't wait to rock it out with you all!

anniversary (finally)

2011-10-30T00:25:00.000-07:00

we finally got to go out to a fancy dinner for our 2 year wedding anniversary... just a month late! haha. we've been crazy busy between work and the new puppy. we had dinner at rivera which is CRAZY delicious, but definitely one of those expensive/tiny portion kinda places. their drinks were amazing! best mojito/margaritas in LA (according to jesse) and the chocolate torte with caramel and pineapples is not to be missed(and you wont miss it, because you'll probably still be hungry after your entrees)... but the best part of the night was the floor in the entrance to the met lofts next door. it lights up! kinda like piano floor in Big but without the music.

ps. HOW CUTE is my new clutch that i scored at the American Apparel flea market sale for $1. ONE DOLLAR. and yes, it's all i've been talking about. in fact this whole outfit is a total score. vintage skirt/jumper pants for 2 bucks thrifted, tanktop 4 bucks from AA, shoes on sale at UO for 29 bucks(originally 300+), and hat for 9 bucks.

*missing are pix of the appetizers and desert... they got munched asap.

billboard

2011-10-20T23:22:00.000-07:00

we finally saw the billboard for Chaz Dean Studio! yay! Jesse took the photo and he also designed the billboard. double yay! i'm so proud of him! it looks sooooo good. it went up a couple weeks ago, but with everything that's been happening we really haven't had a chance to go see it! it's so rad!! and huge!! if you are in west hollywood on the strip, it's at sunset and alta loma facing west on top of the actor's studio building.

4 eyes.

2011-10-18T20:59:00.000-07:00

I got new frames!! Yaaaaay!

As much as I love my prism glasses, it was time for options since I can't really wear my contacts anymore :( boooooo dry eyes!

A few nyc trips ago my friend Rigo took me along with him to check out the Warby Parker showroom. He ended up getting three pairs and I thought he was cray cray but omg now I know the reason why he did because I ended up ordering three frames myself!

I fell in love with the crosby in black, huxley in tortoise, and tenley in burgundy. I'm tempted to order another crosby in greystone....and I kinda want the griffin in greystone too! Omg.

3 pairs of prescription glasses?!?! And you're thinking holy sheesh is this girl made out of money??!? And does she really need that many glasses? And the answer to the first question is no. And to the second question is yes, I like having lots of options :)

So check this out...This is the best part:

These glasses are not just made of pure awesome but they're so freaking affordable! $95 for prescription anti reflective lenses plus cool hip frames designed by warby parker. and if you have a super strong prescription like I do, (like you can probably see the future when you wear my glasses), for an extra $30 you have the option to the super thin lenses.

So yeah, its a crazy good deal, the price i paid for 3 pairs of glasses is not even half of what i paid for my prisms + prescription lenses. So yes, thank you Warby Parker for giving me options to style my outfits even more.

Ps.
They have this awesome home try on program where you can try on 5 pairs at no cost for 5 days so you can check out and think about what frames you wanna rock out to. Love!

Go to warbyparker.com for more info. Oh and this isn't a sponsored post, i'm just crazy happy with my frames! :D

hello, my name is mookie!

2011-10-14T21:51:00.000-07:00

We have a new member of the family and his name is Mookie! He was a present for our 2nd wedding anniversary.

Also you might notice my hair... check it out! it's a dusty pink ombre! how rad is that? I did it a few nights ago. The last Thakoon runway show, charlotte free and this cute little asian girl from Singapore inspired me to add the pink. I didn't want it as intense and I really wanted it to work well with my ombre. I started with "party time pink" mixed in some 613 cleanser to dilute it to make a nice muted organic pink(with the added benefit of being a conditioning treatment - win win). I think it turned out awesome!

Most of the pictures we have of him look like this. He really likes(to eat) the camera.

not sure what's going on here, but you can see he gets along with cooper(kinda).

Wildfox Resort 2011

2011-10-03T14:49:00.000-07:00

Yay! Here is Wildfox Resort 2011 shoot that I did in Palm Springs! It looks amazing!!! It was such a fun day! Click the link or scroll down to see all the amazing photos!

NYFW 2012 : Anna Lee in the street.

2011-09-29T00:34:00.000-07:00

NYFW SS2012 : Candids

2011-09-29T00:30:00.000-07:00