I have super exciting news! I am in six episodes of the groundbreaking series Magic Funhouse on Fullscreen! Here is the press release that just came out!
Get ready for season two of Magic Funhouse. The series will return with all-new episodes later this month! The series stars Brandon Rogers, Elise Christian, Alex Diehl, Paulette Jones, Jude Lanston, Nandini Minocha, TJ Smith, Jess Weaver and Monique Parent.
I decided to make a living as an artist. We all have to have day jobs though and I decided to try to make YouTube my day job. I had the wonderful benefit of Unemployment Insurance to cover my expenses while I learned to shoot and edit my own videos. I quickly discovered that having a good youtube channel is just not enough to gain attention, so used help from The Marketing Heaven to build a following. Being a youtuber is so much more than a job though! Making these videos showing all I have learned in my 25 years in the movie business has been so emotional
how to earn money on youtube and cathartic for me! But the question remains, can I earn a living from it? I don’t know the answer to that yet. This is my first month with no safety net. This is why I paired my overhead down as low as I can – so that I can make it through these lean times. SHAMELESS PLUG SINCE IT’S THE END OF THE MONTH: See that little “i” in the upper right hand corner? I have Fan Funding enabled. If you like my videos and the message of positivity I am trying to spread to women my age, you can contribute! One dollar once a month…..Thank you!!!!!
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Where can I buy the products that you use in your videos? is a question I get asked a lot. Many of the products that I use in my videos are things I have collected here and there, but a lot can be found on Amazon. Here are the links!
Makeup For Ever Ultra HD Foundation
Mac Cosmetics Yogurt Eyeshadow
Nars Blush/Bronzer Duo, Orgasm/Laguna
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The absolute hottest, most on-trend thing you can be right now is… yourself.
unique |yo͞oˈnēk| adjective – being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else
Week number three of my RutBusting and I started out strong! The beautiful spring weather had me all excited to bust out those pretty, girly spring looks – I’ve been pairing Keds with dresses my whole life and it’s exciting for me that a look I have always done is in right now! Talk about the mountain coming to Mohammed…..
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This was tough week for me on my RutBusting exercise. That closet full of brown, copper and beige doesn’t excite me now that I have silver hair. I am forcing myself to dress in something other than yoga pants and t-shirts but relying primarily on pieces I already own, because I’m on the total starving artist budget right now. Staying fashion forward with minimal shopping. I’m “shopping my own closet” and trying out new trends using what I already own and here’s what I learned this week:
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All too often, low budget movies will try to save money by having actresses do their own makeup. Which can be a good or a bad idea depending on the skills of the actress! Here is a basic “natural” classic make-up look that works on women of many ages.
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I have strong opinions, am terribly frugal, and have been around the block a few times. Here are a few of my favorite things. Blenders. Face creams. Makeup. Hair. Decorating. Cats. It’s all here. The favorites list. I’m literally walking around my apartment and listing all the things I would recommend to my friends.
The chandelier seen in many of my videos is acrylic and four feet long. Super dramatic and gives me a punch of glam, that simply hangs on a hook for less than $100. Buy them in a two pack and put on either side of the bed for a sexy, Hollywood Regency bedroom. Self-Adhesive Removable Wallpaper is a life changer for stylish apartment dwellers – no more Navaho White!
Crimson Vixen to Silver Fox: Going Gray
It’s been a long time since I’ve had a post for you and I apologize for that. Life has been full of a lot of interesting changes! I just turned 50 which is (yikes!) a huge milestone. I made the decision to move back to California and follow my dream of being an actress. Hollywood is not known for being kind to 50-year-old women and I moved back to LA to pursue an acting career at an age when most women run screaming from it. Along that vein, I decided to embrace my age and not fight it. Most of the women that I know who are 50 years old are trying very hard to look 35. But if a movie or a TV commercial wants a 35-year-old there are plenty of real 35-year-olds so I decided to stop trying to look younger and to embrace my age. There is a shortage of 50 year old women who look 50 years old. Crimson Vixen to Silver Fox. Going gray is a business decision. I think it will lead to more work and that’s what I made the move for. To do the work that I love!
Photo by Jeffrey Byron
It’s good to be home! In the ten days since I moved into my Studio City apartment, I’ve had one audition (Yay! I got my first NO!), I managed to work on a film (Vigilante Diaries) and a TV show (non-airing pitch/pilot), attended a friend’s hilarious premiere (Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves) and landed a gig as a spokesperson for Soyracha Hot Chili Sauce. I was invited to be a guest on a fun radio show called The Milf Code – here is the link… http://tradiov.com/la/videos/9-24-2015-milf-code/ and even snuck a few dates in there.
It’s good to be back! Wonder what the next ten days will bring?
Monique
So the headline actually has nothing to do with what I’m blogging about. It just popped into my head and I liked it. Might as well get used to things like that. It’s pretty random around here. Okay. So maybe the headline does make sense, after all. I’m going to be breaking rules. I’m not fond of rules.
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