Luck be a Lady

What are your St Paddy's Day plans? I don't have any this year but it does remind me of how much fun I had last year!

Last year I made two very green dresses!  (The first dress is still available here.)

 Model: Alana

Photos by Alisabeth; Model: Kelsey!

There was a parade downtown and Kelsey and her salon at the time, The Fix, had a spot in the parade so I decided to dress Kelsey and make her the St Patrick's Day Princess! Well maybe that wasn't the intention, but that is what a little girl in the parade thought when she saw her! Awww.  Since I was sortof an "honorary member" of the salon I got to march right along with them! We both got to show off our Skimpily Clawd originals!

The paparazzi found us!

Hope you have a happy St Patrick's Day!

Lindsey

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The Story of Us

Photo by Cliff Jette for Hoopla, weekly entertainment magazine

This was the beginning of our beautiful friendship. A photoshoot in August of 2010 for Hoopla about crafting featuring our lovely Lindsey called for the best hair and makeup artist in town...yours truly! ;) We opted for the picture-perfect feel of a 1950's housewife with help from "The Shop Next Door". I talked Lindsey into trimming her bangs just a leettle bit...little did she know she'd be rocking Bettie Page bangs a few months later in my portfolio.   We soon decided to trade custom clothes for hair sessions and we were both happy campers. I think it was after I kidnapped her to go fabric shopping to the point of light-headedness (which led to an impromptu sushi date) that we discovered our kindred souls, with a mutual love for shoes, mani/pedis and all things girly. 

Lindsey quickly became my personal stylist. First, she influenced my shoe collection ("Do you have any higher heels?"), and my wardrobe (after you've had a dress custom-made for you, you'll soon abandon the ones you bought off the sale rack in the juniors' department). She's my go-to girl when I'm packing for a trip or can't decide what to wear on a date/interview/concert. I'm constantly picture-texting her outfits for approval. I can hardly go shopping without her! She's prevented me from so many regretful ill-fitting purchases..."Can this be altered?" "Yes, but it's still not meant to look like that..." 

It was only a matter of time before I got my hands in Lindsey's virgin hair...a little purple and blue there, some sweet bangs...later, a little hot pink and purple...okay, more purple! And feathers! Then, let's decolorize the whole thing and go RED!! Oh, we have too much fun together. We reworked her makeup routine with help from Patrick at Vanity & Glamour in Des Moines. We introduced her to concealer and powder foundation to get that flawless porcelain look we both love, blush for a hint of color and definition and we found the perfect bright pink lipstick to top it all off! (Pink lipstick is all over the beauty magazines right now. For the record, we did it first. ;)

Photos by Liz Martin for Kelsey's Portfolio in December 2010...rocking the Bettie bangs! 

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"Are you twins?"

Photo taken in Kansas City, May 2011 Hair styles,  cuts, colors, feathers, and make up done by Kelsey (at right)

"Are you twins?"

 "Nope! But we get it all the time..."

"Sisters, then...right?"

"Nope."

"Then you have to be roommates, at least!"

...Really?

Ooh yeah, that actually happened. Though that was a special scenario, we have been asked if we're twins so often that we decided to just go with it and be fake twins- Two of a Kinda! We have so much in common anyway...and we do kinda look like it.

 Allow us to introduce ourselves.

Kelsey. (photo by Alisabeth)

Lindsey. (photo by Cliff Jette/ the Gazette)

 We are Kelsey and Lindsey, a couple of super girly girls that were both born and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Kelsey is a fabulous hair and make up artist and Lindsey is the designer and seamstress behind her very own clothing label, Skimpily Clawd. Among many other things, we share love for polka dots, purple, hot pink lipstick, Betsey Johnson jewelry, mani/pedis, and shoes! lots of shoes! We discovered we wear the same scent ('Daisy' by Marc Jacobs), and we are known to show up to wearing very similar outfits when we didn't plan it (and sometimes when we do!). Maybe we were separated at birth!  If only our moms had arranged a playdate for us when they were in Tupperware together...we could have been fake twinnies this whole time!

Look! It's Miley! In Kelsey's Salon!

Anyway, about a month ago now-- is it exactly a month? Wow, time flies!--Well a month ago Kelsey decided to leave the mid-west for bigger and better things! She now calls Brooklyn, New York her home and is working alongside celebrity stylists at Gemini 14. And how perfect for the gal who was born on June 14th (June.. 14th... Gemini..14..eh?...eh??)! You'll have to excuse my(Lindsey) dorky sense of humor.

Though we now have 1,000 miles between us, we still talk to each other almost daily and swap advice and tips. I recently got the idea that we should start co-writing a blog together where we both get to share our areas of expertise with others! You can expect a lot fashion, beauty, and hair talk as well as documentation of our shopping and shoe obsessions. I'm sure there will also be boy talk: Kelsey, about her exciting OkCupid scenarios and other random "meet-cutes", and Lindsey, about her boyfriend of 2+ years that is (according to Kelsey) "the only straight guy who's fashion advice I actually respect". Aand whatever else we want to talk about and show you pictures of! So stay tuned!

xoxo

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