Red Honey Magazine 2013 Archive Edition | Page 52

Beautifully Native Your definition of beauty: A smile and a deep belly laugh! Selflessness, kindness, humbleness and simplicity...the quality in a person that allows them to treat people with love, tolerance and respect no matter what is happening in their life at that time. The most beautiful person you know and why: The most beautiful person I know is my son Jaden...he has always been this little ball of white light. He has no judgement, is his own unique being without any reservations, sees only beauty in everyone and everything...people have often said to me, “there is something about that child; he’s a very old soul, a healer...he lifts your spirit just by being in his presence”. He is my teacher...he shows me how to stay in the moment and focus on what’s important...he teaches me to speak my truth and at times its as simple as telling me that I just need to stop and get a hug. I found out a year after having him that his name means ‘God has heard’. He came into my life when I needed him...my Creator was listening to a prayer I didn’t even know I was making. He said to me recently, “I want to know more about my Native Culture. I want to know who I am and where I came from.” He’s nine...and he’s more in touch with who he is and wants to be than most. What would you say makes a Native (Indigenous) woman strong? One who is focused on moving forward and embracing who they are, where they’ve come from and where they are going. We have all had things in our lives to overcome... it’s the ones who move out of the victim roles and use their experiences to help others that I admire the most. How can I be of service today? If you were a cartoon character, who would you be and why? I think we all have a little bit of all of them in us! I have some of Pocahontas’ strength and beauty, I love to sing and dream like Ariel, can be bubbly and silly like Barbie and am a romantic like Belle or Snow White...but maybe I’m a little delusional and am just Elmer Fudd! ____________________ Favorite beauty products, if any for: Skin: I have very sensitive, oily and acne prone skin! Caking on the makeup when I’m working doesn’t help! I always use Clinique’s dramatically different moisturizing gel because creams make me break out. I do try a variety of different cleansers because I find that after a while your skin gets used to one kind and stops responding. I used Proactive for a couple of years but had to switch it up. Right now I’m using MultHA cleansing Foam and La Roche-Posay Rehydration Intensive Lotion. It is very important to cleanse nightly and USE MOISTURIZER! Along with drinking 52 plenty of water to keep skin hydrated which keeps us looking young! Hair: Again I switch it up every time...on recommendation from my stylist Chau Vo of Niko Salon, Vancouver BC. I have had to dye my hair for different shows and it tends to get very dry and beat up from treating so often and straight irons are destroying my head. Deep conditioning products are my friends! www.redhoneymag.net Makeup: I don’t leave the house without my Voluminous Mascara if I have time for nothing else! ...and lip gloss...by Clarins. I find that Revlon New Complexion oil free foundation in warm beige is the best coverage foundation, and Archive Edition 2013 the only one that matches my skin color exactly. I am a very strange color and it took me a while to find it...so I’m holding on to it! Clinique clarifying powder makeup over top to set... For under eyes: Clarins instant light perfecting touch...it reflects light and works brilliantly! Maybelline makes a concealer stick for blemishes called pure.concealer...it has salicylic acid in it; for days when you can’t leave your blemishes to heal on their own...they will flake a little but they won’t be bright red! Scent: Jean Paul Gaultier I’m a musky, spicy kind of girl...don’t go much for the fruity/flowery scents