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!
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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