#baton rouge hair stylist
Text
Premier Hair Salon ,dreadlock shop,wig shop in Baton Rouge
Are you searching for a top-notch hair salon in Baton Rouge? Look no further! At Hair Tamers Studio on Old Hammond Hwy ,we specialize in expert hair care, styling, and more. Come visit us for a transformative experience! #HairSalon #HairStyling #BeautyCare #LocalSalon #dreadlock #sewin #wiginstallation #HairCare #batonrouge #hairstylist #hairstylistlife
http://hairtamersstudio.com
Hair Tamers…
View On WordPress
#hairstylist#sewinweave#baton rouge hair stylist#baton rouge salon#batonrougeloctician#beautycare#careers#experts#haircare#hairstyling#hairstylistlife#local salon#loctician#quickweaves#salonlife
0 notes
Text
It's that time of the Year again love❣️❣️let's make you look stunning for the season 😍
#hairy#hairstyle#long hair#baton rouge#hair salon#hair stylist#my uplaod#beautiful women#women#hair colour ideas
0 notes
Text
Elevate Your Look with the Best Hair Styling Baton Rouge LA
Are you attempting to find the ideal hairstylist in Baton Rouge, Louisiana? Look no further! Our Hair Salon LLC in Baton Rouge is your one-stop vacation spot for all hair care needs. Whether you want a haircut, Hair Styling Baton Rouge LA, loc maintenance, or herbal hair care, our professional specialists are here to offer you top-notch offerings and an excellent way to toeeling and search for your absolute best.
Meet the perfect expert Hair Stylist Baton Rouge LA:
Finding the right hairstylist can be daunting, but we've got you covered. Our talented hair stylists in Baton Rouge, LA, are passionate about creating the perfect look for you. Whether you're looking for a trendy haircut, a classic style, or something unique, our stylists have the skills and expertise to make it happen. We stay updated with the latest trends and techniques to ensure you leave our salon feeling confident and beautiful.
Have the trendy Loc Maintenance Baton Rouge:
Maintaining beautiful and healthy locs requires expertise and care. Our Hair Salon LLC in Baton Rouge specializes in loc maintenance. Our experienced stylists understand the unique needs of locs, and we provide a range of services to keep your locs looking their best. From retwisting to deep conditioning, we'll help you maintain the perfect set of locs that reflect your style.
Get unique Hair Styling Baton Rouge LA:
Whether it's a special occasion or just a desire for a fresh look, our hair styling services in Baton Rouge, LA, are designed to transform your hair into a work of art. From elegant updos to sleek straightening, our stylists are skilled in various styling techniques to suit your preferences. We take pride in our ability to create stunning styles that match your personality and enhance your beauty.
Elevate Your Locks to New Heights with the best hair care:
Embracing your Natural Hair Care Baton Rouge texture is a beautiful journey, and our Hair Salon LLC in Baton Rouge is here to support you every step of the way. We offer a wide range of natural hair care services that cater to all hair types and textures. Whether you have curly, kinky, or oily hair, our experts will provide the care and attention it deserves. From moisturizing treatments to protective styling, we promote the health and beauty of your natural hair.
Visit our well-known Hair Salon LLC Baton Rouge LA:
Choosing a dependable hair salon is essential for keeping your hairstylist fit and beautiful. Our Hair Salon LLC in Baton Rouge, LA is dedicated to offering welcoming and snug surroundings wherein you may loosen up and take pleasure in top-best hair care services. We prioritize cleanliness, professionalism, and patron satisfaction, ensuring that your salon revel is nothing short of exceptional.
Conclusion
If you are searching for a fine Hair Stylist in Baton Rouge, LA, for loc maintenance,Hair Styling Baton Rouge LA, herbal hair care, or every other hair-associated service, our Hair Salon LLC is the area to go. With a crew of pretty professional and passionate professionals, we're dedicated to supporting you to reap the hair of your dreams. Visit us these days and learn the distinction our understanding and determination could make in raising your appearance and boosting your confidence. Your hair deserves the fine, and we're right here to supply it.
Beauty Queens Hair Salon LLC
12021 Florida Blvd B, Baton Rouge, LA 70815, United States
225-975-3438
#Hair Stylist Baton Rouge LA#Loc Maintenance Baton Rouge#Hair Styling Baton Rouge LA#Natural Hair Care Baton Rouge#Hair Salon LLC Baton Rouge LA
1 note
·
View note
Video
youtube
Hair and Beauty salon in Baton rouge,weaves,dreadlocks,sew in weaves,hai...
#youtube#Hair stylist in Baton Rouge 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Wig install batonrougesewins batonrougewiginstalls batonrougehairstylist salonbasehairstylist q
1 note
·
View note
Text
Hunger Games AU, part 3
Warning that this part gets a lot darker. Specific content warning for disassociation and violence. But hey, the third corner of our love triangle’s finally here!
part one
part two
His prep team is impressed with him, with his smooth skin and soft long hair and rounded nails. They wash and trim his hair and paint his face and exclaim over his beauty, and Meng Yao focuses on breathing, on breathing and drifting away from his body because control is everything but sometimes the only way to maintain a shred of it is to let go, to not be present. He smiles at them, his automatic smile, his mother’s smile, his servant’s smile, his whore’s smile, and they hook their fingers into his dimples and tell him he is so pretty, such an interesting change from Chifeng-zun.
He knew that this was coming. He reminds himself that he would sacrifice far more, to get what he wants. That he will in all likelihood have to sacrifice everything, before the end. He lies on a pallet and its softness and comfort leave him horrifically vulnerable. He lies there and he is not in Nightless City and he is not in Yunmeng. He is nowhere, he tells himself. He is no one.
They give him a gray robe to wear that is soft and warm, and he wraps himself in it, and he is left alone for an entire luxurious minute before his stylist enters. She is a sharp woman, professional, and she looks him up and down like a cattle broker examining a potential purchase.
“I wasn’t expecting a Nie competitor like you, but I’ve had a few hours to adjust,” she tells him frankly. “The girl will be echoing Chifeng-zun. Beast head pauldrons, powerful silhouette, platforms in her shoes. For you we’ll be going for a contrast. Feminine, delicate, but still dangerous. Seductive.”
It’s what he’s been expecting to hear- what he’s even been hoping to hear, because it’s something he can work with- but it still hits him with a wave of nausea and panic. He breathes through it. Nods. He should be establishing a rapport with her- cajoling her into revealing information about the political situation inside Qishan- but instead he’s useless, crippled by his fears.
“Well,” she says. “I already knew from the cameras that you could do wide-eyed. Can you give me something with a bit more spice?”
Meng Yao breathes out, and hears his heartbeat thud in his ears. Then he slides a sly smile onto his face. Tilts his head up slowly, looks sidelong through his lashes.
“Very good,” the stylist says approvingly.
They paint his face with white powders, and paint his lips with red rouge as dark as dried blood. They wrap him in tight robes of dark gray, with snakeskin panels, and they take out the braid Nie Huaisang plaited that morning and redo it coiled tighter against his topknot. When they show him a mirror he’s terrified he’ll see his mother’s face in it. To his relief he doesn’t. His mother always played the role of the refined noble lady, a pearl cast into the mud. She was never an alluringly dangerous seductress.
The most disturbing part is he almost likes it. The face in the mirror is a mask, but it’s a mask that won’t be expected to bow and scrape and meekly accept abuse. In that sense it’s a better mask than the one he wears in Qinghe.
Meng Yao also likes the expression on Nie Mingjue’s face when he barges into the room. It’s half rage and half desire, and the combination makes Meng Yao’s heart race. But then he remembers that this mask is not his creation, that it is not meant to serve him.
Too bad. He’ll take it and make it his own. That’s better than wanting to peel off his own skin.
“What are you doing with him,” Nie Mingjue growls.
The stylist, apparently a brave woman, glares at him. “Making him desirable,” she says. “It’s his best chance at winning. You say he’s not high in cultivation or physical aptitude.”
Meng Yao feels his cheeks burn, though it’s the honest truth.
“People will sponsor him because they want the pretty one to win,” the stylist says. “I guarantee it. And sponsors are his only chance in the arena.”
They aren’t. But Meng Yao isn’t going to let anyone know that until he has to.
“You never needed to do this to me,” Mingjue says angrily.
“I made everyone afraid of you,” the stylist says. “They liked that. People like being a little afraid of things that can’t really hurt them. But they like being aroused even more.”
“Nie-zongzhu,” Meng Yao says quickly. He reaches out and puts his hand lightly on Mingjue’s arm, looking up at him through his lashes. “I don’t mind.”
“You should,” Nie Mingjue says, snorting. “You shouldn’t let yourself get taken advantage of like this.”
She’s helping me, Meng Yao wants to shout, which is more than you’ve done so far. Instead he smiles, not the smile he will use tonight at the parade but the nervous smile he uses as punctuation.
“You trusted me with your look, last year, and you won,” the stylist says coaxingly. “Trust me now. You want him to survive this, don’t you?”
Nie Mingjue grunts. Meng Yao can see, on his face, the great weight that he is wrestling with. The reality it will break him to accept: that doing everything in his power to help Meng Yao win will mean leaving Zonghui to die. Of course this breaks him; he’s a man of honor, that’s what Meng Yao has always- what Meng Yao admires about him. But right now Meng Yao wants to scream at him, beg him to choose me, tell me you want me to win, tell me I should kill everyone if it brings me back to you.
Mingjue says nothing.
Zonghui looks good, when they’re both hustled into the swooping glass elevator together. Meng Yao allows himself a moment to be impressed. He and Zonghui are about the same height and almost the same shape, but the team has managed to make her look bulky, strong, intimidating, the muscles of the Qinghe beast where Meng Yao is the claws. The Red Blade Master wore shades of gray, as Meng Yao does now; Zonghui is dressed in black, and it gives her an extra edge, makes up a little bit for the killing aura she lacks. Her face is stony, cold as ice. Meng Yao practices his smile in the dark reflection of the elevator glass. Outside the night is just a blur of colors as the elevator slides down.
At the bottom of the pavilion, in a dark garage that stinks of oil and manure, the carriages wait. Meng Yao has not seen horses this close before; the Nies keep some, as one of their many traditions, but they’re purely ceremonial and Meng Yao’s duties never brought him close to the stables. The horses that will pull the Qinghe carriage are black as Zonghui’s leather and huge, monstrously powerful-looking beasts. They are beautiful. He has a frivolous and inappropriate momentary desire to get closer, to stroke their smooth skin and braided manes. He folds his hands across his stomach and looks around, instead, squinting into a hot draft blowing from somewhere. The lighting is low in the garage, and most of the illumination comes from the burning torches affixed to the carriages. Most of the other sects’ carriages have already exited the pavilion garage and joined the parade. In front of the Qinghe carriage, he can see the Jiang one, and something about it grabs at his attention. It’s hard to tell in the colorless dark world of the garage, but one silhouette is very pale and the other very dark, with a blood red streak of color. The figures are clinging to each other, and that makes him uncomfortable enough to turn away and look behind him.
And he feels his eyes widen and his jaw go slack, because after Qinghe comes Lan, he knew this, but he didn’t expect to see-
In the darkness it’s hard to make out details, but the Lan carriage looks as beautifully wrought as any other year. The figures being forced onto it, however, are unusual in the extreme. They’re both very tall; this is apparent even though one of them is clearly limping, moving with the stiff control of someone in intense pain. Despite the injury, both move with a sense of dignity and command that screams at Meng Yao to pay attention.
And his instinct is right, because behind him he hears a hoarse, “Xichen?!”
Meng Yao lunges for Nie Mingjue, but he’s brushed off like one would bat away a fly. The Wen disciples prodding the Lan competitors (prisoners, Meng Yao’s brain insists, as though they’re not all prisoners), are not so easily pushed aside. They have electroshock weapons. They have batons. Baxia has been chained in a locked box ever since Nie Mingjue exited the competition arena. His cultivation has been sealed since he entered Nightless City. He is armed only with his fists.
Meng Yao watches Mingjue go down. Stay down, he thinks, but he knows that Nie Mingjue won’t. He can’t see the faces of the Wen disciples but he can see their arms lifting to deliver another blow, another shock. Is it Nie Mingjue on the ground, spitting defiant blood, or is it his mother, cowering from another blow? Is it a Cultivation Competitor standing here in this dark garage, or a child frozen at the foot of the stairs?
Later, he doesn’t remember deciding to move. It simply happens. He is simply on the ground, Mingjue somewhere behind him, and pain is happening. There’s almost a weird relief to it. He is familiar with pain. He is practiced. He doesn’t struggle, doesn’t think, just lets it happen as his body seizes and something cracks.
Someone is screaming. Someone is lifting him gently off the ground. He recognizes the hands holding him by the shoulders. “Nie-zongzhu,” he murmurs, eyes still screwed tightly closed against assault, but the attacks have stopped, though the pain has not.
“Meng Yao,” Nie Mingjue mutters, and it sounds so- so heartbroken, as though- as though he didn’t know- how could he not know? How could he- Meng Yao’s thoughts skip on a loop-
-the two Lan heirs are here, the two Lan heirs are competitors, and they are obviously not willing volunteers, and competitors have never been obviously injured before a competition before. The Wens don’t care any more and that means that things are starting and he is hundreds of miles away from Qinghe, away from Huaisang, with no way of finding out what might be happening there- Qinghe isn’t ready- he thought he was doing the right thing-
-if the Wen disciples have broken something serious inside him, staying alive in the arena is going to be problematic-
-the person screaming is his stylist, his brain finally tells him, she’s shouting something at the thugs about his face being worth a thousand of theirs-
-two years in Nie Mingjue’s bed and Nie Mingjue didn’t know that Meng Yao loved him-
-one of his rival competitors is Lan Xichen, and Nie Mingjue will never, ever tell Meng Yao that he wants him to win, and mean it.
25 notes
·
View notes
Text
J.J. Jamieson Interview
A writer, producer and former network executive, J.J. Jamieson, has produced movies for Hallmark Channel, including all three Graceland movies (Christmas at Graceland, Wedding at Graceland and Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays), and is now working with Bounce TV, writing both their 2019 original, Greyson Family Christmas, and this year’s Marry Me This Christmas, starring Brandon Jay McLaren and Gabrielle Graham.
Ahead of Marry Me This Christmas’ December 6th debut on Bounce (also available On Demand in Canada on December 8th), Jamieson was kind enough to take the time to talk from his Santa Monica home about what makes Christmas moviemaking special, and how Bounce’s latest holiday entry came together despite a global pandemic.
Q: How did you get involved in moviemaking?
A: I’m originally from Princeton, N.J. and way back in the late 1800s (laughs), I joined NBC as a page and eventually became an assistant in the movies and miniseries department, as that just happened to be where there was an opening, and then stayed there for the better part of a decade, eventually becoming a creative executive.
When I left NBC, I moved out here [to California], because show business is what I felt like I should be doing, and this is where show business is. I became a producer and worked for a variety of different companies, and sometimes for myself, and because movies and miniseries were what I knew, I occasionally worked on TV movies including—much to the horror of my children—one called Spring Break Shark Attack (laughs). You gotta pay the bills, right?
But, whatever you’re doing, my goal as a producer is to always to do the best with what you’re handed. Sometimes that turns out better than others, but the work is always the work, and you have to find that something that makes every project special.
A: How do you go from producing Spring Break Shark Attack to Hallmark movies?
Q: A friend of mine, Michael Larkin, a very accomplished creative producer, was working with Hallmark and said they needed a producer, someone to be the network’s eyes and ears on the ground, for a movie (Wedding of Dreams), and he couldn’t do it, so he said if they were really desperate, they could hire me (laughs).
Hallmark makes so many movies a year, their executives can’t be on set for the, usually, six weeks it takes to make them—three to prep, three to film—and then the edit, so they need someone on set to make sure everything is in alignment with the aesthetics of Hallmark.
…So, I did one movie with them, and then three more movies after that.
Q: What’s different about working on a Hallmark movie?
A: I’ve worked on a lot of different types of TV shows and movies, and have never been involved in anything else where there’s this fantastic love of the genre. People just love these movies.
I was shooting something in Tennessee, and struck up a conversation with this cop who was just sitting in his car, blocking the street while we were shooting outside, and he asked what we were filming, and when I said it was a Hallmark movie, his response was, ‘Oh, I love Hallmark movies,’ and I was thinking, ‘Really? You do?’
But he was serious. He was a fan. I think there are just a wide variety of people that these movies appeal to. Much broader than most imagine.
I think there’s comfort in the fact that when you sit down to watch, you know what you’re going to get. You’re going to get a happy ending, you know it’s all going to work out, and ‘What’s wrong with that?,’ as my niece, who is also a fan, said to me once.
When I think about why Hallmark movies are so popular, I think of a conversation I had once with a friend of my wife’s, an MBA, a very accomplished woman, and she watches these movies. When I asked her, ‘What is it about Hallmark movies that you find so enrapturing, when there’s usually so little conflict?’ She said to me: I don’t need conflict. I’ve got enough stress with the kids, stress with my ex-husband, stress at the office…I don’t need more stress. I want to sit down and watch something devoid of stress that feels good for the soul.
I think that’s the key, and I think it’s what Hallmark has tapped into, and the competition to emulate that is just fanatical, particularly with the Christmas movies.
Q: What do you think of the explosion of Christmas movies across the dial?
A: People want to be in this game. When every other cable channel’s ratings were falling, Hallmark was the only one going up. They were doing something right. They had tapped into something. Which I think is why Lifetime wants to do the same thing. I don’t think they have quite captured it, yet, but there’s also Netflix, doing it in a little bit of a different way. And then all these other channels, too, what, a dozen now? More? Producing their own [holiday] movies.
I’m shocked there’s not a saturation in the market, actually, because they keep on trying to spin that same wheel, but the appetite is obviously there, and I think there’s room, especially when you’re trying to do something a little bit different.
Q: How did you go from producing, to writing and producing, or in the case of Marry Me This Christmas, just writing? Are you a producer who writes, or a writer who also happens to produce?
A: It’s really a very different skill set, writers tend to be more introverted, more comfortable in front of a computer screen, because that’s mostly what writing is, just you in front of your computer, creating a world. Producing is more a job of management, making sure everyone shares the same vision of what the network wants.
To be a producer, is to be a generalist, and I guess I’m a generalist. I’m not a musician, but I can have a conversation with a composer and know enough to talk about what elements of a score I think a scene needs. I’m not a director, but know enough to see a scene and say, ‘Let’s try one that’s less big,’ or whatever. I’m not a cinematographer, but I can see where we might want to try a few more lights, so we don’t lose the actor in a scene.
Being a producer is an incredibly humbling job. One of my favorite parts of being on set is the first day. It always reminds me why I came out to Hollywood to do this. You’re surrounded by a team of experts, all of whom are brilliant at their specific job—the hair stylists, the makeup artists, lighting, sound…Every single one of them knows more about their jobs than I ever will, and you feel humbled by that. It makes one appreciative of the collaborative aspect of this art form. It’s nobody’s movie. It’s not the writers, or the producer’s, or the executives’, or even the director’s or actors’—every movie is a product of everyone who worked on it, and it’s all our movie.
I had a good friend who went from being a creative producer to being a line producer (NOTE: a line producer’s role is usually to manage the budget and act as an on-set human resources department; someone who puts out the inevitable fires that come up during filming), and I asked him, ‘But don’t you miss the creative side?’ And he said to me, ‘It’s all filmmaking. We’re all filmmakers and it’s all essential.’ I thought that was a lovely sentiment, and a testament to the overall teamwork nature of filmmaking. The people signing the checks in accounting are just as important as anyone else, because you can’t make the movie without them.
So, to finally answer your question, I think I’m more of a producer that also writes. A producer who spent enough time working with writers to get story ideas made, so that the idea of writing things myself began to feel realistic. And, so far, my record of giving my ideas to other writers, versus just me writing my ideas myself, has a pretty good percentage of getting things into production. The way I look at it, at least this way I have no one to blame but myself if something doesn’t work.
Q: How did you get involved with Bounce TV? And, for those like me who didn’t know Bounce even existed until last year, can you share a little about the network?
A: Sure, and you’re definitely not alone. Bounce is a sizeable basic cable and broadcast network, based in Atlanta. They’re in 94 million homes. They’re not in all markets yet, but that’s part of their mission, to increase their penetration and increase awareness.
I got involved because a good friend of mine that’s a talented producer and former Turner executive, David Hudson, moved from Santa Monica to Atlanta to oversee original programming for Bounce. His background is more in unscripted programming, so when Bounce decided they wanted more TV movies, he reached out to me and the first thing he said was that he needed a holiday picture for that same year.
Greyson Family Christmas was originally Greyson Family Thanksgiving. He gave me the premise—a family lives next door to each other, one more conservative, one more liberal, and the daughter brings home her white boyfriend for the holidays—and he needed a script. Given that it was so specific, I thought it would be easier if I just wrote it, which I did, and then worked as a producer on set during the shoot in Baton Rouge.
Q: Greyson Family Christmas ended up being one of my personal favorite movies of last season, and one thing I liked is that it was a little bit different. It wasn’t just a broad comedy or a straightforward holiday rom-com with little conflict.
A: Thank you, and we did try to make it about more than silliness. We wanted it to be light and fun, but also to say a little something about some of the very real things we wanted to address about race and family.
And we got so incredibly lucky with our cast, who were just amazing. Part of the trick of making a movie that has a lower budget, is doing what you can afford to do, and doing it well. Not stretching beyond what that budget allows. And we were very aware of that during production. With that incredibly short schedule—we shot Greyson in 12 days—and tight budget, you have to be.
Look, I know you can’t please everyone with these movies. I mean, some people hate Dickens and Hemingway—and I’m not saying Greyson is that, but I was really pleased with how the movie turned out, and think we had a great group working on it to make that happen.
We didn’t have a ton of money for publicity beyond the promos that aired on Bounce—no billboards, or things like that—but the cast was great at promoting Greyson on social media, and even with the tight timeline and everything else, it ended up being the highest-rated original movie in the history of the network.
Whenever you make a movie, you try to make it the best you can, and how it performs is really out of your hands in a lot of ways, but it sure is nice when you haven’t let down your network, and it was doubly important for me, given my friendship and fondness for David Hudson, who my kids all call Uncle David.
Greyson Family Christmas will be re-airing this December, so I really hope even more people get a chance to discover it, because it really was a labor of love for me, and the network and, really, everyone involved.
[NOTE: Bounce currently has encore airings of Greyson Family Christmas scheduled for December 6th, 11th, 18th and 24th.]
A: The latest Bounce original holiday movie, Marry Me This Christmas, debuts on December 6th, which you also wrote. Tell us a little about the movie, and the process of filming it during a global pandemic.
Q: I didn’t produce this one, mostly due to COVID, [which is also why] it was shot in Canada.
Tonally we were trying to go for something more like a dramedy—some comedy, but some real bit of business going on in the story.
I actually wrote this one a couple of years ago, not as a Christmas movie originally, and the whole idea is born out of the one joke at the end at the end of the first act, where she comes in to the pastor and says, ‘I know we haven’t known each other long, but you’ve become really important to me, and this may sound crazy, but I really want you to marry me,’ and this guy who has had a huge crush on her is all excited and says ‘Yes, yes,’ and her response is, ‘Great, my fiancé will be thrilled.’
That’s the joke, and it’s silly. It’s a dad joke, really, but the whole movie was built out from there, and as silly as that idea is, we wanted to explore what would really happen if this young pastor fell in love with someone engaged to someone else. To try to make believable, and be about something.
Q: Was that inherent element of faith something that came from you, or a direction from the network?
A: This was all my own. I was raised Catholic, and grew up going to church every Sunday. My sons then went to Catholic School, so religion has kind of hung over my life like the cloud of dirt over Pigpen. (laughs) I mean, if I wasn’t going to hell before, I probably am for that line, right? (laughs, again)
Anyway, I really was interested in this notion of trying to be a good person playing against the other qualities of our human nature. Sometimes our hearts are drawn to do certain things—not bad or evil, just being human beings, not little boxes of saintliness. To me, the essence of the story was putting that around this character whose actual job it was to be a good guy, but on the other hand he’s also a man, wrestling with the nature of love, and finally coming around to a greater sense of understanding than he had at the beginning.
We are all supposed to act with a sense of service and self-sacrifice, but on the other hand, we’re not utterly devoid of self. To be a human, even a human in service of God or goodness, doesn’t mean you’re also not supposed to fall in love with that same, almost religious, fervor, which is what I hope he realizes at the end. And it’s all a lot more ambitious than that ‘ha, ha’ dad joke of the premise.
I hope this movie is for everyone, not just people of faith. That’s why I put in there that the best friend is an atheist. That a pastor and someone who doesn’t believe can still be friends. That [the non-believer] is still this supportive friend, and a good guy.
I was also very deliberate in that I didn’t want our pastor to pray for God’s help and receive it in a [direct] way. There’s a scene in the chapel with the Bible, and I wanted it to be very clear that you’re not going to just get the answer to your problems [divinely], you have to figure out those sorts of matters yourself.
Q: How did the pandemic effect production?
A: Well, COVID has trimmed the number of original productions at Bounce in 2020. The plan is to increase our original movie production, and that’s been at least temporarily waylaid by all the [fallout] from COVID, but we did want to have at least one new movie for the fourth quarter… and knowing how well last year’s original holiday movie did for them, there was definitely the sentiment of, ‘Let’s do another Christmas movie,’ so it was a conscious and deliberate effort to make that happen, despite the pandemic.
So, I reached out to a friend of a friend, Thomas Michael [of Fella Films], because Canada had lower COVID infections and a rich film community, and he became our partner and producer. There also [had to be] a little extra money for COVID protections, and [filming] took a few extra days just due to safety protocols for the cast and crew. Plus, our cast is entirely Canadian, due to restrictions.
David Hudson and I, working as a consultant for the network, were looking for holiday movies, or rom-coms we could spin into a holiday movie. We were even looking at stories to develop into full scripts, and we just weren’t finding what we’re looking for, so I said, ‘Look, this has been sitting on my shelf, it’s available, and I’m a cheap date.’ (laughs)
Q: Hallmark, in particular, has said casting Black actors in Canada is difficult, was that an issue you experienced?
A: I will say it was a question raised, because that’s not our usual production [location]. And working with Thomas Michael, we moved towards Ontario, because they do have a larger pool of Black Canadian actors, just because they have a larger Black population overall.
After some [research], we all felt very comfortable with the talent pool, and I think we once again got really lucky with our cast. These guys were just all really great. We did a read through, and I was just choked up by how good they all were.
They might not have the same name recognition of some of the actors in Greyson, like Stan Shaw or Robinne Lee, but they’re all working actors. Brandon Jay McLaren, our pastor, is working on the new Turner and Hooch series, and I worked with him on a TV pilot 10 years ago. Gabrielle Graham, our female lead, has been a regular on two Amazon Prime series, [The Expanse and 21 Thunder].
I really hope people will respond to them, because I think they did a great job with the characters.
Q: How did Marry Me This Christmas end up with Megan Follows, best known as Anne of Green Gables, directing?
A: Once we had the determination to do it in Canada, we began looking for a Canadian director, on a pretty tight timeline. Our producer had a [working] relationship with Megan, and she has been directing more and more. We reached out to her and she responded well to the material, and I think got what we wanted to do with it.
She and the cast were terrific. And I think we just got lucky it turned out as well it did, given all the circumstances.
Q: There was talk there might be a Greyson Family Christmas sequel, was that idea a casualty of COVID?
A: Unfortunately, yes. We had a story worked out for a wedding, but with COVID and the difficulty in production, the soonest we’d have been able to get it on the air was spring or summer 2021, and that’s a long time to wait for a sequel. But I like to think of Maya and Trent, and the rest of the Greyson family, living on happily, safely and healthily, nevertheless.
Q: Bounce is a network geared towards an African-American audience, does the fact you’re not Black come up when writing these stories?
A: Definitely. Especially in the first movie, Greyson, which really digs into more sensitive and deeper matters of race, having this white guy from New Jersey writing the movie was a little unusual, as I’ll be the first to admit.
I mean, when you’re telling a story, you are always putting yourself into characters unlike yourself—teenage kids, the 75-year-old grandmother—and trying to do it in a way that resonates and feels authentic. But, yes, I got help from people of color. Particularly for Greyson, where I was on set, the cast was extraordinarily helpful, making changes and making sure the voice was right.
I will say that where the characters in Greyson succeed, in respect to race, I give all the credit to the actors, who inhabited those characters and made them their own, and if anything feels a little off to an audience, I take the blame for those shortcomings.
In that movie, where I was a producer, and in my Hallmark movies too, I made an extra effort to hire and fill out our teams looking beyond the first resumes we received, because if Bounce can’t be supportive of the black filmmaking community, who can? We really did try to hire a crew that was reflective of America’s demographics.
For too long, in this industry primarily driven by white men who have the tendency to hire other white men, that wasn’t the case, so you have to be open to the person who has 7 credits but might not have had the same opportunities, versus someone who has 35 credits, and not just pick the default. To undo that unconscious bias. I’m sure I’ve been guilty of favoring people with longer resumes, instead of saying we need those diverse voices that are more reflective of society at large. It’s something I hope to keep working on, because I think it makes the final product better as a result.
Q: What do you hope viewers take away from Marry Me This Christmas?
A: As a filmmaker there’s always something fun anytime you have an idea in your head and it ends up on screen for other people to see, so I’m just excited for it to air and hope people like it.
Bounce wants to be in that arena, making holiday feel-good movies, but maybe doing something a little bit more. Yes, it’s a rom-com at Christmas, but I think it’s a little bit of an alternative to all those other kinds of movies, and you might get something you don’t expect. A little present under the tree you didn’t realize was there. I hope it brings just a little extra joy for the holiday.
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
I guess salons in Baton Rouge are opening. My friends there are hopping all over it and getting hair, nails, and waxing scheduled for next week. I felt like this is really dumb but wasn’t sure...after all, they’re open? I bitched to local friend text group and they agreed it was dumb but also reminded me how the salon employees are probably really hurting for the income so what else are they gonna do. My conclusion is...this country sucks.
Oh and my secondary conclusion is I’m going to quick Venmo my stylist again since I WOULD be getting this shit chopped off again by now if it was normal times.
5 notes
·
View notes
Text
This are my pieces for the November auction @metalsmithsforchange. My work is for Fifty Bandz, as is the poem card print, suitable for framing, written by poet @lindoyes, which will be part of this entry at auction. Fifty was killed one week before her 22nd birthday, by her former boyfriend, shot to death in Baton Rouge Louisiana. Like so many of the trans lives lost in 2021, she was mis-gendered and dead named in police reports. I was fortunate enough, to still find info about her, despite the confused report. Fifty was greatly loved by her friends who describe her as being keenly self aware, & also highly aware of the differences between reality and social media "appearances." I chose the blue butterfly symbol, as she did as the avatar, on her own social media pages. I found in the Herder Symbol Dictionary that the blue butterfly is seen as a symbol of great transformation and peace in the afterlife, which I hope for her. Fifty had blue hair and took some of the most beautiful self portraits I have ever seen, with butterflies painted on her face. In those posts, she ALWAYS credits her hair stylist. The gratitude spirals in my work are meant to reflect her gratitude, as does Lindo's poem for her. She was quoted on Thanksgiving day as saying she was "Blessed and highly favored." Fifty's life mattered and may we learn always, to reflect her gratitude for life itself. She will not be forgotten. XOXO XOXOXO L 💟💟💟💟💟💟💟🙏🕉️
instagram
1 note
·
View note
Video
FOLLOW US FOR MORE SILK PRESS TRANSFORMATIONS . Swing it baby 💁💁💁💁 . Baton Rouge, Louisiana stylist . from @i.am.jasmia_j - Silk Press! This young lady was filled with soo much energy! 😄Happy Hair! Book your appointment (225) 615-8841 -Jasmia J- - #themanechoice #healthyhairjourney #lasvegashairstylist #naturalpress #voiceofhair #pravana #silkpressmasters #torontohairstylist #silkwrap #atlantahairstylist #atlhairstylist #lahairstylist #houstonhairstylist #silkout #berrycurly #healthy_hair_journey #charlottehairstylist #norelaxer #brooklynhairstylist #silkpress #naturalhair #silkpressqueen #silkpressmaster #hairstylist #hairstyles #teamnatural #silkpressatl #thecutlife #silkpressatlanta #healthyhair (at Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
#healthy_hair_journey#healthyhairjourney#silkpressatlanta#naturalpress#torontohairstylist#pravana#naturalhair#atlhairstylist#hairstylist#silkpressatl#thecutlife#healthyhair#berrycurly#silkpressmasters#lahairstylist#lasvegashairstylist#hairstyles#silkpressmaster#voiceofhair#teamnatural#silkpressqueen#silkout#silkpress#silkwrap#charlottehairstylist#brooklynhairstylist#norelaxer#themanechoice#atlantahairstylist#houstonhairstylist
1 note
·
View note
Text
Bob Haircuts – Stylist225.com of Baton Rouge : Salon Hair Stylist #curlybobhairc…
Bob Haircuts – Stylist225.com of Baton Rouge : Salon Hair Stylist #curlybobhaircuts Bob Haircuts – Stylist225.com of Baton Rouge : Salon Hair Stylist Short Curly Haircuts
Source by karinlinke59
0 notes
Photo
Brazilian Deep Wave Hair three Items in this look Length 24" Quantity 3 #hairextensions #glam #extensions #install #units #bundledeal #stylists #bundledeal #bundles https://stylesbymargaret.mayvenn.com (at Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
She loves Her Dreadlock extensions 🤩🤩
She loves Her Dreadlock extensions 🤩🤩
Have you always wanted dreadlocks but your hair is too short, broken off or too straight ? Do you have Broken off dreadlocks? I Can Retwist and Repair your dreadlocks . I can help you reinstall and install your dreadlock extensions leave the shop with matured looking dreadlocks instantly. Ask for Ms Inez👍👍👍👍👍She loved her #dreadlocks 🤩#locs #locstylesforwomen #locsjourney #locextetensions…
View On WordPress
#beauty shop#braidshop#dreadlock care#dreadlock extension#dreadlock fill in#dreadlock hairstyles#dreadlocks repair#dreadlocks retwist#dreadlockshop#Dreads#hair#hair replacement#Hair salon#hair salon in baton rouge#hair styling#Hair Stylist#hairextensions#Sew-in weave shop
0 notes
Text
Get Your Ultimate Hair Stylist Baton Rouge LA
Baton Rouge is mostly known for being a heaven of beauty and style, and Beauty Queens is one of its main contributors to its popularity. We are adept at giving the best hair experiences that completely transcend the ordinary. So, there is no need to look further for your hair styling except Hair Stylist Baton Rouge LA. We help you get the natural beauty and hair styling that you want, which best suits your look and elegance. We deliver the best hair styling services, including braid styling and loc maintenance for your hair.
Get more information here about our hair styling services and how we cater to your hair needs at great prices. So, give us a chance to let you delve into the enchanting world of Hair Salon LLC Baton Rouge LA with your hair-specific styling needs.
Perfect Braid Styling: Weaving Dreams into Reality
Having perfect braids can give you a different Hair Styling Baton Rouge LA, as well as an attractive look. We have perfect finesse in hair styling, including any type of braid styling such as box braids, goddess braids, intricate cornrows, and many more. Get a stunning and effortlessly chic look with your braid styling.
Stunning Loc Maintenance: Nurturing Your Unique Style
Better loc maintenance gives your hair a different identity, especially when the
Loc Maintenance Baton Rouge is done by our professionals, as we work completely on your hair meticulously and give it proper loc maintenance. This would not only give your hair a vibrant look but also keep it healthy.
Stylish Haircut: Sculpting Your Signature Look
A perfect haircut gives an elegant look to your personality. It also helps in boosting your confidence, and we are giving stylish haircuts, from a subtle trim to different new bold stylish haircuts. The apposite services of our skilled professionals are promising to suit your personality.
Branded Shampoo and Style: Indulge in Luxury
Having luxury hair styling services gratifies the customer the most. We always prefer using the best brands for shampooing and styling your hair. In our hair transformation services, we don’t even deal with cheap products. We always want to give you cleansed and conditioned hair with perfect styles.
Perfect Eyebrow Services: Framing Your Beauty
As the eyes are the windows to the soul, and when we talk about the frames of it, then it is the perfect eyebrows that enhance your beauty. We give perfectly sculpted eyebrows that help enhance your facial features as well as suit your personality perfectly. We are also perfect at providing impeccable eyelash services.
Try Manicure and Pedicure: Pampering Perfection
Maintain your perfect and Natural Hair Care Baton Rouge, and skin care as well. Get the best manicure and pedicure services to give your skin pampering perfection. Treat your hands and feet to a perfect spa-like experience with our manicure and pedicure services. Get soft, plump, and pampered skin with Hair Stylist Baton Rouge LA.At Beauty Queens Hair Salon LLC, we promise to deliver the best services to your hair and skin. As a Hair Stylist Baton Rouge LA always tries to curate the best experiences, and we have a wide range of hair coloring services as well. Get your hair transformed with vibrant hair color, stylish haircuts, and relaxing spa services. Take a step into the world of the best hair transformation by booking your first appointment with us today.
Beauty Queens Hair Salon LLC
12021 Florida Blvd B, Baton Rouge, LA 70815, United States
225-975-3438
1 note
·
View note
Text
HAIR TAMERS STUDIO HAS
AN IMMEDIATE OPENING
FOR A LICENSE
PROFESSIONAL TO SERVICE
THEIR CLIENTS
IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU
KNOW IS A
ل
Hairstylist -
COSMETOLOGIST -NAIL
TECH-AESTHETICIAN-HAIR
BRAIDER
CONTACT ME
225-964-2977
I HAVE THE PERFECT
SPACE FOR YOU TO
SERVICE YOUR CLIENTS
#licensed cosmetologist#Hair Braiders#booths#suite#hair salon#immediate openings#Baton Rouge Louisiana#Hair Stylist#Small businesses#Nail Technician
0 notes
Video
🗣Repost!!!!! • Testimony I promised God that I would share my light with others and I have been receiving orders and people have shown love back. It’s true...the seeds you sow determines how your fruit will grow or if it will grow at all. • • Repost @lalamilan with @get_repost ・・・ Today I was able to speak as myself on different topics that @blackgirlpod drew from after watching the screening of the new show #BoomerangOnBet. This show is giving me a new platform on which I can step outside of “skits” and people get to know the real me. This journey is just beginning and I’m beyond elated to be able to share it with you guys. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Thanks to my publicist for being so amazing @iamphreshy ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ GLAM Hair: @darius_boone Unit: @eleven11extensions Makeup: @oncuemakeup Stylist: @sirjoeexclusive Fur: @danielsleather ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 🎥: @erndukes (at Baton Rouge, Louisiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/Btcjlz4HYd3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=i9zty6x6rtau
0 notes
Link
Our stylists skilled in Halo Couture Extensions are made completely out of Remy Hair, which is the finest quality human hair available on the market today
0 notes
Last Seen Blogs
wrestletotheground
ghost
janetsneedlefelting
Janet's Needle Felting
infernaltenor
tenor
itspferreira
Pedro
ministarfruit
☆ GOOD VIBES!! ☆