Welcome to For The Love Of Beauty

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Welcome to For The Love of Beauty! 

Mahal Kita! 

XOXO,

Jessica 

Get to Know Jessica, 1-On-1! A letter from the face of 4TLOB!

What is For The Love of Beauty 101?

To love what you do, is to love what you love. I love being able to submerse myself in beauty every day of my life. You will never fully know what being happy with your job is, until your job involves doing something you love everyday. For me, I'm happiest when I'm surrounded by all things involving beauty. Makeup, skincare, hair, nails, fashion; some may say these are superficial things to love, but those people have never experienced being a part of a deeper kind of beauty. Never underestimate the impact that a tube of lipstick or mascara may have on the heart and the life of not only the person wearing it, but the person applying it. The "beauty" of being in the beauty industry is this: Change can be seen instantly. There is no waiting on life's indefinite timeline in order to see results. Therefore, something as small as an eyeshadow or lipstick can change another's life in just the same instance. The gratification you get from bringing to light a person's inner beauty to the exterior is a feeling that you cannot ever get tired of experiencing. This is why I named this blog, For The Love of Beauty, because beauty is what I am passionate about and I want to share my passion with all of you through these tutorials and posts, therefore adding the "101." Makeup is a skill that can be taught and learned by anyone.

Remember these two things; "Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself on the inside and out." & "A smile is the best makeup any girl can wear."

XOXO,

Jessica Johnson

Happy Holidays from The Johnsons!

Merry Christmas!!

I hope that everyone is enjoying these times of celebration during the Holiday season. Remember that family and friends are so important and cherishing the moments we have with them, not only during the holidays, but at all times, is what this season is all about! Wishing all of you beautiful friends a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year to come. 2013 is a new beginning, a new start, a new chance to make whatever you want in life happen. Work hard and good things will come! 

I wanted to share some Christmas photos of my family with you. Hope you all enjoy! 

Merry Christmas from my little family to yours!

XoXo!

It's a Lovely Day for a White Wedding!

Here are some photos of bridal makeup I did a while back. I did the whole bridal party of bridesmaids and the mom too! Ashley, the gorgeous bride shared some of these pictures with me recently so I thought I'd post them here for you all to see! Xoxo!

Introducing Hebony & Jamar! A lifestyle blog that I'm co-creater of!

I hope September is being good to you all so far! Fall is near and it is so exciting! I've been busy and thankfully so, but miss you all so very much. I'm excited to announce a new journey I am embarking on with one of my dearest and closest friends of all time. As you know, I love blogging about all things beauty (hence the title of my blog), but there are so many other topics that I have been eager to share with you all, I just haven't had the venue to do so until now! I would like to introduce to you a new lifestyle blog that I have created along with my best friend, Hali. It is called, Hebony & Jamar after a name Hali and I came up with years ago; a name that is very significant to our friendship. We decided to create this blog to share all of the knowledge we have on a variety of topics as a guide for the average girl or woman living life on a budget, who enjoys cooking, do-it-yourself's, and still loves keeping up with the latest trends in beauty and fashion. You will find many beauty tips and tricks, as well as tutorials on this blog, but do not worry, I will mainly be posting beauty blogs here on For the Love of Beauty. Hebony & Jamar will be a venue for Hali to share many of her beauty tips and hair tutorials, so look out for those! She also has her own jewelry line, so we have planned many tutorials and jewelry DIY's! I however, will be contributing to this new blog by doing mainly posts on recipes and home decor in addition to the fashion and beauty blogs. If you follow my Instagram and Twitter you may know that I love cooking and frequently post pictures of the recipes I cook. I have received many requests to share my recipes and create cooking vlogs, so I am excited to finally be able to do so for you all on this new blog! We are in the very beginning stages of creating the blog, but I would love for you to head on over and subscribe! Be on the look out for our first post, introducing ourselves and sharing a little background on our friendship. Hali is amazing and funny, so I know you all will love her. She's my best friend of all time and I hope you all welcome her to the blogging community with open arms. She has a passion for many of the same things that I do and she's also an amazing cook! I appreciate all of your support and cannot wait to share this all with you so very soon! Hope you are having an amazing week and I will leave the link to Hebony & Jamar down below! 

XoXo! 

http://hebonyandjamar.blogspot.com

Meet Hali! 

UPDATE! Where have I been??!!

I know what you're thinking, "It's about time she write a blog post!" I don't blame you. I have been inconsistent with my blog lately due to being extremely busy! Just to kind of pick up where I left off, about 2-3 weeks ago I had a job interview and it went great! Now I'm just waiting for the official job offer. I was contacted and told that I was still under consideration for the position and to just be patient with them during this hiring process. While waiting, I've been keeping myself pretty busy. I just started babysitting a sweet little baby boy, almost two month's old, as a favor for a sweet couple that my husband and I are friends with. It's been fun and kept my hands full. The days I usually take time to film a video or blog were the days I started babysitting, so I put you guys on hold for a little bit. Also, we are finally receiving all of our furniture and belongings that we had stored in a storage unit in Florida when we moved to Virginia delivered this week! Yes, we've been living without A LOT while awaiting this move to be scheduled through the military, but it's FINALLY been picked up and on it's way to us! I can't explain how excited I am to have our bed, all of our clothes, shoes, and my giant collection of makeup and beauty products that I left behind! One thing I've learned through this is that I definitely don't NEED all of the clothes, shoes, and makeup that I have. I used to think I couldn't live without it all, now I'm wondering where in the world am I going to fit it all! So I will be spending this entire weekend cleaning, organizing, washing, and putting things together in our new home. :) I have some exciting ideas and projects in store and I can't wait to get back on schedule to share them all with you!!! My review on Julep Maven Subscription Box from Julep.com should be up Monday or Tuesday so definitely look out for that! You know how much I love my nail polishes. I'm happy to be blogging again, I missed you guys so so much! Love you and talk to you soon! 

XoXo,
Jessica

Meet Jessica!

Jessica Johnson
Licensed esthetician, makeup artist and brow expert. 

I began my journey as a professional in the beauty industry as an Aveda-trained spa therapist. Working for an Aveda spa in Florida, as well as with the Aveda Institute as a Retail Advisor. During my time working for The Salon People of Florida, I was offered an opportunity to work side-by-side with Denver's Top Makeup and Brow Artist Extraordinaire, Sara Deluca, becoming a Brow Expert trained in specialized brow and makeup services offered in Tallahassee's first Brow Bar. 
The beauty industry is constantly changing and growing, enabling me to change with it. Leaving my hard work and established clientele behind, my husband and I moved to Virginia in March of 2012 where we he is currently stationed in the United States Navy, and I am currently working for the Estee Lauder Companies as the counter manager for Origins skin care. In order to keep my passion for makeup and brows alive in a city where I knew no one, I decided to create FTLOB101 and I began blogging about all things beauty related. If you have any questions for me, feel free to send them to me via email: jessmorganr@gmail.com

XOXO, 

Jessica Johnson