My first week

I am writing this post by the pool on my day off, so I thought I would add a little picture. It gets into the mid 90's during the day because I live in the Valley but down to the high 60's at night, which is good so I can wear cute coats!

My first week went by very fast because I felt like I never stopped working. When people tell you that everything is fast past in LA, you don't realize it until you actually live here. I am used to Florida pace where people move like turtles. And the driving out here is downright insane- forget being a defensive driver, its aggressive driving or nothing. I always think about my neighbor Jennifer from Florida when I am driving because she is one of those 5mph under and she gets so flustered with fast driver, I think she would die out here. The second you sit at a green light you will have 5 people honking at you.

My first day of work was shopping for a pop singer named Roxy whose target market is Japan. It isn't normal for a stylist to get money to spend on their clients, so it was a fun experience. All the clothing that was picked out was used for a photo shoot on Wednesday.

So Tuesday was a whole day of going to showrooms that represent different designers and we did pulls. Pulls are when you borrow clothing and if the garment makes it into the shot, the designers will receive credits for it. We went all over LA doing pulls for Roxy and the FHM shoot on Thursday.

On Wednesday I assisted on my first photo shoot for the artist Roxy. It was in downtown LA in the photographer’s loft, everything went really well.

Roxy and I @ the Shoot after a long day

Just a couple of pics from the shoot
Patrick is an amazing Hairstylist- He does Camern Electra's Hair

Thursday was another photo shoot right in Hollywood at an amazing restaurant/lounge called Onesunset. Two of the girls from the group called the pussycat dolls were being featured in FHM. This shoot was a bit different from the day before because this was all lingerie. Everything went well and the girls were soo nice but it was a very long day. There was a traffic jam and it took me 50 minutes from my apartment in the morning to get to the set and it was only 5 miles away. Ohh I can’t even explain the traffic out here!

Friday was just all returns to the Showrooms. But Friday night we went out with some girls from Redlight PR, which is the internship I am doing for the second part that I am out here. They invited us to a party in the hills that was showing off a new house that was just redesigned. I felt like we were driving straight up the Mountain forever, probably because her house was at the top and it looked over Hollywood. And this girl was only 25 and living in a 14 million dollar house, No big deal- right? Anyways we meet a lot of Jenny’s Friends and they were super nice and we are going out again this weekend!!

Saturday I went down to meet my Friend Jenny that lives in Newport Beach and went drove down to Laguna Beach and ate at a Mexican restaurant on the beach. The show Laguna Beach does no justice for the town, it is so cute!!

My roommate and I are just kind of exploring and trying to learn where everything is. I don’t know if this is a good or bad thing but people can tell that we are not from here because we don’t have the “bitch attitude”. Twice now, people have asked if I was visiting or if I live here because they claim I am too nice. Isn’t that funny! It is taking a bit to get used to city living and I still get a little scared sometimes but I am getting into the grove more and more everyday!