“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” ― George Eliot
SANTA BARBARA CHIC
EST. 2008
I started this blog a decade ago when I was a wedding designer as a way to share trends with brides. Eventually, the blog became my sole focus and I began to produce orginial content in 2009. Now, I work with a variety of lifestyle brands as a prop stylist and set dresser. Below is my recent prop styling work and over 1200+ posts of back content.
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Cosmetic still life stylist
February 1, 2021
Cosmetic Swatch Styling
Cosmetic swatch styling is one of my product styling specialities. So what exactly is swatch styling? Basically, skincare, and makeup companies like to show their product, the color, the texture, to ...
Product Styling
January 1, 2021
Product Styling:
Lamps Plus + Dunn Edwards PRE-PRODUCTION Conceptual product styling is one of my favorite ways to showcase products in unique and interesting ways for my clients. For this partnership between Lamps Plus and Dunn Edward... Floral Styling December 16, 2020 Floral Styling for Casablanca Bridal Floral styling for Casablanca Bridal's Amare wedding dresses was all about dramatic glamour. I spray painted greenery and dried florals a lush gold and used lavender carnations for a hint of color. F... Prop Styling Cosmetics October 20, 2020 Beauty Product Styling for SHEGLAM New beauty product styling work for Shein featured the mother of all eyeshadow swatches with no less than 28 colors creating this radiating, starburst like effect. For more product only driven shots I... Cosmetic Styling September 5, 2020 Product Styling for Kylie Cosmetics and Kylie Skin I had the pleasure of product styling for Kylie Cosmetics and Kylie Skin recently. Product styling is a very detail driven type of styling and one that I really enjoy. I like to play with lots of angl... Flat Lay Prop Styling May 22, 2020 Flat Lay
Product Styling
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Day Designer For this flat lay product styling shoot Day Designer really wanted to use the theme of the covers to drive the prop selection and styling. To do so, I sourced vintage and retro props accents from Oti... Photo Stylist February 20, 2020 Photo Styling for Skincare Brands Photo styling for skincare brand, Nature's Repair was so much fun and educational too boot! The owner is super knowledge about really and truly natural skincare - as in ingredients so natural you can ... Set Dressing September 14, 2019 Catalog Set Dressing: Lands’ End Business Catalog set dressing for Lands' End Business was all about bringing the office to life (guess all those of hours of watching "The Office" finally paid off). For props, I pulled all sorts of office sup... Photo Stylist August 28, 2019 Lifestyle Set Dressing:
Zrytec I'm excited to share these motion videos of lifestyle set dressing for Zrtyec where I prop styled three outdoor sets. The first set, an outdoor patio scene was inspired by California living. I brought... Flat Lay Prop Styling August 16, 2019 Product Styling:
Day Designer Tabletop product styling is one of my favorite types of photo shoots. This is some recent flat lay styling work I did for Day Designer. I painted custom backdrops in the brands colors as well as match...
Lamps Plus + Dunn Edwards PRE-PRODUCTION Conceptual product styling is one of my favorite ways to showcase products in unique and interesting ways for my clients. For this partnership between Lamps Plus and Dunn Edward... Floral Styling December 16, 2020 Floral Styling for Casablanca Bridal Floral styling for Casablanca Bridal's Amare wedding dresses was all about dramatic glamour. I spray painted greenery and dried florals a lush gold and used lavender carnations for a hint of color. F... Prop Styling Cosmetics October 20, 2020 Beauty Product Styling for SHEGLAM New beauty product styling work for Shein featured the mother of all eyeshadow swatches with no less than 28 colors creating this radiating, starburst like effect. For more product only driven shots I... Cosmetic Styling September 5, 2020 Product Styling for Kylie Cosmetics and Kylie Skin I had the pleasure of product styling for Kylie Cosmetics and Kylie Skin recently. Product styling is a very detail driven type of styling and one that I really enjoy. I like to play with lots of angl... Flat Lay Prop Styling May 22, 2020 Flat Lay
Product Styling
for
Day Designer For this flat lay product styling shoot Day Designer really wanted to use the theme of the covers to drive the prop selection and styling. To do so, I sourced vintage and retro props accents from Oti... Photo Stylist February 20, 2020 Photo Styling for Skincare Brands Photo styling for skincare brand, Nature's Repair was so much fun and educational too boot! The owner is super knowledge about really and truly natural skincare - as in ingredients so natural you can ... Set Dressing September 14, 2019 Catalog Set Dressing: Lands’ End Business Catalog set dressing for Lands' End Business was all about bringing the office to life (guess all those of hours of watching "The Office" finally paid off). For props, I pulled all sorts of office sup... Photo Stylist August 28, 2019 Lifestyle Set Dressing:
Zrytec I'm excited to share these motion videos of lifestyle set dressing for Zrtyec where I prop styled three outdoor sets. The first set, an outdoor patio scene was inspired by California living. I brought... Flat Lay Prop Styling August 16, 2019 Product Styling:
Day Designer Tabletop product styling is one of my favorite types of photo shoots. This is some recent flat lay styling work I did for Day Designer. I painted custom backdrops in the brands colors as well as match...