An airbrush extravaganza

After work on Friday, we loaded up the family and headed to Pierre. FYI! That's a LONG trip with 3 kids. Wowzers!

Saturday morning I got up early to head to Kadoka. My instructor, Lonnie, gave me directions to her parents farm. We'd be having the class in the guest house. With directions like "turn left at the balls in the air" and "you'll know you're close when you drop into the Badlands" - my trip was sure to be unique.

I got to the balls where I was to turn left (seriously, when am I EVER going to say that again?) and was driving on a path in a pasture. As I was taking this photo with my camera phone.....

....Lonnie's husband came to lead me to where I was supposed to be. I was literally driving through the Badlands. There are mountain type structures like this in their pasture. It was crazy to me.

We went 2 1/2 miles on this path. Thank goodness it wasn't muddy. I had to drive around a cow that wasn't about to move for me. Just nuts! Did you click on their website yet? Did you see the cross that they made? Click here to see it. I can't even explain how breathtaking it was to see it in the distance.

Anyway, Lonnie and I got along very well. The class was planned to be 6 hours. However, she has 3 very mischievous little boys who often visited us - usually just needing some mommy love. I totally understood.

They were such hospitable people, so kind and down to earth. I found out that Lonnie's husband loves Keith Urban too. He and I decided that our love for him was a tad different from each other. Ha!

I didn't leave the ranch until 6 o'clock their time. I had a good time and Lonnie thought I was a natural with the airbrush. I felt very natural using it, but she would say "see the make-up before you move on while using large circles" to me and I'd about have a panic attack. What on earth was she talking about??? I knew that the key was going to be to practice.

I asked Justin's dad if he would like to be my first client. He declined. Shoot! I was really looking forward to the possibility. :)

Justin's mom agreed to be my first victim client. In my class I only got to practice on paper. Now I was going to be able to apply it on someones face.

Can I just say that using the word apply really is being used loosely here? After I got done, Justin's poor mother looked like her next step would probably be the morgue. It CRACKED me up. I encouraged her to wash it off, but she didn't because she's a camp. Sharelle, please tell me you washed it off before we were out of the driveway.

I had a lot of fun applying it to her. It's much harder than it seems. I got Sharelle's color too light and that's what gave her the dead pale look. Lonnie told me it was going to be easier applying it to myself and I thought she was crazy. However, I tried it when I got home......

.....and I didn't think it looked all too bad. You'll have to excuse my hair. I washed it yesterday and had it in a ponytail all of today. Focus on the make-up if you will while I, as usual, focus on the hair. :)

One last thing - check out what I woke up to on Saturday.....

I know - it's horrible. How fun though to wake up with a huge lip to meet new people. Sigh! Other than that, everything was good!

Thanks again Sharelle!!!