Kiara Mooney, Hairstylist MUA: How Does One Find Inspiration?

<3 Inspiration <3

I am always asked "Kiara, where does you inspiration come from? How do you create?" My answer is simply look around you! Everything is my inspiration! From the colors that we over-look everyday, to other creative artists and craft stores that I pretty much live in. I love different textures, patterns, colors and ways to mold pieces together.

I was visiting my cousin down in the Cape in early June where we stumbled across Megansett Beach. This is where I got the fabulous idea to make a shell headpiece after chasing my little cousins around. The shells had great texture & dimensional color to them so of course I would hot glue the crap out of them into a shape of a crown!! Because thats what you do when you stumble across mountains of seashells :) Also, who wouldn't want to be a sea princess for a day!!! I had no use for this crown, no photo shoot planned but something just drew me to them. I took a loverly lunch box that my cousin had tucked away in her car and spent over an hour and a half fishing though the shells. I looked at texture, color pattern, shape and size. I must have chosen over 300 shells for this headpiece.

This past June, I was asked to do hair & makeup for such a talented photographer +diana lemieux. Her work pushes limits, explores her creative mind and has graced +Vogue Italia numerous times. To sum it up, her work gives me goosebumps (which isn't very common when I look at photos nowadays)!!! She informed me the fabulous +chelsey angers would be the model for the shoot & I must say she's one of the favorites. Diana said the shoot will take place at a small beach in Gloucester MA at sunset. This instantly made me happy because I knew this was the team I could use my headpiece with. So the next day I started hot glueing the shells together and adding diamonds to the top of the piece for extra sparkle.

The shoot was a success, as if I was expecting anything less! Especially since Diana was behind the lens & Chelsey was in front of the camera. The following week Diana informed us that 3 of our pictures were accepted into +Vogue Italia !!!! The pictures can be seen here! Below is a sneak peak of the shoot!!