Happy Twenty 10 

How bout that? Another decade! I'm excited about a bright shining, joy & beauty filled year to come! I celebrated NYE in Orange County with wonderful friends & famil

y, danced the night away & made some New Year's Resolutions of course. I break my goals up into categories; I wanted to share with you my beauty resolutions! In random order...

1. Take time for the little things and pay attention to details, like painting your toenails in a color that makes you smile; like vibrant red or dazzling coral :-) 

2. Have good hair days more often! My sister Maria at City Salon, HB does such an amazine job on my color, I vow to do it justice more often. With an occasional blow dry and hydrating treatments for my ends. Also to try NEW things with my hair. I usually do one of two things; up or down. I've fallen in love with Hair accessories and clips and bows and braids.... time to start sportin em!

3. To do something daily to get my heart rate up and to break a.... well, to glow. I love taking the stairs (unless I'm schlepping my kit with me) I love working out on the ball and I hope to take at least 10 mins a day to maintain my health.... and my body confidence! 

4. To play with makeup colors that I usually don't use on myself. I am like everyone else; I have my 4 go to eye shadow colors.... but this NYE I did a smokey black, shimmering dark gray and silver look for the countdown, and I loved it. It was different for me and just plain Fun! I have no excuse, I have over 100 eyeshadow colors to play with, and by golly, I'm gonna use em! 

5. Where ever I am, what ever I'm doing, when thoughts  of fear, intimidation, or self-esteem issues jump in my mind, I promise to take a time out to look up at the sky and realize where my help comes from, I promise to speak life and love to myself and to the people I love... I promise to take time to cultivate beauty from the inside out... and to let my light shine! And of course, to blog all about it! 

Happy 2010 Pure Beauties !! I look forward to sharing this upcoming year with you, I anticipate wonderful things the Lord will do in our lives, and wish you all the beauty Heaven has to offer!! Love to you!

Blessings,

Jessica Hoffman

Makeup Artist / Hair Stylist / Beauty Journalist

Founder of Pure Beauty Ministries

November 19th Pink Carpet Event

Thursday, November 19th

5:30pm - 9:30pm 

At the Ko’olau Golf Course Glass Ballroom

Pure Beauty Ministries Presents...

A Pink Carpet Event

Tickets will be available online beginning Nov 9th!! 

How you treat the Creation, reflects how you feel about the Creator. 

Example: 

If I owned a $2,000 Prada bag, I wouldn't be putting it on the floor of a pubic bathroom, nor would I throw my half eaten croissant into a pocket to eat later... but if I paid $14 for a purse I snatched up at Forever 21 and my green tea latte I was trying to sneak into the movies theaters, accidentally leaked... I'd shrug my shoulders and remind myself, "Ah, it was only $14 bucks.' 

Yet, if that happened in my Prada bag... 

there would be real tears. 

Why? Because I recognize the value of Prada and remember that it was bought at a great cost. ($2.000!!!) 

You can use this example with a number of things; cars, clothes, your body.... 

How you treat your Body is a direct reflection of your relationship with your Creator, The Lord Jesus. When you know and understand you are fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139:13-14), that the Lord knit you together while you were in the womb, and HIS works are wonderful and beautiful... you treat your body with great value. It's true girls. If you struggle believing God and His promises, I guarantee it will show up in how you treat your body. When you give yourself away; whether it be the gift of sex you give to a man whose not your husband, either in a dating relationship or a one night stand at the end of a sexy first date... it still says, "I don't really know just how valuable I am, do I?" If you did live in that truth, it wouldn't be so easy for you to give yourself away. 

The only true way to comprehend your self-worth is to know who made you, and why He made you the way He did... You don't look to a man, or any other human being to find your value. They did not make you, therefore they did not put a "price tag" on you. God did. Your price tag is: PRICELESS

Now.... go live like it. 

Love you girls,

You're beautifully and wonderfully made, 

Jessica 

 

Pure Beauty on TV: Living Local with the Baraquios

Hello Beauties! I'm excited to announce that I'll be on the Hawaiian Hit Television Show, Living Local with the Baraquios today, this Monday, Oct 5th and all throughout the week on Channel OC16 at noon and 8pm. (Hawaii time) I had the amazing opportunity to share my career as a Makeup Artist / Hair Stylist and... more importantly, the message of Pure Beauty Ministries! Please check out the show on channel oc16, and visit www.oc16.tv and www.livinglocal.tv for more information. 

With God all things are possible. I'm so thankful I've had the opportunity to share the message that god put on my heart with the world. and i thank god for many more.... 

Single Girl in New York!

My first day in New York! I love it so much... and ironically I've met so many nice, welcoming, helpful people here! Honestly. I've heard that people are so rude (sorry New Yorkers) here; while often people are so rushed to get from one point to the next they may come off as rude, but I've found so many sweet people. Maybe you really do get back what you put out... I've tried to make a point to make great eye contact and really smile with people, and I usually get it right back! I feel alive and ready to take on the world being here! The cool air, the tall buildings, the colorful shops and cafes, and the very well dressed people make New York so special and wonderful! 

This was one of my more recent dreams to come to New York and to be at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week... and it's all really happening. It is. It's here. And life is grand. I no longer have to look at pictures and use my imagination, I know first hand. Dreams are there for a reason.... to tell you where to go! Use your dreams as a road map, a treasure map if you will to take you to a life that you'll be proud of, and a life you can look back on and smile because you got to do all that you wanted to!! 

"Whatever land you put your feet on, God will give you that land..." was a word that I received over 7 years ago, and I claim it and give God all the Glory for his favor, his provision, and his blessings!! 

Go out and live your dreams, there are many treasure for you to gain along the way... and don't forget to SMILE!!! 

Love you, 

Jessica

*So much more to come on New York!!* 

I look up...

Psalm 121 : 

¹ I look up to the mountains—
      does my help come from there?
    ² My help comes from the Lord,
      who made heaven and earth!

    ³ He will not let you stumble;
      the one who watches over you will not slumber.
    ⁴ Indeed, he who watches over Israel
      never slumbers or sleeps.

    ⁵ The Lord himself watches over you!
      The Lord stands beside you as your protective shade.
    ⁶ The sun will not harm you by day,
      nor the moon at night.

    ⁷ The Lord keeps you from all harm
      and watches over your life.
    ⁸ The Lord keeps watch over you as you come and go,
      both now and forever.

Ten Year High School Reunion

Did ten years REALLY fly by!? Geez! I don't feel like I'm a decade older... nor do I act it! But life has become more and more precious, and more and more joyful as the years go by! Whoever said, high school will be the best four years of your life... was sadly mistaken. With God, it only gets better. Although I still feel like an eighteen year old girl, many things have changed and developed in my life, that I'm so very thankful for. One of the best blessings I have in my life now, that I didn't have then is the fact that I am utterly and totally satisfied with my life and certain of my purpose here on Earth, and THAT is an amazing place to be! 

While many things have in fact changed since high school... there are three things that have stayed the same, and that is what I want to share with you. Ten years ago this was not my ideal plan... but this past Saturday I attended my TEN YEAR High School Reunion, single and still a virgin!! I am so proud to say that... not in a boastful way, but in a "I'm-SO-stoked-I-followed-the-Lord-and-now-completely-and-wholly-love-my-life-and-couldn't-be-happier" Kind of way! It's so true. Who knew God's plan was to have me be single still at this stage in my life. But it's what He had planned for me, and now I know why! I've traveled the world, explored my dreams, refined my talents and have positioned myself in a my Dream Career and I have so much more to look forward to! 28 and still single, I love it! By the way, when did 28 and single become the Old Maid Age... NO WAY! Another blessing in my life, is that I AM single! Girls, I'm not lying when I say that. :-) 

My prayer is for the girls who are single and seeking and miserable... to graduate from that state of mind and be relieved from the burden of needing to be in a relationship. When you do.... it is then that you will find ultimate freedom and ultimate courage to live the life of your dreams, and to go live the kind of life people write movies and books about (in a good, happy ending kind of way). And if you're the kind of girl who has been hurt, and is bitter and has sworn off men, but you still look to them for immediate gratification and think you don't or wouldn't ever want to be in a long term, healthy relationship with someone again... I would say to you too... graduate from that mentality, and realize that men are not, and were never meant to be your life line. They were never meant to save you or heal you... only your Creator can. If there was a guy who has hurt you in the past, I am so sorry. (I've been there.) But God can heal you and Make you NEW! He can. He did it to me! Believe it and have faith. When you stop looking at men for your fulfillment and validation and look to the One who GAVE you your life, then you have access to TRUE fulfillment and true Value. And that's what I've found.... the love of my life: Jesus Christ! And so here I am, happy, healthy, single and still have my V-Card! 

I mentioned three things have stayed the same... the third one is alcohol. I am really excited to share with you, that I have not had one drink of alcohol in my whole life! My freshman year in high school when people found out that I didn't drink, I heard, "Yay right!" or, "I'll give you till your sophomore year!" (btw, they said the SAME thing about having Sex!!) With each year of high school came, "I'll give you till your Junior Year." , " Your Senior Year..." Well guys.... I was ordering Shirley Temples at my Ten Year! My point is not that drinking is a crime (Jesus turned water into wine!) it's that you can set your own standards for your life! You can swim upstream! You don't have to do it because everyone else is! You don't have to drink to have fun or to be fun! You don't have to just do it! I'm living proof! And I have to give all the CREDIT to the LORD, because without Him, I wouldn't have stood a chance! 

I still can't believe my ten year reunion has come and gone, but I'm happy to have taken a moment to look back on the past decade, and to see how far the Lord has brought me and to look to the next TEN YEARS with passion, excitement, fervor and dedication and know that with God... it does keep getting better and better!! And hopefully by my 20th.... some things will have changed! ;-)

With My dear friend Amanda Uribe Reid (in the red) at our Reunion, that was held on the Queen Mary outside, under a warm summery, starry night! GOD BLESS THE FVHS CLASS OF 99!!!