Category: Brazil

What an amazing time we have had watching our students be creative. They have shown so much talent and even more potential for their skill in both hair and makeup. As part of their final exam, we decided to have them do each others hair and makeup for a photo shoot. They got be be [...]

The Amy Clarke is finally here to teach our students all her secrets about makeup. A few of the girls have been so excited for the makeup classes to start. Two of them have asked me every week, “We are still learning makeup, right?” Well, now I see why! These girls have such a natural [...]

We reprized an activity from our last project here in Brazil where each of us had a paper taped to our backs and everyone had to anonymously write encouraging and postive things to each other. It was amazing to see how these girls love and repect one another. They called each other beautiful, strong, corageous, [...]

So much has happened since I have been here! We have gotten to know our students so well and have seen their desire to make a career out of what we are teaching them. I love seing their enthusiasm for learning. We have seen them excell at an incredible pace. Most of them have such [...]

Pop quiz today…. and each girl who gets a correct answer gets lipstick that was donated by RADIANT COSMETICS, a makeup company that gives makeup to survivors of human trafficking. Radiant very generously donated makeup to all the girls in our class so they can learn makeup and begin building a makeup kit. AMY CLARKE [...]

Today was we had a braiding test and the ladies were so nervous. They came in focused and ready to go. We had the girls go up in groups of 4 and they were graded on speed, accuracy, overall apperance, and attitude. So, many girls made up for their speed with a great attitude. They [...]

I am ecstatic to be back in Brazil! This is the second beauty school project in Rio I have been a part of and I’m so totally excited to meet the girls we will be training. I landed in Rio at 6am and I was so nervous to go through customs… Of course I worked [...]

I have traveled abroad many times and I thought I had Brazil figured out before I even got there. Boy, was I wrong!! I thought I'd walk in to Rio De Janeiro International Airport would look like a tropical paradise and the customs agents would all look like Gisele and the cab drivers would all [...]

I helped one of our students cut the hair of a little boy named Vicente. He was 13-years-old and wanted his hair to look just like the famous Brazilian futbol player Ronaldinho, and he achieved his goal! He came with three of his five younger siblings. His youngest sister was getting her hair cut by [...]