National Model Search Winners and Sponsors

 January was something of a blur for us here at TattooApparel.com . In late December we announced our National Model Search Contest Winners and the first half of January was spent pulling things together for the Photo Shoot.

Our Contest Winners were Beau from MA and Adrienne from KY. They received an expense paid trip to Southern California for four nights, a wardrobe prize package and took part in a photo shoot for TattooApparel.com. During there stay in Southern California they spend some time at the beach in Santa Monica and dined at some fun restaurants including the House of Blues at Downtown Disney. Both winners really enjoyed the warm California weather as they were coming from snowy conditions. Beau and Adrienne were a lot of fun and we enjoyed having them here with us.

When they arrived in Southern California on Saturday, January 22nd they visited the Perpetual Vogue Boutique to see their wardrobe prizes and enjoy some champagne before checking into their hotel. TattooApparel.com wishes to thank the other wardrobe prize sponsors. They include Tres Noir who supplied two pair of hand made sunglasses to each winner, T.U.K. Shoes who supplied three pair of shoes to each winner, Femme Metale Sterling Silver Jewelry who supplied $200.00 of Sterling Silver Jewelry to each winner, Cartel Ink who supplied lots of shirts to each winner and Rock House who supplied shirts to the male contest winner. Adrienne also received fashions from Perpetual Vogue including dresses, skirts, jeans and corsets. Beau also received DCOY Jeans and shirts from Fender and Sailor Jerry from TattooApparel.com.

The big photo shoot took place on Monday, January 24th at a beautiful 70,000 s.f. mansion overlooking the ocean in Palos Verdes Estates California. The day started with a visit to Primarily Hair in La Habra California for hair and makeup services. Primarily Hair was a contest sponsor and they opened the salon for just our group that morning. We were welcomed by their smiling staff with breakfast and a big Congratulations sign for our winners. Make Up Artist Gianna Collica then went to the photo shoot location to take care of make up and hair touch ups for the day. Gianna is a veteran of many TattooApparel.com photo shoots and is always a huge help in keeping things organized. Photography for the photo shoot was by contest sponsor, Painted Pinups Photography. Painted Pinups specializes in Pin Up style photography but they also do some amazing marketing and product photography for us on our shoots. Also taking part in this photo shoot were Metal Sanaz, the gorgeous lady of heavy metal music and our good friend Heath who has modeled for us in the past. Heath was on double duty as he was also shooting video for us as his company HMC Creative does some killer videos.  We just started going through the photos from the shoot and there are some really gorgeous shots. We look forward to getting them up on our site as we add the new styles from the photo shoot onto the web site over the next several weeks.

Thanks again to all of our Contest Sponsors and the Contest Winners for making this a great event. We look forward to doing more contests in the future.