Bøger af Toni Thomas

"Simple, straight to the point, and absolutely brilliant." -Keisha Garett, Sol Style MagazineAre you ready to Rock Your Beauty Business? Are you ready to launch a breakout beauty business this year that takes your professional beauty career to a new level of success? The global beauty industry is projected to reach more than $750 billion by 2026 and as a beauty industry professional, you are perfectly placed to be a part of this growing industry. This book is designed for all beauty industry entrepreneurs, this book is designed for you.In her new book, Toni Thomas shares how she built a thriving international beauty business and become a beauty industry influencer just by being herself by following a series of strategies that put her on the global map and became an award-winning beauty industry professional.With this guide, you can take the strategies that took Toni years to perfect and apply them to your business and start seeing results immediately. In this groundbreaking book, you'll discover: * How to get new clients, and make a bigger profit from your existing clientele.* How to sell your beauty products without feeling pushy or salesy.* How to create your own marketing blueprint designed exclusively for you.* How to get amazing results on a small budget.* How to become a consistent marketer with a plan that works.*How to build a portfolio with little or no money.* How to charge higher prices for your services and have your customers thank you and refer their friends.In this ultimate guidebook, "I'm sharing what I've learned from my own experiences in my beauty business. I know how difficult it can be to build a successful beauty business and the struggles that come from launching a new beauty industry career. It wasn't easy for me, it was a long journey of discovery that took me years to figure out how to apply the right techniques to get noticed and build my successful business." I did it and so can you!

Want to advance your makeup artistry career?Looking to become a celebrity makeup artist or work behind the scenes at New York Fashion Week?It's time to take your makeup business to the next level and read the top-selling book by Toni Thomas, NYFW makeup artist and published makeup stylist. In her easy-to-read guide, you will learn the trade secrets on the process of building a successful beauty business, and how you too can become a behind the scenes makeup artist for NYFW or see your work in today's top-selling fashion magazines. Becoming a freelance makeup artist takes more than a train case and a set of good brushes. To become a successful freelance makeup artist takes a well thought out plan, career decisions filled with intention, and the drive to take action in your makeup artistry business. This book was written for any beauty professional who is looking to achieve a successful career in the beauty industry and anyone willing to gain the knowledge, utilize the tools, and take advantage of the resources provided to help them reach the top. Buy the Business of Makeup Artistry today and learn how to take your makeup artistry career to the next level, get the dream job you desire, and the financial rewards you deserve.

Do some girls find another measure of moonlight, live amid the rain, half-sung roses in the hope someday they can carry them?Why do some of us permanently vanish, others disappear only to come back a rarer kind of filigree?This collection of poetic narratives looks into the lives of many women, what propels them, sustains them, what sometimes goes missing.Perhaps there are trespasses of the heart, precious things we need to learn how to carry.

Are some lives diminutive, do they come to us as a hidden pearl, unnoticed vestibule. Will the woman heavy with longing find a way to meet banishment with a different gaze? This collection of poems explores lives that sometimes move invisible, vanish, or become keepers of their own flame.

This collection of poems explores the nature of perishing; how lovers, places, family can disappear before we are even able to claim them. The poems circle longing, faith, the preciousness of connection, what we leave behind, the mysterious forces that gather in us, tempt us to flame.

A Note on Toni Thomas' Chosen These are poems of "that day-" when "the fiction lifted," poems of "ecclesiastical life burning / sweet on the bread sticks," these are narratives and portraits that "buy happiness / with a steel wick / crowbar it to an unyielding clothesline" so that September can come "with its thrifty tongue." And so the lyric opens, and "hemlines' perfect luminaries are bleeding." And we learn that "All the world's a crock of shattered Blue Danube," but "anyone can stand up resolute / in a tail wind with enough grace." I opened this book on the poem "An Arc of Chintz Floats," and I loved it, loved those "sun damaged men" and "rigging of sails" and "holiness" which "invades the courtyard." You whisper in my ear, the author says, and "the hem of my dress keeps lengthening." Many poems to admire here-I recommend "History Lesson," "The Perilous Undertakings of the Everyday World," "I Call Midnight," among others-these poems are Toni Thomas' prayers, her psalms. The reality exists in memory alone, Proust tells us, and this book of Chosen moments, chosen from many other moments of our time, stands up for that notion. -Ilya Kaminsky

What is the key we enter by? How is it that invisible bread sometimes arrives unbidden in the cramped of our soul's kitchen. What does it mean to be tender, a woman, alone, pregnant, uncertain of her place in the world. Is death a fearful proposition, a friend, accomplice? Amid the fields spilling into each other with the weight of her winter, comes this new life growing slow, wanting to believe the promise of summer still sings. The poems in this collection take us on a journey through the stories of various people who must deal with loss, uncertainty, constricted lives, love stretched tight as a clothesline. They go on to follow one woman as she attempts to navigate a lonely pregnancy, keep faith, listen to the earth, help her newborn inhabit a place thick with the language of birds.

What is it that threads through our life amongst the trees' nesting, threads through our family, marriage, hopes, pain? What does it take to be here? How can our children teach us about the future, what it means to trust, forgive, continue even amidst the brokenness?How do we learn how to listen to the earth's language of love and not turn away?There are some of the themes that the poems in this collection grapple with.

In these poems, the night can't always be trusted. Things get carried away, a woman's voice, body. But some of us refuse to parenthesis want forever behind a barbed wire fence, decide to mother the day in a spill of orchids, build a fortress in our children's imagination till even walking on a frozen bridge in a flimsy coat with your soul bleeding can feel like a work of art. To be in this company is contemplate the language of birds. To know that even amidst the plagues, there is a wild and holy spirit that seeks to carry us.

This collection of poems is a celebration of Christmas time, winter joys, family, friends, animals, nature, and play. It speaks for perennial values of kindness, inclusion, compassion and appreciation of the beauty of our natural world.

Wedding day makeup never looked so good or was so easy to achieve when done by a bride who has learned the skills to do flawless wedding day makeup on herself. Your desire to have a beautiful you on your wedding day starts with gaining confidence in your makeup application skills and knowing what's truly important when it comes to the presentation of your bridal makeup. The key to bridal makeup success will require practicing what you learn, understanding how to apply makeup, using the right tools, and gaining the knowledge about quality makeup and which colors best suit you. Bridal makeup is as special as you are and no two brides are alike, each bride has a vision for her wedding day and each bride deserves to look exactly as she has dreamed of since she was a little girl. With so many makeup application options how can you achieve the right look for you? The great thing about makeup is there are no rules, makeup is a creative process that encourages the person applying makeup to be as original and unique as they choose or as structured as is necessary, but when it comes to bridal makeup there are a few guidelines to follow. With the DIY Bridal Makeup guidebook, you will be able to achieve flawless makeup on your most special day.

Maybe some of us are unnoticed galaxies tucked inside a heavy coat. The girl with thirst on her tongue wants to taste hot dates, pantomimes, liquid kisses. In the dowry of her heart a pole star burns bright as a secret corridor, cups flame, turns her mouth into meadow. Is it possible in some eyes even paradise on a shoestring remains the bright corsage of a burning bush?The poems in this probing collection are a radiant, playful attempt to understand our humanity, find a more accurate vocabulary for love. Toni Thomas lives in Oregon. Her poems have been published in Austria, Spain, New Zealand, Canada, England, Scotland, and Australia. In the UnitedStates her work has appeared in over fifty literary magazines including Prairie Schooner, North Dakota Quarterly, Hayden's Ferry Review, the Minnesota Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry East, and more. She has been twice nominated for a Pushcart prize, and won several awards. She has published thirteen collections of poetry and three books for children.

The idea for this book came about in a lecture about vermicomposting. The speaker was discussing the types of materials used to make bedding for the worms and mentioned that you could use shredded paper. She jokingly said you could feed them your phone bill. Instead of a student claiming the dog ate their homework, now they can claim the worms ate my homework. The joke in a meeting turned into a book idea.

This collection of poems by award winning author Toni Thomas explores the nature of love, challenges of relationship, family, the hopes we carry, things that threaten to fall apart.The poems grapple with expectation, loss, the ability to sustain beauty in an often turbulent world. At the core of the collection is a search for meaning and wholeness.

This fifth collection of poems continues to explore the themes first introduced in ACE RAIDER OF THE UNFATHOMABLE UNIVERSE, which center on the life of a beloved brother Chris as seen through the eyes of his sister. We sense this shy man’s independent spirit, struggles to conform to society’s dictates, and follow him through back breaking jobs, an impossible work ethic, the downward spiral of drugs he wrestles to contain after the sudden death of his passionate mother. While addressing serious issues these poems celebrate life in all its joy, sadness and complexity

This fourth collection of poems explores the life of a beloved brother Chris through the eyes of his sister. We are introduced to his childhood of potential and tension, his passionate mother and disciplinarian father. We learn of the relationship between brother and sister as his years unfold, his hard working life, his understanding of and care for the marginalized, restless impulses, struggle to find personal meaning and dignity. After the sudden death of his mother Chris’s experimenting with drugs results in a battle between his desperate desire to stay clean and in control of his life and the insidious pull of the drug world, as expressed through the anguished gaze of his sister. While addressing serious issues these poems celebrate life in all its joy, sadness and complexity.The companion volume of poetry, Blue Halo, is also available through Annalese Press.