It's Not About Pretty

  I’m very honored to be one of singer/songwriter Annie Bosko’s “Angel With a Crooked Halo” girls! This song has become the anthem for so many girls out there,  & I’m super proud to be a part of it! “Annie Bosko features her next angel, Cindy Whitehead, founder of Girl Is Not A 4 Letter Word. Cindy is the quintessential Angel With A Crooked Halo! She’s a bad ass, started professionally skateboarding when she was 16 years old, is the ONLY person to have ever skateboarded down the 405 freeway in LA and she has a big heart; giving back to females in action sports.”  

Behind the scenes shot with singer Annie Bosko taken at Dwindle Distribution Some days I get to be in front of the camera rather than behind it, where I normally do my thing styling the talent. This was one of those times. So honored to be featured in a short upcoming video promoting Nashville singer/songwriter Annie Bosko’s new single “Angel With a Crooked Halo” .  Annie literally flew in from Nashville, got off the plane at LAX and came straight to me to film this short video segment. Her song which launched on Sirius Radio and her video, which has been welcomed with open arms (to say the least) on CMT, features clips of girls who live their life doing rad things,  and her song is about empowering women out there to do the same. We spent part of an afternoon filming at Dwindle Distribution Skateboard Company discussing how I feel that skateboarding has empowered me in my life and what it’s like to help empower the younger girls skating today. Annie then played to a sold out crowd at

image from my posts on instagram Southern California has been so warm these past two weeks that it feels like summer. It’s been great for my clients who come in from the East Coast – they couldn’t be happier to get out of the rain, snow, and freezing temps. The sunny, warm weather here at the beach has put me in a Summer state of mind. I’m loving anything white right now, and I’m also feeling a bit of wanderlust happening again so this new book “Gypset Travel” is my perfect weekend reading material!  

  I was really excited to to style this girls skate video for Dusters California x Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word , my collab skateboard that gives a portion of its proceeds to Poseiden Organization a 501c3 non profit that helps and encourages girls all over the world to get involved in action sports. It was really a blast to make the bedroom look like it was a teenagers room, complete with female rock & roll posters, a messy floor strewn with clothes, shoes, skateboards, and a turntable  playing Joan Jett on it. The girls were dressed in denim shorts, 70’s style tube socks, worn in Vans sneakers  and we kept their hair long and flowing in true 70’s style It was also a perfect opportunity to get in a subliminal message to the action sports industry that female athletes don’t want to be shown as the “girl in the neon bikini” in videos and ads – they want to be shown as the powerful, talented girls that they are. CREDITS: Director: Nano Nobrega Video: Socrates Leal Production: Ryan Ashb

Client: Kaiser Permanente / Photos: Siri Berting / Stylist: Cindy Whitehead It was an awesome way to end 2014, a jam packed lifestyle shoot with photographer Siri Berting for the 2015 re-branding of Medicare, for Kaiser Permanente.  The shoot showed baby boomers enjoying all aspects of their lives so I got to pull a wide range of looks – everything from art gallery scenario’s  to basketball, and everything in between. About 8 racks of clothes in total.  Really a lot of fun and a challenge to pull so many head to toe spring looks together during Christmas rush at the shopping malls. But not nearly as much of a challenge as it was for Siri and her team to make it look like Spring/Summer during one of the rainiest days of the year, but the final images turned out great thanks to an amazing team of people!

  So lucky to have worked with Sergio Garcia for the past 12 years. The very first time we worked together Adidas/ TaylorMade Golf flew me & make-up artist Renee Parenteau to Spain when Sergio was only 18 years old and newly signed. It’s been 12 + awesome years that both Renee & I have been working with Adidas/TaylorMade & Sergio – he is hands down one of my favorite athletes to spend the day, or week, working with. This “Made of Greatness Campaign” was something I had the opportunity to work on in Georgia a few months back and I think it came out beautifully.

  We headed out to Decatur, Texas a few weeks ago to work on a commercial for Wrangler . I really love this small Texas town. The people are friendly, my assistants Amanda, Ashley, and I, enjoyed some amazing meals at places like The Whistle Stop Cafe & Sweetie Pies, we checked out the petrified wood gas station, and spent our days on a ranch shooting bull riders & cowboys. What could be better? Looking forward to sharing the final commercial with everyone when it comes out!