{"id":681,"date":"2014-01-31T21:31:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T21:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourtearsheets.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2015-12-10T21:31:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T21:31:40","slug":"tearsheets-interview-with-tara-gardiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourtearsheets.com\/tearsheets-interview-with-tara-gardiner\/","title":{"rendered":"TEARSHEET\u2019S INTERVIEW WITH TARA GARDINER"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tearsheet\u2019s interview with Tara Gardiner<\/h1>\n

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What inspired you to enter the London photo comp?<\/p>\n

–<\/em>I entered the contest because I have never entered one and thought it would be a great experience. I NEVER in a million years imagined that I would win!!!!!!! A good friend once told me \u2018you cant win the lottery if you don\u2019t play\u2019 and boy was she right.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

How long have you been a Tearsheet artist? What workshops did you attend?<\/p>\n

-I have been a Tearsheet artist for 1 year. My journey began in December of 2012 at a workshop in NYC and I loved that one so much that I attended another workshop in Miami in March 2013.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Where do you live and has that stopped you from being creative? Where do you draw inspiration from?<\/p>\n

-I currently live in Raleigh NC and living here has in NO WAY stopped me from being creative. I work behind the chair full time in an amazing Redken\/Pureology salon(Salon Blu), and not only do we get great education such as Giovanni, but the girls I work with are pretty inspiring on a day to day basis. Also, I look at all of the trends happening in our city and that is actually what inspired my formulations for the contest. If I start to feel like I need something fresh, I save my money, pack my bags, an follow education somewhere else. For example, I frequent the Redken Exchange in NYC and now Tearsheet programs all over the country. I believe that if you are hungry enough, you will find a way to feed your creative\/business soul!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Did you feel prepared when entering the London comp?<\/p>\n

-YES!!! I have done photo shoots in the past but none of them felt this comfortable and surprisingly calm. Due to my schedule, I had to throw it together rather quickly and it still managed to feel good. It was probably a good thing that I didn\u2019t get to have too much time to think about it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

What lessons did you take away from your tearsheet experience which helped you prepare and win the competition?<\/p>\n

-SO MANY!!! Haha. A year ago I would\u2019ve told my models to just bring a black outfit, the makeup would\u2019ve been done by me, and my photographer choice would have been based off of something cool I saw on their site.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This year, thanks to my experiences with Tearsheet, I found a local designer\/stylist that I knew would represent MY BRAND to the fullest, I found a fantastic makeup artist that I knew would complement the hair, and I hired a photographer 100% based on her ability to nail lighting. I knew that this shoot had to be all about the hair color. I also felt very organized the day of and less stressed out because my main focus could be on the hair.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you did not attend the tearsheet workshop would you have entered the London comp?<\/p>\n

-Honestly, I probably would have entered but I now that I would not have had as great of an outcome in my images. I am extremely grateful for all that I\u00a0\u00a0have received.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tearsheet\u2019s interview with Tara Gardiner What inspired you to enter the London photo comp? –I entered the contest because I have never entered one and thought it would be a great experience. I NEVER in a million years imagined that I would win!!!!!!! A good friend once told me \u2018you cant win the lottery if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tearsheet-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourtearsheets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourtearsheets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourtearsheets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtearsheets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtearsheets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yourtearsheets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtearsheets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourtearsheets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtearsheets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtearsheets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}