Luminato - Art of Glamour

The Luminato Festival is the first foray by the city of Toronto into establishing an international arts festival.

My three friends and I've dedicated years and years to working in the arts for:- music, opera, theatre, ballet, contemporary dance, visual arts, art galleries, museums and publishing. We have supported and 'paid our pound of flesh' to the international arts scene many times over... keep that in mind.

We were all quite impressed with the Luminato Festival on the whole. The variety of events and organization were excellent. We particularly like the ferry 'L'Art Boat' that took people from the Harbourfront to Distillery District sites; the contemporary art pieces in the freight containers placed near the ferry dock; the Lula Libre drummers and all the other musicians scattered around the Distillery District; my beloved Spigeltent; and browsing around the art galleries.

They were all great but the culture vulture activities were not our highlight of the day. I have one sentence:

FREE HAIR & MAKEUP MAKEOVERS!!!!

The New York Loft Makeover Experience (yes, it was part of the festival) was by far the best part of the day. We each had our hair and makeup professionally done; then had our photo taken by a professional photographer. This might only take up a sentence to describe but it took hours to execute.

We all looked beautiful and felt utterly glamorous. Some of us were more comfortable in front of the photographer than others. Nesrin was beyond a natural and was so fabulous at posing she had the rest of us hollering and clapping like a true fan club.

I should emphasize that there wasn't the slightest hint of any animal-print blanket in the photos, nor did any of us have our chins being held in our hands or soft focus edges. This wasn't a suburban mall makeover, it was a high fashion, funky, jump-up-and-down makeover.

We strutted a bit on the way home...fabulous!