Month: February 2018

  • Bryiana

    About Bryiana

    Hi! I’m Bryiana Dyrdek – wife, mom, boss, best friend, mentor, model, wine lover, undiscovered Disney princess, President of Iconic Beauty and simultaneously the most BASIC and extra person you’ll probably ever come across.

    Even though I’m a mega introvert, I’ll take any excuse (or make up my own) to throw a party. I believe in raising the bar, changing lives and breaking the mold because I know I can.. I’ve done it before.

    I was once a princess who played dress up in my grandmother’s best dresses and favorite pearls, then became the little girl who glanced through magazines thinking to myself “that’s going to be me someday!” I plastered my walls with Iconic images of what I knew I was destined to become. I practiced my runway walk up and down the hallway with no shame in my game and every time I was told to smile for the camera at a family function, it instantly became a full-blown photoshoot.

    I didn’t know it then, but being an Ultimate (and obsessive) Dreamer at such a young age meant that I was manifesting who I have grown into. Now I’m a tenacious woman who will stop at nothing until all of my dreams come true.

    Oh! And I’m a sucker for a good underdog story. Maybe because I’m one too? But that’s a story for another time.

    I guess what I’m trying to say is, I’m on a journey to becoming the absolute best version of myself and I’m happy you’re along for the ride.

    But be careful.. I have a tendency to make the people around me believe that they are capable of making impossible things possible too. So, don’t keep reading if you’re completely uninterested in unleashing your inner Iconic Beauty. But if that piques your interest, pour yourself a glass of wine and enjoy the ride (from the passenger’s side because I do not condone drinking and driving)!

  • Meraiah

    About Meraiah

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    These “about me” things have been weird since Myspace so just pour a healthy serving of your favorite pinot bear with me on this. I’m a 23-year-old woman working my butt off every single day to get closer to life I’ve always dreamed of. I’m not married, and I have no kids so this should be like easy right? That’s all perspective, like maybe if I wasn’t an INFJ that would be true, but even though I’m not changing diapers all day and tending to my lovely husband I basically spend 90% of my brainpower trying to understand, and figure out who I actually am and what I actually want. (If you have no idea what I mean by INFJ please go to 16personalities.com and take this personality test. My personality type is INFJ)

    I’m originally from Fresno, Ca and I grew up pretty normally (like not white picket fence normal but like real life normal.) We can always go through the childhood stories later on, but the basics are that I am the oldest of my mom’s four kids, I grew up a nerd and graduated high school still a nerd but a little more out of my shell. I went to a super small high school and made some lifelong friends but my desire to get out an explore was always there. I made it to SDSU, joined a sorority and live a healthy, full college experience my freshman year. It was a lifelong dream accomplished, until it came to an end. Long story super short I no longer qualified for financial aid and I couldn’t afford to pay for school AND a place to live on my own, so I opted for the latter and have been doing so ever since.

    I moved to LA two years ago in search of a way to create the life I’ve always dreamed of. I thought I wanted to be a model and then a makeup artist then an esthetician then a singer/actress then an influencer then a blogger………and now I’m a blogger and just a little bit of everything else too. I do have a day job but it’s not even worth talking about, it already takes 40 hours of my week and that’s enough.

    When one of my best friends Bryiana came to me about starting this blog, joining a wine club, and sharing my experiences, my favorites, my fails, my wins, and basically my life, in hopes of cultivating a community of women who can relate and maybe not feel so alone, I was terrified for half of a second. Then I realized that I there is no way that I am the only person, the only blogger heck the only blogger in LA who has gone through the things that I have since living here. So hello new friends, I am so excited to begin this new journey with you.