Lucas Dean is a talented makeup artist who I had the pleasure of working with on a styled bridal shoot in Brooklyn. As you’ll see, Lucas is such a sweetheart with a strong sense of drive and positive mentality. In the spirit of Mother’s Day, Lucas opens up about his mother’s love and support before she passed when he was 18. We’ll gab about what life as a New Yorker truly is like, and the advantage of being a rebel in the fashion industry.

Tom is the owner of Egg Studios NYC and is an amazing freelance commercial photographer. Tom's work is so clean and identifiable, and I've been fortunate enough to work with him a few times already. Our normal off-work interactions mainly comprise of sharing dog TikToks and chatting about project ideas. So I called him up and we got down to the real talk, real quick. Given the current surge in asian hate crimes, we discuss our own personal experiences with asian hate. We also discuss Tom's experience in building a successful studio business from the ground up, and our ideas of what "success" truly means.