About
PHOTOGRAPHY
LuLu Benavidez is a Galveston-based portrait photographer. She specializes in portrait photography to create an outstanding style. LuLu's love for photography grew from her passion for doing hair for magazines and working in her beauty Salon. She has developed her eye to see creatively. LuLu has won several awards for her photography in The Portrait Masters and continues her love of captivating the best.
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LuLu's goal is to create the best possible portraits and head shots for you while visually interpreting what you love and enjoy.
LULU BENAVIDEZ EDUCATION
LuLu Benavidez is recognized as a leader, educator, entrepreneur, and innovator in today's beauty industry. With an intense dedication and a remarkable combination of creative and technical skills, LuLu has inspired thousands of her fellow professionals.
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She has traveled throughout North America, Europe, and the Orient in quest of knowledge and has become an acclaimed international and dynamic platform artist. As the featured artist on the main stage for leading international beauty distributors, LuLu fully commits and freely shares her artistic imagination and unique creative insights with her peers.
Such leading manufacturers have contracted her professional alignments as a platform artist combined with her conception and execution of total trend releases and development of technical systems such as Zoto's, Wella, and Matrix. Lulu's latest work was as an educator and platform artist with the Latino Fashion Group, and she had been on the Artistic Council to Evolve Hair Solutions, a hair integration system.
As an entrepreneur, she owns and operates LuLu's The Salon and Day Spa, a 4200 sq ft operation on Galveston Island, and has developed her hair and skincare line.
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LuLu's hair creations have appeared editorially in over sixty leading international fashion journal issues. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines, Modern Salon, Launchpad, Salon Plus, and the Latin publication Vibra. The Salon was awarded the "Best Color Salon in the Southwest" in Elle Magazine and "The Best Full-Service Salon" in Galveston County. It was recognized among the top "200 fastest growing salons" in Salon Today magazine. Her salon has been awarded the Hispanic Heritage Business of the Year. The most recent honor bestowed to LuLu was the Henry B. Gonzales Award by Congressman Nick Lampson, and being Women of the Year for the Galveston Regional Chamber of Commerce.
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"Hairdresser to the Stars" as bestowed on her by the Galveston Opera House. LuLu's star list includes the B-52, Wilson Phillip, and Chef Robert Ervine. Finally, she was honored to do the 1st Lady's hair, Laura Bush, on her visit to Galveston to commission the USS Texas submarine.
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LuLu has taken her creative and artistic skills to many different levels with painting, drawing, photography, and mix-media. She uses vibrant colors to portray emotions and explore contrasts that develop through different interpretations.
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She believes in function following form, movement, and texture in many of her works. Her work is designed with many shapes and colors to express abstractly. LuLu's inspiration comes from being intrigued by creating illusory portraits. She can carve some interesting abstract shapes by pairing acrylic with the palette knife. "The fast-drying nature of the acrylic allows me to layer and assemble each element to the face differently. The love of creating depth and illusion in artwork forces the eye out of its comfort zone." This process allows her to design a hairstyle or hair color for a client to photograph or paint. It's a way to see the beauty in Art!