BTS: Release Party Promo (placeholder) (Patreon)

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I love it. Do you love it? I've never wanted to look at myself so much in my life 😂🙈 but SisterUnmuted really CRUSHED IT on the promo posts for this event!

The first image is the instagram version, and the one with the barcode will be shared on the Rivoli instagram story as well as on the screens in their back room during other events 👀 CRAZY PANTS.

Fun Fact: The image in these photos isn't the finished/edited photo. This is the raw version. So Caitlin (hair and makeup artist) and Millissa (photographer) clearly knocked it out of the park, and the only reason we're switching to the edited versions is because she made minor touch ups like cleaning up the floor. 😅

I'm hoping to have the final edited versions of the promo to start sharing them tomorrow 🙌 Just waiting on SisterUnmuted to make the photo swap.

I know I said I was going to delegate more this year because trying to do everything myself last year was a nightmare 💀 but I did not anticipate it going this well. Before SisterUnmuted got laid off, I had fully planned on (and had started as you'll see later this week) still doing all this artwork and promo stuff on my own. Partially because I'm stubborn 😅😇 but also because I've had some really rough experiences in the past.

The first time I decided to delegate work I could have done on my own with enough time and other resources, I was organizing a fundraising event. I was event planning with absolutely zero experience 😅. So I delegated to people with experience. And with a single event, multiple people who had confirmed they would be helping with one thing or another bailed without a word. They went from being super responsive in the weeks leading up to the event, and assuring me that they were on it, to completely dropping the ball, not telling me, and leaving me to scramble to pull everything together on my own in a week and a half. 🫠

So I have some difficulty trusting people to be reliable 😬.

I think also with the design elements in particular, it's harder for me to give up control over because a) I do actually enjoy it when I have the time, and b) I want it to look how I want it to look...and I don't necessarily know what that is, but what if someone else spends a ton of time on it and in the end, I'm not happy with it?

Thankfully, my sister is great when it comes to work-related stuff, and she's super flexible and, like Alanna, very open to making changes. After all the distress and frustration of the Honestly EP, I am lucky enough to be working exclusively with people who are dedicated to bringing my vision to life and making sure I'm happy with the results instead of letting their own ego get in the way. THANK GOODNESS! 🙌

Bonus Fun Fact: I don't think I mentioned this before...I could be wrong 😅, but the shoes I'm wearing in these photos were brought by the photographer, and they're actually too big...but you can only really tell in one of the photos, so...keep an eye out for that in the future 🙈