Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 26, Number 7, 1 July 2009 — E kala mai [ARTICLE]

E kala mai

» A portion of the June cover story, Blush, fabulous!, was difficult to read because of a printing error. That portion is reprinted here: When you're trying to break into a business ruled by names like Bobbi Brown, Estee Lauder and Shu Uemura and you've got a last name like Makaawaawa, you've got to make a decision whether to simphfy. That's what Nolan Robert Makaawaawa did some time ago, dropping his name for the catchier Nolan Robert. "It's too long - although I do love it," he says of his family surname. But the abbreviated moniker doesn't reflect disrespect for his Hawaiian heritage. He proved that during filming of Lifetime's reality contest Blush: The Searchfor the Next Great Makeup Artist, whieh he won last year - beating out nine other contestants and 10,000 applicants - landing him $100,000 and a contract with Max Factor as a makeup artist, one of three such positions it has. » In the May cover story on Lunalilo Trust, Kamani Kuala'au's last name was misspelled in photo captions. KWO regrets the errors.