Meet the Raines'!
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15
We are basically equal parts of energetic, quirky, open hearted and Jesus lovin’ 💗
Our house is loud, our hands are full, and our hearts are even FULLER. Even though we are all SO different- one thing we share in common is that we LOVE fiercely and without boundaries. You’ll always here us singing the good tunes! From Waylon and Willie, to Spider-Man and Elsa, all the way to Way maker (our fav worship song)! Our family is a far cry from perfect, but together we have everything we could ever need. 💜
My handsome hubby and I met in March of 2015! We were quick to fall in love, and didn’t miss a beat.
Within one year of meeting-Casey joined the Coast Guard, we were engaged and married, plus found out our sweet Riley was on the way! We won’t go into all the details of the timeline-let’s save that for a juicy post at a later date 🤪
I will just say—never underestimate that GOD has a plan, sis! The military moved us from Florida, to Cali and Georgia, out to Virginia and back. It was a whirlwind. It gave us the security we needed to grow in our early years, and gave us friends that are more like family! With Casey’s support I started my business in early 2017, we talked long and hard about this one. But ultimately realized with our second baby on the way, child care is far too expensive to have me working out of the house. (If you are a mama I know you’re nodding your head-working just to pay for day care means I might as well stay home!) We also realized a single income (newly to the military) was sustainable. So we were FULL STEAM ahead! 🙏🏻
It’s not always been an easy journey, and I will be so honest in telling you there have been many times we have had to work through because starting a new business was hard work!
Team work and communication. 💗
Is what has gotten us through it all. Casey is such a vital role to our business-and selflessly takes on the back end of things while I get to enjoy the fun side of it. I’ll never take him and his hard work for granted! 2020 was hard but blessed us in many ways we continue to thank God for. Casey was able to retire from the Coast Guard early, we moved back home and are currently building our dream home. He started an AMAZING business that took off...by no surprise because the man can’t sit still 🤪😂
He also has helped make sure Brandi Raines Beauty is THRIVING. Along with our newest Charcuterie business starting up! Anyone else tired reading this?! Let me be real. Our biggest accomplishment and most important role we hold is being married to each other, and raising our sweet (and sassy) Hudson and Riley! We struggle to balance some days, but try hard to remember that God always had a plan even when we are walking through times that may test us we may lean on him. 🙌🏼
Meet Riley & Hudson 👧🏻👦🏼
Riley is the kindest, most fierce 5 year old I’ve ever met. The girl loves singing about Jesus, playing with make up, and ALL the dress up trends. (she comes by it honest🙋🏻♀️🤪) My favorite thing about her is she will get dressed up, then go on a woods walk with daddy and rough it! I’m so proud of how sweet she is to others, and will spend every day instilling confidence and strength she can find in God!
Then there is Hudson...poor guy cannot catch a break with the nicknames. You may have heard us refer to him as: Huddy, bubba, Hud, lunk, bunk, chunk, butter...the list goes on. 🤣
Little man is as sweet hearted as they come. He staid home with me for 3 years so he may or may not be a mamas boy!😬
He loves all outside, marvel movies, and always wants a snack!
Someone once asked me why it seems like my kids never fight-that they always get along. I could only laugh and urge you to know the Raines gang is probably just like YOU! We bicker and argue like cats and dogs some days. Struggle to maintain balance some weeks. Sometimes even just wanna sit around and “lunk” (that’s what we call being lazy haha). At the end of each day we remember to pray that God’s will continue to be done through our lives, always get a good snuggle & hug, then remember tomorrow is a new day that is full of adventures for us to get into!
Hi Brandi, I have read though ur comments and u have blessed so many women, you are definitely loved and admired 🙏🙏🤗🤗❤❤ I too was going through my Facebook feed and a video of you doing your hair was on and I was so in tuned to you! I talk about you to my 2 sister and show them all the products I have purchased from L’ange and how amazing everything works. I’m so proud to follow you and listen to all your advice. Your a beauty inside and out!! I’m so glad I found you and will continue to listen to you. Much love and success to you and ur family!!
I love following your blogs and videos. How do you get your purple hair? Ot seems so perfect! I myself have purple hair but it was multiple trips to the hair salon to get it done.
You know Bonnie’s comment? The first one? All I need to day is “Ditto.”
🌈👠😎💋👈🏼 👉🏼🙏🏼 💟 Kris, Cincy
My dear sweet Brandi… I have become such a dedicated fan of you and your sweet family in very short amount of time! I am a mom of 3 and a step-mom of 2! They are all my babies and they come with no labels! I kinda got pulled into these bloggers and social selling groups by commenting on a Facebook video that truly made me sick! I won’t go into detail 🤢🥴… but I will say that commenting on that video opened so many doors to this secret/not-so-secret world of self-care that I had been missing out on for 36 years! One of the ladies I was following had recently followed you & in no time there you were on my phone screen talking about faith and beauty. You literally left me in “ugly-cry” tears! 😭 You meshed both of my worlds together and made such an impact! Some days when life is so hard and I just want to sit in my PJ’s and watch tv to forget about the pain of the day, I look to you for inspiration to charge through it and command my own “happy day”. You have had me in tears from both a therapeutic faith-based point and the comedic aspect of every day life! You’re not just someone I want to watch every day… you have become a necessity. You are a sort of guide or compass for getting through it all and getting it all done. I am not pretty by any means… but you have helped me look at myself with hope that maybe one day I could be! True beauty is in the eye of the beholder and your heart was made with care and compassion. ❤️🥰 🙏 I could not be more thankful for your teachings and inspiration. This world needs more of you! I’m rambling at this point… but I could go on for days about how you have helped me. I am a stranger… we have never met… but I feel as though I have known you my whole life. That is the heartbeat of a soldier for God! I could not be more proud or grateful for the opportunity to walk this Christian based journey with you! May God continue to bless you and your beautiful family and always know that you are loved and you have changed lives. At least one ☝️ I know for sure! 🥰 (🙋🏼♀️ It’s ME!) lol Many blessings to you sweet girl! I don’t know what else to say… so “Thank You” will have to do for now! Love ya lady! 😘🥰☺️
Sincerely your grateful fan…
Bonnie
Brandi you are the most awesome selfless beautiful lady inside and out !!!! I was browsing FB and there you were so pretty with that purple hair simply gorgeous started watching your Lange hair videos and they are so inspiring I actually take the time to do my hair just about everyday I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and some days I do not feel well and lifeless all I do is watch your video for the day and lifts my spirits and gives me strength to do my hair and make up I bought your spiritual quotes for everyday book from Amazon and love it and of course love KC Designs all the clothing boutiques you make me feel so good about myself next is skin care and make up on a fixed income so have to buy a bundle at a time !! Cannot wait to try everything !!! Thank you so much for your kindness willing to make all women to feel good about themself so glad I found you 🙂 I talk about you all the time to my family and friend how beautiful you are and up lifting thanks again for inspiring me ❤️🙂
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