With the brief of “Apocalyptic Mall Rat” and inspirational images somewhere between manga and alt. glam punk Robert, Cally and I ended up with this on the cover of June/July PIX African Photo Journal.

Cover was originally pink - I think I might prefer it pink.

Main Make-up Ingredients: MAC pigment “azreal blue”  and”navy stain”, fluidline in “Royal Wink” Kohl pencil in “smolder”. Limited Edition false eyelashes. DUO adhesive.

A crop of Sasha's face and lashes.

Photographer: Robert Miller

Model: Sasha Jagermeister

Stylist: Cally Palmer

Make-Up: Samantha Laura Kaye

Hair: Samantha Laura Kaye

Location: Snap Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town

Year: 2009

Kass is one of the best swimsuit photographers in our pretty city, so I wanted to make the most of this little test shoot we did for Claudi. I picked gold as my theme and accent, working with various hues and levels of reflection in the make-up. First I smoothed her skin with MAC’s Studio Finish Foundation. Then I contoured her face with a combination of Mac’s Sculpt and Shape powders, MAC’s loose Golden Bronze shimmer powder and Mineralise Skinfinish in Shimpagne and Shooting Star. I started on Claudi’s eyes by applying a thin layer of Guerlain Ombre Eclat Eye Shadow Primer - (which happens to be the BEST eye-primer I have ever laid my hands on) and then I shaded a traditional beauty eye using pigments for shimmer and MAC’s eye-shadows in “beauty marked”, “bronze” and “espresso“. I lined her eyes with” smoulder” eye kohl, smudged them with MAC’s #219 pencil brush and then applied MAC’s #36 lash. I lined her lips with “subculture” lip pencil and then filled them with MAC’s “gold shimmer” lipstick and topped them off with “wet wild and wonderful” lip-gloss which I customized by blending with a white gold pigment.

I let her hair do its own thing, simply enhancing the shine a little with OSIS “magic” serum.

Photographer: Kass Photography

Model: Claudi

Hair and Make-up Artist: Samantha Laura Kaye

Location: Cape Town

Shot on the roof of the Grand Daddy Hotel, this is one of my favorite of the fashion series Nena and Sean and I created one unsuspecting Spring Sunday.  I love seeing Cape Town city behind her, that tiny patch of blue in the corner, and how everything except for Nena is slightly out of focus.

Make-Up: MAC: Skin: Studio Fix Fluid, studio finish concealer, Prep ‘n Prime transparent finishing powder. Cheeks: “Buff” - matte blush for under the cheekbone and “Pretty Indulgent” - silvery shimmer for a cheek highlight. Eyes: “Blackground” Paint Pot, topped with “Cinderfella” Mineralize eye-shadow (limited edition – similar to “black tied” eye-shadow) and “carbon” (matt) eye-shadow. Lashes were coated with “Zoomblack” mascara and then MAC’s #47 lash for an extreme effect. Finally I lined her water-line with “Fascinating” eye-kohl. Lips were coated with “Explicit” lipgass.

Hair: Hair was sprayed with water, combed back and the Loreal’s “Crystal Wax” was applied to the roots and again combed back.

Photographer: Sean Laurenz

Photographer’s Assistant: Nick Raper

Model: Nena Hugo from Trigger

Stylist: Nena Hugo

Hair and Make-Up: Samantha Laura Kaye

Shot in Cape Town, at the Grand Daddy Hotel in 2009

This image is taken from a series of images shot for Pasella – where I was given exactly 20 minutes for hair and make-up (including liquid liner and false lashes.) I like this image because it’s clearly a portrait, yet one cannot make eye-contact with the model – which makes this image (compared to the others from this shoot) more powerful in my eyes. Lyndall had just received her title as FHM’s sexiest SA Woman for 2009 and I felt very privileged to have worked with her.

Main Make-Up ingredients: MAC #7 lash, “pro lash” mascara, MAC eyeshadow in “black tied”, “beauty sleep (disc.)“, “garcon grey” and “brule”. Kohl Pencil in “smolder”.

Main Hair ingredients: Hair Spray

Photographer: Evert Theron

Model: Lyndall Jarvis

Make-up: Samantha Kaye

Hair: Samantha Kaye

Location: The Westin Grand, Cape Town

2009

Robert made the cat ears him­self in order to get the spa­cing and direc­tion and tex­ture the way he wanted.

Here Kitty Kitty plays with a roll of Gaffa tape. Jemma is a fan­tas­tic model, she was rela­xed, is natu­rally beau­ti­ful and pla­yed kitty-kitty with into­xi­ca­ting conviction.

Main make-up ingre­dients: MAC #7 Lash, DUO adhe­sive, MAC paint­pots, MAC tech­na­kohl liner in “graph­black” MAC pigment in “Copperclast”

Pho­to­grapher: Robert Miller

Model: Jemma Pearce

Hair: Samantha Kaye

Make-Up: Samantha Kaye

Loca­tion: Snap Stu­dios, Woods­tock, Cape Town

The September cover for Exhibit magazine. A most entertaining shoot involving chickens, pigs, a pony and a beautiful girl. Talented team, great feminine clothing and a photographer who is both talented and sincere.

Here are some of the images from the fashion spread inside:

My favorite image from the shoot

Main Make-up Ingre­dients: Stu­dio Fix Fluid Foun­da­tion, MAC “Hello Kitty” half lash, cre­me­blush in “brit wit” and Mine­ra­lise skin­fi­nish in “light, medium and medium-dark”.

Main Hair Ingre­dients: Rollers, OSIS “grip” (mousse), LOREAL “Play Ball — Silky Sunrise”

Photographer: Mark Freeborough

Model: Robyn Hobson

Hair and Make-up: Samantha Kaye

Clothing: Nucleus Clothing

Assistant: Frank Moody

Location: The Barnyard, Tokai, Cape Town.

2009

Make-Up main ingredients: MAC #20 lash (half lash), MAC fluid-line in”blacktrack“, plushglass in “Ample Pink”

Photographer: Anzio B

Model: Emma Lombard

Make-up: Samantha Kaye

Hair: Samantha Kaye

Location: Anzio B’s studio, Cape Town.

Date: 2007

This is one of the images from my first shoot with Robert Miller. I’d seen the wig whilst choosing costumes for a “pin-up” inspired shoot at Annies, which used to be in the same building as Snap Studios. I kept the eyes neutral toned, and sculpted them with texture, applied some individual false lashes (I find the individual lashes look more natural as they lack the “spine” visible with a full false lash) to bring out the shape of the eyes and then matched the lipstick to the wig with MAC’s Amplified Lipstick “Girl About Town“.

Make-Up Ingredients: MAC creme liner in Cranapple, MAC Amplified Lipstick “Girl About Town“, MAC lipglass (clear)MAC eyeshadow: “Shroom“, “All That Glitters“, “Cork” and “Embark“, Prolong Lash Mascara.

Photographer: Robert Miller

Model: Samantha Laura Kaye

Make-Up: Sam Kaye

Hair: Sam Kaye

Location: Snap Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town

Year: 2007

These are some of the photographs from a series inspired by the Heidi Klum cat-ear shoot.

Robert Miller made the cat ears himself.

Main make-up ingredients: MAC #7 Lash, DUO adhesive, MAC paintpots, MAC technakohl liner in “graphblack”

Photographer: Robert Miller

Model: Jemma Pearce

Hair: Samantha Kaye

Make-Up: Samantha Kaye

Location: Snap Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town

2009