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Elgin Roses' Beautiful Bridal Bouquet

Photographer: Sally Mellish

Model: Caitlin Downes

Bouquet: Elgin Roses

Hair and Make-up artist: Samantha Kaye

Cape Town

2009

Hair How-To: Pull her hair into a loose french roll, fluffing the top and pulling “random strings” loose. Braid loose hair pieces and tuck them into the french twist, pull pieces around the head in organic motions and fasten with two bobby pins in a cross. Set with hairspray.

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Stage Left

Chelsea L from Infinity asked Rob, Cally and I to make her look like a Rockstar. Cally brought the clothes, Rob played around with some awesome lighting and I doused her eyes in black glitter.

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Kira

Pro Tip: When you’re appl­ying your make-up with a “natu­ral look” in mind – where you want to sulpt the face with colour (ie a light colour under the browbone) but without frosting or noticeable shimmer in mind use a non-reflective eye-shadow like MAC’s “brule” and then apply a colour like “shroom” (which is basi­cally the same colour in a more reflec­tive tex­ture) in small doses under the arch of the brow or in-between the eyes or apply a dollop of “woodwinked” – (a veluxe pearl and especially shiny eye-shadow in a colour fairly neutral to people with tanned skin) to the center of the lids. Doing this helps to con­tour the face, draw atten­tion to spe­ci­fic areas and sculpt the face — and the appli­ca­tion of a non-shiny ver­sion of the colour first allows the eyesha­dow to “dilute” making blen­ding easier and turning the shimmer into “amazing” lighting or bone structure.

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Colette – final

The final image, my personal favorite, from my first shoot with James Strack and Caroline Olvarrietta. For me, this is the show where Colette looks the most beautiful, and also a shot which utilizes the amazing “soft natural light” James created. It was a privilege to work with this great team.

James  wanted to focus on texture and light, monopolizing the unique set he designed for the shoot which utilized strategic channels of natural light with the help of an accompany assistant and his board, so it was important for the make-up to look “soft” and “fuzzy” whilst still sculpting Colette’s face. By using Colette’s natural colour palette ( the colours in her hair and skin) I was able to keep this look “simple” and “uncomplicated

Main Make-Up ingredients: Blending! I used MAC’s #224 brush to really “fuzz down” her shadow and enable me to apply shadow from very light… [ Read more ]

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Colette

This was my first shoot with both James and Caroline. James asked me for “something neutral” keeping the colours to creams, browns and greys.

James  wanted to focus on texture and light, monopolizing the unique set he designed for the shoot which utilized strategic channels of natural light with the help of an accompany assistant and his board, so it was important for the make-up to look “soft” and “fuzzy” whilst still sculpting Colette’s face. By using Colette’s natural colour palette ( the colours in her hair and skin) I was able to keep this look “simple” and “uncomplicated”

Main Make-Up ingredients: Blending! I used MAC’s #224 brush to really “fuzz down” her shadow and enable me to apply shadow from very light to dark without any tell-tale lines or patches. MAC eyeshadow: “brule”, “cork”, “garcon grey” lips: pencil in  “stripdown”  lipglass in “majestic”.

Main Hair ingredients: Rollers, “upload”, Bobby… [ Read more ]

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Shades of Grey

This is one of the first images from my first shoot with James Strack. James asked me for “something neutral” keeping the colours to creams, browns and greys. James said he wanted to focus on texture and light, monopolizing the unique set he designed for the shoot which utilised strategic channels of natural light with the help of an accompany assistant and his board.

Main Make-Up ingredients: Blending! I used MAC’s #224 brush to really “fuzz down” her shadow and enable me to apply shadow from very light to dark without any tell-tale lines or patches. MAC eyeshadow: “brule”, “cork”, “garcon grey” lips: pencil in  “stripdown”  lipglass in “majestic”.

Main Hair ingredients: Rollers, “upload”, Bobby pins and hairspray – I applied OSIS “upload” to her roots, set her hair in rollers for some volume and height, and then clipped it back with some bobby-pins in a relaxed upstyle.

Photographer: James… [ Read more ]

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Beautiful Elms

Pro Tip for nude or swimwear shoots: Spray hairspray all over her skin for shine and muscle definition.

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