A clean cut beautiful girl dressed in White and Silver.

Pictures to follow for those of you wearing ivory – or red!

Main Make-Up ingre­dients: MAC: strobe cream (radiance), face and body foun­da­tion (pow­der only where neces­sary), mine­ra­lize skin­fi­nish (one shade dar­ker than her com­ple­xion for a gentle con­tour — alt pro­duct, bron­zer in “gol­den”) eyesha­dow: “cork” , “brule”, “vani­lla”, cre­me­blush in “uncom­mon” lip pen­cil: “spice” lips­tick: “honey­love” mixed with “kinda sexy” top­ped with clear lipglass.

Beaded Wedding Dress by Gavin Rajah.

Photographer:Robert Miller

Model: Chelsea L from Infinity models

Stylist: Cally Palmer

Make-up and Hair Artist: Samantha Laura Kaye

Location: Snap Studios, Cape Town.

2009

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.

Lighting info: Robert used: Bowens Dx750Pro overhead on boom with beauty dish.

SLS-3200′s camera left and right acting as clip lights.

Main Make-Up Ingredients: MAC Studio Fix Fluid, MAC Kohl liner in “smolder”, MAC #219 pencil brush, “blackground” paint pot and black glitter. Lips: “stripdown” pencil, “bubbles” lipstick (limited edition.)

Main Hair Ingredient: Hair-Spray and a comb.

Pro Tip: When working with glitter or any “extreme” eye look its best to apply foundation last. By working on the eyes first one is able to completely remove and wipe the “drop-down” ( eye-shadow or glitter that falls from the eye to the cheek) rather than trying to brush it away after or cover with concealer.

Pho­to­grapher: Robert Miller

Model: Chelsea L from Infinity

Sty­list: Cally Palmer

Make-Up: Samantha Laura Kaye

Hair: Samantha Laura Kaye

Loca­tion: Snap Stu­dios, Woods­tock, Cape Town

Year: 2009

Robert and I went for some “Bridal shots”.  Rob and Cally and I were testing with Chelsea L from Infinity – Cally had a Gavin Rajah silvery, slinky, beaded wedding dress with her so we went ahead with a fresh skinned “bridal” look.

Main Make-Up ingredients: MAC: strobe cream (radiance), face and body foundation (powder only where necessary), mineralise skinfinish (one shade darker than her complexion for a gentle contour – alt product, bronzer in “golden”) eyeshadow: “cork” , “brule”, “vanilla”, cremeblush in “uncommon” lip pencil: “spice” lipstick: “honeylove” mixed with “kinda sexy” topped with clear lipglass.

Main Hair ingredients: Bobby-Pins, Brilliant Blonde Shine cream.

Photographer: Robert Miller

Model: Chelsea L from Infinity

Stylist: Cally Palmer

Make-Up: Samantha Laura Kaye

Hair: Samantha Laura Kaye

Location: Snap Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town

Year: 2008

Main Make-Up ingredients: MAC: strobe cream (radiance), face and body foundation (powder only where necessary), mineralise skinfinish (one shade darker than her complexion for a gentle contour – alt product, bronzer in “golden”) eyeshadow: “cork” , “brule”, “vanilla”, cremeblush in “uncommon” lip pencil: “spice” lipstick: “honeylove” mixed with “kinda sexy” topped with clear lipglass.

Main Hair ingredients: Bobby-Pins, Brilliant Blonde Shine cream.

Photographer: Robert Miller

Model: Chelsea L from Infinity Models

Stylist: Cally Palmer

Make-Up: Samantha Laura Kaye

Hair: Samantha Laura Kaye

Location: Snap Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town

Year: 2008

This was somewhat of a challenge but a lot of fun. Rob was inspired by an image of a girl with flowers held over her hair, and once again we set out to “better” the wood nymph feel. We wanted to use purple Iris’s over her hair, though Cally could not find them so we used these greenish flowers – whose petals were recycled as eye-brows and eye-lashes with the help of DUO glue.

Main Make-Up Ingredient: DUO adhesive, fresh flower petals, MAC eyeshadow in “chrome yellow“, “parfait amour” and “thunder”(limited ed.) MAC pigment in “golders green” was used over her lips under clear lipglass.

Pro Tip: When dealing with something fiddly such as petals or feathers or individual lashes use tweezers to position the object in place, check the direction of the curve of the hair/petal and hold in place until secure. Using as little glue as possible cover the tip of the lash or petal and wait for the glue to become tacky before adhering it to the skin.

Model: Ashley P from Infinity

Photographer: Robert Miller

Stylist: Cally Palmer

Make-Up: Sam Kaye

Hair: Sam Kaye

Location: Snap Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town

Year: 2009

Robert and I were asked to provide some fresh “mature” images for Chelsea’s book – she’s moving from “teen” to “woman” and needed her portfolio to reflect this. Cally Palmer brought this amazing canary yellow silk Gavin Rajah gown which caught the light beautifully! We kept her skin, hair and make-up very fresh and light. At this point I was only doing make-up and not hair – I’d now re-do the pic with some nice big rollers for body and glamour.

Make-Up main ingredients: MAC Face and Body Foundation, MAC eyeshadow in Going Bananas and Chrome Yellow, MAC lipglass (clear).

Model: Chelsea L from Infinity models

Photographer: Robert Miller

Stylist: Cally Palmer

Make-Up: Sam Kaye

Location: Snap Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town

Year: 2008