Deer Park

@lula_cat munching a marshmallow cupcake

@beatnikbazaar and @faerie452 munching cupcakes

Alyssa about to munch a cupcake

Melissa eating a cupcake

Liëtte looking for cupcakes

Sugar rush coupled with delight for my locket and "Lady Kaye" pendant (both birthday gifts from wonderful women)

Nick enjoying the bubbles

Directions to my patch of sunshine

Arranging cupcakes (round 2)

marshmallow and vanilla wafer flower cupcakes.

cupcakes

Latisha

Julia enjoying KWV white wine.

Belinda cooling her feet in the stream while she enjoys some KWV white

Nature's fridge.

Ellie and Dan and their table of fun.

Once again, thank you to KWV for sponsoring us white, red and sparkling wine. They were a fabulous accompaniment to the cupcakes.

I love this photograph.  Rob presented me with a picture of a girl with red raccoon eyes and sparkles one day. The make-up was flawed in areas and we both agreed that we thought we could adapt it and evolve it into something better. Rob brought in Cally Palmer, who brought the *perfect* black sequined shirt – which added elegance and depth to the black background we needed to “calm” the red as well as a red apple – which for me applies an organic parallel to the otherwise very harsh and foreign red placement in the photograph.

Make-up main ingredients: MAC cream colour base in Reel Red (limited edition), Mac Kohl Pencil in Fascinating, Zoomblack Mascara and swarovski crystals.

Model: Kristi

Photographer: Robert Miller

Stylist: Cally Palmer

Make-Up: Sam Kaye

Hair: Sam Kaye

Location: Snap Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town

Year: 2009

Main Make-up Ingredients: MAC: Apply Strobe Cream – to give the skin radiance, the buff Studio Fix Fluid -( in my experience it’s the longest wearing of MAC’s foundations which makes it ideal for brides) into the skin with a stippling brush (I like the #187). Apply “Shroom” to the inner corners of the eye, “vanilla” under the brow bone, “French Grey” to the crease, “All that glitters” to the ball of the eye and “embark” along the lashline with an angle brush. Fuzz a little extra of embark into the outer edges of the crease. Gently exaggerate the line of the eye with “blacktrack” fluidline. Set the brows with clear brow gel, and then gently fill them in with an angle brush and an eyeshadow like “brun”, gently dust some “strada” (matt) blush under the cheekbone for contour, and dust a little “blushbaby” over the top of the cheek for s fresh glow. Dust over the entire face with Prep+Prime transparent finishing powder and then finish the lips with “Brick” lipliner and “Miss Dish” (satin) lipstick.

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.

Pho­to­grapher: Sally Mellish

Model: Marika Maliaris

Bou­quet: Elgin Roses

Hair and Make-up artist: Samantha Kaye

Cape Town

2009