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

Better late than never, this was the NOMU Sweet Rub competition poster featuring Cape Town Girl.

I used MAC’s Studio Finish foundation to give her even plastic perfection and mixed together “Rocking Chick” lipstick with “Show Orchid” Lipstick (both MAC) topped off with MAC’s clear lipglass for the loud and proud pout.

Photographer: Robert Miller

Model: Cape Town Girl

Hair and Make-up: Samantha Laura Kaye

Location: Snap Studios

For some “behind the scenes” shots click here.

Photographer: Robert Miller

Model: Robyn Hobson

Stylist: Karen Wieffering

Make-up and Hair Artist: Samantha Laura Kaye

Location: Snap Studios

Shot for Pix Magazine in 2009.

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

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

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

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

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

This is one of my favourite portraits. It’s from my first shoot with Robert Miller, where I was doing the make-up and modeling with a variety of costumes and wigs for a “pin-up” style shoot. This photograph is in fact a crop of a photograph of me relaxed and momentarily unaware of the camera, walking across the studio to fetch a new hairdo, my hair was disheveled from the violent way I’d pulled off the last wig.

Main Make-Up ingredients: MAC studio fix fluid, mineralise skinfinish “lightful”(ltd. “Corps de ballet“), bronzer “golden”, sheertone blush: “blushbaby”, lipstick “House Wine” and “Kinda Sexy” and “Honeylove”, Lipglass (clear).

Main Hair ingredients: Frustration and Apathy.

Photographer: Robert Miller

Model: Samantha Laura Kaye

Make-Up and Hair: Samantha Kaye

Location: Snap Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town

2007

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