Revìvere - “to live again” is a series of portraits celebrating style from the 1920’s to the 1960’s. The dolls are unwrapped and brought back to life. The project was the brainchild of Bisera, brought further to life by the large and wonderful team:

Photography: Bisera Milos Stefanovic

Lionel Jon Henshaw

Make Up: Samantha Laura Kaye

Hair – Mario from Mario’s Company For Hair and Beauty

Model: Jo-Anne – 3D Model Management

Vintage dresses and accessories – Nicola Belle Tyson’s private collection.

Wardrobe – Calvin Scully

Shot on location in 2010

Make-up: To make Jo-Anne’s skin glow I first applied MAC’s Strobe cream to illuminate the cheekbones and cupid’s bow. For her foundation I mixed MAC’s Studio Sculpt Foundation (gel based) with MAC’s Face and Body Foundation (water based). I buffed the foundation into the skin with MAC’s #187 brush whilst spraying water (I use The Body Shop’s Vitamin C spray or MAC’s Fix+ Spray) to thin out any areas that need blending or thinning. I did not set the foundation with powder to maintain the shine, instead I minimised sweating and wear-and tear with Fix+ which delivers a fine spray of water to cool and refresh the skin.

I sculpted her brows with MAC’s clear brow gel and then filled and defined them with “Lingering” brow-pencil. I used MAC eye-shadows: “Vanilla” to highlight her eyes,  ”Soba” in the crease to sculpt. I used MAC’s eye-kohl in “Fascinating” on the water-line to enlarge her eyes for the full body shots.

For her cheeks I used MAC’s cremeblush to further enhance her glow, and on her lips I used MAC lipliner in “Brick” and lipsticks “MAC RED”, “Berry Boost” and “Lady Danger” (I’m addicted to mixing for depth and unique colours).

Photography: Bisera Milos Stefanovic

Lionel Jon Henshaw

Make Up: Samantha Laura Kaye

Hair – Mario from Mario’s Company For Hair and Beauty

Model: Chloe – 3D Model Management

Vintage dresses and accessories – Nicola Belle Tyson’s private collection.

Wardrobe – Calvin Scully

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

The beautiful Gabi-Lee from Boss Model Management.

Main Make-Up ingredients: MAC: Face and Body Foundation finished with mineralize skinfinish powder and Prep+Prime Transparent finishing powder , brow pencil in “lingering“, eye-shadow “shroom”, “vanilla”, “malt”, Pro Longlash mascara in “PitchBlack”, lip pencil: “Redd”, lipstick: “Lady Danger“.

Main Hair ingredient: A great blow-dry, OSIS “magic”. I simply tied a pony, sectioned off the “fringe” part, and then combed the front into a “swirl” rather than “teen-punk’s” signiture girl-do.

Photographer: Stphane Santinelli

Model: Gabi-Lee Smit from Boss

Hair and Make-up: Samantha Kaye

Location: Cape Town

2009