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Kristi – Apples and Swarovskis
Posted by Samantha Laura Kaye in Portfolio on September 17th, 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.
Chelsea
Posted by Samantha Laura Kaye in Bridal, Portfolio on September 17th, 2009
The final image of our Bridal Boudoir.
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
My favorite of Rob’s experiment with cross polarized lighting
Posted by Samantha Laura Kaye in Portfolio on September 9th, 2009
Another colour extract from Robert Miller’s JemCat shoot.I think this might be my favorite. Robert had a very interesting lighting setup for this shoot. He placed Polarization filters over his beauty box in order to block out “hot spots” and experiment with cross polarized lighting.
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.
Stage Left
Posted by Samantha Laura Kaye in Portfolio on August 22nd, 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.
Pink Lady
Posted by Samantha Laura Kaye in Portfolio on August 22nd, 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“.
Sam
Posted by Samantha Laura Kaye in Portfolio on August 10th, 2009
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).
PIX June/July Cover – final
Posted by Samantha Laura Kaye in Portfolio on August 10th, 2009
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.
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.
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
Pix June/July Cover Original Crop
Posted by Samantha Laura Kaye in Portfolio on August 10th, 2009
Again, the original colours from the shoot, a crop of Sasha’s face and those amazing lashes.
Pix African Photo Journal asked Robert Miller to shoot their June/July cover. Robert brought Cally and I on board with the brief of “Apocalyptic Mall Rat”. Our inspirational images where somewhere between manga and alt. glam punk. This was the original colour scheme.
Main Make-up Ingredients: MAC pigment “azreal blue” and”navy stain”, fluidline in “Royal Wink” Kohl pencil in “smolder”. Limited Edition false eyelashes.
Photographer: Robert Miller
Model: Sasha Jagermeister
Stylist: Cally Palmer
Make-Up: Samantha Laura Kaye
Pix June/July Cover Shoot – pink
Posted by Samantha Laura Kaye in Portfolio on August 10th, 2009
Pix African Photo Journal asked Robert Miller to shoot their June/July cover. Robert brought Cally and I on board with the brief of “Apocalyptic Mall Rat”. Our inspirational images where somewhere between manga and alt. glam punk. This was the original colour scheme.
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.
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
Bridal Boutique (2)
Posted by Samantha Laura Kaye in Bridal on August 10th, 2009
An additional post of the Robert Miller/ Chelsea L fresh faced bridal look. I sculpted her face with texture rather than lines.
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.
