Photo shoot with Miss Natalie

A little while ago I had the opportunity of helping out with some makeup for a photoshoot with my hubster the Photographer and Hairstylist's Dustin and Courtney and Model Natalie Lynn. We had alot of fun! I've worked with Natalie before and I just adore her! She is a total sweetheart! 

Check out the rest of the shoot here!

Photoshoot fun!

I had the opportunity to work on a photoshoot on saturday. Seriously had SO much fun! 

The shoot was inspired by Beneath the Starry Sky by Emily Soto, check it out here

picture from here

Makeup was more of a neutral natural smoky eye with really dark reddish cranberry lips. 

The two models were so sweet and wonderful to work with. I did makeup for the beautiful miss Cait and then  a friend of my husband's wife, Sara, ( who is also a MUA) helped out with the other model, beautiful miss Courtney. It was soooo soooo much fun to work with another MUA!

Here's a sneak peak!!

More to come soon!

Leah

More pictures from our Mad Men Shoot!

Here are some more pictures from our Mad Men Shoot the other night! I just LOVE all of these fascinator headbands. You can purchase these at CocoRoseCouture. 

Mad Men shoot!

My husbands wonderfully talented cousin Bree was here visiting and wanted to do a photoshoot for her Etsy shop, you can find it here! Isn't it SO adorable, I love everything she does! She's so talented!

The theme was a 1950's/ 1960's back to school/ secretary photoshoot (think mad men), for her fall line of fascinators! I loved all of the rich fall colors she chose.

For the makeup I went with a brown smoky look for Sam (with short hair), for Ashley (with red hair) I did more of a smoky brown and green look and for mine I had done red and mustard yellow (I wasn't planning on modeling originally but the colors I was wearing actually worked out with the shoot because of the fall colors!) 

Here's a sneak peak of all of us modeling the fascinators!!

We all had such a fun time!!! I can't wait to see more of the pictures =) 

Aren't those fascinators SO adorable!?!? 

Bridals!

Yesterday I did my sister in law's makeup as a practice run for when she gets married in August! My husband took some pictures of her at the studio. It was alot of fun!!

I did a smoky look for her with nude lips. It's a bit different then the bridal tutorial I have already posted.

She is getting married in the late afternoon/evening so I can go alittle bit more dramatic, which is why I chose to do a smoky eye. Plus, she really loves the look.  Its always important to please the bride! =)

Here's a sneak peak to our shoot yesterday!! I will be doing a tutorial on this smoky bridal look soon...

 Leah

Rocker girl

Yesterday, my hairstylist and good friend wanted to do a photoshoot and asked me to do her makeup! It was so much fun working with a friend! Plus, she has beautiful skin and features and putting makeup on her was so much fun! I decided to do more of a smoky dark look. The colors reminded me of peacock feathers. The colors I used were teal, turquoise, dark green, lime green, rusty reddish brown, gold, and a white with gold shimmers. Here is a sneak peak to the shoot....

As soon as I get more pictures I will post more! In this one you can't really tell the eyeshadow, but doesn't she look gorgeous?! 

What are your favorite eyeshadow colors to play with? I was really loving these colors and will have to try them out on myself! 

Loves, Leah

1920's Flapper Girl and Sexy Pin-up girl photoshoot!

My hubby happens to be a photographer with a studio and I just did my very first shoot acouple weeks ago, but just now getting to blog about it!! Check him out here =) It was alot of fun working with him and the two hairstylists as well. Everytime I do makeup for someone (and this being my first shoot) I learn new things about myself, where I need to improve, how to be more organized and more efficient on time, that sort of thing. I feel so lucky to be able to practice in my hubby's studio. I think we will have to do this more often!

There were two models, very pretty and the sweetest girls ever! I had alot of fun getting to know them! For one of the model's she was going for more of a 1920's flapper girl look. So I did some research online about the 1920's and learned  that they used alot of pan makeup and soot and coal. So for the eyes I wanted to do something very dark, blacks blues and greens with pencil thin eyebrows. The lips I wanted to do more of a darker shade of raspberry with a cupids bow. The cheeks I wanted to do something with a touch of red maybe a little bit of raspberry.

Here are some inspirations I found online ( I just googled 1920's flapper girl)

Here are some pictures from the shoot! The 1920's look!

For the pin-up girl look I wanted do a more glamorous and old Hollywood/ Marilyn Monroe look. If you look at the pin-up girls they really didn't wear a whole lot of makeup, it was very clean and classic. So here are a few inspirations that I found. I wanted to definitely play up the eyeliner and do a dark lip. 

Here is the pin-up girl look I did!

There are more pictures, but I will have to get more from Mr. Hubby Photographer =) 

I had such a fun time, I hope to do more photoshoots in the future!! 

I am thinking about doing some tutorials on how I did each of these looks, any thoughts?

Hope everyone has a fantastic day!! 

loves

Leah