Photography: Phil Drinkwater
Makeup / Hair Piece: Sonara Parker
Beauty is one of the hardest things to get right for a makeup artist, people think because your working in a studio its easy to plough the foundation on in ridiculous thick amounts so the poor lady in your chair looks plastic skinned or that we let the editor worry about the flaws of the skin.
This is actually as far from the mark as you can get.
Makeup for a beauty shoot can take up to an hour and a half to get everything perfect. The skin has to look as flawless as you can get it without plastering your models skin in thick foundation, trying to delicately cover each flaw.
Everything has to be perfect, from the skin, the eyebrows, down to each individual eyelash. Its easy to look at a beauty photo and think either its easy to recreate when in reality its anything but!
When shooting a beauty set you can opt for a story or a few different looks, on this shoot with the amazing beauty and wedding photographer Phil Drinkwater, I decided to create three different looks, ranging from a quite natural look to a full on creative look with a headpiece.
The pink hair roller headpiece took me hours upon hours to make, trying out every different glue to stick the hair together, trying to find a way of curling the synthetic hair and keeping it in a set curl (harder than it looks!) I ended up sitting up until the wee hours of the morning for quite a few days, like a crazed blue peter presenter covered in glue, pink hair and sweat!
Love & Blusher
Sonara
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