Bourjois "makeup" shoot 23rd Feb

So you will notice that this shoot date as the one in the post bellow the reason for this was because i decided to multi task and try to get 2 shoots in one day which i managed happily.Lets begin with how I started this idea, so from the research that I had done previously ready for the shoot with Claire reed I re-used, scenes as I bought all the decorations. The theme of the makeup was big and bold but also beautiful. I think when it comes to selling makeup you need quite dramatic makeup for advertising. This was the main image I was influenced by:


















The gold circles on her face(gold circles in my image and black within this image) I went and bought ribbon, which was decorated with them. I spent a couple of hours cutting them out and adding double sided tape on the reverse of them so they would stick on the models face. The black makeup I bought ready for the shoot and practiced the style on my face so it was ready to just do again on emme. The biggest problem which arose for me was the netting which I found extremely hard to find. In the end after much research I found that neither Darlington or Newcastle ”and the biggest material store you could go to dainty supply’s in Washington” did supply it either. So I went around problem solving. I bought fish net tights and practiced and played with it ready to use on emmys face, and I also had black sticky glittery strips to try and create a net look but I didn’t use that idea. The prospect of trying to make fishnet tights look like hat net was daunting on my mind and was basically impossible to do. Luckily we didn’t settle for the fish net tights and kept looking, when me and my mum realized we bought fishnet net to cover the pond in the back garden earlier on in the year and we had left over’s. So I went and got some from the shed and it was exactly what I had been looking for, for about a month. That was a great relief so hopefully when the shoot came it would be alright.

So when the shoot came along we had already don’t the tiffany shoot earlier, we went and got some dinner then came back. I re set up a different set, I was originally finding it hard to find the distance of the model from the black background then I realized it was the distance I needed. So I distanced Emme from the background aimed the soft box so the light was falling on her then tried it and it was perfect. I then applied emme’s makeup the dots and then the, netting which was rather hard to stick down but luckily I had the stickiest double sided sticky tape in the world J. After the makeup was applied and rather successfully which I was rather happy with we set to shooting I tried 2 different angles and I managed to get what I needed within that day.

I then set to shooting the objects to add within the compositions after emmy had gone. Shooting the Bonjouis eye shadow and my tiffany necklace and bracelet, with different lighting setups brightness exposures and apertures. This left me with enough work to work with when I went home. After the shoot I spent about 2-3 editing and I finally finished them yesterday after making repeated mistakes. The gold glittery background was taken at home on my camera of some material I had, I shaped it to look shaded and like velvet again and adobe’d it within the image. I think the overall composition was successful the final image can be found later on in my blogg.