Archive for the ‘Makeup’ Category

Fresh Faces – Lori D

This shoot has all of  the makings of a flop from the beginning.  Lori, a relatively young model , with an unproven portfolio,  was approx 45 min late (already a no no)  before we heard from her, and then took another 45 min to get there. I know I know, I can hear all of [...]

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Fresh Faces: Lyschel H

More so than the model herself, the biggest story here was the “Snow Storm”. I use the term loosely b/c what passed for a snow storm here in Atlanta greatly differs from the in the Midwest where I was raised. It snow pretty hard and heavy for a few hours, leaving the shoot up in [...]

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Fresh Faces: Gwenna

Re’Nauta (the “R”  in SMUDGED by R. Bell) has an uncanny knack of seeing the best in people despite what their current body of works looks like . When she first approached me about shooting Gwen, i was a little hesitant to say the least.  However, the French native, African and French beauty was a [...]

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Eva and the Beauty Dish

I have often heard of and have seen people using Beauty Dishes. So I decided to get one and try it out. In cans you didn’t know, a beauty dish basically  is a type of photographic lighting device, one of a number of photographic soft light devices. A beauty dish uses a parabolic reflector to [...]

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