Beauty shots with experimental make-up

It’s always fun to experiment with new ideas and styles. A local Oxford make-up artist and I did a test with a model recently to try out some interesting and different make-up ideas.

To add another element to the shoot I introduced a silk cloth which I asked the model to flick across her face. It’s quite hit and miss but if you carefully time your shots and are patient you can get some really interesting photographs. In this shot you can see that the face is in focus but the silk is not, this keeps the attention on the model.

After doing several shots like this I then dropped the silk from above the model’s head to give a different effect.

Again it is really just repeating the same process with many poses to get photos which work!

The make up being applied by Emma before the shoot

The last make-up look was quite bold so I wanted a strong look from the model to go with it. All these shots were lit with one  Elinchrom 250 mono-block and a shoot through umbrella, a white reflector to the right of the model and  a silver reflector below the models face to acheive a very even, flawless skin tone.