Shoot For A Cause

I had the pleasure of joining a grand affair yesterday. Shifter’s: “Shoot for a Cause”. It was an amazing experience and, though it was tiring I think everyone had fun. You can’t beat that feeling of satisfaction knowing you were able to contribute to a good cause and had absolute time doing it. Fort Canning on a bright Sunday morning was teeming with photographers who all came imbibed with the spirit of camaraderie for a fellow Filipino who is in need of help. They didn’t know that in exchange of their support they will end their day with beautiful pictures, laughter and great moments.

It was such a high to have been given the task of doing hair and make up on some of the gorgeous muses of the day. I didn’t say model because as far as I am concerned, I totally believe that these ladies have certainly helped everyone that day to let out their creative juices all in the name of photography, just as what a muse would’ve done to an artist. The ladies delivered their own brand of magic that day and it was palpable to everyone present.

As I am not a hurrying person when it comes to makeup and hair, so it came as no surprise that the days leading up to the event I was anxiety ridden. But comes the day itself, it became a breeze as I have before me three gorgeous and quite entertaining ladies to work on. It was a blast doing their make up.     

As it has become habit of mine to share techniques and products I used for photoshoots. Certainly, this is not the time to deviate from all of that as I am excited to showcase my creation done to these three uber-fantastic gals.

I cannot say enough the power and beauty of highlight and contour. You can see it makes so much difference. The muses are all given enough highlight for the camera to pick up and contour to outline and give shadowy effect.

­On Sienna

FACE 

¶      Foundation – Revlon Photo Ready Foundation in Sand Beige

¶      Cheeks – Coastal Scents blusher palette

¶      Contour and Highlight – Coastal Scents contour and highlighting palette

¶      Concealer – Concealer palette by Coastal Scents

¶      Powder – MAC select sheer in NC30

EYES

¶      Base – NYX base in skin tone

¶      Eyeshadow – Neutral palette by Coastal Scents

¶      Liner – Maybelline gel liner and POP eyeliner in black

¶      Mascara – Clinique high impact mascara in black

¶      Eyelashes – From Sasa and DUO eyelash adhesive

LIPS

¶      Ultra luxury lip liner in Wild berry and Clinique superbalm moisturizing gloss

On Junnie

FACE 

¶      Foundation – Revlon Photo Ready Foundation in Sand Beige

¶      Cheeks – Coastal Scents blusher palette

¶      Contour and Highlight – Coastal Scents contour and highlighting palette

¶      Concealer – Concealer palette by Coastal Scents

¶      Powder – MAC select sheer in NC30

EYES

¶      Base – Glimmerstick by Avon in black

¶      Eyeshadow – The Body Shop Shimmer cubes palette 12 (I only used twilight black)

¶      Liner – Maybelline gel liner and POP eyeliner in black

¶      Mascara – Clinique high impact mascara in black

¶      Eyelashes – From Sasa and DUO eyelash adhesive

LIPS

¶      NYX Lip Liner in natural, Revlon Nude lipstick (Models own) and Clinique superbalm moisturizing gloss

On Erika

FACE 

¶      Foundation – Revlon Photo Ready Foundation in Beige

¶      Cheeks – Coastal Scents blusher palette

¶      Contour and Highlight – Coastal Scents contour and highlighting palette

¶      Concealer – Concealer palette by Coastal Scents

¶      Powder – MAC select sheer in NC30

EYES

¶      NYX Base in skintone

¶      Eyeshadow – Blue iridescent and blue coloured eyeshadow a perfect dupe for MAC’s Prussian. A bit of silvery cloured highlighter in the inner corners of the eye and brow bone

¶      Liner – Maybelline gel liner and POP eyeliner in black

¶      Mascara – Clinique high impact mascara in black

¶      Eyelashes – From Sasa and DUO eyelash adhesive

LIPS

¶      NYX Lip Liner inTangerine and Clinique superbalm moisturizing gloss

BODY

¶      Erika was wearing shorts so I used ELF bronzer to give her legs a healthy glow and to help light reflect.

Tips: On Junnie and Erika I used dark eyeshadows and in order to minimize fall out I used a base before putting on their shadows. The base helps the shadows to stick thus minimizing fall out. And it is also helpful to pack in shadows to make sure that it sticks, just make sure that you blend it well after. Also, I tried not to put foundation first or if I did I put it very lightly since I am working with dark eyeshadows. So in case there would be fall out it will be easier to clean after.

Anyways, here are some of the photos I took of them and some were by other photographers.

  Sienna Sandra Sangines

Sienna

Another photo of Sienna

Erika

Erika

Junnie (Photo by: Karlson Basa Ong)

(Photo by: Valentino Bermudez)

All in all it was a great shoot for a great cause. And I hope we all wont forget the reason behind the event is to help and reach out. 


For Nat, I may not know you personally but in spirit of the craft that bind us all I hope and pray for your recovery. My prayers are with you and your family... 

All Hail The Egyptian Queen

So proud of our little sisterette on her very first debut as a full-pledged model. It took as one month to mobilize the whole production due to schedule conflicts, but as seen below its all worth the wait. I am super excited at the other photographers photos of her. I’m sure they have done a better job in taking pictures. Celyn is one of those people that will be a MUA favourite, she never, ever complains. She won’t tell you that her neck is sore because its taking me a lifetime to perfect the gel liner I’m putting on…She’s that dedicated to the craft.

I used several items to complete this look. As she already have good skin, it was easy for me to do the rest. A little tweaking here and there and, Voila! We have in our presence an Egyptian Queen.

These are the products I used on her:

FACE:

      Foundation – Revlon Photo Ready Foundation in Early Tan

      Bronzer – For highlight and to make her a golden beauty. I used ELF bronzer

      Cheeks – I used Coastal Scents Blusher Palette

      Contour – Coastal Scents Contour Palette

      Concealer – Concealer Palette from Coastal Scents

      Powder – MAC Select Sheer in NC30

EYES:

Eyeshadow – I used ELF cream shadow in butter pecan to help the gold pigments to stick.

Liner – POP eyeliner in black. And Maybelline gel eyeliner.

Mascara – Clinique High Impact Curling Mascara in Black

False Eyelashes – From Sasa and DUO eyelash adhesive

LIPS:

      For Base I used a concealer on her lips to blank out the colour and to act as a base for the gold eyeshadow to stick. I conditioned the lips after with my trusty lip balm Rosebud Salve, which I think everyone should have.