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Zee Avi's Homecoming Tour November 2011 - Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Kuching.

                           

There were moments of highs and lows, but love surrounded us throughout. All photos by Shahnaz Bahar - raw & unedited.

Illamasqua - Theatre of the Nameless Collection

Source : Illamasqua.com

Old Age Make-up

These are examples of old age make-up you can achieve using old age stipple. It was a beauty shoot for a cosmetics company to show wrinkles on the face and not so much the ageing, hence I left the eyebrows and eye make-up as it was before the wrinkly make-up shots.

The tricky bit with old age stippling on young skin is the wrinkles won't be as obviuos. Stippling for old age is a process of stretching the skin and applying liquid latex. The skin needs to be stretched until the latex is dried and then powdered over, before the skin is released. This process can be repeated several times to achieve the desired wrinkle effects. The result will enhance the appearance of old age, although not so much on younger skin. In order to achieve proper old age skin effects a whole different process of old age prosthetics is used. This however can take several weeks as the model's face need to be casted and the cast will be filled with foam latex or sillicone which will be sculpted according to the character's age - think Benjamin Button. The prosthetics that are ready will then be applied using adhesives and then coloured with alcohol based make-up. Age spots, thinning hair, sunken eyes, sagging skin and old teeth are all part of making the prosthetics effects look as realistic as possible.

 

 

 

Photoshoot : Fallen Geisha

It was a drizzly morning at Taman Rimba Taman Tun Dr Ismail. We planned to start shoot by 8am as to avoid the sun, but it rained throughout the morning anyway. The theme was to shoot a dark and intense fallen geisha, so the weather was on our side although it started to rain a little heavier while i was doing Aliki's make-up. We ended up doing the make-up in my car and hoped the rain will not get any heavier.

The photographer Carol and her husband/assistant Julian directed the shoot and managed to capture some interesting shots. Overall, it was a good shoot in the rain..minus the mossie bites!

Here are some of the photos.

Photographer : Carolyn Chon 

Assistant : Julian Oh

Model : Aliki Pasara

MUA : Shahnaz Bahar

 
 
 
 



Shooting Antoine

Another fun day of shooting with Bibo and Antoine despite the rain that morning. We still managed to capture great photos with Antoine who's always accommodating and versatile, before he left Malaysia back to his native land, France.

Nick Knight speaks to Imran Amed of 'Business Of Fashion' about pioneering his fashion website, breaking boundaries and being fearless to changes.

This video is insightful and worth the 40 minutes spent watching it. Nick believes the heart and mind are the key to fashion imagemaking.

SHOWstudio celebrates its 10th Year Anniversary in November 2010.

Source : BoF

BoF Fashion Pioneers | Nick Knight in conversation with Imran Amed from The Business of Fashion on Vimeo.

Evon Tan

 
 
 

 

Behind The Scenes with Oscar & Friends

Thank you so much to everyone involved in this shoot directly or otherwise..BIG KiSS! And thank you Oscar for finding time during your holiday to create this lovely video.

We all shared tons of fun, laughter and adventure..not to mention sweat!!

Still keeping my fingers crossed for Oscar to come back for another shoot ;-)

Spanish-Malaysian Collaboration

Oscar Munar and I had been corresponding for about a month planning for a high-fashion editorial shoot during his short trip to KL. After deciding on the model, location and wardrobe it was time to meet up and get to work!

We earlier planned for one shoot with one model but after getting to know each other a little bit more we realised our working chemistry are in sync and it would be fun to have more shoots with other models..and so we did!

Evon Tan, the first model we decided to shoot at our first location in Putrajaya worked her poses effortlessly. Her wardrobe and styling by designer Sandra Azwan was perfect for the location. It had a futuristic vibe and I played with minimal colours and a clean look for make-up and hair.

We later proceeded to KLCC for another shooting session which ended quite quickly due to the unfortunate weather and bad natural lighting. It was a great first day, regardless.

The next shoot was a bit more adventurous. I wanted a dark, melancholic theme and the wardrobe of bright coloured dresses kindly loaned to us by Justin Yap was an excellent contrast to our location - the historical Pudu jail that most people thought had been completely demolished. It wasn't easy trying to convince the guards and construction workers at the site but we managed to pull it off in the end! Well worth the effort, thanks to the models Deanna Ibrahim and Natasha Hudson who were cool enough to be part of the shoot.

More photos will be posted soon..in the mean time these should do :-)

 

 

 

Behind the Scenes - Chic Yamada A/W 2010 Photoshoot