First things first, big thanks to the wonderful photographer Lauren Cowart & my beautiful friends Kelcie & Jessica who were the models!

Check out the behind the scenes photos here & peep two of the final photos below! Hope you all enjoy. This was a dark and edgy shoot as you can see. I love them! Thanks again ladies.

Makeup by me. Models: Kelcie Glass & Jessica Couch. Wonderful photographer: Lauren Cowart

What more could you ask for?

A few weeks ago Lauren Cowart & I managed to schedule a photoshoot we had been meaning to do for awhile. My mentor, Keith Venable who is the Creative Executive at Yves Saint Laurent Beauty, told me my portfolio was great, but needed more edge. After hearing that I had to get this photoshoot in before I parted ways with Lauren (tear). Well, we did it & I have some photos I took during the shoot.

Kelcie was of course the first person who came to mind when I thought of an edgy shoot – her face can easily handle the makeup & her poses are always immaculate. Then I thought about Jessica Couch – her face can also handle makeup & her bone structure is amazing!

We went for something dark with unusual makeup – heavy lashes, extra heavy eyebrows & even white eyeliner, which is usually a makeup no no but has been spotted on the runway recently.

I won’t go into much detail because the edited photos are not up yet, but when they are here (Lauren is so busy, she did like 5 million weddings & graduation photos!) I will surely go into detail.

Enjoy! & again, many thanks to Kelcie, who is always willing to model, to Jessica for FINALLY letting someone else do her makeup & an indefinite amount of gratitude for Lauren who is my photoshoot partner in crime!

Do not miss out on their marvelous websites either. Kelcie’s at http://www.playedwithfire.wordpress.com and Lauren’s at http://laurencowartphotography.wordpress.com

The other day my love Jessica Couch had a project for us at the College of Textiles at North Carolina State University. One of the seniors was showcasing her collection. We went over there at 1pm and didn’t finish hair and makeup until 6pm. Kelcie Glass came with us to help out with the make up & for much needed moral support (& even got a knot out of my back for me – sitting doing makeup for 5 hrs hurts my back!).

Anyway, some of the photos are below – the designer of the line wanted something very raw, tribal like and animalistic so we went off that. I think it came together really well & fit the clothes that she made – I don’t have any photos of the clothing – I couldn’t even stay & watch the show ’cause Kelcie and I had to, um… go shop…. yea. haha. There were 10 models – & it seemed like it never ended!

Mind you the lighting was a little yellow where we were… & the pictures are taken with a camera phone. But it’s the best we could do!

Of course I can’t put my entire NYC summer into pictures (especially because i LOST my camera while on the way out with Kelcie one night )

BUT…

this is a snippet of some of my summer…

Kelcie, Courtney, Jessica, Brittany, Logan, Avanti & Terri in these pics! Check them out on TWITTER!!

Oh…and ME too!!