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

Hehe… not like that! Me & Kelcie (& Zewidi too…but I didn’t find any pics easily) all LOVE Cyber from MAC. Check out the link here… it’s the richest smoothest satiniest color ever… this deep plum/purple/violet … I don’t know how to describe it but it’s AMAZING!

Tip: To be extra chic, pair these dark lips w/ just a little mascara – & nothing else!

This wasn’t an official photo shoot or anything, but it was an official birthday which is just as important….

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KELCIE (even though it happened a few days ago) follow her @_thefire_ !!

As well as being a great friend Kelcie Glass let me use her eyeliner while I was in DC this winter break. My MAC eyeliner was drying up & I need another tube but Kelcie had L’oreal Paris Carbon Black Lineur Intense. This stuff is great… check out the website here for the product!

L’oreal claims that The Carbon Black is 2 times darker that regular black & it’s definitely true. I LOVED the liner!! It’s priced relatively well too around $9.

We did a little makeup for Kelcie’s birthday. I say we because Kelc did her lips I just did the skin and eye bit. Her face looks BEATTTTT! Take a look for yourself.

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!

Kelcie Glass in Lauren Cowart Photoshoot - Makeup by Anna Miya

How AMAZING does Kelcie look?? Lauren had this vision of using the leaves & fall colors to play up the makeup so I decided to do an amazing cranberry lip with perfect skin. Add lashes for dramatics & a heavier brow and VOILA! I really love the results…don’t be disappointed if your makeup doesn’t always turn out how you love it – make sure you have amazing skin like Kelcie Glass & it’ll really help. I wanted to leave some photos unedited so you guys can guess which ones they are I love the rawness of them & how you can really see through to the makeup.

I’m not going to go through each step like I did with Amber’s makeup, but feel free to comment, twitter me, email me, text me to ask what I did!!

Make sure you check out Lauren & Kelcie’s blogs as well! Kelcie’s blog is FIRE & has some great underground& unique information that can ONLY be found on her blog. Lauren’s blog is an eye catching & super fun website that showcases all of her photography talent.

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Kelcie Glass and I are having a VINTAGE VS. CONTEMPORARY clothing sale 9/26/09 at Laurel Ridge Apartments from 11-4! Check my Facebook Page (Anna Miya) or Kelcie’s (Kelcie Glass) for more details on the event…

Aldo, Michael Kors, Citizens, Sevens, Polo, Urban Outfitters, Dolce Vita, H&M, Guess, Wet Seal, Forever 21, Steve Madden, American Apparel all available and in GREAT condition!!

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!!