Tommy’s Makeup Artistry + OpenStudio + TEST/model Magazine

4 Sep

outfit by kailin chu

inspiration “lonely flower”

model kayla u. for lizbell agency

openstudio creative photoshoot

outfit by sally guo

inspiration “coloured lightning”

model alicia k. for lizbell agency

Credits:

models: alicia k. / kayla u. for lizbell agency
photography: kelly jill
photo assistant: roy peng yue
production: openstudio
creative director: alex yueh lu for openstudio
fashion director: angela chen for openstudio
hair: emma park for avant garde
makeup: tommy chiang using mac cosmetics
outfits & styling: kailin chu / sally guo for openstudio
video(s) /direction & camera: victor john penner for T/m
video(s) / editing: david james for thekreative
intern for T/m: jared nome

Designer: Kailin Chu with “Lonely Flower” Inspiration “lonely flower” | Model: Kayla U.

About the Make-up Artistry

The make-up design looks were inspired by international VOGUE magazine’s cover images of retro hair styling & contemporary eye make-up design, as instructed in the fashion designers’ storyboard they put together.

Every fashion shoot has its own story, and a theme that the designer wants to express to the audience. A great portfolio is never just about the designer’s wowing piece, nor just the model’s look, photographer’s skills, make-up artistry or the hair styling – it’s a story of all creative talents’ work together as ONE piece.

Some of the key M·A·C make-up products I used for this shoot:

1. Complete Comfort Crème

To instantly rehydrate the face and provide high-comfort wear with its calming plant-and marine-based formula.

2. Prep & Prime Skin

Silicon-based make-up primer for the face. Evens out skin texture & redness right before the foundation application.

3. M·A·C PRO Full Coverage Foundation “White”

Emollient-based foundation formulated to provide opaque coverage on the face to achieve the very “pale skin” look with other light shades, with using #109 Small Contour Brush. Great for beauty/fashion photography.

4. Prep + Prime Transparent Finishing Powder

This colorless finishing powder was used to set the full coverage foundation, and also to reduce shine while optically minimizing the look of lines & imperfections.

5. M·A·C PRO Chromaline “Black Black”

This dark black waterproof gel/cream liner was used with #209 Eye Liner Brush to create that precise, wowing-effect graphic on the eye, as well as the eye liner at top & bottom of the eyes.

6. M·A·CPRO Chromaline “Pure White”

This vibrantly white gel/cream liner was used with an eye shadow brush for the detailing of the eye make-up… totally opaque!

7. #209 Eye Liner Brush

An extra-fine tipped synthetic fibre brush that delivers a precise, firm, even stroke with which to line the eyes. Use with liquid or cream products.

8. #109 Small Contour Brush

Used on the face to apply the cream foundation in a circular motion. Of soft, natural fibres.

9. M·A·CPRO Lip Erase Lip Balm “Pale”

A flesh-toned balm that visually neutralizes and erases natural colour from the lip before applying lipstick colours.

10. Lipstick “Costa Chic”

Frosty coral-pink

Designer: Sally Guo with “Coloured Lightning” Inspiration | Model: Alicia K.

Special thanks to Victor John Penner & Marlisse Penner of Test/Model Magazine & PhotoMob for their wonderful video production, and the rest of the creative team, BRAVO!
International Magazine Publication: Abook Magazine, Sept. 2012 Issue 14 (Taiwan)