Behind the scenes of Pippi Longstockin

While Finnish hockey team was prepearing to WIN the gold medal, we had some fun with Pippi Longstocking / circus themed photoshoot.
I'll share the official photos when I get them from the photographer, but here's some behind the scenes stuff and blooper pics for you!

Things don't always go as planned...:

...the horse might want to go somewhere else...

..the balloons may want to go with the wind...

I'm not really sure what's going on with these... :D

Horse may want to eat some grass suddenly..

Balloon placement - FAIL

And sometimes even the models have to loosen up a bit:

Photoshoot: Spirits of the forest

Hello!

Sorry for my absence,  I was a bit busy with these A-M-A-Z-I-N-G photoshoots!

Theme for the first photoshoot was wood anemone (windflower, thimbleweed, in finnish valkovuokko), so I went with yellow, white and green, just like in the flower. I also added some rhinestones in same colors, and black winged eyeliner.

Second shoot was something goblin/troll like, but still pretty.
I went with earthly colors, brown, orange, white. I also added some moss to the makeup to make it look interesting.
Our model had the biggest eyes, so I added some white to lashlines to make the eyes look even bigger!

But aaaanyway, here are the stunning photos:

Photography: Petra Lönnqvist
Model: Veera L.
Makeup Artist: Jangsara

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Photography: Petra Lönnqvist
Model: Ronja K.
Makeup Artist: Jangsara

PS. Since the winner of MSCHIC Lipchic giveaway never answered to my mail, I'll pick another winner ASAP!

Beauty, beast and Unforgiven

Hola!

I've had a crazy last couple of days :P

I'll start with the purple rihinestone makeup I did couple days ago:

 This look was mainly done, because I wanted to show the nails I did:

 There fimo flowers, roses made out of cernit, glitter, rhinestones... <3

Approximately a year ago I bought some feathers, and now I FINALLY made a look using them.
This time I cut them in the wanted lenght,  and attached them with lash glue around my eye.
My inspiration was owls, and here's the result:

(Eye is photoshopped, not sclera lens.)

 I also took part to a contest, where the goal was to do a makeup inspired bt Within Temptation's new The Unforgiven album.
I went the "easy way", and took my inspiration straight from the art of the album's cover:

 Well, it could have gone better. Pictures are great, model is great, but makeup isn't that good. But well, I'm not a huge fan of Within Temptation :P

Photos by Petra Lönnqvist, model Iiris

 Model and photographer wanted to get their makeup done for the night, so I also took couple pics about girls preparing for the night out:

 And a picture I took of Iiris:

 I guess I have point out that the best place for animal fur is on animal itself.
So please, leave the "fur is murder" comments away, I know it, I agree it, the fur collar isn't mine, and I didn't force the model to wear it. It was just there, and I took picture of Iiris with the collar.
Treat it just as a picture, please.


Finally, sneak peek of coming tutorial:

Photoshoot: Voyage of Discovery

1 Photographer
1 Model
1 Makeup Artist

~11 hours
5 looks

 Our latest photoshoot with incredibly talented Petra Lönnqvist and model Kata was long, but extremely fun.
This time we had a clear theme, Petra wanted five images of the same person, all with completely different styles.
We picked hippie look, goth look, extremely feminine look, Tuksu look (Tuksu is a Finnish "celebrity", you can check her images to get the point) and skatergrrrrl look.

I just loved the challenge! I was surprisingly challenging to create five almost entirely different looks to same model. I was happy with the results, except that I could have done the goth differently, I went too stereotypical with the "boomerang of death" eyebrows and all :P

My personal favourites were the super femine and the Tuksu look, what about yours?

 Here are the shots:

HIPPIE:

SK8ER GRRL:

TUKSU:

FEMME FATALE:

GOTH:

Photos: Petra Lönnqvist

Model: Kata

Makeup: Jangsara