Latest Photoshoot: Military Issue - Final Images

Photography: Callaghan Walsh

Styling: Natalie Trevis

Hair & Makeup: Toni Malt @ Bareface

Model: Oona @ Bareface

What I am up to next? - Mission Impossible 4

For the next three days starting on Thursday this week, I'll be working as a makeup artist on "Mission Impossible 4" starring Tom Cruise and currently being filmed here in Dubai.

We will be shooting a big crowd scene for which an additional 10 makeup artists have been hired (including myself), should be quite a challenge and really exciting!

Tom Cruise performing a stunt on Burj Khalifa - the worlds tallest building

photo credit: www.gulfnews.com

Latest TV Project: CNBCs "Squawk on the Street" with Erin Burnett filmed at Burj Khalifa

I love my job! I really really do!
Whether it's advertising, music videos, fashion editorials or TV ... I am always most positively surprised about the amazing people I get to meet and work with.


Yesterday, I worked with CNBC business news anchor Erin Burnett, who was producing her live-show "Squawk on the Street" from the bottom of the Burj Khalifa tower.


What a truly amazing experience. Erin is just great and so is her crew!
Watching her work during the show was just incredible. With ease she manages last minute info coming in on her blackberry, information from her director on set as well as from the crew in New York over her earpiece whilst interviewing guests with charm and full of wit.


Here is a short clip from the show yesterday ... (there is a short commercial upfront and then the clip from the show)





... as well as some behind the scenes photos.

Whilst we were filming the crowd of young men (Erin's fans) standing behind the fence steadily increased and many told me that they had been at home watching the show as usual only to then realize that Erin was actually at the Dubai Mall outside the Burj Khalifa building, which prompted them to rush down to see her in person and witness the filming of the show live. Who can blame them, she is just wonderful!

video credit: www.cnbc.com

Latest Photoshoot: Royal Beauty - Behind the Scenes

When I get the opportunity to do a Conceptual Beauty Shoot with an Agency's New Face it is like sailing into uncharted territory ... and I really love that!

There is something really magical and unexpected about exploring an unknown face and its possibilities - a face which has not yet been transformed into many different characters for various amazing Fashion and Beauty stories.

As a makeup artist you are able to suspect the outcome when working with such a New Face, but really ... you just dont know for sure what magical character you are creating until you have finished all makeup and hair.

Last week, I was allowed to explore the beautiful Russian model Katerina's "new face". It was fantastic! Katerina has this wonderful quiet but very expressive and emotional personality, which definitely shows in her pictures ever so beautifully.

The incredible headpiece was designed and created by our talented stylist & fashion designer Natalie Trevis herself. The photographer who set up this flawless lighting scenario creating a shadowless face and thereby stressing the model's beautiful features was the wonderful Billie Muller.

MAKEUP DIFFICULTIES - A Makeup Artist's confession

I had been wanting to work with my white Mac Pro Full Coverage Foundation forever and never got a chance until now!

Whilst I was not happy with some blotches on the side of one of the cheeks where the foundation wasn't supplying full coverage (possibly due to an area of dry skin), I was super pleased when I saw on the test shots that the foundation seemed to disperse the light coming from the flashes, decreasing the visibility of any shameful foundation blotches to nearly zero. Awesome, easy peasy ;)

For the lips I had originally planned to do a red lip with red glitter pressed into it to add a deep sparkle and further dimension to the lip ... looking at the test shots, I realized quickly that the flashes weren't lighting up the glitter as I had intended. It looked matte lacking the intended sparkle. Looking back, I suppose the lipgloss matted the glitter particles. Very sad ;)

So, despite some problems off camera, I am really happy with how the makeup turned out on camera.

Some Behind The Scenes photos:

1st look ready to go

2nd look finishing touches

Katerina @ Bareface New Face "in her true form of beauty":

The stunning Katerina as shot by Dave Kennedy, Hair & Makeup by Kat Sumners

photo credit: Belinda Muller @ bdstudiophotography.com

Dave Kennedy @ www.davekennedy.com