Slow Burn Music Video

I guess I'm slightly restless and enjoy diversity ~so although I do enjoy doing makeup for photoshoots the most~ I am glad to take a break from the girls (brides/models) to work with my film boys once in a while. It's really interesting how most of the time on a film set most of the people working are men (with so many heavy equipments to carry etc, it's no wonder most gaffers, and grip people are men) I cannot imagine a petite framed girl carrying around those super heavy RED cameras...I mean sure, there are still small girls I see lugging around equipment on set and, I too, carry the occasional sandbag around to help them out during clean up~ but I generally come in contact with more guys on set than girls most of the time :)

This "doppleganger" music video has been an ongoing project for director Drew Sandoval :) and every time he calls me up to tell me that he's working on this project again I'm pretty happy as the crew is awesome to work with (super nice and relaxed boys) the song is great (I could listen to it all day long and STILL want to sing along with it hehe) and not to mention the craft service is OUT OF THIS WORLD (coz food is all that really matters right? LMAO)
*check out the brunch that was served on Sunday*

we had tomato cobble and grilled goods and fresh cherry tomato curry salad as well MMMMmm

soooOOOo delicious and all made from scratch by Melissa!

the first day she even brought us FATAPPLE Bakery's famous Cheesepuffs even our DP who doesn't really eat pastry or dairy had 2! (UNHEARD of!) HAHA

Anyhow, here are some behind the scenes photos I took this time while working with the boys~ we were out in the countryside at Fairfield ~ I saw walnuts in the tree and locusts for the first time! haha


We shot a few stunt scenes with Nick the first day ~ jumped onto the cushion mat and smeared his "make-up face" onto it hahaha! it was a perfect imprint of his face!!


I was in my puffy outfit the whole day coz we had a 7:30 call time and it was unusually chilly and foggy that day~~* but I kept it on even when it hit 80F hahaha everyone thought it was crazy hahaha

another stunt scene was done on Nick's broken trampoline haha the boys were jumping around and having fun but that thing was rather dangerous with quite a lot of the springs broken!




there goes Nick~~* FLYYYYYYying through the air~~



we had to do some green screen shots so Nick had to wear his the green screen outfit so all that would be left would be his "head" hahaha




it..was quite a funny look as the green screen outfit had been rather small hahaha
but he was the greenscreen hero nonetheless hehe :)

The early morning fog cleared up and it turned out to be a beautiful day in Fairfield :)




day 2 we hiked up to the hills where there were cow poo everywhere haha and locusts flew every step I made~ haha it was a pretty hot day and the boys stripped down if they could but poor Warren had to stay in his woolen suit the whole day while running up and down the hill too!


we also went to another location to do another jumping sequence hehe :)


we finally finished at about 8 pm~as the sun was about to set


Martini shot of the day and that's a WRAP!!!! me and Warren enjoying the golden glow from the beautiful sunset! <3 then we all got to enjoy some pizza and home made chicken salad with beetroot Mmmmm so good!

and since it was Director Drew's birthday that day ~ Melissa baked us some almond cake with marinated strawberries (OMG SO GOOD)

:) always stuffing myself on set aha
can't wait till another great day on set!

[peace]

Ryan Chua Shoot No. 2



Model: Hanna. MUA: Christina Chen. Hair: Noelle Lynne. Stylist: Angel Phillips.
Photography Assistant: Mike Polce. Jewelry courtesy of the Jody Humes Collection


Ryan contacted me previously about working on a magazine shoot with him last weekend, I told him I had a wedding earlier that day and that if it were in the afternoon I could help him out.

anyways here are some of the photos from behind the scenes~*

The concept was edgy jewelry (supplied by Jody who's got amazing taste in jewelry and funnily enough she's a school teacher! ^_^) matched with vintage nightgowns that Angel had been collecting since highschool!! they're all authentic stuff! :D loved them~*

The model was super cute and fun to work with :) and Noelle did an awesome job with making her hair airy and softly waved!

As far as makeup goes, Angel wanted SUPER fresh faced minimalistic angelic makeup~* which I did by just making her skin flawless with Graphtobian's HD foundations and giving her a fresh rosey glow with the Makeupforever HD creme blushes :) She had quite a bit of breakout from her skin reacting to the change in Climate from moving to SF~ but after applying the foundation it looked perfect!!

I layered on some light pink lipstick with a Chanel lipgloss ~* and powdered her with the Cover F/X loose powder I just bought from Sephora! (it is rather shimmery so you have to watch the usage for photographs)

We shot 5 outfits I believe~* here are some pics I took during the shoot:
we started indoors at Angel's awesome studio ~ :)



ahh such bedroom eyes~



we kept playing with Angel's doggy Bandit! soo adorable!




went out side her window and took soe more shots~ hehe it was quite chilly in SF and the poor girl was wearing that thin nightgown haha but it was sexy though~! :)



*hah look at us in all our warm jackets*
she was a trooper and didn't even complain once!







the white one is beautiful~ her on the stairway ..so angelic!









angel had some legit old old old school polaroids! and was using them to take some awesome shots herself!


:D

she said coz its so old she doesnt know how long it takes to develop it..it's all by chance hah whether u get the photo to develop or not haha


*a photo within a photo within a photo*

either way they were amazing~*




and I saw this little tearshaped deco on her table hehe so cute too!



:) until next time
[peace]

Winnie's Bridal Trial

Yay~ :D booked another bride today~ We were going back and forth emailing for months already! (we FINALLY arranged a makeup trial date today~~*)

Anyhow, she's super adorable and cute~and most of all EASY GOING >

here's her before and after~*


she eyes are mono-lid eyes and the only thing she had requested was that I make her eyes a bit bigger~ :)


Since she's changing 3 outfits (one chinese dress and one ball gown at the evening banquet) I suggested we go more subtle with the makeup in the morning to match her GORGEOUS fishtail wedding gown) and we can smoke it up with some deeper colors in the evening banquet~*

She was really happy with the result~* I used two layers of false lashes and even bottom false lashes to really open her eyes up.

anyways had another shoot with Rummy and little 17 or 18 yr old Morgan~ heading off to start college~~ eya so young~~*


Rummy said he wanted two buns LMAO ~ hehe I tried my best to make it look more "fashiony" than ... toddler buns..lol


sadly the wardrobe stylist flaked out so we couldnt do the fashion shoots we were planning but we did take some half body shots but ..I wasn't really feeling the weird combo -_-|| of clothing and H&M


Anyways, it's going to be a busy weekend with weddings both days and a shoot for MuseMag with Ryan Chua!!! Can't wait!!!

[peace]