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Midnight has its own colors.
Black is never only black. There are traces of blue in it, silver in it, sometimes even fire.
And then there is red, small, deliberate, alive.
A portrait from the World Championship in Creative Makeup in Helsinki, where imagination was worn on the skin and every face told a different story.
Model: Laura Björk
Makeup: Jannika Karolina
Location: Creative Makeup World Championships, Helsinki
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My inaugural session with the incredibly talented singer Alanna Sterling. While I continue to experiment with the LIFX lighting system I'm discovering more and more interesting lighting combinations.
If your in the Toronto area and you get a chance to check out one of her shows I highly recommend it.
Valeriia at Creative Jam in Vipiteno. An angel carved from ice.
Her breath slips into the air and finds the back of your neck first: a quiet warning.
Lace blooms across her brow, silver horns rise like glacier ridges, and dark tears split the white like fractures in ice.
Whatever she reaches for goes still: Beautiful, silent, perfectly frozen.
Model: Valeriia
Artist: Lora Tulchinski
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This portrait came from the Nordic Awards in Helsinki, where craft and imagination met in one quiet frame. The gold shape, the shimmer around the eyes, the pearls, the flowers. Each part felt precise, but together they became something softer and stranger. A portrait like a dream that decided to stay still.
Artist: Lora Tulchinski (Italy)
Model: Saara (Finish)
Location: World Award Creative-Makeup hosted by WBA (Helsinki)
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Face painting from the “Nordic Awards” competition in Helsinki, hosted by WBA.
The skull splits her face in two – glitter, stitches and shadows flowing into the perfectly matching teal hair. A portrait right on the edge between beauty and nightmare.
Artist: Diana Alamoudi (Finnish)
Location: World Award Creative-Makeup hosted by WBA (Helsinki)
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Bottletop Dress - dress design: Aleah Leigh Designs, image: James Alexander Lyon, Model: ChilliChapel MUA/Hair: Students of UCB, Creative Director: Iain Burton-Legge, location: The Photographic Show, NEC Birmingham.
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We love shooting with Kc, a photographer's delight. Kc is an amazing person - wife, mother, martial arts expert, makeup up artist, and she puts up with us. Can't ask for a better person to shoot with! Kc wanted to do a zombie makeup look and then broke her foot. No worries; she showed up in a cast and that didn't slow her down at all. I'm not a big gun fan but she wanted some photos with it and I know not to argue with her. I had a brief shoot with her before she was modelnapped from me - again!
I took these photos at the end of September 2021 at a Boise cemetery.
This portrait came from the Nordic Awards in Helsinki, where craft and imagination met in one quiet frame. The gold shape, the shimmer around the eyes, the pearls, the flowers. Each part felt precise, but together they became something softer and stranger. A portrait like a dream that decided to stay still.
Artist: Lora Tulchinski (Italy)
Model: Saara (Finland)
Location: World Award Creative-Makeup hosted by WBA (Helsinki)
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After my Ancient Cray Portrait series, which used 96 crushed up crayons, I was left with the wrapper for those crayons. Why not make a mask out of them I thought to myself
After my Ancient Cray Portrait series, which used 96 crushed up crayons, I was left with the wrapper for those crayons. Why not make a mask out of them I thought to myself.
Continuous movement into portrait experimentation using the LIFX lighting system. Paige is wearing the latest sweepings from my studio floor.
My inaugural session with the incredibly talented singer Alanna Sterling. While I continue to experiment with the LIFX lighting system I'm discovering more and more interesting lighting combinations.
If your in the Toronto area and you get a chance to check out one of her shows I highly recommend it.
Haute couture...high fashion, couture inspired...love love loving it!! A self portraiture shot with some creative makeup (I am also an MUA) I live and breathe this stuff!! True story :D
Model / MU / Costume: Rheannon
Lighting info:
Key Light: -- bare speedlight on floor camera-right at face
Kicker: bare speedlight camera-left at boot level
Post-processing:
-- levels Lightroom
-- cosmetics Photoshop
-- enhance shine on metal bits
They stood beneath the lights like a vision pulled from a darker myth. Blue roses, jeweled horns, and a face turned almost ghostly made them feel less like models and more like an apparition called into the room. This where two of three live promo makeups created before an audience in Helsinki during the World Championship of Creative Makeup and the Nordic bodypainting awards. A performance, a transformation, and a moment where beauty became something untamed.
Models: Kiki and Jannika (Finnish)
Artist: Linda Hallberg (Swedish) and Jasmiina (Finnish)
Location: World Award Creative-Makeup hosted by WBA (Helsinki)
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My inaugural session with the incredibly talented singer Alanna Sterling. While I continue to experiment with the LIFX lighting system I'm discovering more and more interesting lighting combinations.
If your in the Toronto area and you get a chance to check out one of her shows I highly recommend it.
After my Ancient Cray Portrait series, which used 96 crushed up crayons, I was left with the wrapper for those crayons. Why not make a mask out of them I thought to myself.
Washing off the body glitter in the bath, mask added for creep factor. featuring Mylee Rae. www.facebook.com/Myleeraemodel
Some looks are pretty. Some looks tell a story.
This one did more than that. It stopped the room.
Viola became the center of a vision made of metal, shadow, and fire, while Roosa turned imagination into precision. At the World Championship in Creative Makeup at the I Love Me fair in Helsinki, that vision earned third place.
A well-deserved finish for work that felt fearless from every angle.
Model: Viola (Finnish)
Artist: Roosa (Finnish)
Location: World Award Creative-Makeup hosted by WBA (Helsinki)
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We love shooting with Kc, a photographer's delight. Kc is an amazing person - wife, mother, martial arts expert, makeup up artist, and she puts up with us. Can't ask for a better person to shoot with! Kc wanted to do a zombie makeup look and then broke her foot. No worries; she showed up in a cast and that didn't slow her down at all. I'm not a big gun fan but she wanted some photos with it and I know not to argue with her. I had a brief shoot with her before she was modelnapped from me - again!
I took these photos at the end of September 2021 at a Boise cemetery.
She came from a world painted in light and circuitry — half dream, half data.
Saara stood still under the neon haze, her eyes reflecting distant galaxies.
The air shimmered with color, every hue alive with pulse and rhythm.
Created by the South Korean artist Chai Hyun Kim, her cosmic armor and metallic gaze carried the echo of other worlds.
In Helsinki, at the “I Love Me” expo, the boundary between art and reality blurred — and for a moment, the future felt alive.
Model: Saara (Finish)
Artist: Chai Hyun Kim (South Korea)
Location: World Award Creative-Makeup hosted by WBA (Helsinki)
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One thing Wallmart is good for is you can get a lot of something for cheap. For example. Paint brushes. Here used as a wig? Combine that with the punkfunk of Mick Boisvert and we got ourselves some fun!
at the dance club:
A portrait-style image of a person with full upper-body fluorescent body paint photographed under ultraviolet/blacklight illumination. The subject’s face and torso are covered with high-contrast neon patterns in orange, green, blue, pink, and red. The paint appears reactive to UV light, producing a strong glow effect. The setting looks like a nighttime or indoor event space with dark surroundings and scattered colored lights. Another partially visible painted person stands at the right edge of the frame.
Visual details
Lighting: Blacklight / UV illumination with very low ambient light
Paint style: Neon body paint with abstract and organic motifs
Face paint: Symmetrical pattern with flame-like orange shapes on the forehead and striped accents on cheeks and chin
Torso paint: Swirling, radial, and vein-like lines across chest, shoulders, and neck
Color palette: Fluorescent orange, lime green, cyan, magenta, violet, and red against dark shadows
Environment: Likely festival, glow party, or UV body-art event
Composition: Centered subject, medium close-up, shallow background detail
Mood: High energy, theatrical, psychedelic
Amidst the vibrant chaos of the “I Love Me” expo in Helsinki, we found a quiet corner. Alexandra stood beneath the soft light, her face adorned with Adriana’s creation. A constellation of crystals, framed by deep red tones and steady calm. While the crowd buzzed around us, she became stillness itself, radiating both fragility and strength through her gaze.
Model: Alexandra (Finnish)
Artist: Adriana (Finnish)
Location: World Award Creative-Makeup hosted by WBA (Helsinki)
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My inaugural session with the incredibly talented singer Alanna Sterling. While I continue to experiment with the LIFX lighting system I'm discovering more and more interesting lighting combinations.
If your in the Toronto area and you get a chance to check out one of her shows I highly recommend it.
Continuous movement into portrait experimentation using the LIFX lighting system. Paige is wearing the latest sweepings from my studio floor.
We love shooting with Kc, a photographer's delight. Kc is an amazing person - wife, mother, martial arts expert, makeup up artist, and she puts up with us. Can't ask for a better person to shoot with! Kc wanted to do a zombie makeup look and then broke her foot. No worries; she showed up in a cast and that didn't slow her down at all. I'm not a big gun fan but she wanted some photos with it and I know not to argue with her. I had a brief shoot with her before she was modelnapped from me - again!
I took these photos at the end of September 2021 at a Boise cemetery.
An all over deep glitter portrait and body paint series laser painted, featuring Mylee Rae. www.facebook.com/Myleeraemodel
Honestly, I can’t believe it’s burning again
Like the first fires
Beauty Editorial for Flawless Magazine
MUA: Sandra Rakasova
Assistant: Ricky Mangala
Model: Dina Wootton
Took me forever to find a way to carefully control smash marbles here. Finally figured it out by heating them up in an oven on high for a while then using a vice to crush them. Painting Rose was the easiest part, all she did was lay down on the floor for an hour while I painted streaks on her
Continuous movement into portrait experimentation using the LIFX lighting system. Paige is wearing the latest sweepings from my studio floor.
From the Nordic Awards in Helsinki. A moment where bodypainting turns anatomy into illusion.
Silver and graphite contours carve a skeleton across skin, catching the light like liquid metal. Against the deep black background, her pose feels half-protection, half-reveal: one eye hidden, the other holding the camera with calm intensity.
A reminder of why I love these competitions—craft, patience, and the kind of artistry that transforms a human form into something otherworldly.
Artist: Betty Applepie (Austria)
Model: Aino (Finland)
Location: World Award Creative-Makeup hosted by WBA (Helsinki)
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120mm f4 LS Macro Schneider Kreuznach
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We love shooting with Kc, a photographer's delight. Kc is an amazing person - wife, mother, martial arts expert, makeup up artist, and she puts up with us. Can't ask for a better person to shoot with! Kc wanted to do a zombie makeup look and then broke her foot. No worries; she showed up in a cast and that didn't slow her down at all. I'm not a big gun fan but she wanted some photos with it and I know not to argue with her. I had a brief shoot with her before she was modelnapped from me - again!
I took these photos at the end of September 2021 at a Boise cemetery.
Took me forever to find a way to carefully control smash marbles here. Finally figured it out by heating them up in an oven on high for a while then using a vice to crush them. Painting Rose was the easiest part, all she did was lay down on the floor for an hour while I painted streaks on her
She wore the night on her shoulders and a flash of violet across her eyes. Sharp lines, dark elegance, and the calm confidence of someone ready for the stage. Photographed during the World Awards in Helsinki.
Model: Aino (Finnish)
Artist: Kika Studio (Serbia)
Location: World Award Creative-Makeup hosted by WBA (Helsinki)
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Phase One XF IQ180
120mm f4 LS Macro Schneider Kreuznach
See more Phase One pictures here
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