First ever wedding blog feature - Style Me Pretty.com

What a great start to the month! Aroha and Derrick's Engagement shoot that I did makeup for was featured on StyleMePretty.com today! My first ever featured makeup work on a wedding blog! You can see all the photos on their 3 page gallery. Can you tell i'm excited! :D When I first started this was  something i've always wanted to acomplish but didn't think was possible for a few years to come so i'm very grateful for the opportunity and outcome to working with such amazing South Australian wedding vendors.

Aroha and Derrick are such a cute couple and Bree from Life in still photography did such an amazing job at capturing them. Everyting just came together beautifully from the location at Lyndoch Lavender Farm in the Barossa Valley to the gorgeous floral arrangements from  Poppies Flowers.

Aroha & Derrick's Engagement shoot

Today I came home to a CD in the post from Photographer Bree of Life in Still Photography. The photos were from Aroha and Derrick's engagement shoot, that i'd done makeup for a few weeks ago. Yay. Everything about the shoot from the lovely couple to the flowers and location are amazing! So I just had to share, you can find the rest of the photos from this shoot on Bree's blog.

Photographer: Bree Vracic

Flowers: Poppies Flowers

Makeup: Yours truely :)

Heidi & Craig's engagement shoot

I received some pictures of hair and makeup I did for an engagement shoot from Black duck photography, an Adelaide based wedding photographers, who I've worked with a number of times.

I was asked to do bed hair with a natural no make look but with sexy eyes for an intimate boudoir shoot. Even though I was hired by the photographers this time to do a certain look I always double check with the subject just to make sure they are fine with everything. She was but I just had a feeling, and it wasn't until we got to the end that she mentioned she liked the bright blushes and it came out that she usually wore a lot of makeup and felt a bit naked as the makeup wasn't as full coverage. There's no point doing makeup the subject isn't comfortable with so i spent a bit more time going over to something she was more comfortable with but still keeping with the photographers request and you could tell she was a lot happier.

Brooke's engagement hair and makeup

Hair and makeup i did for an engagement shoot last month. My client came in with some photos (which is always a good idea) of Jennifer Hawkin's and choose what aspects she did and didn't like. The final look was a bit more tone down with loose wavy hair.

Engagement shoots are also a great opportunity to do hair and makeup trials. It gives you a chance to wear your hair and makeup out and also see how it will look on camera.

Thanks to JoelC for the engagement photos, you can see more of  his work on his blog, check it out.