Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Artist's Review on Vancouver Makeup Artists Beauty Lovers FIRST MEETUP

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Artist's Review on the first meetup of Vancouver Makeup Artists Beauty Lovers

Vancouver Makeup Artists and Beauty Lovers is a group that has recently been opened and organised using www.meetup.com. Myself and a wonderful and kind man named Constantin Rotariu organised the event in order to bring makeup artists in Vancouver together to exchange networking tips, advise and more. The group can be found at http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Makeup-Artists-Beauty-Lovers/ and I would advise any student, post grad or experienced makeup artist to join the group and begin attending our meetings. Even if you havn't gone into a makeup course yet but are perhaps thinking about it, this group will be amazingly useful and beneficial to you.

Our first meetup was held last night, 30th March 2010, at a stunning restaurant and lounge named Townhouse on Alberni and Burrard in Downtown Vancouver. The meetup location may be visually appealing but the music sound levels were what I would consider to be too high for a serious meeting to take place. We will be searching for a new, more suitable location for our second meeting. For our first meetup we were expecting around 20 people to show. Unfortunately only 6 showed up, 2 of which were makeup artists. This lead me to the decision to hold off my speech until the next meeting where hopefully we will have a whole lot more artists in the audience to listen to the words of advise I have to give.

To those of you who missed this first meetup, it is a huge shame. We were lucky enough to have Sandi Lesueur from Makeup Artist Magazine, http://www.makeupmag.com/, come along to give out free copies of the latest issue, enter us into a prize draw to win a weekend ticket to the IMATS and give us some useful contacts and words of advise. Myself and fellow makeup artist, Dina Koop were the only artists there to benefit from Sandi's visit.

The meetup was certainly worth while and appreciated. I will be making a facebook group for the next event to spread awareness so look out for it!

Faye Smith
Makeup & Hair Artist
7787883552
fmsmith@live.co.uk
www.modelmayhem.com/FayeSmithMakeUpArtist
Twitter - FayeSmithMAKEUP

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Artist Featured in this Seasons Issue of Fashionberry Online Magazine!

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Artist Featured in this Seasons Issue of Fashionberry Online Magazine!

http://www.fashionberry.com/issue-011/view-issue.html

I am honoured to be the makeup and hair artist featured in this seasons issue of Fashionberry Online Magazine. I have been joined up to fashionberry for a few months now. The site allows creative minds to blog to one another about makeup and hair tips, event postings and more. I was asked to be the feature makeup and hair artist and began writing a short blog on myself and selecting a small amount of pictures to be used. The designers of the site have done a fantastic job and I am very pleased with the outcome. It is a shame the magazine does not go to print but I have high hopes for fashionberry's future.

Faye Smith
Makeup & Hair Artist
7787883552
fmsmith@live.co.uk
www.modelmayhem.com/FayeSmithMakeUpArtist
Twitter - FayeSmithMAKEUP

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Artist for Costume Designer, NINA HINTON!

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Artist for Costume Designer, NINA HINTON!!!
With photographer, Nicole Brown and models, Ingrid, Sarah and Nina.

http://www.ninahirlaenderhinton.com/

I met Nina by complete coincidence when I was researching one day, sending emails to people who may be able help me on my quest to make a success of my career as a makeup and hair artist. I was contacting Nina in relation to Theatre Teriffic and it just so happened that she was planning a photo shoot for her own costume/clothing line. I had sent her some shots of my work and she felt it were fait that I had contacted her and we were soon meeting for tea and a chat. In no time we had planned our day trip to Victoria Island and were ready to shoot all of her amazing costumes.

Nina gave me complete freedom when it came to the makeup and hair designs and told me to go as crazy as I could. So I didnt hold back. Having three completely different models allowed me to create a range of looks of look from cute and innocent to insane, lunatic to wild, russian dancer. The day was really fun and everybody involved were an absolute pleasure to work with and the outcome of the shoot is something for us all to be very proud of. I would be delighted to work with any of these wonderful ladies again and am actually hoping to work with photographer, Nicole Brown again this weekend on a photo shoot based in Vancouver this time.


I look forward to seeing Nina's choice of images to use on her website to promote her amazing costumes. When coming to pick the images I will be using I simply could not choose. To see more of the images. Please refer to my facebook (fmsmith@live.co.uk).


Faye Smith
Makeup & Hair Artist
7787883552
Vancouver, BC, Canada
www.modelmayhem.com/FayeSmithMakeUpArtist
Twitter - FayeSmithMAKEUP

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Artist with Painted Alley Photography and Actress, Gigi

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Artist with Painted Alley Photography and Actress, Gigi

I worked with Painted Alley in the summer of 2009 and what an experience it was. I love to be put in unusual or challenging situations and this shoot was certainly challenging. We were on location from start to finish on a baking hot summers day. The only area I could do hair and makeup was in the back of a car. It was cramped and there was nowhere to put my kit so I was pretty much working out of a box and in my lap. We had no air conditioning on so the heat in the car, even with the doors open, was intense. Both I and the model were working up some shine on our faces. It was certainly a situation I had not come across before but I managed to fight the shine and get the hair and makeup done successfully and beautifully. There were even people passing by whistling at my gorgeous models as they got the final touches done to their hair.


I was delighted to have been called back on a second photo shoot with Painted Alley. This time we were working in a professional studio with it's own secluded makeup and hair area so I had all the space I could wish for, plug points and mirroRs all around me. Having such a stunning model to work on, the makeup and hair was quick and easy to apply and what stunning pictures we created. I hope to work with Painted Alley again in the near future!

Faye Smith
Makeup & Hair Artist
7787883552
Vancouver, BC, CANADA
www.modelmayhem.com/FayeSmithMakeUpArtist
Twitter - FayeSmithMAKEUP

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Artist for UNIQUE photo shoot with Meg Hawkins photography and models Misti and Helen

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Artist for UNIQUE photo shoot with Meg Hawkins photography and models Misti and Helen

After having spent over a year in Vancouver, BC, Canada, it was finally time for me to return home in November 2009. I had been doing previous research and had been in touch with some photographers I could work with when I returned and I was exciting to go on my first UK photo shoot. The shoot was with photographer, Meg Hawkins and models Misti (seen to the right) and Helen (seen below). The concept was so unique and required a number of different hair and makeup looks. One of which was the "half and half", representing a man torn between his male and female side. We were hoping that the uniqueness of the concept and talent involved would achieve a spread in my favourite magazine, NOI.SE Magazine. Sadly we did not achieve our goal but nevertheless, we achieved some very unique portfolio pictures that tell a story.





This photo shoot was fun from start to finish and it was so unusual to hear a completely different accent to what I had been hearing for the past year. The day was long and we covered multiple outfits, makeup and hair styles, ideas, expressions and more in order to produce as many pictures as possible and tell the story as vivid as could be told through images. It is sad that our vision was not seen in the same way as the editors of NOI.SE Magazine but we are happy to finally be able to release the pictures for our audience to see. I hope you like our work. Comments welcome.

Faye Smith
Makeup & Hair Artist
7787883552
Vancouver, BC, Canada
www.modelmayhem.com/FayeSmithMakeUpArtist
Twitter - FayeSmithMAKEUP

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Stylist - Had her first training day at La Novia Bridal conducted by Jenine Lehfeld from Hellcat Beauty today!

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Stylist - First training day at La Novia Bridal conducted by Jenine Lehfeld from Hellcat Beauty today - added to my list of skills...FINGERWAVES!!!

http://www.lanoviabridal.com/

La Novia Bridal is a bridal company I have been a part of as a hair and makeup artist for over a month now and have already held two wedding consultations. One of which included airbrushed makeup. The company is growing fast and I am very proud to be a part of it. Lorilee Keller is the founder and owner and is doing a great job of revamping our salon and creating new and improved ideas for the business, it's clients and it's employees. Having a love for the old fashioned wet set hair styles, Lorilee came up with the idea to take the salon back to the 40's offering a unique service where ladies can come in and have their hair set the old fashioned way. The salon is being decorated accordingly and the staff are being trained by Jenine Lehfeld from Hellcat Beauty.


http://www.hellcatbeauty.com/

I am luckily enough to already be acquainted with Jenine. I volunteered to work under the name of her company as a makeup and hair artist for the LOVESTRUCK Bridal Fashion Show in 2009. She impressed me then and she impressed me today. It is no wonder that Jenine recently joined the team of Blanche Macdonald teachers as she is a fantastic conductor and taught the La Novia team well today. Having demonstrations and the chance to practise on both manicans and real people using three different methods to create the classic fingerwaves, we are well on our way to creating a well skilled team of artists. I look forward to my second training session next week where we will learn various methods of creating curls.

Above: A shot of myself and Jenine tag teaming one of our models performing in the 2009 LOVESTRUCK Bridal Show. Myself doing makeup and Jenine doing hair.

Faye Smith
UK Makeup & Hair Artist
Now based in Vancouver, BC, CANADA
7787883552
fmsmith@live.co.uk
www.modelmayhem.com/FayeSmithMakeUpArtist

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Artist for Pin Up Style Shoot with Sugar Creative Photography

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Artist for Pin Up Style Shoot with Sugar Creative Photography

Shazmin is a model that I have always had my eye on right through school. Every final exam that would come along, she caught my eye as a potential model. However, we simply never got around to working together. When Melanie from Sugar Creative photography contacted me asking if I would like to join her on a collaborative, pin-up style shoot, I jumped at the opportunity as soon as I knew who the model was. She is so stunning without any makeup so the application was very easy. I simply enhanced her beautiful features and added a bright and powerful red lipstick to suit the style of the shoot. I then waved her hair, keeping all of the natural length and shape. So easy and such satisfying results in my opinion. We were lucky enough to have stylist, Jenn Chang, join us on this shoot. She was on hand wrapping Shazmin in ribbon as though she was a christmas present.


Faye Smith Hair & Makeup Artist
Photography by Sugar Creative - http://www.sugarcreative.ca/
Modeling by Yazmin Hussein -
Styling by Jenn Chang

Vancouver
BC
CANADA
fmsmith@live.co.uk
7787883552
www.modelmayhem.com/FayeSmithMakeUpArtist

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Artist - for Anaisson Weddings Promotional Photo Shoot with Photographer, Aaron Chung

Faye Smith Makeup & Hair Artist - for Anaisson Weddings Promotional Photo Shoot with Photographer, Aaron Chung


After having worked with photographer, Aaron Chung, once before on our Gnome themed photo shoot, I was soon asked to join him on a shoot again. This time, it was for a promotional photoshoot for Anaisson Weddings.

www.anaissonweddings.com

With Vancouver being such a small city it was not unusual that I bumped into a model I had worked with on a previous shoot, Cecilia, seen in the shot below. Diandra, seen modeling in the shot above, was a new face to me. Both girls so beautiful and easy to transform into an angelic bride for the day. The morning ran quick and smoothly and the girls were able to start shooting in no time. I look forward to seeing the shots up on Anaisson Weddings fantastic website in the near future.

Faye Smith
Makeup & Hair Artist
Vancouver
BC
CANADA
7787883552
fmsmith@live.co.uk
www.modelmayhem.com/FayeSmithMakeUpArtist