Candy Girl

This is Diana Cullen.  She's the owner of Cullen-ary Creations and food is her business.
The video link ---> http://animoto.com/play/zH494fu49QTZAp0CFUky8Q

She's slightly obsessed with all the possible ways one can use food especially in a photo shoot.  So, she challenged us with the task of candy and head shots. Something fun. Now this isn't our regular kinda of shoot, this is like our FAVORITE kind of thing to do.  For a week we scoured the web, painted our nails bubble gum pink and managed to buy a ton of old fashion candy and we had the worse case of photo-shoot-on-the-brain imaginable.

We found all kinds of cool ideas including ice cream cone inspired nail art, which she promptly took to her nail tech.

Donna Devlin, our HMUA, did an amazing job with the makeup and those eyes. A beautiful array of colors from fushia to purple was blended above those super long eyelashes.  She even dipped her lips in red crystallized sugar granules.

We got sprinkles, pop rocks, twizzlers, dots, bazooka bubble gum, crystalized sugar in all kinds of colors, lollipops big and small.  Yes, that red heart is made from pop rocks and continued to fire off during our whole shoot.


Add 20 helium balloons, a pink velour backdrop and maybe a cellophane bow and place a beautiful model amidst all that and you get this.

We had a lot of fun on this shoot.  We had Diana doing all kinds of things from eating enough candy to warrant a dentist appointment to doing enough hair tosses to cause a migraine.

We decided to mix things up and swapped out the wig for pigtails and ribbons a teeny weeny skirt, knee high socks and sky high heels.  Yes, Diana can walk just fine in 6" heels, even in the grass, while blowing bubbles and twirling her pigtails.  Her husband, who popped in to see how the shoot was going did a double take checking out those legs. (Yes, I saw that.)

I love Diana's fun spirit, she brought so much energy and fun to the shoot, she had us laughing and calling for yet more antics. it was a real treat to do this shoot, in more ways than one.

Diana, thank you for entrusting us with this fun shoot, we had a great time doing it and particularly for someone like you.  We look forward to our next adventure.  (Note, our last shoot with Diana was called Asian Princess, be sure to check it out.)

The video link ---> http://animoto.com/play/zH494fu49QTZAp0CFUky8Q

Before & After:

As promised, I will now include a before & after shot for all shoots, so many of you have asked, and I listened.  Yes, everyone and I do mean EVERYONE, gets transformed under the hands of our hair and makeup artists (HMUA).  It doesn't matter if you are doing something this dramatic or a natural look, everyone looks incredibly fabulous after a makeover.  

CREDITS:
Photography:  Pretty Muse
Model:   Diana Cullen
HMUA:  Donna Devlin
Styling:  Donna Devlin and Lj Masty

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Diana Cullen
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Website:  www.Cullen-arycreations.com
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Donna Lynn Devlin Hair & Makeup:

Website: www.donnadevlinhairandmakeup.comFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000944132998
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Sneak Peek at the Candy Shoot

Ya'll know how much I love pink right?

Well model, Diana Cullen from Port Saint Lucie, indulged us by deciding to choose a Cullin-ary theme for her shoot.  As you might have guessed, she has a cullinary business and makes all kinds of cool goodies, so it's no surpirse she wanted a way to take food and add it to her shoot.  This shoot was so much fun and totally indulged our childhood memories of nerds, sprinkles, twizzlers, candy necklaces, balloons even strawberries and whip cream....but I'm getting ahead of myself.   Did I mention she wears stripped knee socks and high HIGH heels and swings on the swing in pigtails?  Yes, she totally embraced her inner child and we had a blast.  Stay tuned for the full blog post and video!

The Retro Karissa - Part 2

Here, Part 2 of our Retro shoot

The overall look and feel for this shoot was to look fashiony with a retro spin.  For this look I made a corset (with bone-ing) and pencil skirt, both made out of brocade fabric.  The look we wanted was a little retro but very rich looking.  We kept the hair and makeup the same but added a jewels.  

The jewelry I ordered on eBay from a place that sells Indian wedding jewelry. Indians love their bling and their jewelry is always VERY eye catching.  And very reasonable.  Course it takes a month to getting anything from the Far East, and it's a gamble, but often you get a wonderful surprise and unexpectedly intriguing merchandise.  They always include a free gift, sometimes they include foreign currency or small jewelry - it's apparently the custom to send everything with a gift. This necklace with earrings and the head ornament was under $25.00.

 

The corset is made from 4 different pieces of fabric (came from a stack of fat quarters) but because they are all burgundy they went together surprisingly well.

Here Karissa is twirling on the dance floor with 8 yards of jersey fabric.

 

Karissa took the fabric and wrapped it around her bust, right over the clothing and tied a knot and turned this piece of fabric into an evening gown.

 You gotta admit, that's a killer knot.  Beautiful little dress, great job Karissa!

Credits:
Photography:    Pretty Muse
Model:    Karissa Ferguson
HMUA:   Lance Stevens
Fashion Design & Styling:  Lj Masty

Pretty Muse believes the women in front of our camera come to us because they want what we do. We are unique. We are offering a new kind of photography style and service that nobody, to our knowledge, is able to offer.  

Women are inspired by the magazines they grew up reading, they respond when they see pictures of themselves that resemble a perfume ad or the cover of a magazine.  They want a little glamour, a little fashion flair, a makeover and they want to feel glamourous.  This is what we do.  And we love, LOVE, love doing it.  

Next month we are going to offer a very special opportunity for you to become the muse, to have your dream shoot.  We've thought long and hard about how to bring our special brand to Treasure Coast women and now have a unprecedented photography service.  In a couple weeks we'll present this offer but wanted you to know it's coming!  Meanwhile, thank you for maintaining such high interest in what we are doing! 

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