Make-up

It was sunny day, with a huge crowd of people down the street when I went shopping. I felt my legs too light and I walked too fast. It was too crowdy and I didn’t feel very comfortable. I felt a bit insecure and I was about to change that. It was time for a little NLP mental exercise on fly. A continue reading ...

I often meet women (mostly models) who never leave their homes without a makeup. The reason for some of them is that they feel insecure, they do not deny it, but that doesn’t fit for all of them. Some women just don’t feel right without a makeup. To them it’s almost like walking naked continue reading ...

No idea how comes that this cute gothic model VelvetBat wasn’t discovered before. It seems she gets more often photographed on the streets of Amsterdam then in the studio, as this was her second shoot ever! But she is young, so it’s still not too late. The way I saw her standing in a front of continue reading ...

Alright, we had this Star trek pin up shoot a while ago. At first we had Nelix character (Star trek Voyager) in our mind, but at the end it became Jadzia (Star trek: “Deep space nine”). Jadzia’s sister alike character, to be more precise. Startrek theme was something I wanted to continue reading ...

After I’ve done greasepaint workshop on October 4, 2008 in Veldhoven and applied the Halloween greasepaint make up on my friends a few weeks later, we were all ready for the Halloween party (on October 31). So, let’s party! Asgard was very crowdy that night. It’s special corner was continue reading ...

After I’ve done greasepaint workshop on October 4, 2008 in Veldhoven – and learned how to make burn and cut wounds, the photographer Lette said she was curioced what I was now going to with it… Well, the answer on thatone is quite easy: I’m gonna party! ;-) Two weeks ago Jeroen also asked continue reading ...

Last Saturday I went to Veldhoven (it’s near Eindhoven) where I had a greasepaint and makeup workshop, knowledge exchange - with a group of greasepaint artists. I’ve been almost 6 hours underway (all together in both directions), came home tired as a dog, and all I can say right now, is that: continue reading ...

Altruism is the best egoism. – Anonymous – I’ve done many shoots by now and I’ve applied makeup on more then hunderd models in a very short time (less then a year) - and here is my take on makeup, models and photoshoots so far. Here is what I learned: If you know what I know, continue reading ...

Do you know what’s wrong with MTV? I’ll tell you what’s wrong with MTV. First of all, they are TELEVISION! ;-) Their second sin is that they lost their focus (if they ever had one). That’s what’s wrong with them! Just like when Microsoft declared the WAR to Google, continue reading ...