Hair and Makeup Love Bonito: Safari Editorial

Hair and Makeup for Love Bonito's Safari Editorial

Hair and makeup for The Closet Lover

Hair and makeup for The Closet Lover's catalogue lookbook
Beautiful Constance !

Hair and makeup for The Closet Lover 

Love Bonito Photoshoot: Poolside Party

And as we all know it's summer time! The hottest time of the year and supposedly the best time.
However, in tropical Singapore, It is ALWAYS summer. Not the best time, cause the heat and humidity is totally unbearable mostly and makes me extremely cranky.

IT MAKES ME SCREAM, SWEAR, BITE AND turn pretty VIOLENT......

Anyway, the recent spell of horrible air pollution brought by blowing winds from Sumatra to Singapore only made the weather worse.

It has inconvenienced many and actually posed a health hazard to all with PSI levels shooting up as high as >500?!!!!!! (ABOMINABLE!)

And to think the prime minister of Jakarta can frivolously brush our complaints off as being 'childish'?! Comparing this serious smoky polluted air as just a little 'barbecue smoke' WTF?!

IT caused TWO of my photoshoots to be postfoned and making us turn ugly and desperate by snatching packs of mask from another's hands literally because stocks are being depleted very quickly.

ReallY?! It saddens me the unscrupulous lengths we can go to make money. (and of course to buy the masks.... ZZZZzzzzz....
Apparently, the smoke pollution resulted  from the massive burning of tress in Sumatra by big companies to clear land in the cheapest and fastest way possible.

WHY CANT they just chop the tress and sell it as a raw material or even use it as FUEL to generate power?!!!! They can also earn money NO??!! But in a more ethical way instead of wasting good resources by just burning it?!!!!!! ARGGhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Luckily, the haze cleared up so much that we are able to proceed with the upcoming summer collection from Love Bonito at W hotel in Sentosa!

I swear it was one of the hottest day I ever experienced. I felt extremely dehydrated and a bit lightheaded from all the heat, plus, sweat was cascading down from all of my pores....Thank god I didn't get heat stroke. I certainly felt like I was going to faint!

HYDRATE YOURSELF people!!!

Anyway here are the pictures!

Hair and Makeup by Me www.facebook.com/artsy.gerra
Photography by Nicole
Fashion from www.lovebonito.com

ENJOY!

Fashion lookbook photography

Fashion lookbook photography 

Fashion lookbook photography, poolside party

Fashion lookbook photography, summer girls

Fashion lookbook photography

Here are some behind the scenes madness.

Behind the scenes of Summer poolside party

 Loving Jayne, looking ecstatic playing with her sharkie float. :)

Behind the scenes of Summer poolside party

Behind the scenes of Summer poolside party

And lastly a closeup of their looks for the shoot!

Summer Bronze makeup

Love,
G

How to Chalk your hair

I think it must be THE mid age crisis that made me suddenly want to blond my hair.
I desperately wanted to go wild before I turn old and haggardly to carry off insanity of any levels.

So! I started googling for 'funky colours' or 'blond colour' visuals so I can show my stylist what shade of blond and to better imagine how I would look with the new style.

And I happened to stumble upon information on hair chalking. It seems we can temporarily colour our hair with multiple funky bright colours using chalk! No bleach required and apparently, chalk is safe and non-toxic.

Then my brain started whirring and thinking where in hell does Spore sell funky coloured chalks??!
I used trusty Google again and nothing much came up. In the end I got tired and gave up.
I think these sort of weird stuffs are not as popular here in Spore compared to the US.

Then one day, as I was shopping in Daiso, I found a box of coloured chalks. At that point, I didn't know it was chalk. Not till I read the material, which said: Calcium Carbonate and went back to google 'What is chalk made of' that I confirmed it is indeed  the same material!!

YAY! 

As we all know, Daiso sells stuff at $2. So the box of beautiful pastel shades of 18 colours cost only $2! (I'm very sure if I had been able to find hair chalk in other art supplies store, they definitely don't come this cheap and in so many colours!!!)

But first, here's how to chalk your hair:

1. Use gloves if you don't want to stain your hands. And you'll also need water spray bottle and a protective towel/cape to protect your clothing.

2. Wet hair so that the chalk pigment will adhere to our hair strands better. But if you are blond, you may just want to colour dry if you don't want the chalk colour to stay in longer.

3. Colour hair downwards and if you want a more even colouring, twist/turn hair to cover the underside of the hair too. Or else, get creative and colour it any way you imagine that it will look good at the end!

4. You can choose to air dry or blow dry (at low setting so we don't blow off the chalk)

5. You can further set in the colour by using a curling thong or flat iron, in which the heat further seals in the colour and minimises bleeding. Use a hair spray for a longer lasting style especially if you choose to curl your hair!

6. The colour will generally go off after one wash unless your hair is very porous (meaning that it has undergone a few chemical processes a few times)

So if your hair is very black, and you are worried the colour won't come out as vibrant, use a white base chalk before going over with the coloured ones.

So, I tried 2 colours; turquoise and pink! And this is how it turned out!

Pardon the messy hair for I just got out of bed and that also explains the bare face. Hahahhaaa

Hair Chalking Effect

Great for parties and go crazy with those gorgeous rainbow colours and look FUNKY for the camera!!

Love,
Gerra
Xo