bananassassin / bananassassination

bananassassin, originally uploaded by avalilly.

bananassassination, originally uploaded by avalilly.

Been slowly but surely getting older photos up onto my flickr account. This was done entirely because I was incredibly in love with the ivy wall on one of the buildings at my university. The only thing I had in mind that day was a bananassassination attempt. Thanks to the lovely Katie for playing along. <3

 

The gorgeous colours of fall are something I definitely start looking forward to around this time of year. Unfortunatley it also makes me a little anxious, because then I think of all things I still want to do that I haven't done yet this summer while the weather is still warm enough! Ahh!

makeup monster birthday

cereal and face, originally uploaded by avalilly.

Just wanted to dedicate a post to my favourite lil makeup artist, Katie Melanson. Today is her birfdayyy. She is far away in another land though, studying makeup artistry at Vancouver Film School. We all miss her muchly, especially me because who else would I randomly stick lucky charms on my face with, or make Astrea and Jamie come over so we can make them model for us, or dedicate copious amounts of our lives to being malmas.

Happy birthday, makeupmonstermelanson! Have a wonderful day... and then come back soon!

photoshoot fun

So Katie and I had a fun little photoshoot last weekend. She wanted to do some makeup on a couple friends of ours to start building up a bit of a makeup portfolio, so I agreed to do the photography for her.


The following are of the lovely Jamie! Those lashes were so huge that the wind was actually blowing them around on her eyelids. She rocked them though!

Photography: Laura Crowell

Make-up: Katie Melanson

Model: Jamie Miller

Editting: Laura Crowell

The next batch are of Astrea. We ran into a bit of a time issue, as she had to get to a meeting, so it was a quick process with makeup and then a quick photoshoot, but they still turned out nice! Admittedly, not the most spectacular creative makeup in the world, but we were in a hurry. What can you do. She worked it though~

Photography: Laura Crowell
Make-up: Katie Melanson
Model: Astrea Campbell-Cobb
Editting: Laura Crowell

All in all, a fun little photoshoot. Hopefully with some more thought and time in the future, we can come up with some more elaborate ideas. I had a lot of fun working with these ladies, so hopefully they'll be up for it in the future!