Some of my favorite people to collaborate with on photoshoots are often hair stylists; they are so creative and I always find it so amazing what can be done with hair!  Kyla was no different, she called me wanting to do some photos for the Goldwell Color Zoom competition and I was very excited about it!  Kyla has been in the industry for 14 years and currently works out of Shampoo, a very cool salon downtown Edmonton.  Kyla was telling me how the industry really picked her, she started colouring and cutting her friends hair in grade 6, so it just made sense for it to become a career.  Her love for the hair industry is so apparent, and it comes as no surprise that she has a full clientele and is often booking months in advance plus it helps that she loves people and she considers her clients as her friends.  

Her motivation for entering this competition came from a need to step outside her comfy zone, as she describes it.  Her inspiration for the cut came from a competition class and as for the colour, she says she loves to use one base colour and play with different shades of it for texture and dimension.  As you will see from the photos below, the hair is amazing!  Her concept for the photoshoot was to keep it simple to really showcase the hair preferable using a simple background.  We did the photoshoot at our mutual friend Jacquline's house, who as always did a most amazing job on the make-up!  In her spa space at her place she had this gorgeous light teal and white wallpaper which ended up being such a perfect background.  And then we just played with different angles and accessories to see what we could come up with.  Chrissy, who Kyla had found to be her model was so stunning and seriously has one of the coolest tattoos I have ever seen so we wanted to try to showcase that as well in a few of the photos.  

Anyways, check out the faves below and Kyla, I can't wait to hear how you do in the competition, I think you did such a fantabulous job :)

This was the photo that Kyla chose to enter as you could only enter one photo - I think it was a great choice!

This was such a fun photoshoot! I once again collaborated with Ange Forhy of Kenneth Blair who did an amazing job on hair and make-up! Basically Ange wanted something where we focused more on male models and we both thought why not see if we can use the local pool for the shoot. And so that exactly what we did, we went in after hours and basically came up with some cool shots! The models were so awesome, I can't thank you guys enough! Anyways here are some of the faves from the shoot, check em out and let us know what you think :)

It had been a long time since I had done a beauty photo session and collaborated with my gorgeous friend Jacqueline Laine, who is probably one of the most talented make-up artists I know. So it was definitely time to put a session together, and who better to model than my other beautiful friend, Jeanie Andronyk. It took us two days to shoot the five looks as we only had mornings that worked with our schedules but it was worth it. I loved the way the make-up turned out, Jacqueline is so amazing as she had pretty much free reign the only direction I gave was picking up the wicked eye lashes that I wanted to use for the looks. We definitely had such a great time doing this shoot, it's always great getting together with amazing ladies!

Jeanie also happens to make some of the most amazing jewelry so we decided to incorporate some of her fantastic rings in the shots. Check out her stuff at: www.etsy.com/shop/jeanieandronyk

These are some of my favorites from the session, enjoy!

A new clothing store recently opened up in Lloydminster called What R U Wearing, and I was pretty excited when one of the managers Echo approached me about doing a photo shoot for them. I love love fashion, especially fashion photography so there was no way I was going to pass up this opportunity. Every month they are wanting to do a photo shoot to and use different local models and different themes. This month the theme they wanted was aviation. Well this couldn't have worked out more perfectly as my father shares a little plane with a friend and so I have access to an airplane hanger and the props inside! Well, we definitely had fun with the shoot except for the part where there is no heat in the hanger, it was honestly warmer outside than it was in there! Luckily the models brought sleeping bags and blankets to keep warm in between shoots! Echo's sister Kelly Davidson, who works at the Hair Hut, did the makeup and hair for the photo shoot which turned out really awesome!

Anyways, here are my faves from the shoot to check out and look for them to be poster size and displayed in the windows of What R U Wearing!