Collaboration and team work make the best photoshoots. I was asked by fashion photographer, Jessica Budnick to style hair one sunday last winter. It would be one model with make up by Ebony Campbell. I had the date open and was looking forward to working together.

Claudia Sheiderich was the model Jessica booked and it was her first photoshoot. No restrictions were given for hair or make up so it was up to Ebony and I to work off one another. I chose to work with the model’s natural texture and a bit of heat styling with a couple different curling irons.

I used Redken’s Guts 10 with a blowdryer and round brush to build some volume in Claudia’s hair. Afterwards I sectioned the hair and curled it with Sam Villa’s one inch curling iron setting with Redken’s Iron shape 11. once the hair cooled I brushed it out and lightly spray with Fashion Works 12 hairspray.

Another look involved converging the hair into a messy pony tail and leaving a lot of the hair around the face out. I would then use a very small marcel iron by Hot Tools and tightly coil that hair around the iron. I would then brush that hair out and on set we would use a blower to activate movement in the hair.

Jessica used the same sheet of foam fabric through out the entire shoot by altering it each time on the model. Ebony created several looks using pastel tones, matte shadows and blushes. A bold eye color with a natural, clean finish on claudia’s skin.

We spent several hours on that Sunday creating four looks on Claudia. After editing images, Jessica forwarded the images to me and I asked if I could submit them for publication. She of course said yes and I decided to submit to Ellements magazine. I had only been published once in their publication and I saw were I was making the deadline before the next issue was due out.

A few days later I received an email from Ellements magazine that they wanted to publish the collection in their next issue. I was beyond excited and knew it was meant to be.