New Magazine Spread

This is a special feature with Peak Magazine for True Yoga. The concept is truly interesting using models in yoga poses and superimposed onto images of timepieces.

The male model is from Brazil and has a really nice lean and toned body, and of course, strong features. I only needed to powder his face and conceal some small blemishes on face and body. As this is a workout shoot, hair was also kept simple and neat.

The female model is actually Australian-educated, Chinese model who is also a yoga instructor with True Yoga. She has the typical delicate features and porcelain skin, but don't let that fool you. This yoga instructor is tough and extremely flexible. As she had great skin, I used Missha's Skin Color which enhanced her natural skin tone. I followed up with L'Oreal's Mineral Powder in G3 which gave her skin a flawless finish.

With the Body shop's Brow Shadow Duo, the dark brown tone gave her nice softly defined brows. I had to use a darker brown as this is a black and white photoshoot and black would be too harsh. I used :'Oreal's ColorAppeal Reminiscenc Collection eye shadow quad. I brushed her entire eye is in Lusty Pink, and then loaded my brush with Caramel Charm and applied the colour from lash line to just past the crease line. Dark Chocolate is used as a liner to define her eyes. To give eyes that 3-D look,Silky Beige is applied to her brow bone.

The model's cheeks glow tih Revlon's Rose Rapture blusher. The gold in the blusher helps to give the face that healthy shimmer. Her lips are lined with Maybelline's Line 'n design auto lip liner in Toast 5 and filled in with L'Oreal's Taffeta Caresse 517 (Aishwarya Rai's lip colour). Then Pupa's Splendor Extreme Ultra Brilliant Lipcolor is slicked on to give her lips fullness.

For the hair, I decided on her simple bun. The model's long hair was rather dry toward the ends and the dark roots of at least 10 cm were showing. First, I tied a high a high ponytail. Then I separated the ponytail in two.I applied a little leave-in conditioner and sculpting lotion and twisted the hair into a two-ply 'rope' and then twist it into a bun.