HAPPY CORPSE DAY - MY LIPSTICK COLLECTION

Hello fellow make up lovers,

today is a holiday in Austria - Frohnleichnahm in case you're interested, 'happy corpse day' is what I call it :p I honestly have no idea what happened on that day and why they give us the day off, but based on the name I reckon it's got something to do with Jesus' dead body... I should google this one day, been wondering for years... 

Aaanyways guys, bottom line is, I had time today. Yes, TIME; I was sleeping in, did the dishes, checked the news (and Daily Mail oops :), and when the weather was still kinda so so I decided to start getting organized. Lipstick wise that is. 

If you own more than say... 30 lipsticks you know that at some point you kinda loose track of what you own and tend to just grab one of your 10 go-to ones, while the other 20+ lipsticks rarely see the light of day. Guilty, anyone? :) So knowing what you own is always a good thing. For me, since I am building up my make up kit at the moment, having an overview of what I have and still need to buy to cover all lipstick colors for all skin types is crucial (like life and death crucial hahaha). 

So since I swatched all my lip products and took photos anyways I thought I could just post them here as well. All lipsticks are grouped by color (kinda...), except MAC lipsticks that are all swatched together. Fluid lipsticks, lip pens and lip liners got swatched separately. Photos were taken in natural day light without direct sun, and with flash. Enjoy ;)

Cheers,

Heidi xxx

LES FLEURS MULTICOLOR

Hey guys,

for this photoshoot I was taking inspiration from this year's fashion week make up and Vienna's Life Ball theme "Garten der Lüste" (garden of earthly delights). Pastel eyes, graphic liner elements, intense lips and flowers in the model's hair, paired with the all-white current fashion trend. Oui oui, c'est trendy trendy :p Hope you enjoy!

left: re-touched, right: un-retouched close up

left: prettified, right: au naturale

left: photshopped, right: not photoshopped 

close up

right: treated left: untreated

Photographer: Jürgen Knoth

Model: Tyna from Body & Soul

Au revoir,

Heidi xxx

WIENER MAGAZIN - 'SONNENANBETER'

Hey guys,

Wiener Magazin with our beach fashion spread 'SONNENANBETER' (sun worshippers) that was shot a few weeks ago at Wörthersee finally came out last week. Here are the final pictures!

And this is the final layout for the magazine :)

CREDITS
Photographer: Jürgen Knoth
Photography assistants: George Kaulfersch, Francisco Falcao
Artdirector: Nina Ullrich
Produktion: Thomas Trimmel, Heike Harzer
Hair & Make up: Jody Cuberli @ perfectprops
Styling: Angelika Königseder
Models: Anett, Dave, Stanislav @ body&soul, Miguel @ WienerModels
Location: Badehaus at Hotel Werzer in Pörtschach/Wörthersee

Hope you enjoy :)
Heidi xxx

THE ROARING 20s - ACTRESSES SANNA AND ILSE

Hi guys,

last time I went to my former lab to teach an aspiring scientist some fancy lab methods that I developed during my PhD (oh what fun was is to be back at the lab bench. Not ;) I also met the lovely Sanna Paulick. 

Sanna is mostly an amazing actress, and is partly helping my ex-boss to organize his work life ;) She was born and raised in Germany and has moved to Vienna several years ago to pursue her dream of becoming an actress.  

Sanna, together with the beautiful and ridiculously funny Ilse Spieler will be starring in a play for MIMAMUSCH festival this fall. The play is set in the roaring 20s and appropriate Hair and Make up was needed for a photo shoot for the posters to advertise the festival. 

So the two ladies and I met on a sunny Saturday morning and had the most hilarious time getting their hair and make up done. Dark lips, dark eyes, signature eyebrows and a 20s hair style. Below are some pics taken by Sanna's boyfriend Martin Fabini, who is not a professional photographer, but a director and play writer. The professional photos that were taking for the Mimamusch festival posters will be posted as soon as I'll get them. 

Sanna and Ilse

Have a lovely day,
Heidi xxx

BEAUTY VS MUMMY

Hello :)

a couple of weeks ago we had the gorgeous Ivana from Stella Models in Jürgen Knoths home studio. 

We went for complete opposites with Ivana. One look was very a beautiful and clean nude make up, styled with just a white coat, which was actually inspired by a commercial of Charlize Theron for Dior watches. 

The second time Ivana visited The House of Knoth (it's time we give it a name, innit?) we turned her into a mummy. Dangerous place to be apparently... ;) We put healing earth (I'm hoping this is what it's called) all over her and let it dry until flakes were coming off her skin. The effect was, depending on whether you're a the-glass-is-half-empty or half-full kinda person, either one of death and decay, or of metamorphosis, like a hatching butterfly :) 

Some playing with different photoshop layers; I love the abstract effect!

Beauty vs Mummy.

Cheers,
Heidi xxx