Photography: Alexis Finch, Fashion & Beauty Editor: Ingrie Williams, Makeup: Roxanne DeNobrega, Hair: Simone Finch
Sway Magazine Holiday Beauty Feature on creating mesmerizing makeup looks for eyes for the holiday season. See the full article on the Sway site here.
Photo of Lake Ontario that I took a few days ago on my way home from Christmas holidays. It's in my "photos to print" folder!
Happy New Year! I hope you had a great holiday season! As I started making a list of all of the things that I want to do with this new year I realized that I haven’t updated this blog since October so I will put a few new posts up this week to get up to date. I guess as far as new year resolutions go, the cool thing to say is “I don’t make resolutions” but people who know me know that I (obsessively) LOVE making “to do lists” and scratching items off!
Somewhere on my list between “go to bed earlier” and “stop quoting the movie Friday” is my resolution to PRINT PHOTOS. Actual real paper photos. I miss the days when I used to spend hours in the darkroom. It might have been the toxic chemicals and light deprivation, but I could spend an entire day in there and not even notice the time go by. Printing photos in the darkroom made each photo feel like a personal product. Now, like many of you, my photos never seem to leave my computer. After having a hard drive stolen a couple of years ago, I learned the hard lesson to backup my photos multiple times. Still, there’s nothing like having a physical print.
Well I’m off to a good start with this one. I already printed last week’s Christmas photos for my family and finished hanging up a gallery wall at home (ok, I totally cheated with the gallery wall since the photos were already printed for art shows last year). I have a folder on my desktop called “photos to print” and I’ve promised myself to print the photos in the folder once a month. They can be work photos or personal ones, as long as it’s printed I know that I’ll always have them. Of course, unless my house burns down, haha (nervous laugh) (knock on wood).
So once again, HAPPY NEW YEAR! Good luck with your resolutions, goals, intentions, whatever you want to call ‘em. I’m right there with you just trying to make myself a better person!
xo
40 portraits, 8 makeup artists, 1 photographer & a very busy day! Last week I spent a day shooting makeovers for Rexall Pharmaplus’ Network Your Look Project. It was a fun day and it was great to see the transformations take place. Huge thanks to my assistant Gillian, Stephanie from Pharmaplus, Natalie from L’Oreal, the makeup artists and reps from all of the participating cosmetics companies (L’Oreal, Vasanti, Pupa) and all of the lovely “real people models”!
A few of the makeup artists and company reps
Singer Zaki Ibrahim creates a style of music that can’t be defined by one genre, but definitely has a serious fan following. Formerly Toronto-based and now living in South Africa, Zaki came to Toronto to perform at last Sunday’s Manifesto Festival concert at Dundas Square. If you missed her performance there you can catch her at Headspace tonight.
I met Zaki many years ago and if you’re a fan of hers you’ve probably seen photos that we shot way back (2006?).
Our latest shoot turned out pretty much exactly like the idea in my head. I’m happy that she trusted me because I had her climbing rocks, walking in water, and crawling around on hot sand! I’ll have more photos posted online soon for a project that I’m working on, but for now enjoy the preview!
Photography: Alexis Finch, Makeup: Shawna-Renee
Shawna-Renee, Me, Zaki. Great shoot day!
“Mane Attraction” Beauty Feature for Sway Magazine’s Fall Issue.
Photography: Alexis Finch, Beauty Editor: Ingrie Williams, Makeup: Roxanne DeNobrega, Hair: Simone Finch, Model: Senait (Elmer Olsen)
The fall issue is available on news stands now.
This past weekend was a busy one for natural hair enthusiasts in Toronto. There were several big events that took place centered around the care and beauty of black women’s naturally curly/kinky/locked/twisted/etc. hair. If you follow blogs and Youtube videos on this topic then you know that one of the most well known beauty bloggers out there is Patrice Grell Yursik better known as Afrobella. I had a fun shoot with Patrice and Afrodelik designs during her visit to Toronto. More photos will be out soon on the Afrodelik site. It was a pleasure working with these ladies… Oh, and Afrobella said she loved my hair (wheee!!!) 
Anne-Marie and Luvvie, always working!
Afrodelik jewellery.
Amanda Tacus (makeup artist), Desiree Marshall (Afrodelik.com), Me (alexisfinch.com), Anne-Marie Collymore (soulafrodisiac.com), Patrice (Afrobella.com), Luvvie (awesomelyluvvie.com)
Last week I was on set for the filming of Saidah Baba Talibah’s music video for “So cool” from her album (S)cream. For the filming of a concert scene, a devoted group of friends & fans piled in to a dark creepy building to jump around and of course – Scream. Can’t wait to see how the finished video looks! If you haven’t heard Saidah’s music check her out here: sbtmusic.com
