Photographer Darrien Utt had a really cool concept for this shoot... a dirty yoga concept, kind of antithesis to the clean bright Yoga Journal style. I did makeup, Jillian Rae Jewel styled, Katie Kiehl assisted Darren (top photo by Katie) and Rachel Gregg modeled. Rachel was in town covering Portland Fashion Week and on that trip decided to move here to Portland! So good to be getting another soul in the fashion scene here who's outward beauty is a total reflection of the beauty and talent of her inner self. Before hiking a mile into Forest Park to this amazing little roofless, door less stone house (how amazing is that that we have one of the largest urban forests in the country to work and play in!!), we crashed a friend's sunny apartment near 23rd and got to work on makeup.
After I perfected Rachel's striking face with Arbonne mineral powder, tons of mascara, and glossy nude (M.A.C. lipstick in Myth touched with a little clear/pink gloss), I prepped myself to smear her with "dirt." As I hovered over Rachel with M.A.C. Dipdown smeared all over my fingers, my heart pounded as if I was about to cliff jump (yes we do that kind of thing here in the Northwest), and I fretted about messing up the perfection we had created when she looked up at me and said softly, "Just trust yourself." Woom! That was all I needed. I dragged my brown, makeupy fingers across her face and...voila! It looked so good! Then it just flowed, Dipdown on her ears and her chest and some in her hair and big cat claw marks on her right cheek. I practically had to be dragged away to get us on location on time.
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Once there I smeared real dirt (fresh from the previous day's monsoon) all over my hands and went over the "dirt" to create real texture and...well I don't want to give away anymore dirty secrets. The moment with Rachel was just so cool I wanted to share. Here we really are all students and teachers.
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