Favourite three (four) images related to my brand photoshoot ideas - YSL

1. In my oppinion, this YSL advert represents the ideal YSL woman - misterious, sexy, daring - at least enough to wear an intense smokey eye and red lip at the same time! I just love the sleek and perfect look of the hair, the androgynous look suggested by the tuxedo. Also, the colours are very contrasted, the red lips with her snow white skin and the black elegant tuxedo... everything about this picture is perfect. I love the composition, I love how one side of the face is lit and another just dissapears into the shadow, the shine of the hair... I love it! It also helps me understand their make-up style, which is not like Clinique's, very clean and all about the skin, but more about smokey eyes and bold lips, about contratsts and edgyness.

2. That's another look created by Lloyd Simmonds for their highlighter concealer or what that is, which I absolutely adore! Once again, even though the focus is on the flawlessness of the skin and on the gleaming strobing , on the gorgeous skin of the model, it seems quite dramatic to me because of the lighting used to take the picture. It is very YSL-like. I would call thiss "mysterious innocence".

3. The perfection in this picture is just too much. I don't think I can handle that much gorgeousness. Really. Look at that shine! This picture screams GLEAM! That's kind of how I want my model's lips to look like in the shooting, or somehow close to that. Isamaya Ffrench is a genius make-up artist. Love her and her work.

4. Even though I had to comment pictures related to my brand - YSL - I could't resist not commenting about this advert for Tom Ford's Black Orchid fragrance. It is very, very YSL-like and I adore the lighting - I think that there's quite a very dark Rembrandt triangle underneatha the less lit eye. 

"Rembrandt lighting is a lighting technique that is used in studio portrait photography. It can be achieved using one light and a reflector, or two lights, and is popular because it is capable of producing images which appear both natural and compelling with a minimum of equipment. Rembrandt lighting is characterized by an illuminated triangle under the eye of the subject on the less illuminated side of the face. It is named for the Dutch painter Rembrandt, who often used this type of lighting."

Anyway, whether if I'm right or wrong with my unprofessional eye and with my guessing, I think that is pretty inspiring and that's what I aspire to recreate in my future brand shoot!
I love the plum-fuchsia smokey eye paired with the bold lip - again, a defining feature for both brands YSL and Tom Ford. I love those colours, her hair colour is just perfect (actually one day I will have the courage to dye my hair like that), those pretty highlights in her hair and the bleached eyebrows, the purple contour/blush whatever that is, everything is AAAMAZING.


References:

1. la Nordstrom, de (no date) YSL storyboard. Available at: https://ro.pinterest.com/pin/338051515761387455/ (Accessed: 12 February 2016).
2. la Nordstrom, de (no date) Instagram photo by YSL beauty official • Oct 21, 2015 at 12: 17pm UTC. Available at: https://ro.pinterest.com/pin/338051515761387321/ (Accessed: 12 February 2016).
3. Instagram photo by YSL beauty official • Nov 23, 2015 at 4: 07pm UTC (no date) Available at: https://ro.pinterest.com/pin/338051515761387311/ (Accessed: 12 February 2016).
4. STUDIO, S. (2013) Zuzanna Bijoch for Tom Ford black Orchid fragrance. Available at: http://www.beautyscene.net/fragrances-for-women/zuzanna-bijoch-for-tom-ford-black-orchid-fragrance/ (Accessed: 12 February 2016).
5. Rembrandt lighting (2016) in Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt_lighting (Accessed: 12 February 2016).