Sunday, January 4, 2015

ALBEELI - rajasthani gypsy girl








The shoot Albeeli is a conceptualized shoot based on Rajasthan and Indian gypsy culture. The concept is developed for a story of a rajasthani wild gypsy girl who travels with animals, sings and dances for her living. She is  charming and grabs attention for her beauty.
The locations and props are based on nature as we shot in a little jungle set and with animals such as elephant’s, parrots and etc.I wanted to create the wild and ethnic look and bring out the culture and traditional ways of clothing as they are known for their fabrication and embellishments.
The model/ Artist I have selected for the shoot  Albeeli is  actress Nadeesha hemamali as she has a beautiful ethnic face structure with very open features to work with and indeed very photogenic. I wanted a sharp face to carry off this strong Indian image and also an adventurous spirit as we had to work quickly with the animals and work according to their behavior and Nadeesha was exactly the right choice for this concept.
The poses were very open and wild..so she can express the mood and we went for a very heavy makeup too it is fancy and dark as to emphasizing the features was important. The hair and makeup artist was Gayani batz she did a fantastic job with the eyes as they look so sharp and expressive and grabs so much attention and we used the rajasthani face tattoos too with a lot of heavy jewellery done by the brand Dandelion, all the styling accessories are done by dandelion.
Colour theme for the entire shoot was black, silver, pink, blue and yellow so we worked with colourful lights, makeup, styling, wardrobe to match the concept and theme too… we experimented with the colours by using the traditional colour palette and mixing the cool n the warm colours. 
-Raffealla- 

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