Last year, many of our Colorpop attendees told us that one of their favorite shoots was our close up beauty editorial, so we wanted to make that a priority for this year’s event. For this concept, we wanted the main focus be colorful makeup and florals. Our makeup artists did a variation of ombre and rainbow looks on the models, and we opted for emerald green wardrobe styling for each of them. Ultraviolet Backdrops provided us with the most gorgeous hand-painted backdrops in green in purple shades, which really made the styling pop.

For this women’s editorial shoot, our theme was fringe. We chose a red, pink, and black color palette for wardrobe styling, and added our own fringe with a hot glue gun (and a prayer). Our talented models swayed back and forth, flung their arms, did big kicks, and kept moving the whole time to make the fringe sing. It was bold and dramatic, and everything we’d hoped it would be!

For this concept, we were inspired by iridescence. The rainbow array of colors you see when you blow bubbles – cool colors like purples, pinks, blues. This is what we kept in mind when styling wardrobe, but we knew we wanted to also incorporate actual bubbles too. Our assistants stood on the sidelines with bubble wands creating them (though the wind did pose a challenge) while the models posed behind the shapes. Meanwhile, we had a few other tricks up our sleeve – an iridescent shower curtain made of a cellophane-type material that reflected the sunlight perfectly, and …. a plexiglass table we had made. Photographers climbed under the table and directed the models, who stood on top and did some edgy poses. It was a an iridescent DREAM!

While many of other concepts at Colorpop had quite feminine influences, we wanted go in a more sporty, edgy direction for this one. We also wanted the photographers that attended to be able to get creative with the elements we provided – in this case, ropes! We chose to use the white cyc wall at the studio and string up ropes of different colors to create fun shapes, and encouraged the models to do some “weirder” poses. It was really cool to see how incredibly different everyone’s shots were from this specific concept – swapping out the different types of rope we brought as well as some outfit changes made for a variety of images.

This photo shoot concept was inspired by famous painter Pablo Picasso. We wanted to create elements that mimicked his style and color palettes – we cut and painted canvases blue with thick brush strokes and hung them up to create a backdrop. We created a column, flower vase, and face cutouts and painted them to resemble Picasso’s line work, and hand-painted a checkerboard canvas to use as a tablecloth and backdrop. European style influenced our wardrobe choices, and our model Allison did a fantastic job bringing the concept to life.