On the first May bank holiday this year, I spent the day with Saba of L’Chic Beauty, shooting the first set of promotional images for her newly launched business venture, offering the discerning individual a unique experience in hair and make-up artistry.

I’ve known Saba for a long time now, and always knew she was capable of doing something great, and finally she has proven it to be true!!
Years and years of hard work are finally starting to pay off, as she dedicates every minute of her life in your beauty as a qualified and certified professional hair and make-up artist!

So why am I still rambling on with a background story, “get on with it!!!” I hear you shouting…
Well, now that L’Chic Beauty has officially launched, I can display these photos from the first photo shoot…

Show your support by visiting her website www.lchicbeauty.com or hit the 5 stars at the bottom of the post to show that you like it!!

L'Chic Beauty - Business card on make-up colour palette

L'Chic Beauty - Professional Hair & Make-up Artist

L'Chic Beauty - Professional Hair & Make-up Artist

L'Chic Beauty - Professional Hair & Make-up Artist

L'Chic Beauty - Vegas at night backdrop

L'Chic Beauty - Professional Hair & Make-up Artist

L'Chic Beauty - Professional Hair & Make-up Artist

L'Chic Beauty - Professional Hair & Make-up Artist

L'Chic Beauty - Professional Hair & Make-up Artist

L'Chic Beauty - Damask backdrop

www.lchicbeauty.com

Payal Malde of www.payalmalde.co.uk provided her skills in Mehndi art. Check out her website to hire her for your Mehndi party.

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In the days leading up to the wedding Sameer and his family had many joyous evenings of parties, celebrations & hindu ceremonies.

If you remember back a couple of weeks I blogged a post titled ‘Mehndi Sisters [Creative Concept]‘, well here are some of the images, from that Mehndi Party.

The Mandvo & The Pithi images are also online.

The Registry images are to follow very soon.

Click the image to see a larger version.

More images from this Mehndi Party are now up on the blog : Sameer Sheth [Mehndi Party]

Normally, she would be doing the mehndi on brides-to-be, but it’s not quite the same having to do your own mehndi for your own engagement. LOL.
So tonight she sat back and enjoyed a moment in the spotlight, as she was pampered by Payal Malde, with a selection of artwork on her hands and feet.

Unfortunately, I won’t be the photographer at the engagement (obviously), so here’s some images that I was able to capture earlier this evening.

This is what Mehndi looks like 10 minutes after it has been applied to the hands.

Overnight, the designs are marked onto the skin as the fresh mehndi dries off. The depth and darkness of the dye depends on the skin, but often her results have been extremely good.

I wish her the very best of luck in her new venture, and I hope she is as successful as she deserves.

If you would like more information, please feel free to contact me : niraj@nirajpopat.com

Rob is a 43 year old ex-Civil Engineer, from Portsmouth.
For the past 4 years, Rob has been trading in construction as a sub-contractor, engineering his own Roofing and Cladding projects for larger organisations.

Three years ago, in an unfortunate accident, Rob was struck down as a pedestrian by a car. He was off from work for 6 months. Having all this time to himself, the opportunity arose to pursue and develop his skills in design. From a young age (as early as 8 years old) he recalls he was always drawing, designing and scribbling his idea’s onto paper. He followed his passion onto O-levels (GCSE equivalent) in Art, where he was bluntly told by his teacher that his idea’s were not suitable for the curriculum being of “too wild and inappropriate” conceptions.
Rob’s idea’s revolve around Surrealist and Tattoo Art. He is influenced by his interest in Biker clubs (Harley Davidson etc…) and a passion for far-eastern design and culture. Combining these (at first glance) opposite realms into a seamless fine-art that can be stretched onto canvas, or tattooed onto your body.

The idea’s work very well, as his very close friends, Scott and Anna, also from Portsmouth own a jewellery and tattoo parlour, called ‘The Gold Shop’.
Anna has tattooed several of Rob’s design onto his body for him, making Rob a walking, talking biogallery of his own work.

This is where Rob finds his inner peace, in his world, within ours.
Often up till the early hours of the morning, losing track of time, when engrossed so deep onto the paper that he engraves.
It is his complete inner expression, letting his pen dance around the paper, never knowing what the finished design will look like, until it is finished.

Here is some of the work he had with him today, that he was able to show me.

The Dragon

We can clearly see a relationship with the Dragons from Chinese or Oriental history. The dragon is a mythical creature portrayed to have a very dark and evil presence and is a potent symbol in Chinese art and folklore.

The Gazelle

Gazelle’s are known as quiet but quick animals. They originate from Africa, but can also be found in southwest and central asia, and on the Indian subcontinent. The animal is able to reach high speeds of up to 50mph, in the blink of an eye. Often the prey of larger animals such as lions and cheetahs.

The Chrysanthemum

Not something you would possibily expect to see from Rob White’s collection, but beautiful nevertheless.

The Heartagram

The heartagram, is best described as a combination of a heart and an inverted pentagram (love & hate). The idea of any symbol representing an inverted pentagram is said to be of evil nature, but here in this combination, Rob has merged the symbol of love. Completely opposing the evil (hate characteristic). You could say the heartagram is a “Modern Yin Yang”.
Inscribed within is the line “Suffer the brilliance of the beautiful white light of pain” which will have a unique meaning to all, but to Rob is a relationship between the pain and pleasure of a tattoo.

I hope to bump into Rob again in the future, where hopefully he will share with us more of his designs.

If you would like to contact Rob for the commissioning of any special designs or perhaps idea’s you would like to discuss with him, please drop me a message, and I will forward you his details, with his permission.