Lauren Kattan has been in the Makeup industry since 2007. After working for two major makeup companies, she had a burning desire to do more artistry. Lauren has a great passion for what she does. Lauren creates looks for the traditional fresh and feminine bride to looks that have a taste of sophisticated drama for the unique and exotic bride. Lauren is based out of New Orleans and travels throughout Louisiana. Please refer contact page for any inquiries.
I think anyone who saw the movie Black Swan who had an ounce of creativity in them was inspired after watching.
After reading the article in the newspaper about how "amazing" the makeup in the movie was I had to see for myself...
I originally wanted to do a shoot that was extremely dark and scary with special fx etc..
I haven't gotten to do it yet ..Summer 2011....
Jessi Arnold called me with a different take on the movie. She wanted to recreate the idea of Black Swan in a more artistic,blissful and whimsical way.
Model Abigail Grace Helm, who has been a dancer for years, was perfect for the part.
Ali designed a beautiful silk black dress for the shoot.
This shoot yet again, I couldn't stay for...
Austin Arnold made a video called "Transcend Impulse" showing the hard work of his sisters and the greatness of the shoot.
This video touched me...
Its perfect. Ive watched it several times it doesn't get old.
I've known Jessi for a bit she is one very driven photographer. She is hungry to learn and try new things. I love that about her.
Jessi invited me to do makeup for a huge shoot for all of Ali's wedding dress designs.
I ended up doing all the makeup on the front porch of Ali's house it was super quick and fun. Teri and I rode up to BR from Nola for the first half of the shoot. Then I had to rush back to Nola for work that afternoon.
Eric Vosburg, an incredible young and talent MUA took over the other half of the shoot and rocked it!
Ali challenged me with a different style of makeup that I am use to. I enjoyed the challenge and I cant wait to work together again.
This is a behind the Scenes shot I caught of Teri.
These are some of the Ali Beasly Designs.
Enjoy.
Thanks to Jessi Arnold, Ali Arnold, Phoenix Rose, Biba Isla, Eric and all the amazing models yall were so much fun! We couldn't have done it without you!
I have known Mari Doan for years. We started high school together in 2003. We both use to sit by the Mari statue in the morning starring at cars and talking about love and life. Mari has always been beautiful inside and out. We soon found each other in the same industry. Little did I know that when we lost touch Mari developed a creative eye for photography.
After a couple of years of not seeing each other we met up for a shoot. We worked with Model Megan Martinez, who is drop dead gorgeous! Lashes for days ill say!
I had admired Peter Nguyen's talents for a while. His shots are beautiful. Model Teri Wyble was modeling for him and asked if I would do the makeup. I had work else where the day of the shoot so unfortunately I didn't have the pleasure of meeting Peter. Teri showed me pictures of makeup she wanted for the shoot. They were very Marilyn Monroe style. The eyeliner was slightly difficult to get right. However, in the end Teri was flawless and so were the pictures!
This is a shot I took on my Iphone before Teri Left for the shoot.
These are the amazing Pictures by Peter Nguyen Photography
This past January I had the pleasure of shooting with John Overton a.k.a Wind and Spirit Photography. I also got to meet Sarah Baggett, she was our model for the shoot. Sarah and I instantly clicked she was a crack up. I enjoyed our shoot together.
When I arrived at Johns apartment, John had a shy friend standing behind him. Naturally, I jumped up and introduced myself and met Sung Chu. John explained to me that Sung is a friend and fellow photographer and he would be shooting Sarah as well.
John wanted a really "High Fashion" look on Sarah.
This Shot is by John Overton. http://www.windandspiritphoto.com/ We slicked back her hair and did a smokey wing outside of her eyes.
It was a lot of fun and both John and Sung got some great pictures!
These two were shot by Sung Chu Photography. facebook.com/sung.chiu
Sometime in January Kaylynn gave me a call asking me to do makeup for a "lighting class." As always I was honored to do makeup for Kaylynn. She mentioned a fellow photographer in Louisiana was coming to model for the class. I didn't realize until later that Kaylynn was actually going to be in front of the camera! For once these two talented photographers were going to be in front of the camera instead of behind the Camera!
That morning I met Melissa Rehage Quijano, she was so awesome and incredibly talented!
Kaylynn and Melissa looked beautiful.
I later discovered the class was being taught by the BUI Brothers. I did not know of them previous to the shoot but I was delighted after I saw the pictures from the class, they were gorgeous.
I was so excited to shoot with Erica Rae Perry today. We had not been able to work together in almost a year. Needless to say I was so excited she is shooting again. I also had the pleasure of getting to work with Model Maddie Randolph Vitale. I have been wanting to work with her for so long! When Erica told me she was the model I started jumping up and down with excitement. I just got back from The Makeup Show in LA and I have all kinds of new toys to play with on models!!
Erica and Maddie arrived around 11:30 and we discussed the concept. Erica had this really cute vintage dress we used from Time Warp (Baton Rouge). It was a baby doll style vintage dress. She also brought some interesting fur accessories. A fur hat and a fur mitt purse thing. Erica wanted an extremely natural almost sickly look on Maddie. As much as I love doing natural beautiful skin I didn't get to play with a lot of my new products... However, The skin looked flawless. I used HD Makeup Forever foundations in #110 applied with a wide paddle foundation brush to give Maddie an over all more fair skin look. I used Benefit -High Beam and Mac-Sundrops to highlight the cheeks. i also used Benefit-Hula bronzer to achieve a matte contour. This look was all about flawless HD sculpted skin.
We ended up shooting at this really pretty location on Poydrus St. New Orleans. Honestly, none of use knew the name of it. I will post the location later.
After getting a few shots we moved to a recent Art Mural on Marigny St. New Orleans.
This was a really cool experience for me. Candy Chang created this Art Mural painted completely black with the words "Before I die I want to..." Spray painted in perfect letters very large on the top left corner then she proceeded to make several spaces for the general public to come by and write what they want to do before they die..
She even provided little Chalk holders full of chalk for everyone to get creative and to have an opportunity.
While Erica, Maddie and I admired the wall, we met Kristins Kassen. She ended up being the assistant for Candy Chang. She was really sweet and cool. She took a photo for us and told us a little bit more about the wall. She said within the first hour the wall was filled up. She explained she had just washed it the previous day and she was already coming back to re-wash it so other people would have an opportunity to write their dreams.
This was really cool. Way to go Candy Chang and team!
After a long day of shooting, We were all craving Wendy's NEW Sea Salt fries!
While enjoying lunch at Wendy's a guy about our age walked in to Wendy's in a Best Buy uniform. I made a bet with Erica that if I could get him to to give me his name tag she would have to surrender her french fries.
We ended up taking a picture with our Best Buy new friend "Matt"
I did get the name tag!
In the meantime, Enjoy one Sneak Peak shot from today!
Lauren Kattan has been in the Makeup industry since 2007. After working for two major makeup companies, she had a burning desire to do more artistry. Lauren has a great passion for what she does. Lauren creates looks for the traditional fresh and feminine bride to looks that have a taste of sophisticated drama for the unique and exotic bride. Lauren is based out of New Orleans and travels throughout Louisiana. Please refer contact page for any inquiries.
