Hair and Makeup models

My friend Loryn was showing off her hair & makeup design at an art show last week. I showed up a little bit early to get some portraits of her models. All are with the 430EXII in my homemade beauty dish, with some fill from by the pop-up flash and a reflector. I really could have benefited from a second off-camera flash for a hair or rim light, but I wanted to travel pretty light - so I just popped the beauty dish on my tripod and that was that.

C&C is appreciated, especially with the skin corrections. This was my first time using cameron rad's "perfect lie" technique for cleaning up skin imperfections.

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2. This one was tough; I just couldn't get the lights to look good; the hair blocked the face and eyes too much. Did a pretty fair amount of exposure correction in post but I'm still not absolutely happy with it. In retrospect, I probably should have just moved the BD to be closer to the lens axis.
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3. My favorite of the set. Note, she had white powder on her face so it looks a little hot. This model has gooorrrgeouuss hair, silky blonde and about three feet long, I hope to work with her in the future.
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4. A little hot here, but I wanted to show off the contrast of the white and black as well as her fantastic eyes.
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5. Loryn's masterpiece.
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