Behind the scenes: Depilex

Hair & Makeup: Nighat Misbah @ Depilex
Photography: Rizwan Ul Haq
Model: Neera Mansoor
Art direction: Light & Shade

This was a shoot that spanned over four days simply because each make up set took around three to four hours to do. According to Nighat Misbah, the inspiration for the shoot came from a yearning to do something other than the norm and by the works of hair and make up shoots by foreign artistes.

For this shoot, they also wanted to feature somebody who hadn’t been photographed very much before and owing to her beautiful, graceful bone structure as well, Neera Mansoor seemed like a viable model. “We also wanted to feature her in a way that she hasn’t been featured before”, added Nighat Misbah about Neera.

“For the hair and makeup we literally treated the face as a blank canvas and used the makeup to paint over it”, she said, “and because attention was paid to every single detail, the make up took several hours and by the end of it, I was exhausted. I couldn’t do another set the same day which is why Neera had to come over several days in a row. And she was very nice and cooperative and was always on time”.

The hair and makeup coupled with the shoot wasn’t a one-man show as Nighat clearly pointed out that “this isn’t the kind of work one can do on their own. Normally when you do shoots like these, the hair and makeup can come out looking very bad if the light and shade along with the angles at which the photograph is taken isn’t taken care of and Rizwan has done an amazing job at that. Along with that, I am grateful to Kamran Khairi who constantly guided us with the concept of the shoot”.