Creating the ink drop - Advertisement

For my advertisement shoot I am wanted to create the day and night look basically the same, the difference being, the lipstick, the background lighting and the wig. 

I want to have the model on one side of the page either slightly looking at the camera or to have their profile looking at the other side of the page which has the product on in. Now as always I want to be difficult and present the product in a ink droplet. Below are some I have created from online images of the lipstick from Illamasqua and an ink drop by Alberto Seveso. He created these beautiful images of think ink that look like mini galaxies. This is something that is hard to do, but with the help of my photographer friend who has his own studio and the equipment that can capture this look. My main inspiration came for a series of images found on pintrest, they are a beautiful way to create different forms of texture and presenting the product. The ink links into my designs as I am following the line of texture and showing I am influenced by many means, ink, paint, powder etc.

So to create this I basically got the ink image from the online source and the lipstick and put them into Photoshop. I then selected the part of the image I wanted to and copied this to another page with a white background.  I then selected from the image of the ink the bottom half and copied this, for later. 

I went and did the same to the lipstick and pasted this onto the ink image. With the bottom ink part I copied I overlaid this on top of the lipstick to make it look like it was already there. I then changed the colouring and shaded the areas to make it look like the lipstick is sitting there. 

I also added text into it with the collection name 'Find The Royalty Within' I chose this as from my idea of Marie Antoinette, she was a royal, the lipsticks chosen have a royal finish and colour and the ink drops fit with that as the colours are so rich and intense.

Test Images:

I have tried this with my final image and it just doesn't look right. I am annoyed as I loved the idea, however I not happy with how it looked with the images taken in the studio they just didn't match so back to the drawing board!