Candle maker Gwen Jacquelyn Tan’s progressive and gorgeous designs are impressed by meals, flowers and festivals
Some of the candles made by Gwen Jacquelyn Tan look so scrumptious, you is perhaps tempted to take a chunk. Inspired by desserts, the candles are masterfully crafted by Gwen with intricate particulars resembling desserts.
“My candle-making style is more Korean-inspired, with a lot of delicate hand-decoration work,“ said Tan, the founder of Candle Lab+Co brand.
Tan’s Dessert Collection features candles that look just like miniature cakes complete with icing, tiny blueberries and strawberries, and other minute decorations. In fact, one needs to take a closer look to determine whether they are real or not.
The candles are even named after popular cakes; Strawberry Sponge Cake Candle, Matcha Sponge cake candle, and Purple Potato Sponge Cake Candle.
“The best-seller is specifically the Cake Candle, which is hand-decorated and looks like an edible cake. My customers love to order these pieces from the collection for special occasions and birthday celebrations as gifts,” revealed 33-year-old Tan.
For Tan, the cake candle is near her coronary heart for an additional purpose. It’s probably the most difficult and most memorable piece she has ever made. During the event and formulation of the “cake icing”, she needed to meticulously experiment with totally different substances and supplies to verify they regarded like the actual factor.
Another fascinating assortment is the Zero Carb sequence comprising waffles, croissants, mini bear bread with cream and strawberries, and Strawberry Canelle, which seems sensible right down to the tiny particulars like flakes.
Aside from desserts, Tan additionally makes candles impressed by meals, flowers, festivals, historic structure, candle jars and even candle coasters.
The Sakura Cherry Blossom Candle impressed by the flowers is aesthetically pleasing, whereas festive-themed candles, that characterize mooncakes for the Mooncake Festival and Mandarin oranges for Chinese New Year are similar to the actual ones, apart from the noticeable candle wick protruding, proper within the center.
Christmas and festive candles
Recently, Tan got here up with a brand new assortment in time for Christmas, that includes easy and but elegant items.
In the newest assortment, Tan showcased her refined expertise by creating candles that appear to be Christmas bushes and white polar bears, in addition to cosy vacation properties that appears nearly like they got here straight out of the North Pole.
These elegant items can double up as ornamental craft objects.
“I derive inspiration and learn the most from my everyday life and social media, and of course, I have also learned through experimentation and trial-and-error, which makes my products, the way it is today,” Tan stated.
Her stunning candles stand out from the remaining out there, on account of their prime quality and pure substances and premium fragrances. She additionally makes use of picket or cotton candle wicks.
“The candles are made with 100% natural soy wax, beeswax, or palm wax. Even the candle scents are selected premium fragrance oils, which are imported,“ explained Tan, who also creates custom designs for special occasions.
“We specialise in party and wedding favours, as we take special requests for custom designs according to each customer’s needs. Every piece goes through quality inspection to ensure customer’s satisfaction before it’s being delivered.”
Candlemaking profession
Candles, regardless of being a easy and small software, can have a huge impact on a room. Just gentle up a candle and the scent travelling via the air will change the vitality inside a home whereas calming the temper of the folks residing in that area.
Candles additionally had a huge impact on Tan’s personal life. Her journey started in 2016, when she gave up being a full time make-up artist and hair stylist to pursue her ardour. She set up Candle Lab+Co model as a web based enterprise (@candlelabco_my) and have become a full-time candle maker.
“I have always liked art and craft and candle making had a calming and therapeutic effect which I love, so I thought, why not give it a try?”
After studying the fundamentals of the craft, she realised that there are numerous artisan candle-makers creating their very own designs.
To set her designs aside from the remaining, Tan mastered Korean-style candle craft by attending grasp courses and attending Korean Candle Craft Association (KCCA) and Korean Natural Design Association (KNDA) certification programs in Singapore in 2019.
After the completion of the programs, she set up her personal candle-laboratory at house, thus, the Candle Lab + Co model was born.
