LFW AW 2011, Central St Martins MA

Saturday 19th Febuary, 5:30pm

After having had a bit of a snooze back home, I return to Somerset House for my next show. I get there about half an hour before the call time, and it's already bedlam backstage. Hair are taking up the whole space for hair and make-up, so we have to wait for the show before to finish and clear out next door so we can use the other side to get ready also. Luckily we are the last show of the day so can spread out. The reason why there is already no space is because there are loads of designers showing in the one show, and there are a lot of outfit changes for each designer, so you can imagine the amount of clothes rails, and the amount of bodies there are. Already, everybody is in everybody else's way, and it's only going to get a lot worse!

So once they've finished hovering up the hairy carpet next door, we move in to get set up. Mac's very own Neil Young is keying this show, go Neil! The look is a little grungy, a little gothic. The brows are meant to look a bit wild, like a school girl who hasn't yet started plucking them. We use Sculpt foundation, if the models lashes are naturally dark we knock them out a bit with foundation also, brow pencil warmed on the hand first then applied with a #266 brush, Brow Set in Mink, or brown mascara on the inner eyebrow, pushing the brows up and in a bit so they look a bit angry almost, it's not meant to look pretty, Groundwork paint pot blended under the eyes, sculpting cream to contour the cheeks, concealer to blank out the lips with Femme Noir lipstick buffed in to the centre, gloss texture on cheekbones, centre of eyelid, and cupids bow.

The show seemed to go on forever, at least an hour. Trying to fix the models make-up in between outfits was near impossible, they were just running in, changing, and then running back out again. Apparently some models were just pushing make-up artists out of the way, and we were constantly being told that we couldn't stand here and we couldn't stand there. So most of it was left up to Neil who was allowed to stand at the entrance to the catwalk. He said that by the end of the show some girls looked like they didn't have any make-up on! It's a good job the look was meant to be a bit grunge!!!