Cover Drive shoot

Monday 20th June

Working with the lovely Mr Alex Babsky again, wahoo! He was asked to do a shoot for the self-described 'carib-pop' band, Cover Drive and needed an assistant. Hailing from Barbados, this band are signed to Geffen Records UK, and hold a publishing deal with Sony music. The bassist, Jamar, at 17, is the youngest member of the band, then there is the drummer T-Ray, lead vocalist Amanda, and Barry on guitar. T-Ray's mother Kerri Armstrong is their manager, and it was his Dad Ray Armstrong who came up with the band's name, through his love of golf. Throughout the whole day their music was blasting out of the I-pod, Amanda couldn't stop singing away to it even when in the make-up chair, and 'mom-a-ger' Kerri was bopping away. It was really cute to see. Amanda has written all the songs on the album, which is due for release some time in July.

http://www.youtube.com/user/WeAreCoverDrive

Amy Studt shoot

Saturday 18th June

Under the new name Mercy, singer, song writer and musician Amy Studt is making a come back into the music industry. Now with 19 Management, she was in need of some fresh images to capture her change in direction and new image. The shoot took place at her friends house in Stoke Newington. The whole team had to squeeze in to the kitchen, which was also where the shoot was going to take place, so as you can imagine we were very short on space! Amy was lovely, so tiny, and looks much younger than her 25 years. She bought her two dogs with her, they made a lovely bed for themselves out of my suitcase! Hopefully, I'm going to be testing with the photographer Paul Archer over the next few weeks. He has been assisting Mario Testino lately, but is about to go at it alone, so watch this space for some new images!

http://www.myspace.com/amystudtofficial

Wella Trend Vision with HOB Camden

16th-19th May, 31st May and 1st June

I went on tour with Akin Konizi and Christel Lundqvist form HOB Camden, as they were asked by Wella to showcase their interpretation of the four Wella trends- Glamazon, Polaris, Passionista and Lumina, at the Wella Trend Vision shows. First stop was Glasgow, followed by Manchester, Kenilworth, and finally London. Many hours were spent on the coach, but luckily we got to fly to Glasgow. It was lovely having a plush hotel room all to myself, I wish I got to spend more time in my bed though, ha! The days were long, up at 6am and dinner was after the show finished at 9:30pm. I had 6 models to do altogether, there was an extra model for Polaris and Glamazon, for a more commercial, customer friendly look.

Natt Weller photo shoot

Tuesday 24th May

The son of Paul Weller is soon to be releasing his first single, available for download only. So he enlisted the help of his photographer friend, Harley Moon Kemp (son of Martin Kemp) to shoot the cover image, and myself to do his make-up. We were shooting in Harley's family home in Rickmansworth, where she has a great studio space downstairs. As Natt was about two hours late due to problems with the wardrobe, I got to have some nice chats with Harley, and she showed me some of her recent work. She mainly shoots celebrities but I was really impressed by her recent fashion shoots. There was a gorgeous test that she had shot with a model from M&P, which had taken place in this beautiful garden house in her back garden. All the clothes and accerories were vintage (Harley's Mum collects vintage stuff, and she also styled the shoot), and the images were so pretty. She definately hasn't done well just because her Dad is famous!

So back to Natt, when he finally arrived we had a chat about what he wanted, and he wanted it keeping quite natural. I was expecting to do something quite full on as he is known for wearing dark eye make-up, but he is trying to get away from that and wanted to keep it simple for the cover. So I just did flawless skin, a bit of coffee pencil smudged under the eyes, and balm on the lips, and he looked great. He's got a great look, and he knows what he wants so it was an easy shoot!

http://www.harleymoonkemp.com/

Stylist Magazine

Wednesday 11th May

Very excited to be assisting Alex Babsky again, I love him! This time for a tanning story for Stylist magazine, shot at Big Sky Studios. There were four models altogether with various skintones, ranging from fair to black, to showcase the different types off tan available. It was shot by photographer Darren Feist, and directed by Stylist's beauty director Joanna McGarry.

(The image above is Alex's make-up)

http://www.stylist.co.uk/

Bumble and Bumble Trends Presentation

Wednesday 4th and Friday 5th May

Another day assisting Neil Young, who designed the make-up looks for Bumble and Bumble's trend presentation at the Future Gallery. On the Friday I was left in charge to recreate the looks on the three models. Bumble and Bumble's Neil Moodie was heading the hair team, and was also presenting the looks on stage.

The Most Incredible Thing

Monday 21st and Friday 25th March

I was fortunate enough to be making up some male ballet dancers for The Most Incredible Thing at Sadler's Wells. The Pet Shop Boys have joined forces with renowned choreographer Javier De Frutos, to produce this new ballet based on a Hans Christian Anderson fairy story. The story follows a king, who will give half his wealth and the hand of his daughter to the inventor of the most fantastic object. I was working along side the amazing Neil Young, to give the dancers a mean and moody look.