Thursday, 15 November 2012

Clarks Originals AW 2013 Campaign

Tuesday 13th November

I have been shooting quite a bit with photographer Martin Zahringer, who is a very cool guy.  He asked me to do the make-up for this Clarks 'Pioneers' Campaign starring two arty types.  Anna Lomax is a set designer and art director, and we also had Nathan 'flutebox' Lee, who is an amazing beat boxing flute player!  It was a really great day, even though it made my stinking cold 10 times worse from shooting outside on a roof top in the freezing cold!  Thanks Martin!

http://clarksoriginals.com/

Hob/ Wella show

Monday 12th November

Had a busy day making up millions of models for a teaching day at Hob Camden, before heading to the Wella Studio for a seminar with Hob's Akin Konizi.  They love a smokey eye at Hob, so I went for a dark eye and a dark lip to try out my new Chanel lipstick in 307 L'impatiente.

Lashes of London

Sunday 11th November

Frank agency asked if I would assist one of their new artists Annabel Callum, on a shoot for Lashes of London's SS 2013 look book and web images.  I know Annabel from when we used to work for Mac together, so I was very happy to be on board.  We have very similar personalities, she is very laid back and lovely just like me! ;o)  We spent the morning shooting in the PR's mother's house in Essex, shooting in one of her daughter's bedrooms.  Then in the afternoon we headed to a pet shop not far away to shoot with the animals.  And boy were they distracting!  There was loads of kittens and puppies and rabbits and all kinds of cute things!  I was allergic to something in there, and even though I had taken two antihistamines I still couldn't stop sneezing and had really itchy ears and throat. But it was worth it to see those fluffy white Persian kittens!  I also wanted to buy most of the clothes, but kept having to remind myself I am not a teenager anymore!!!

The make-up was inspired by the Ashish SS 2013 show that I coincidentally worked on.  We did bright blue eye pencil and mascara, with pink lips and cheeks.  Very fun and girly!

http://www.lashesoflondon.com/

Pull and Bear shoot

Thursday 8th November

Back assisting the lovely Zoe Taylor for a fragrance campaign for Pull and Bear, shot at Studio Spaces Wapping.    This is a new studio, they are great- very spacious and set out well, and the food is always delicious!  There were two female and one male model, and Zoe kept the make-up very natural and fresh.  They were going to be shot for a video and for stills.  The stills looked amazing on the screen!  It was a very easy day, there wasn't millions of outfit changes like there are if it is a fashion shoot.  So it wrapped around 6pm and I was free to go to my Florence concert!

Ebony Black shoot

Wednesday7th November 

Back assisting the amazingly talented Alex Babsky, this time for singer Ebony Black for her album pictures.  The shoot took place in the photographer's (Tim Bret Day) studio in West London.  Alex did this amazing black graphic eye on ebony, and her hair was styled in to this massive blonde afro. There was also some muscly male models on hand to pose with her semi naked in some of the shots, so I had the tough job of rubbing moisturiser on to their body's. Alex was due to leave at 5pm to go and catch a flight, so I stayed on to do any touch ups, and we changed the lip colour a few times.  We finally wrapped just after 11pm.  It was a late one but totally worth it, the shots looked stunning as Tim is an amazing photographer!

Short film starring Upen Patel and Helen Flanagan

Wednesday 31st October

I was asked to do the make-up for the first day of filming a short film for the festival circuit, directed by and starring Bollywood actor Upen Patel.  British actress Helen Flanagan had the lead female role.  Upen is totally lovely and really laid back, a dream to work with.  The Crown Plaza hotel by Gloucester Road was where the filming took place, which was quite tricky at times as there was a lot of noise to contend with from the hotel guest when we were trying to film.  There was even a Halloween party happening in the next room at one point, with loud music blaring out, so we certainly had some challenges!  We finally wrapped around 2am, there were still scenes to shoot outside, but by this point it was absolutely pissing it down with rain.   I was definitely ready for my bed by then anyway!

Wella Trend Vision Final in Madrid

Friday 26th- Monday 29th October

I travelled to Madrid to make-up Daniel Couch's (HOB Salon) model for the world final of the Wella Trend Vision competition.  Our flight was delayed a few hours leaving London, so when we arrived at the hotel in Madrid we literally had to dump our bags and get back on the coach to the welcome shindig, held at a night club somewhere in Madrid.  The next morning we had to be up at 6 to go for breakfast and get back on the coach to head to the arena where the models were going to be spending the day rehearsing.  I spent the day sitting around and doing my best not to fall asleep!  That evening Daniel had to colour his models hair and it was another late night before getting up about 5am on Sunday to go to the arena for the competition!  Again we had three hours competition time to do the models hair, make-up and get her dressed before they were going to be judged.  There was about 90 competitors from all over the world so it was a tough one to call!  There were a lot of strong entries, but also a lot where you just thought 'what on earth is that'!  We then got to watch a bit of the show before the coach took us back to the hotel for an hour to get ready for the evening event.  This is when they would announce the winners.  Unfortunately Daniel didn't win, but his model was definitely one of the strongest there, it was just a matter of what the judges were looking for.  We could then finally relax and let our hair down at the after party.  We didn't get back to the hotel until about 5am, and had to be up at 9am to head to the airport to catch our flight.   I don't know how we did it!  Everyone looked like they were struggling, it was so awful, but also very funny looking back!  What a weekend!