Todays shoot for ‘No Agg’…

Today I worked on a shoot for TOWIE’s Tom Pearce’s new collection, ‘No Agg’. With the website yet to launch, you lot are in for a treat!

With a huge collection of Spring/Summer gear, including the odd piece for our unpredictable weather here, you’re bound to find something you’ll love and need and want.

We had a LOT to get through, so starting at 9am, we banged through about 70 looks with our trooper of a model, Elle from Select Model Management. Only 16 years old, and having only been modelling for 3 months, this little beauty cracked on with the job and was a total luv to work with.

On top of that, we had the lovely Charlotte Ellis on board as our stylist for the day. TOWIE’s Tom Pearce was also there with his business partner Zane, making sure everything went to plan, and of course not forgetting the all important Photographer, Taff Manton. All in all, a great team and a great day. Now sleep. Zzzzz.

I’m LOVING this oversized distressed jumper… perfect for the Spring chill!

 

Emma Louise Lookbook

Today I worked on a regular client of mine, Emma Louise London for her latest Lookbook shoot.

As always, the day was great fun. The team consisted of myself for hair and make-up, Ruth Rose for photography, and Emma and her team for direction and overseeing the images. Our gorgeous model, Silvia was from First Model Management and certainly made our work very easy!

From my perspective, our model, Silvia, was perfect. She had beautifully clear skin, amazing contours and gorgeously full lashes, brows and lips. A dream model face!

My Brief: A messy top knot (to be made to look as though the model had pulled it up herself) and deep berry lips with ‘naked’ contoured eyes.

On top of that, Silvia really helped compliment the quirky collection from Emma Louise. This seasons theme was ‘Ballerina’. With the Ballerina print cleverly looking like the very popular Cross images that seems to be everywhere at the moment. So that alone makes the collection much more interesting.

The materials hung beautifully off of our model, with materials that would drape and flatter any figure.

Moving confidently in front of the camera, we managed to whip through a number of pieces and looks, finishing well ahead of schedule!

[Scroll down for images and Behind The Scenes video…]

Shoot with a Sugababe!

Yesterday I had the pleasure of working the the beautifully sweet Heidi Range from the girlband Sugababes.

The first thing that struck me was how tiny she was and her lovely sunny smile! She has a gorgeous figure too… I’m definitely NOT jealous! :P

To work with she was a dream as she had no preferences as to what I did with her make-up and trusted me to work my magic.

I didn’t do anything too ‘fashion’ and decided to just give her a beautiful make-up so that it didn’t take away from the rest of the set up and styling.

On set she was confident and openly admitted to preferring shots of her smiling. Which we all agreed worked best as she looked at her most relaxed when she flashed us her teeth!

All in all a great days work and can’t wait to see the edits.

 

 

 

Candy Kittens shoot…

Last Friday was the very exciting shoot for the Candy Kittens Cookbook with Jamie Laing, coming out in May 2013.

The book will be packed with exciting sweet treat recipes for any occasion. It shows you how to capture the essence of being a Candy Kitten… in true Candy Kitten style.

After an early 5am rise, my job was to make-up 4 models and Jamie in a beautiful location house in Surbiton, Greater London for images that are to be used in the book, with the help of my lovely assistant, Jade Amy Willis.

Once again, the shoot was filled with popcorn, cakes, chocolates, sweet drinks and candy… all made on set by an amazing Food Stylist! So you can imagine my struggling restraint to eat everything in sight!

With Jamie now in the middle of filming for the next series of Made In Chelsea, we were extremely stuck for time when he arrived during a lunch break of filming. On form and bouncing with energy as ever, Jamie arrived, was pulled straight into hair, makeup and styling, before getting on set to do his thing in front of the camera. Before you know it, he was ‘couriered’ back to the film set for MIC and we were left to crack on with the lovely models to finish up.

A hugely long busy day, with lots of different set ups around the location… I can’t wait to purchase the book! #ProudMoments

TEAM CREDITS: 

PHOTOGRAPHY: Ruth Rose

STYLING: Sarah Katchis

MAKE UP: Sabina Ventriglia

HAIR: Zoey Olechnowicz

MAKE UP ASSISTANT: Jade Amy Willis

 

 

Snow Appropriate…

Since the snow has made a pretty bold appearance today, it seems fitting to share this image with you that I worked on for London Boutiques in December (where were actually hoping for snow).

My brief was simple eyes and bold berry lips. Perfect for what was then, the festive season… Happy Snowday!

 

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