On the 18th December I was lucky enough to be involved in a shoot at the We Love to Boogie pop up store in Glasgow. The shop, which is located at 16 South Frederick Street, and the streets surrounding it acted as the location for a photoshoot for some of the vintage brand's clothes and accessories, which you can find at their website www.welovetoboogievintage.com!
There were five lovely models, and I was working with fellow academy student Siobhan Keenan, who was already involved in the shoot through the shoot organiser Stephanie Ritchie, and who had invited me to help out with the makeup on the day! As I said, there were five models, and I worked on two of them, Nicole and Hazel. The photographer was the talented Duncan Holmes, and I'll post a link to the images below. For some highly irritating reason Blogger STILL won't let me attach images to my posts!!!
Anyway, the final images look fantastic and will be featured on the WLTB website, and on their ASOS page, as far as I know! Exciting stuff :) hope everyone had a lovely Christmas, and have a smashing New Year! x
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Thursday 29 December 2011
Friday 16 December 2011
Noir! Christmas Fair, Edinburgh
Last Saturday myself and three of the other academy ladies assisted Ana Cruzalegui at the Noir! Christmas Fair in the Old Veterinary School in Edinburgh. The event gave the opportunity for many talented and creative people in the Edinburgh area to show off their clothes, jewellery, and in Ana's case, gorgeous false eyelashes, to the crowds who flocked to enjoy the Christmassy mood, have a bite to eat and watch the fashion show. I was working both on Ana's stall, and as a makeup artist for the models, creating the flawless skin and beautiful bold eye-makeup look decided upon by Ana for the three female and two male models. We were lucky enough to each have one model to work on, and the end result looked amazing! Sadly I didn't see the show itself (I was busy promoting We Are Faux on Ana's stall!) but the photographs looked great - hopefully I'll manage to get one to post on here at some point soon. It was another great opportunity to practice my skills, so thank you to Ana once again for having us :)x
Sunday 11 December 2011
Clothes Show Live with BM Beauty
So last week was Birmingham Clothes Show Live, an event I have never been to before, never mind worked at, and I spent three days on the BM Beauty stall promoting the new mineral brand! I travelled down on the Saturday night and then worked all day Sunday, Monday and Tuesday with the lovely Laura McComiskie, the brains behind the brand alongside former Pussycat Doll and leading lady of Her Majesty and the Wolves, Kimberly Wyatt. Academy of Makeup director Sara Hill and four other girls from the academy were there over the course of the four days, and it was a brilliant experience!
Kimberly came down to the stall every day at some point to sign autographs and have photographs with fans, in between her gruelling six performances a day! It was a great chance for me to work with mineral makeup again as I haven’t done so since our Mineral Masterclass at the academy. We did demos all day, testing out the products on people, colour matching foundation and explaining how to apply the products most effectively. It was another great opportunity to practice my skills as a makeup artist. The makeup is all natural and chemical free, and the products are really lovely. I was particularly impressed with the eyeshadows, the colours are absolutely beautiful and they apply really easily, so do check them out – I’ll link the BM Beauty website below. The brushes are really nice too, the 121 foundation brush and the 123 eyeshadow brush in particular are really lovely to work with, crazily soft and synthetic but built to replicate animal hair.
Another hugely exciting moment came when I got to do a live demo on the Style Studio stage on Tuesday afternoon!! Sara had done the demo on the Saturday and Sunday, but had finished up on the Sunday afternoon, and BM needed someone to go up on stage for them the rest of the week. So when Laura asked Jenn to do it on the Monday and me to do it on the Tuesday it was too good an opportunity to pass up (despite the fact I was pretty terrified!). I was seriously nervous backstage, having never done anything like this before, but aside from one or two slight stutters it all went smoothly! What an unexpected bonus to the trip! I have video evidence of this, (thank you so much to Fai for filming it for me!), but I have yet to upload it from my phone... it may appear here at some point soon! I have photos too, but for some reason Blogspot won't let me upload them onto this post at the moment, so I'll try and put them up another day.
All in all, an amazing three days! The Clothes Show itself was incredible, I didn't really have time to properly look around, but I did pick up the offer from Models Own on my quick dash around before heading to the train station - buy 3 nail polishes for £10 and they gave you twelve free gifts!!! I ended up going home with 4 right enough, couldn't resist, but they are gorgeous colours and the free gifts (which for £10 I expected to be pretty basic) are amazing! I was genuinely impressed, so may do a wee blog post on them at some point.
Thank you so much to Laura and Kimberly for having us, I had a great time working with you guys! And Sara, Fai, Jenn and Diana too of course! :) xxx
www.bmbeauty.com
Kimberly came down to the stall every day at some point to sign autographs and have photographs with fans, in between her gruelling six performances a day! It was a great chance for me to work with mineral makeup again as I haven’t done so since our Mineral Masterclass at the academy. We did demos all day, testing out the products on people, colour matching foundation and explaining how to apply the products most effectively. It was another great opportunity to practice my skills as a makeup artist. The makeup is all natural and chemical free, and the products are really lovely. I was particularly impressed with the eyeshadows, the colours are absolutely beautiful and they apply really easily, so do check them out – I’ll link the BM Beauty website below. The brushes are really nice too, the 121 foundation brush and the 123 eyeshadow brush in particular are really lovely to work with, crazily soft and synthetic but built to replicate animal hair.
Another hugely exciting moment came when I got to do a live demo on the Style Studio stage on Tuesday afternoon!! Sara had done the demo on the Saturday and Sunday, but had finished up on the Sunday afternoon, and BM needed someone to go up on stage for them the rest of the week. So when Laura asked Jenn to do it on the Monday and me to do it on the Tuesday it was too good an opportunity to pass up (despite the fact I was pretty terrified!). I was seriously nervous backstage, having never done anything like this before, but aside from one or two slight stutters it all went smoothly! What an unexpected bonus to the trip! I have video evidence of this, (thank you so much to Fai for filming it for me!), but I have yet to upload it from my phone... it may appear here at some point soon! I have photos too, but for some reason Blogspot won't let me upload them onto this post at the moment, so I'll try and put them up another day.
All in all, an amazing three days! The Clothes Show itself was incredible, I didn't really have time to properly look around, but I did pick up the offer from Models Own on my quick dash around before heading to the train station - buy 3 nail polishes for £10 and they gave you twelve free gifts!!! I ended up going home with 4 right enough, couldn't resist, but they are gorgeous colours and the free gifts (which for £10 I expected to be pretty basic) are amazing! I was genuinely impressed, so may do a wee blog post on them at some point.
Thank you so much to Laura and Kimberly for having us, I had a great time working with you guys! And Sara, Fai, Jenn and Diana too of course! :) xxx
www.bmbeauty.com
Friday 2 December 2011
Join me on a movie set..
Monday to Wednesday of this week consisted of a three day stint assisting Ana Cruzalegui with a couple of the other Academy of Makeup girls on the Kung Fu Movie Trailer! After a 5am rise for a 7.20 call time the first day, we got started on the actors, having come up with some character looks and ideas beforehand. Getting to design my own stencils was a first, but an exciting opportunity all the same, and seeing them being used on the actors was a bit of a thrill :)
I won't lie to you; the work of a makeup artist isn't necessarily as glamorous as some people may think! I'm pretty sure I was only a whisker away from losing my wee toes to frostbite day one, had to battle against the rain on the third day, and I felt truly terrible for the actors whos faces I had to touch doing their makeup just after going back indoors, as it would probably have been warmer to rub an ice cube on them! But that's all part of the job, (especially when you live and work here in Scotland!). There's something new and different every day, which is definitely one of the appeals of the job. We spent far more time indoors than outdoors over the course of the three days, so that's only a minor complaint!
It was really interesting to experience the way filming something like this works. Travelling from location to location, touching up the makeup and checking it constantly between takes, and working closely not only with the actors themselves but with the director, costume designer and the many other members of the crew who are so heavily involved in the process was great. It's long hours, but very social, and you're constantly interacting with new people, which is great for building up confidence and contacts! Huge thanks to Ana for having us, another fantastic experience to add to the CV, and the best of luck to the film crew for what is sure to be a successful film project :)
Keep an eye out for my next post which will be uploaded after Birmingham Clothes Show Live - I'm working there with BM Beauty Sunday to Tuesday and cannot wait! :) x
I won't lie to you; the work of a makeup artist isn't necessarily as glamorous as some people may think! I'm pretty sure I was only a whisker away from losing my wee toes to frostbite day one, had to battle against the rain on the third day, and I felt truly terrible for the actors whos faces I had to touch doing their makeup just after going back indoors, as it would probably have been warmer to rub an ice cube on them! But that's all part of the job, (especially when you live and work here in Scotland!). There's something new and different every day, which is definitely one of the appeals of the job. We spent far more time indoors than outdoors over the course of the three days, so that's only a minor complaint!
It was really interesting to experience the way filming something like this works. Travelling from location to location, touching up the makeup and checking it constantly between takes, and working closely not only with the actors themselves but with the director, costume designer and the many other members of the crew who are so heavily involved in the process was great. It's long hours, but very social, and you're constantly interacting with new people, which is great for building up confidence and contacts! Huge thanks to Ana for having us, another fantastic experience to add to the CV, and the best of luck to the film crew for what is sure to be a successful film project :)
Keep an eye out for my next post which will be uploaded after Birmingham Clothes Show Live - I'm working there with BM Beauty Sunday to Tuesday and cannot wait! :) x
First Photos!
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| Model Bridie from Superior Model Management, Makeup by Lynsey Macdonald, Hair by Karen McDougall assisted by Diana Mackenzie and Photographer - Gerardo Jaconelli. |
Thursday 1 December 2011
First Photos
I now have both of my photos from my end of course Portfolio Shoot, so thought I'd pop them up right away. The hair was done by Karen McDougall assisted by Diana Mackenzie, the photographer was Gerardo Jaconelli, and the model is the gorgeous Bridie from Superior Models! See next post for images :)
Wednesday 23 November 2011
Newly Qualified!
So, after several months of searching for the perfect course, I qualified as a professional makeup artist in October this year. Taking Sara Hill's Pro-Makeup Course at the amazing Academy of Makeup in Glasgow was a big step, but has been one of the best decisions I've ever made! The two week course was intense to say the least, but so rewarding, and I learnt so much so quickly. The opportunities I've had since qualifying have been incredible! So far I've done makeup for a music video for Gav Livz (I'll be sure to post a link to the video when it hits YouTube!), worked backstage as a makeup artist at the Scottish Style Awards, assisted at a Slaters Menswear shoot, and worked at the Girls Day Out event at the SECC, a charity evening for CHICKS charity in Glasgow and the 'It's Good to Give' - Cancer Charity Fashion Show in Edinburgh. And that's all in just over a month! It has been a hectic, but amazing start to what will hopefully be a successful career as a makeup artist, so I figured while I have yet to get my website up and running, starting a blog to document what I'm getting up to wouldn't be the worst idea!
The next couple of weeks are going to be just as exciting as the previous few - Monday to Wednesday next week I'll be working on a film (the finer details of which I am yet to discover!) alongside the amazing Ana Cruzalegui and some of the other lovely ladies from the academy, followed by a trip to Birmingham at the start of December to the Clothes Show Live where we'll be working with Kimberly Wyatt and Laura McComiskie and their fanstatic new makeup line 'BM Beauty'. Lots to look forward to over the next wee while! I'll probably do a couple of posts over the coming weeks going into a bit more detail about some of the events I've worked at so far, and as soon as my first portfolio shoot photos arrive I'll put them up :)
The next couple of weeks are going to be just as exciting as the previous few - Monday to Wednesday next week I'll be working on a film (the finer details of which I am yet to discover!) alongside the amazing Ana Cruzalegui and some of the other lovely ladies from the academy, followed by a trip to Birmingham at the start of December to the Clothes Show Live where we'll be working with Kimberly Wyatt and Laura McComiskie and their fanstatic new makeup line 'BM Beauty'. Lots to look forward to over the next wee while! I'll probably do a couple of posts over the coming weeks going into a bit more detail about some of the events I've worked at so far, and as soon as my first portfolio shoot photos arrive I'll put them up :)
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