Blackpool glamourama!

Some candid shots of (probably) the last day of summer 2011 ! I went to Blackpool on a TFP shoot with the photographer Dan Tyack http://www.dantyackphotography.co.uk/ and the lovely Latvian model, Laura Pahomova. After the previous week, Blackpool had been battered by gales from Hurricane Katia, and the weather had been generally awful and definitely Autumnal, we dropped lucky with a beautiful, glorious sunshiney day - not a cloud in the sky! ice creams for a £1 , and sparkly sea, fresh clean sand as the tide just went out in time for us to paddle our feet, and chips on the way home. NICE! Will post a link to completed photos by Dan soon.

Here's the article about the Dave Spikey pilot ( in last post)

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/tv_and_showbiz/s/1458710_phoenix-nights-star-dave-spikey-directs-mini-pilot-for-new-tv-series

UK Vet supports a ban on Cosmetic Testing !!

Pete Wedderburn - a UK veterinary surgeon, has written this fantastic and informative article in the Telegraph - please read if you want to understand the 2013 ban on cosmetic testing, and if its going to happen at all... Lets hope the big brands dont manage to push through a delay on this, for the animals sakes..

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peterwedderburn/100102180/animal-experiments-to-produce-new-cosmetics-no-thanks/

'High' glamour and herpes

mmmmm ! delightful .. this make up was created for a new short film ' Buzz Dish' directed by Dave Spikey of Phoenix Nights, and due to be entered into the Cofilmic comedy film festival in Manchester this Autumn ! The film is hilarious and I really want to work on more comedies now, because the film making process was also hilarious and such a laugh to work on ! In addition, I learned how to relax a ferret, and we were all treated to observing ( and sometimes being accosted by) the oddball characters that really live in Chorley.. oh how life can imitate art sometimes!.. We even had our lunches in a pub called the Dog Inn.. you couldnt make it up!

M'dame Deux Chats Academy du gorgeux .. #1

I have comminsioned the world reknowned beauty guru Madame Deux Chats to write us some regular ' top tips '.

Here is her first piece of advice - you'd be MAD to ignore it..

" Who needs Botox dahlinks! Ive been travelling the Lancashire moors whilst on my vacacione en Ingleterre.. and I have discovered that if you stand for 15 minutes facing into a North wind , on the top of a high peak, such as Rivington Pike, the face lifting effects are amazing! and so natural! No need for needles sweedies! All that fresh air and G-Force will blow your skin back so tight it will not be able to re-sag for AT least 3 months , and the Lancastrian precipitation of fell water in the clouds will be like the words most expensive facial!! "

Wise words Madame! see you next month :)

taster course - One student!

Hahaha! so ONE whole student came to my taster course in media make up! better than none I suppose! He was a magician and he was quite happy for me to run through some basics of stage make up illusions ( ie thin face / fat face ) , but really he wants a bespoke lesson for his own magician make up at some point, and some help in buying products - so we are going to arrange a bespoke ' shopping trip ' lesson to help him spend some money on the make up counter! Abracadabra Alacazam ... and as if by magic he will have Intense David Blaine Eyebrows :) Shazzzaaaaaaaaam !!!!

animal testing and Estee Lauder

If anyone wants to read this email conversation that I had with the head office at Smashbox, please do! and feel free to get involved and send any Estee Lauder brands emails about this subject, if you feel as strongly about cosmetic testing as I do - ie - It should have been COMPLETELY stopped years ago - there seems to be a lot of grey areas and ' legal' loopholes that still keep this cruel practice gong, and all in the name of vanity and profit - its disgusting! and as a make up artist I dont want to think that he products I use have caused any suffering to any animals. There is really no need. My issue with Smashbox is that they print the cruelty free bunny logo on their products, but as they are now owned by E.L , this is quite contradictory.. if you read the email, you'll see why. RANT OVER!

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