April 2012
17 posts
Sweet F.A
It has taken me a few years now to have the confidence to say on a shoot, when and where appropriate, that I didn’t feel that there was any need at all for makeup. Nada, niente, nothing at all and it certainly doesn’t happen very often. Here is one of my very favourite images that I worked on for 10 magazine. The photographer is Paul Wetherell The stylist is Lucy Ewing and the model...
A Case Of The Blues
I am loving all things blue right now. Here is an image from a Harpers Bazaar beauty story I did the makeup for using blue makeup detail. Photographed by David Dunan, styled by Sebastian Kauffman and hair by Angelo Seminara the model is Tasha Franken. I decided to use a royal blue on the lashes which I made myself using MAC Pro Eyeliner Mixing Medium and MAC Pro blue Chromacake, If that all...
Paris or NY?
Faces and other obsessions
I went to see the Yayoi Kasuma exhibition yesterday morning which was intense, immense and I loved it. Make sure you try to go. Am still seeing spots….. I bought a beautiful edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland illustrated by Yayoi Kusama in the Tate gift shop. Excited to read it and go down the rabbit hole with her. I found the film and the paintings...
time to get wet
I received a lovely package today in the mail from Dior and it contained Croisette their new Spring Summer 2012 Makeup Collection. I opened it as fast as I imagine Augustus Gloop unwrapping a giant chocolate Easter Egg. Inside are colours that remind me of screen icon and legendary beauty Romy Schneider in my all time favourite film La Piscine. A sexy slick psychological thriller set around a...
