I was very excited to be doing the hair and make-up for a photo shoot in one of my favourite stores
Bottega, which is a lifestyle boutique selling clothing, jewellery, accessories, bags, home ware, candles, shoes, baby gifts, toiletries and fragrance. The store is simply stunning, so made it the perfect location for a fashion photo shoot and has received numerous press endorsements including one of Vogue's top 100 stores outside London. Not only an amazing location, but we were lucky enough to have
Bottega's Owner / Director Sam Brightmore to do the styling and her beautiful daughter Alice was the model.
It was fabulous to work with a very old friend
Neanie Bell who is a very talented photographer. I have known Neanie since the age of three so it was amazing to work together on this collaboration. Neanie is an available light
photographer and specialises in photo journalism, natural portraiture and fashion portraiture
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| For the first look I wanted to keep it young and fun with the hair and make-up, so I blow dried Alice's hair with a soft wave. For the base I used Laura Mercier Silk Creme Foundation, secret camouflage (did not need much of this as Alice has beautiful skin)and translucent powder. Urban Decay naked 2 palette was used for the eyes as I wanted to use soft neutrals over the lid and an intense black liner around the eyes. The liner was around the eyes was created using Sue Uemura black gel liner smudged out with MAC carbon eye shadow. For this look I didn't want false lashes so it had to be CODE Beautiful's CODE VLM mascara ( I love this product and our model Alice loved it too). I went for a strong bright lipstick Nars Schiap and blusher was Kevyn Aucoin the pure powder glow in myracle applied very lightly to the apples of the cheeks. |
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| For the second looks Sam put together IDA striped jeans with a Wildfox long sleeve t-shirt and the most amazing shoes from Kat Maconie. For the hair I backcombed the top section for lots of body and took the hair to the side in a fishtail plait. |
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| I wanted the eyes more dramatic for this look so ran By Terry ombre blackstar in black matte from the top lash line to the crease with MAC carbon eye shadow over the top. I then blended Laura Mercier coffee ground eye shadow in the crease to add some warmth and also used it to define the eyebrows. For underneath the eye I used Kevyn Aucoin eye pencil in basic black and also used it to line the top and bottom waterlines for some intensity. Back to MAC carbon eyeshadow to smudge the bottom lash line. Another coat of CODE VLM mascara to the bottom lashes and some dramatic Illamasqua false lashes applied to the top lashes. I decided to add a pop on colour to the eyes in the centre of the eyelid, I wanted this to really show up so I used a web brush to apply MAC parfait amour eye shadow. Now to one of my favourite highlighters Kevyn Aucoin celestial powder in candlelight to the cheekbones. For the lips I used Laura Mercier lip pencil in naked and By Terry rouge terrybly lipstick in 100 terrybly nude and MAC pink swoon blusher on the cheeks. |
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| This stunning jacket is the Loren Cocoon Coat - Queen B by IDA |
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| The next look was 70s hippy with a hat by Christys hats and t-shirt by Evil Twin. I curled the hair with a curling wand from halfway down to the bottom. To keep with the 70s hippy theme I added some sequins to Alice's cheek. |
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| The Final look - a jumper by Gestuz and jewellery by Wish Jewellery. I removed the sequins and then contoured the cheekbones with Kevyn Aucoin sculpting powder in medium and added Laura Mercier lipgloss in bare pink to the lips. |
Model - Alice Brightmore
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