January 2010
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Show Assisting For Make-Up Artists by Carol Brown
Following on from the previous article on producing show make-up Carol has written an article about assisting on shows. The best advice I could give to anyone looking to assist would be to persevere with emailing make-up artists and agencies. Most agencies keep a record of good people (a very good ex-assistant of mine was on an agency “help register” and they now represent her). I appreciate, and...
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Producing A Make-Up Look For Fashion Shows by...
Fashion Show make up design I recently blogged a summary of the Spring Summer 2010 fashion show make up looks which you can see on the following link (see the article here). Shortly after completing the article I asked myself why go to all that trouble when it’s just as easy to look on Style.com and get backstage photographs. Especially when, in the case of something like the Galliano show, there...
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“Six Ways To Die In A Bath”
A good few years ago I used to shoot the fashion editorials for some friends of mine who were publishing a monthly listings magazine in Manchester and there was one shoot in particular that stood out, “Six Ways To Die In A Bath”. About six months after the shoot I made notes on the whole process as a behind-the-scenes article and diary but at the time I wasn’t blogging so I didn’t have the...
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Self-Employed With No Strategic Plan? - Are You...
Where do you see yourself in five years time? In ten years time? Shooting ad campaigns for Gucci? Fashion editor of Vogue? Head make up artist for Vivienne Westwood at fashion week? Or perhaps a more modest dream of steadily making a living doing what you love, shooting regularly, having a book and website you are proud of, a list of regular clients and bringing in a steady income? Ok, to make it...