Skip to main content

The Hazards of Being a make up artist on location

I picked up the telephone one day only to have an overexcited photographer scream at me.... 'Pack your bags, we're going to the Maldives'

So I did what she said!

The team was an all female team - photographer, model and me (make up artist, hair stylist and stylist) - plus the photographer's mum (she came along for the ride! - Hazard 1!)

Hazard 2 was when it came to packing - apparently I had no space in my suitcase to pack clothes for me as it would be full of clothes for the shoot we were doing! still, we packed suitcases full of fashion clothes loaned to us by various fashion houses, fashion students etc and wore all of our own clothes on the plane - A bonus is that you loose around 2 stone once you have taken all your clothes off once you have arrived!

We landed in Male, caught a speed boat (at this point we didn't even know which island we was going to) and got off at a very small idyllic Island in the Maldives baby!

Once unpacked we walked the whole distance of the island (about a 20 minute walk) and then enrolled ourselves onto the padi diving course - all for work research, well someone has to!

Hazard 3 - Being woken up at 3 am as the photographer wants to catch the sunrising for a few shots -

Hazard 4 - was when someone came up with an Egyptian theme and thought a 'sphinx' would look great in the photo! - 10 points for guessing who would be constructing it.
Hazard 5 - Sand gets everywhere! and I mean EVERYWHERE.

Hazard 6 - Being careful of getting 'the bends' whilst diving up and down in the depths of the sea trying to be the communicator between photographer and model!

Hazard 7 - Me getting in the way of the shoot (if you look carefully you can just about see my legs with fins on them where I am swimming on the surface of the sea)

Also the Hazard of mis-communication of the photographer complaining that the model keeps 'flashing her' and wants a side on view!

Hazard 8 - Fish getting in the way!, come on fish, we are trying to work here!

Hazard 9 - The body looks 'tiny' underwater!

Hazard 10 - turning into a waitress throughout the day to serve the model drinks.... she has legs!


Hazard 11 - Getting Wet! (and the model finding it funny)

Hazard 12 - Staying awake until sunset because yet again, 'the photographer wants to catch the light at a certain level'



And some people call this FUN?.......

more to follow soon.

Photographer - Elisita Kemp
Model - Katinka Elisa Hutchinson
Hair and make up - Amy Prifti


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How to plan a wedding ?

I often get asked by people how a wedding day transforms and the answer is that each wedding day is very different to each other with some brides being more organised than others, and also a lot of it depends on how the bride is feeling - you will never know how you will feel on your wedding day until the day itself comes! Here is a little insight into behind the scenes on the morning of a wedding day. With thanks to Laura Higgins (nee Lancaster) who has kindly let me share her morning with the world! Enjoy reading and remember, this is just how Laura's wedding transpired, each wedding is individual and every one's wedding day is different to eachother.........  Having met Laura for her trial, it was decided that I would turn up at the Norfolk Arms, Arundel where she was getting ready at 07.30 am. Bride and bridesmaids were ready and waiting at the window for me! First things first - turns out the veil had no clip attached so I quickly put the bridesmaids to...
Post a Comment
Read more

Annabelle's Wigs competition for the Teenage Cancer Trust headed by Amy Childs from TOWIE

I am very proud to have been asked to help organise the below competition to help raise awareness and money for the teenage cancer trust.  I think that this is an excellent opportunity for all young people aged between 13 and 24 to design a wig and offers a fantastic prize plus two runner up prizes.  We have been fortunate enough to have Amy Childs to head this competition for Annabelle's Wigs and would really like to get you all involved; The competition We are asking you to design a wig that will appeal to people between 13-24.   This will then have to be uploaded onto the Annabelle’s Wigs   facebook page; http://www.facebook.com/AnnabellesWigsTeenageCancerTrustCompetition You can base your design on a photo, celebrity’s hair, you can sketch your design or describe it to us.   The winning wig will be chosen by Amy Childs and the Annabelle’s Wigs team who will be looking out for it’s durability, how ‘on trend’ it is and also how relevant it is t...
Post a Comment
Read more

New Year Make Over

Hi guys. I have a new boudoir shoot to share with you all.... A competition was offered in ETC magazine offering one lucky ready a boudoir shoot.  Readers applied in their thousands.  The winner - Hayley Fruer was over the moon to win...... although completely apprehensive (this is something that had entered the back of her mind from time to time but she didn't ever think that she would go through with it!) Hayley won a night's stay at the hotel Pelirocco , a make over by myself , a boudoir shoot with Emma Meston at Taboudoir , an Annabelle's hair piece , a head dress by Big Bead Boutique  and lingerie from She Said Boutique . To add to all of this excitement it was also Hayley's Birthday :-) So, with champagne at the ready and a spec of 'the great Gatsby' off we set to work; Before shot of Hayley Doing Hayley's make up with her piece from Annabelle's Wigs already attached     Hayley in her peacock finery!   The final ...
Post a Comment
Read more