Amy Prifti

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 d...

On Monday 10th October, I attended the Business Mums Summit at the Thistle Hotel in Brighton. It was after I attended my first 'mumpreneur' meeting at the cock  just outside Lewes when I decided that attending the Summit was a 'must' for me to meet new people, get inspiration and find out ways of how to carry forward my new business - The Wellbeing Angels. I was so busy in the days leading up to the summit that it wasn't until the night before that I looked online at the programme for the day when I took note that the day was going to be 'full on'! wow, it really didn't disappoint! After organising how my boys were going to get to school I managed to convince my husband to drop me off at the train station before he began his day of work, I caught the train with 5 second to spare, stepped off at Brighton and walked in completely the wrong direction for the hotel doh! However, I managed to arrive bang on the dot at 9 only to be asked which workshop...

On Sunday 2nd of October I exhibited at Brighton Hilton Metropole. Not only was the sun shining, but the champagne was flowing and the people kept coming and coming and coming! In preparing for the wedding fayre I had a banner and new leaflets printed up, and used everything I could think of to encourage people to stop at my stand; Testimonials check, leaflets check, special offer on the day check, sweets to entice check, examples of work check, wedding cake supplied by Steph's free from check, Model on the day to show hair and make up check, me check! I was shown to my table when I arrived and boy was it in a great position! people could see me as soon as they walked in, people could see me as they walked out.  I was also situated between two wonderful tables, one with alternative wedding dresses that were gorgeous and on the other side an amazing 7 piece band with female singer who was extremely nice. Not only did I meet lot's of lovely brides to be but all the othe...

Working as a freelance Make up artist and Hair stylist, I have never been with an agency and relied on just myself for getting work, so the question asked is - how DID I get in the paper? Here's a few examples of HOW? 1. Back in 1997 I worked in a photographic studio styling hair and doing make up - the studio was a great opportunity to work with other make up artists and to meet photographers.  I made great friends with a photographer called Elle who introduced me to her model friend, Lisa - together we set about working and living art! - We travelled to the Maldives together to do some test shoots for magazines, we even all slept together at Elle's studio in Hoxton Square, building a camp under her black back drops and drinking hot water with lemon! Whilst At this studio, we did the following shoot for Bliss for Brides It was so much fun with me and Lisa hiding behind black back drops and throwing pieces of fabric out to meet to use as the back ground ! 2. Fa...

It was great to have pictures emailed to me with the finished looks from the 'Annabelle's wigs' fashion shoot with Lino Carbosiero. On the day we were looking to achieve two different looks with each new hair piece, a natural one (below photographed by the amazing Chris Giles) And a more high fashion look, photographed by the fantastic Martin Higgs. The shoot was photographed at Daniel Galvin's hair salon, styled by Joey Bevan, modeled by Holly Higgins and Katie Green, Hair styled by Lino Carbosiero and make up by me, Amy Prifti and all of this was done for Annabelle's Wigs new pieces in collaboration with Lino Carbosiero. I hope that you agree with me that the finished look is outstanding and the new hair pieces from Annabelle's wigs extremely versatile.

Recently I was offered a fantastic job I couldn't turn down (even though it involved a 5.30am start ugh) I was picked up by Photographer Chris Giles and Claire of Annabelle's wigs and taken up to London for the photo shoot to take place.  When I say London, I mean at Daniel Galvin's Hair salon in London (only the biggest Hair salon in the whole of Europe) - There, I met up with Lino Carbosiero, his assistant Josh, Fashion photographer Martin Higgs, Stylist Joey Bevan and his assistant Angela Gates.  I was also introduced to the lovely Model Katie Green (who had travelled all the way down from Northampton) and also Holly Higgins (travelled the furthest from Cardiff) Together with this very lovely team of people we achieved both natural and fashion looks to show off the new pieces from Annabelle's wigs.   Here are behind the scene pics ; This was a thoroughly enjoyable day, and even though myself, Claire and Chris were almost falling asleep on the ...

Every now and then I come across a miraculous product that I would love to yell from the roof tops that everyone should have this product in their make up bags. Instead of yelling, I have decided to blog about a few of them - The 'Eraser Pencil' is a pencil made from wax that will instantly get rid of your make up mistakes for you just as an eraser will rub out unwanted pencil marks! If you have blinked or looked up whilst your mascara is still wet and ended up with mascara over your eyelids or under your eyes, just use this handy little pencil to draw over your mistakes and then rub off with either your finger or a tissue.  - You can use this pencil on any make up mistakes you have - wonky eyeliner, lip liner that wasn't quite the right shape, too much blusher etc - you get my drift! Another great product is - Concealer pencil. There are many ways that you can apply these little beauties, but the best place is to use them as you would a 'white' pencil (oh s...