Month: February 2016
WHAT MATTERS MOST
Last year I did the make-up of one of Jimmy Savile’s victims for ‘Best Magazine Women of Courage Awards’. On top of a medical condition which meant she has been in a wheelchair her entire life, she’d had to endure four decades of being called a fantasist until, finally, the story of that man’s horrendous…
NEGATIVE IMAGE
I was booked on a shoot last Saturday. The shoot had been arranged ten days beforehand. Warning bells rang when, last Friday afternoon, I got an email from the client, a designer, saying the photographer wanted a long, straight, white wig. The photographer was insistent apparently. I told the client I didn’t have one, that…
REALITY CHECK
Who’s been watching this year’s ‘Britain’s Next Top Model’? When judge Nicky Johnston tore a strip off the girls in the bottom three during elimination on last week’s episode I was in stitches. I’m sure several-thousand viewers must have thought Nicky was like the Wicked Witch of the West, and judging by the looks on…
BECAUSE I’M WORTH IT
There I was tossing and turning in bed, half-awake. It was still dark outside. I did try going back to sleep but I couldn’t: blame the birds, there’s a tree within touching distance of my flat which seems to house the noisiest of Stockwell’s avian population, and I have to remind myself when they wake…