I'm far too deadliney to do much this fashion week, but thought I would try to sneak into a few shows and give you a flavour of the pandemonium. Or at the very least, a close up of some sweet makeup.
So, for Camilla and Marc's (very impressive) show, the make up director was the amazing Noni Smith, and to Fruity's delight, the makeup being used was Revlon, which as I ranted on my video review for the Limited Edition collection a few weeks back, kind of proves they are definitely going all fashiony and backstagey with this range. The key look for this show was metallic muted eyes, that took shadow all the way around the eyelid, under the eye and to the brow bone. Sounds like it'd be too much, but as it was a fairly sheer wash, it actually looked rather Good.
The key products usedwere the Diamond Dust, Molten Metals in Platinum, loads of false lashes and Bare It All Lustrous Lotion all over to illuminate. The cheeks and lips were played down, a lot. Please note the masses of brushes. You will NEVER get amazing looking makeup without them, Fruits. NEVER.
Here is a Very Pretty Girl waiting for her customised (Renya Xydis @ Concept/Valonz) wig to sit properly. Please note the clever tissue/clip thing: The clips are calming the hair into place but by using tissue on top, they don't leave dents in the (usually heavily hair sprayed) hair. This is possibly one of my favourite backstage hair tricks.
And here are some shots of the finished product. See how the silvery colour brings out the colour of their eyes, no matter what colour they are? The green is greener, the brown looks super brown, and if I'd taken this shot of Amelia after her fringe had been trimmed, you would see how blue her eyes were. (Impatient Fruity.)
Oh, and here are some of the clothes, which I loved cause the hemlines were teeny and there were lots of hoods. I love hoods. Hoods, hoods, hoods. The main colour was ivory/cream which looks stunning, but is hard if, like me, you can't be in a 67 metre radius of tomato/oil/chocolate sauce/berry coulis without is leaping onto your top.
Here is my dear friend Pede, the stylist for the show, who did an outstanding job. And had to stand on a stool to fix up a model's hood. How adorable.
And finally, here is the beautiful Camilla, who, like her brother Marc, and Pede, were all very cool and calm and smiley before it started. In fact, in a turn not even House MD could've predicted, everyone was smiley and happy. Maybe it was because it was being held in such a beautiful location (Sydney Theatre Company), a glorious day, or just that it was the first show of around 8976 billion and so no one was tired and narky yet. Whatever it was, it was almost enough for me to forget how terrifying Fashion People are.