Magazines..

.. aka the reason I got into styling.

Anyone who knows me, would know that I am a bit of a magazine freak.. When I buy a magazine I won't let anybody read it before I have, If necessary I would buy a magazine instead of lunch, I read them over and over again and never throw them away so you can imagine my excitement at creating my very own for an assignment at college.

Today we created the front cover for our magazine which was scary but extremely exciting. Last night I spent a few hours willing myself to go to sleep but unable to; so many questions and concerns running through my mind; 'What poses should I have my model do?' 'What if the shoes don't fit my model!' 'Did I buy enough tulle to wrap around the tree?' 'What if it rains and we can't use the location we were supposed to use!'

As it happens it did rain and we couldn't use the location! Instead we had to use an indoor studio which completely changed my vision and did send me into a mini, internal frenzy. After consuming the best part of a bottle of rescue remedy I was feeling calm, ready and raring to go and excited once again!

Step one - Make up:

I was going for a doll like look, so lots of pink, very girly and feminine. It took me a bit over an hour to do and I must say I was quite impressed with myself. It looked exactly how I had hoped it would look and I was over the moon!

Step two - Hair:

Drastically running out of time and not wanting to run over and put the other girls shoots behind I began straightening, backcombing and hairspraying to death. I'll be very honest it wasn't quite what I wanted but I did the best I felt I could with the time that I had and it definitely worked.

Step three - The shoot:

I really wanted to get the whole body in but due to the change of location and lack of space available to shoot in, it was advised that we didn't.. I did it anyway! I had a vision and no one was going to stop me!!

Anyway here are some of the images that I took on my phone so you get the idea but I'll post the professional ones as soon as I get them back.

I have really surprised myself throughout this course so far, some of the things that I have done, I never believed I was capable of, especially this soon in (2 months) and I am actually starting to believe myself when I say that I can do anything I set my mind to because I really can and if I can, then so can you. so DO IT like Nike!