Charlotte Tilbury x Fenwick

My favourite type of modeling jobs are events - where you get all prettied up and just have to stand around mingling with amazing, interesting people! Last week I had a job for renowned make up artist Charlotte Tilbury, to help celebrate her make up counter launch at Fenwick department store on Bond Street. She had created ten different looks, and an eleventh 'supermodel' look for the event modelled by Amber Le Bon which we all showed off. 

My favourite was the Golden Goddess, and luckily that's who I was being for the evening!

The other models were all from my agency, Profile and so lovely, and Amber was incredibly nice so it was a fun day of getting pampered, chatting and being fed! 

Me & Amber Le Bon - beautiful girl! 

amazing make up :) 

We were all given Victoria's Secret style dressing gowns with the name of our look on the back.. 

Then suddenly, it was 6pm and the papparazzi were buzzing around outside.. 

And we were ushered downstairs for our mini catwalk through the crowd, briefly stopping outside the doors of Fenwick for a pose before coming back in. 

Quite surreal posing for loads of papparazzi, quite glad it isn't something I have to deal with daily! Although.. it was quite a cool novelty to see myself on the daily mail's sidebar of shame the next day :) 

Then it was back inside, to saunter around with trays of treats (that totally did not find their way into my pockets), offering them to celebs like Laura Bailey, Millie Mackintosh and Lindsay Lohan. 

We also found our way into the photobooth...

 

Before heading home through the Christmassy streets of London - everywhere looks so amazing now, especially at night! 

A great night, thank you Charlotte for having us! 

The Model Zone

The best part about Fashion Week is the freebies.

As mentioned, the lead-up castings are akin to a form of torturous model bootcamp, so any help along the way is massively appreciated.

(my favourite Vita Coco water & SNOG yoghurt after the hellish 30-designers-in-one Fashionscout casting)

Some lovely, lovely people came up with the idea of a model haven over fashion week - a three day pop up in The May Fair hotel's beautiful Amarillo suite, it is literally heaven.

Unlimited free food, drink, facials, massages, therapist sessions, goody bags...

It's pretty surreal after a week of (sort of) hell.

There was lots of utterly incredible food by Juice Baby - so incredible that they deserve their own post (I definitely ate enough of it to justify one!) It was really usefully packaged so we could take the healthy meals/snacks/juices to our shows which often forget to feed the models!

Juice Baby's chia pudding is the BEST I have ever had. I would literally pay however much these are priced at, they are that good.

The beauty treatments at The Model Zone were massively appreciated - I had an incredible massage by Shona with Weleda who got out all of my knots from running around with a heavy portfolio/heels/water! I also had my first ever facial which left me all glowy before using the high tech toilet in the May Fair and being squirted at with automatic water!

We also were given some amazing Weleda products to take home.

The Skin Food is a huge life saver when my skin dries out in winter, and the almond oil smells incredible. 

Thank you so much to everyone at The Model Zone for thinking of us, it is appreciated so much!

Update

I have been quite crap at updating this because of the avalanche of university which has come crashing into my life and the very difficult lack of internet I have had for basically the last month. (It was seriously hard). However all is good now as I am reconnected and have actually ventured out of my flat lately for things other than university!

Starting with work (not university work, don't speak to me about that) I have been shooting a lot for Fabulous Magazine this past week. I really like shooting for them because it is nice and easy and they always have great catering, as well as every single person being completely lovely.

I did a giant fashion-awards shoot on Monday

really really really really want this dress (everything from Miss Selfridge) but I would just buy it and hang it in my wardrobe and look at it occasionally and never wear it.

which was very fun, even though we did a lot of outfits, because I had wagamamas chicken katsu curry for lunch which is my favouritest meal ever and they had wifi at the studio, which I did not have at home (therefore I could get Revenge to watch when I got home - how weird is it getting lately?)

Then on Tuesday I did another Fabulous shoot which was in association with Debenhams (which made me very very very very very happy),  I think they are having some party with my face on it which is nice?




 and for lunch... I had chicken katsu from Wagamamas again (grilled because that made me feel a teensy bit better about my upcoming obesity). When I got home on the Monday my boyfriend had come over from Cyprus and brought me back a kebab and a Cyprus sandwich as well as a tonne of bakery food so this has not exactly been a 'healthy' week. But I started Cheerleading so its fine xox

Coincidentally my friend found this the other day

that is all for work at the moment, I have a Charles Worthington show tomorrow (which means I can't go to Cheerleading which means that all of the unhealthy food I ate this week/will eat is not cancelled out) and appaaaaarently quite an exciting one on Tuesday, but I don't want to jinx it.

Work

This week I have been lucky enough to be working nearly everyday!



starting off with a behind-the-scenes picture from our shoot for Ballad Of magazine (I'm the one on the right!). It was in Kent, so I had a trek down there in the morning and then met everybody. I'm never really sure what to expect with editorial shoots as sometimes everybody is lovely, sometimes theres food, sometimes the clothes are fantastic.. and sometimes they are all not. Luckily, this shoot was really lovely! Everybody was super talented, and really nice. They were all starting out so all wanted to get good pictures! It was the photographer's first editorial shoot and she took some really great pictures. Her mum fed us all really cute sandwiches and crisps! :')



On Sunday I had a loong day working for Tyla Blade S/S 14, her look book. This was on a completely different level in terms of experience and how hard I had to work! we did about 40 outfits all together, after ten hours on set! Luckily there were lots of Marks & Spencer cookies to keep us going, and the clothes were amazing.

 
Tyla Blade S/S14 preview

On Tuesday I was lucky enough to be selected to be a model for a photographer called Lara Jade's photography workshop! It was a really fun day, set in an old spice factory in Greenwich with completely amazing rooms and props! Everyone was really nice and there were two other models there to hang out with so we didn't get bored! We got there at 8.30 am and didn't work until 2pm! So not too hard of a day ;)



Eliza, me and Ida :)



Then a couple of days ago I had a hair and make up test, which was really quick and easy so it was great! These are the best because you are basically being made up to look pretty :') then taking a picture and redoing it!




Today I have a fitting for Erdem - though I'm not entirely sure what a fitting consists of so I suppose I will find out! :)