Pretty Disturbia is one of the designers that are showing during the Britain’s Next Top Model Tour. It’s fun, young and has attitude. Leesa Bertram of Pretty Disturbia is from Manchester and she came to see the show in London – I just loved her personal style!

How would you describe your personal style?

LB – My personal style is bright and eclectic, I love layering so I’m more of a fan of winter dressing! I love mixing vintage items with new designer pieces and I’m a sucker for tight fitted polo necks and 80s jackets! I love to stand out from the crowd and don’t follow fashion trends. Personally I wear what I like, even if it does mean getting rude comments from people in the street! (which happens quite often, unfortunately!)

So how was it to see your clothes on the runway?
LB – Amazing, there’s no feeling like seeing your collection on the catwalk, especially when you can watch and enjoy it rather than running around back stage! Lisa Snowdon is really lovely, the girls all looked fantastic, its a great show, not to be missed!

Are you watching BNTM?
LB – I will be watching BNTM, I don’t have the living channel but i know someone who will be recording all episodes for me. Even though all the girls are great, I’m personally rooting for Chloe Cummings as she’s a big fan of Pretty Disturbia and looks fabulous in it! She first wore it at Liverpool fashion week and now in all the Vauxhall Style shows, she’s fabulous! She’s such a down to earth, gorgeous girl with rock chick glamour!

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So another week has gone by in my little world of beauty & makeup and what an action packed time it’s been! I attended a makeup launch for Armani and discovered a few fab products that I’ve never used before; like the gorgeous fluid sheer in number 2. It’s an iridescent, transparent liquid makeup that gives skin a lift with a hint of pink pearl. It can be worn it on its own or mixed into foundation.

I recorded an on camera makeup demo using Urban Decay makeup – and I’m now obsessed with their waterproof eye liners-they don’t smudge or budge! Oh and the pocket rocket lip gloss in the colour James- hot pink with opalescence… and the packaging is awesome.

Then at the weekend I worked on the first  part of this weeks Britains Next Top Model tour, which made me suddenly realised something, for me being a makeup artists is doing more than applying lipstick to someone and make them look pretty .

Let me use the Britain’s Next Top Model catwalk show as an example…

Once I was hired I attended a meeting with the client, stylist Rebekah Roy, hair dressers from Toni & Guy – where we discussed the look for the show, had a look at all the clothes to get a feel and got a model to do a practice test on. It’s quite a hard show to design a makeup look for because it’s not just about adding eye shadow etc to make the models look good.

There needs to me a concept that’s fresh, it has to be a style that’s current to this Spring/Summers makeup trends, it needed to be something that looked great on a wide variety of girls, it has to work with 9 different fashion designers clothing collections & it couldn’t be too off the wall that the average Jane or Joe could appreciate it as all of the catwalk shows are being produced in shopping malls around the UK. Now that’s a lot to think about!! And if that wasn’t enough, I also am appearing on -stage at every venue to present a S/S’09 makeup demonstration- so I needed to come up with an idea for that that would be fun & entertaining for a live audience to watch

Next step I needed to order and list all the products I wanted to use with my makeup sponsor-who for this tour is the cosmetics brand Benefit. I also to figure out what assistants I would be taking with me for each city, (this always for me depends on 3 things-how much time we have to get the models ready, how complicated the makeup look was and the number of models we had to work on) I had to organise what they would need, making sure they all had the correct info, what they needed to bring, what to wear, times etc.

Then on the morning of the show-my team and I arrive at the venue at 8:30am, I take one of the models back stage and demo the makeup look to my makeup assistant team and they repeat it on the other models kind of like colour by numbers so to speak, so as the morning moves along I am not only working on a few girls but I must have final checks over the other makeup artists to make sure all the models are looking up to my standard- which luckily wasn’t that hard as I have a great team of new, hot talent working for me. ( I teach at the AOFMakeup academy www.aofmakeup.com so I often keep my eye on new fresh, talent from the class to come and assist me) We had 3 fashion shows that day- so plenty of touch ups in between and I had 2, 20 minute on stage makeup demos. I decided on a presentation on how to create an old school Hollywood glamour look using false lashes and this seasons "it "colour – Frenched a kitsch 1950s cherry red by Benefit…Whew I feel a little exhausted just writing about it!

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First there were 50 girls, then 24, 12 and then there were three! 

The three finalist are all wearing super cute dresses from Fornarina and sitting on the Vauxhall Tigra "Mirror Ball".

The winner of the Face of Tigra Vauxhall Style competition are fast tracked to the final auditions of Living TV’s Britain’s Next Top Model series 6.

 24 girls in their jeans and high heels wearing a Migh-T top designed by Kumiko Watari!

It doesn’t matter if this is your first model experience or your 100th – there is always waiting to be done. You might be waiting for hair and make up, or for the show to begin. Most girls bring an ipod or book to pass the time.Tigra contestants, girls from Models1 and Britain’s Next Top Model contestants all waiting backstage.

You can still enter the competition at Vauxhall Style.

The next dates are:

Arndale Centre, Manchester – Sat 2 May 2009
MetroCentre, Newcastle – Sat 9 May 2009
The Bullring, Birmingham – Sat 16 May 2009

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BNTM’s with show producer John Walford.

If you’re well-organized back stage, there is always a moment for quick photo or two! It’s a big show, we have about 72 looks and 7 designers, most of whom showed at London Fashion Week: Harriet’s Muse, Alexander Groover, Hemyca, Lu Flux, Migh-T, Romeo Pires, Pretty Disturbia and Leona Edmiston.

Mecia Simone Simson wearing Alexander Groover.

You couldn’t run a backstage without a great team. We had about 10 dressers. I’ve worked with three of them before and the rest of them were new. It’s quite fun, scary and exciting for someone to work backstage for the first time – but after doing three shows plus the Tigra show they were all seasoned professionals!

My three fashion assistants!

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