Oh how I do adore Chanel; the quilted bags, the pearls, the perfume. Hell, I even love the carrier bags. I’m so excited to see the film, released today in cinemas nationwide. Coco Chanel is someone I greatly admire; she freed women from the constraints of corsets and allowed women to breathe in black. She was, in retrospect a feminist and changed the way we see fashion forever.
To celebrate the release of the movie, Queens of Noise organised the first ever fashion Chanel Flash Mob at London’s St. Pancras station last night and boy was it a success. Josie Gealer from ELLEuk.com went along with her camera to snap away all the fabulous Chanel inspired outfits, click here to see the best of the bunch.
Fashion and vintage lovers sported their finest Chanel (or Chanel-look-a-likes’) at yesterday’s fash mob. Quilted bags, Chanel No 5 perfume, tweed jackets and little black dresses were everywhere.
“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
I’ve always loved Arteha Franklin’s song – Say a Little Prayer: because of the line-"before I put on my makeup-I say a little prayer for you" It’s the idea of her ritual that I love; a prayer for her beloved and then she gets her self looking ready and confident.
Whether you have noticed it or not, most of us have some sort of makeup ritual to our daily routine. I once watched an episode of Sex & the City where Charlotte spent 15 minutes each evening examining her pores in a magnifying mirror and was trying to hide this little ritual but gave into it eventually. She was resigned to the fact that this is something she felt she had to do to feel confident in herself.
Yours could be something as simple as sitting down at a dressing table and taking a deep breath then exhaling slowly before plucking your eyebrows with a certain pair of tweezers or maybe you do something like shake your foundation bottle for 10 seconds with your left hand before you have to pour it out onto a sponge. Perhaps you have to put a certain type of moisturiser on, then make a cup of coffee and then go back to applying your face in the bathroom whilst your coffee cools. Very often if you don’t get to a chance to perform your personal ritual your day can be a little thrown off. You may feel a little unsure of how you look that day without fully realising it! See if you notice next time what your little personal makeup quirk is?
You can spot stylists and their assistants all over London just because they are dragging cases. I have about ten suitcases and they are always full and usually going to one shoot or another. For the most part I love what I do but dragging heavy cases through the airport is not one of them. I fly quite a bit and I’m an easygoing traveller but after a long flight my cases feel that much heavier.
These are new Lightweight Hybrid PA Bag from Live Luggage. These cases have an anti-gravity handle putting 85% of the weight over the wheels. What’s most unique is that the case has "flat motor technology" built into the wheels to assist when going up gradients, curbs and steps! The cases are made in Britain and are 100% recyclable luggage.
I didn’t always know I wanted to be a makeup artist when I was growing up, but I did always have a love for colour. I think a lot of it stems from my mother. She is an interior designer and when I was a little girl I would sit for hours and stare at her colour chart books. I used to spread out all the different panels of shades and analyse the difference in tones. If I ever ventured into a DIY store with her I would grab a handful of paint charts and pick out all my favourite colours in the car on the way home. I still have a guilty pleasure of doing that today-only this time I search the paint charts for new inspiring makeup choices. If you find yourself bored of your regular standard colours, check out Pantone’s website or hit your local paint store and pick up a few charts; then go makeup shopping. It’s so much easier to find products you like if you have a colour in mind that you’re looking for to begin with. Its also a great way to figure out colours that compliment each other when choosing cosmetics.
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I’ve always loved Arteha Franklin’s song – Say a Little Prayer: because of the line-"before I put on my makeup-I say a little prayer for you" It’s the idea of her ritual that I love; a prayer for her beloved and then she gets her self looking ready and confident.
