The softest brushes on earth

I recently visited Birmingham's Clothes Show and despite being called the Clothes Show, I actually found that the best deals were in the make-up section of the event. The show did however feature some gorgeous vintage stores and I managed to buy yet MORE sweatshirts...

I picked up a few gifts from the show but my favourite purchase was a set of Beau Belle's rose gold make up brushes. I've wanted these brushes for a pretty long time but I'm always reluctant to splash out on a less known brand. In all honestly, I expected Beau Belle to be the kind of brushes to prioritise appearance over quality. The brushes usually cost £34.95, so when I saw the Beau Belle stand at the Clothes Show selling this gorgeous rose gold set of 5 brushes for £19.95 I melted. 

The brushes are actually of a really high standard and I can't believe I didn't buy them sooner! They're honestly so soft I actually look forward to using them every morning.. is that sad? So not only do these brushes look gorgeous, they're of a really high quality. It's only been a few weeks, but so far I haven't noticed any hair loss of scratched paint. 

I think it's safe to say I'm just a little bit in love with Beau Belle brushes. 

Find the Rose Gold Complete Set below:

https://www.beaubellebrushes.com/collections/rose-gold-collection/products/rose-gold-complete-set

Chanel beauty campaign in the style of Tim Gutt and Shona Heath

 For our final FCP uni project this year, we were given the task of creating a set of 3 images to promote a product, inspired by a single Vogue shoot. Our shoot was Star Signs by Tim Gutt from December Vogue 2010, some of the images from the editorial can be found in one of my earlier posts! We were given make up as our product, we created this series of images to combine make up with the style of Tim Gutt's Star Signs.

As well as looking at the photographer Tim Gutt, we explored the work of set designer Shona Heath. Gutt and Heath's work for Vogue has a fantasy, surreal and antique feel, we wanted to mimic this in our photos. It would be very easy to run at this kind of brief head on and go all out mimicking each star sign in a cliché manor, but we wanted to try something more subtle. You can see certain aspects of the star signs throughout the images for example the duplicate hands and mirrors - Gemini, the spilt nail polish - Aquarius, the wool - Aries, but we didn't want to dwell on this. The aim was to create a set of images that could be featured in a magazine as a genuine Tim Gutt shoot, so we focused on creating scenes with a focus on shadows and highlights. The work of Shona Heath especially, tends to work with a carefully designed theatrical set as opposed to a realistic setting, we tried to replicate this style in our images. After a couple of hours spent playing with various Photoshop effects, I edited the colours, imperfections and layouts of the images as well as fragmenting the photos to add a modern, surreal focal point.

Overall I'm really please with the way that our images turned out and we received an overall really positive response on presentation day!

Sofia Richie for Galore Magazine

Whether it's a suspected fling with Justin Beiber or a clothing range with Pretty Little Thing, Sofia Richie has had a large amount of media coverage over the past year or so. She's is more commonly know as the daughter of Lionel and sister of Nicole Richie, but Sofia is starting to make a name for herself in her own right. I loved the shoot she did recently with Galore Magazine, it has kind of a Britney Spears meets American hippie feel to it.

Here's the link to the full article - including an interview with Sofia
 https://galoremag.com/sofia-richie-just-getting-started-shoot/