Want to feel like a celeb for a day?
I got as close as I’ll get to it in my lifetime with a make-over and photo shoot with Lester de Vere and Sarah Breslin at Mink Photography in Takapuna to celebrate having my little girl. I not only came away feeling truly pampered by the whole experience, I had gorgeous photos to boot. Here’s what went on...
I met with Mink’s lovely Sarah Breslin - who previously set up Contours gym so she so knows a thing or two about making women feel good - plus the Brit is pretty glamorous herself. At this complimentary planning session I sat down with Sarah to chat about what I wanted from the photo shoot and arranged a booking.
When I arrived I was introduced to today’s make-up artist, Lisa Shearer, a professional make-up artist who has worked on film, TV and countless celebrities’ faces as well as beautifying the likes of me. Lisa began the Pygmalion Project by ghd styling my hair. Sarah's helpful info sheet told me to arrive with clean, dry hair. Lisa then asked me what look I was going for and looked through my selection of outfits to decide on make-up colours to complement them. We selected soft grey and lilac shades from MAC and used my own nude Karen Murrell lipstick to finish.
After hair and make-up, which lasted about an hour, the photography session began in earnest. Lester got Lily and I to pose in our first outfit, in a classic pose with baby on my lap, both looking forward. Lester says for children around five months of age, there's a window of about twenty minutes to work with, so having tried and true poses works really well to get fast results before the tears! Here's the result of that shoot. First, Lily having her Extreme Close-Up to camera. Lights! What a born model.
...And my favourite shot of the day, a portrait of us together which looks lovely and relaxed.