Eli Wakamatsu - Marie Claire UK December 2010 'In Bruges' Part 2

Eli Wakamatsu worked on a second story for Marie Claire when in Bruges with the photographer Kim Myers Robertson and stylist Sarah Christie.

The story was a called ‘Night Vision’ using clothes with interesting textures and prints and mainly shot around the town after dark. The team finished work in the early hours of the morning to achieve these beautiful shots.

The cobbled streets and gargoyles and dragons created the perfect backdrop for the mood.

The make up look was also 'dark and mysterious'. Because it was a night shoot a flash was used and Eli wanted Sophie's eyes to stand out, and for the skin to be slightly ‘glow in the dark’.

For this she used Chanel Blanc de Chanel Sheer Illuminator Fluid as a base which acts as a light source on the surface of the skin.

 
To create a ’mysterious eye’ Eli used Chanel stylo yeux waterproof eyeliner ÉBÈNE no;10  and Eye shadow Les 4 Ombres SMOKY EYES 93

With plenty of INTENSE VOLUME AND CURL MASCARA in black.

And a little hint of Chanel pink lip Levres Scintillantes gloss to highlight the lips.

Hair, Make-up and Nail: Beauty Tips for Autumn

Summer is coming to an end and Autumn is now upon us. Here are some beauty tips from the artists at Emma Davies on how to survive the change in season in style.

Sisley Crème Gommante

Chanel Base Lumier

Maria Comparetto and Eli Wakamatsu both recommend exfoliating and using a face pack to get rid of any lingering scaly and patchy skin such as the Sisley Gentle Facial Buffing Cream.

Maria suggests using a few drops of Chanel Base Lumiere in to your moisturiser or foundation to wake up sullen skin. She says, “This will instantly lift your skin tone and with its illuminating qualities skin will look brighter and healthier.”

Givenchy

 Eli says that this autumn there are lots of beautiful bold colours available for lips and nails, so enjoy them - Givenchy has some great colours.

Ruth Funnell’s tip is to try some of the gorgeous taupe blushers that are around this season to give yourself some great bone structure with some subtle shading just under the cheekbone, (the new way to use blusher). A sweep over the top with a pretty peach will bring a delicate bloom and make the eyes stand out and says to also experiment using the beautiful taupe, camel and grey tones in eye palettes. These can intensify both light and dark eyes.

Chanel Enigma Eye Pallette

Ruth says “This soft approach with makeup will totally modernise the camels and nude tones of clothes that are around this season and make them appear fresh and new” and loves the Chanel A/W Enigma eye palette (as used on the Red magazine shoot), she adds “This is particularly lovely to use with just the right amount of glimmer. Water can be added for more intense colour next to lashes".

Chanel

And as Maria reminds: “Rain rain go away...” use waterproof mascara as she rightfully says “Who needs panda eyes??!”

Ayo Laguda says that this is the to use deep conditioning treatments to combat dry and frazzled hair thanks to the ravages of summer and the central heating coming on.

Ayo shared his tips for creating the season’s hot hairdo (as seen in the Beauty Buzz by Ruby Hammer & Millie Kendall):

1.      Use mousse in clean dray hair and a squirt of anti frizz serum.

2.      Brush in to a ponytail at the nape of the neck and pin back any wispy bits. Hold the base of the ponytail to twist in to a tight spiral and coil it around the base to form the chignon.

3.      Tuck the end under the chignon and use grips (and maybe a light mist of hairspray to hold in to place).

Shu Uemura Essence Absolue

Anna Cofone uses Shu Uemura Art of Hair Essence Absolue on towel dried hair to help give a groomed sleek 'Chloe' inspired blow dry (of the season).

And don’t forget your nails… We need all the help we can get for our nails in the colder months so massage nail oil into your cuticles, nails and surrounding skin pre sleep to both hydrate and simulate increasing rate of growth. Try the Andrea Fulerton Nail Boutique 'Cute-Icles Love Oil' (available exclusively at Superdrug) it's infused with mint, smells fresh and not at all over powering whilst the vitamin E works it's magic!

Giannie Couji's Autumn Wish List

Giannie Couji gives some tips for looking stylish and keeping warm this autumn and this is what she recommends.


Superfine denim trousers and black trousers (available at www.net-a-porter.com).

A Reiss 1971 Ruffled leather skirt

COS: leather and  rubber boots and AVRIL GAU: Suede navy wedges boots

 

Cosy up with a Hermes Cashmere blanket and a Lutz & Patmos: Cashmere scarf and jumper 

 

Perfect! Hair and Make-up post to follow...

Ruth Funnell - Anya Hindmarch Campaign A/W2010

Ruth Funnell did the make-up on these lovely shots for the A/W10 Anya Hindmarch way back in January with the photographer Rick Truscott (represented by LGA London), styling by Anna Foster (at Naked Artists) and the hair was done by Craig Taylor (at One Make-up).

The idea for this was a 60's reportage story loosely based on a the black and white stories of that period. Ruth was inspired by Jean Shrimpton and Catherine Deneuve and actresses of that period and used thick black eyeliner and two sets of eyelashes to give the sixties look but also wanted to keep the lovely model (16 year old Emily Smith "who looked great and was perfect") as a young, fresh faced 60's starlet. Ruth wanted Emily to look like "she could have done the makeup herself to give it a 'real edge' to the look". 

Ruth finished with a grey tone on the nails and a nude lip as a reference to this seasons A/W10 makeup to modernise the look.

Ruth Funnell - RED Magazine November 2010

Ruth Funnell worked on the make-up for this beautiful shoot in the November edition of Red Magazine with the photographer Todd Marshard (represented by Katy Ryan) and stylist Deborah Brett (represented by aandr photographic) back in early May  on a cold and windy beach at Camber sands.

Ruth used Chanel Vitalumiere base (sparingly where needed) on the face followed by shading in browns and greys with the Chanel A/W10 colour Enigma eye palette to give a soft pared down look on the eyes with just a minimal cover of mascara, taupe shading on the cheeks and bare nude lips and no nail colour. 

The aim was to make the models look effortless in an homage to a 90's Peter Lindberg 'windswept on the beach look'. 

 "The girls were great" said Ruth, "We worked with the gorgeous Chandra North [who still looks amazing], Jayne Windsor [with her incredible bone structure] and the lovely Katie Ball.

Introducing Andrea Fulerton - Nail Technician

I am delighted to now be representing the lovely and dynamic nail technician Andrea Fulerton who has twice been named British Nail Professional of the Year.

Andrea regularly works with Nigella Lawson’s for her TV series and her books and recently maintained actress Kim Catrall’s nails for her lead role in the West End Play ‘Private Lives’ which led to the 1950s shade of red varnish ‘Kim’ for Andrea’s nail range ‘Andrea Fulerton Nail Boutique’ available from Superdrug.

Andrea Fulerton Nail Boutique available at Superdrug

Other celebrity clients include Cate Blanchett, Kylie Minogue, Gemma Arterton, Pink, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightly, Sienna Miller, Victoria Beckham, Kate Bosworth, Emma Watson Lily Allen, Billy Piper,  Penelope Cruz, and Liza Minelli to name a few.

She has been a judge of InStyle Magazines Best Beauty Buys panel of beauty judges for the past half decade and also judges the British Professional Beauty awards, and is a nail care expert for Elle, SHE, Imedeen and Cult Beauty. She writes her monthly column ‘Fulerton On…’ for Scratch as well as contributing to Professional Beauty, Gloss and The Talon (trade) magazines.

Andrea’s clients include Samsonite, Twix, Accurist, Johnson & Johnson, Sony, Virgin Atlantic, Swatch, Microsoft and Pantene.

Her artistic nail skills are regularly credited in international publications such Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Glamour, Elle, She, Brides, Allure, The Times Style magazine and The New York Times.

She has worked alongside some of the worlds leading photographers including Nick Knight, Steven Klein, Donna Trope, Raymond Meir, Miles Aldridge and Clive Arrowsmith.

At London Fashion Week she guides her hand picked and personally trained nail teams creating looks for Matthew Williamson, Versace, Luella, Erdem, Manish Arora, Bruce Oldfield, Alexander McQueen and Ghost

Please take a look at Andrea's website www.andreafulerton.com and follow her on twitter for updates.

Eli Wakamatsu - French Marie Claire Story

Eli Wakamatsu worked on this lovely 30 page (!) story for French Marie Claire with the fashion editor Mako Yamazaki and photographer Tiziano Magni and the results are beautiful.

The story was shot in Sweden over four days in May this year.  The first location was a privately owned, super stylish house with an infinity pool and view overlooking the river and quiet woodland. The architecture and décor was minimalist and urban and chosen particularly to create the interesting atmosphere for the story with the very different backdrop of the natural surroundings. The second part of the shoot was spent at the coast and the team were lucky to have amazing weather for the whole time.

Phyto-Teint Eclat Compact

The story was to show complete outfits from the collections of different designers which meant a different hair and make up look for each of the 30 shots. Eli used Sisley make-up  to achieve this starting with All Day All Year Essential day care to protect from UVA and UBV, free radicals and stress to the skin. Eli says that this is a “great product to set you up all day for any environment ”.

The model was (according to Eli “super lovely”) Anne-Marie Van Dijk at Viva Models  who also happens to be an enviromental campaigner and founded Pura Vida with another successful Dutch model Lonneke Engel, to raise awareness about eco-friendliness within the fashion industry. You can read about their launch party here and see their online magazine and newsletter 'Organice your life' here.

Eli Wakamatsu - Marie Claire UK November 2010 'In Bruges'

Love love love the story in the November edition of Marie Claire UK that Eli Wakamatsu worked on with fashion editor Sarah Christie and the photographer Kim Myers Robertson, (who made a beautiful film of the shoot) in Bruges earlier this year. One of the shots has been used as a cover for a test audience in Wales.

The team stayed at the super elegant boutique hotel called Relais Bourgondisch Cruyce which was used in the film 'In Bruges' with Colin Farrell

The pictures look amazing and completely betray the fact that the shoot didn’t run as smoothly as hoped thanks to some very stormy weather and the original model had to return home due to an accident she had before the trip. But in stepped the beautiful, fresh faced model Gabriella Holstein at Viva Paris Model agency.

Eli said  "We wanted to create her image quite womanly and weather-beaten a little, to suit the coastal location."

Eli used Chanel make-up on the shoot. Gabriella's skin was perfect with no blemishes at all so she decided to re-create a freckled texture by using much darker colour cream foundation, on top of Chanel's Soleil Tan de Chanel which gives an instant sun kissed effect.

Eli created a visible shaded area on the temples, eyes and in the cheekbones, topped by powder brush Chanel Plum attraction 63 to give little more intense glow. Eli used a Chanel grey-brown pencil  to draw freckles on her nose and forehead.

Eli used a range of Spicy brown eye shadow colours to suit Gabriella's skin tone and used matt face powder over the lipstick, to make them look dry, almost chapped looking to show Gabriella as a woman who spends lots of time by the sea.

The team made sure they didn’t leave Bruges without a well deserved look in at the best locally recommended Chocolatier (The Chocolate Line) in Bruges and picked up the tip that if you are buying Choclate in Bruges, look for this red sign which is for the masters trained at best Ter Groene Poorte culinary academy.