By Eli Wakamatsu - Marie Claire France May 2011 - "Tres Chair"

As an international make up artist, I do travel often to other places. I am confident to say that getting the Eurostar from Kings Cross St Pancras station is one my favourite forms of travel!

I was really fortunate to be working at great studio near Kings Cross called Big Sky Studio on this particular day, and after a nice day work, simply popped to Kings Cross for a short journey to Paris to shoot this story with Thiemo Sander for French Marie Claire with fashion editor Mako Yamazaki. The shoot took place in a stylish and personal studio called the Upper East studio near Pere Lachaise Cemetry.

St Pancras station is filled with nice cafés and restaurants to relax in before departure with free wifi which I’m always delighted with.

When I go to Paris, I always like to go to a Japanese restaurant called Yen  (22, rue Saint-Benoît 75006, near Saint-Germain-des-Prés).

They serve most incredible Japanese food, specializing in fresh soba noodles served in a soup, which is delicious!

It is very popular restaurant and well known faces like Karl Lagerfeld and Catherine Deneuve are regulars there.

For the make-up for this shoot I used Givenchy Photo'perfexino Light, Givenchy Blush Gelee (Candide Pink) for the face.

On the eyes I used Miste Eyebrow No 1 Natural, Magic Khol No 1 Black, Prisme Yeux Mono No 1 Showy Black and Phenomenyes Mascara in black.
 
On the lips I used Rouge Interdit in Enchanting Beige and on the Nails Givenchy Vernis Please! (No 173 Candide Peach).