Wonderland - Make-up by Emma Miles

Emma Miles worked with the actors Alice Englert  of the new Beautiful Creatures film and Iain De Caestecker  for Wonderland magazine with the photographer Kim Jakobsen.

Ziggy Played Guitar - Make-up & Blog by Emma Miles

The inspiration for this shoot for Italian Amica with Michael and Sandrine was obviously David Bowie, mainly Ziggy Stardust era, so I prepared by researching all his looks. 

We wanted to give it a modern edge so I drew a lighting bolt freehand on Bianca's face and painted it with Metallic sliver. 

The stylist Laurent guided me through each look and we designed make up to fit with each style.

Blended pinks and fuchsia's with gold leaf third eye. Doing small variations for each look. Metallic sliver lip, gold glitter lip etc.

This has been one of my favourite shoots to date and I think the key to a successful story of this standard is definitely working together with a great team.

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Ripping Yarns by Emma Miles

The Ripping Yarns story for Harrods was based on a puppet theme using wool as the strings. It was to be a quite androgynous and sinister story. 

With this in mind and the brief I was given I decided to focus on the eyebrows making them heavy and dense and emphasised.

I used darkness under the lower lash line to create a unconventional makeup to compliment the mood and feel for the story. 

A lot of contouring to hollow out her facial structure to give her a puppet like feel.

I used two different shape and sizes of Japonesque fake eyelashes and placed them in a way that enhance and elongate the upper lash line to make the eyes appear large, reminiscent of a puppet doll who eyes always seem to big for their puppets face.

And a strip of lower lashes to finish off the doll like effect. 

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Chola Latina for Kruv Magazine - By Emma Miles

My Kruv inspiration was obviously from the stylist mood board, seeing the very bright and vivid clothes, colours and textures.  

The initial make up was taken from a 70's cartoon character and progressed from there. Taking inspiration from the neon colour's on trend and the Chola Latina culture. (They usually have thin, arched, penciled-on eyebrows, brown or dark red lip liner, lots of gold jewlery, crunchy gelled hair either down or up in a high ponytail) and new age traveller-est, combining this with past Dior shows under the reign of John Galliano. 

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Russian Vogue - Make-up by Emma Miles

Emma Miles worked on this Jewellery shoot for Russian Vogue with the photographer Mark Mattock and Suki Waterhouse modelling. Here's what she had to say about it:

The theme was tropical so I had to warm the models skin up to look tanned. I applied a sheen of  moisturiser to make the skin look light reflective and dewy. The lip was a Nars Jungle red, with a Mac lip glass on top to create a beautiful full glossy lip. 


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Harrods Magazine 'Flower Show' Make-up & Post by Emma Miles

The story for Harrods magazine was called 'Flower Show' shot by Jason Ell, I did a spring inspired make up.

I used 7 sets of various shapes and sizes of fake eyelashes on the eyes to create a  opening effect like a flower in spring. Starting with the smallest lashes at the eyelash line and gradually working my way over the lid into the socket line using larger more exaggerated lashes.

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The Independent February 25th - Make-up by Emma Miles

Emma Miles worked on the make-up for this shoot with the photographer Jeon Seung Hwan for The Independent. Gemma Hayward styled the shoot which was published last Saturday 25th February.

The story was a feature on Dries Van Noten. Emma did the make-up in keeping with the style of the clothes: very androgynous and was inspired by the film 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'. Although the make-up was not as severe as in the film, using Japonesque products, Emma kept the eyes bare, with no mascara and said "just contouring the natural socket with a taupe eyeshadow - a very editorial look which I love".











Emma prepared the skin beforehand using Sisley skin care "The Radiant Glow Express Mask is brilliant as a pre prep with a cucumber eye mask for any look".

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Introducing Make-up Artist Emma Miles

I am delighted to announce that make-up artist Emma Miles has joined the agency.

Emma enjoys working with Pat McGrath and has been a member of her show team since 2002.

Emma has also headed her own teams at shows for Ana Sekularac, Jenny Packham and Top Shop.

Photographers Emma has worked with include Arthur Elgort, Bruno Barbazan, David Vasiljevic, Kai z Feng, Derek Santini, Miles Aldridge, Perou, Matthew Shave and Rankin for editorials including Vogue, Pop, InStyle, Marie Claire and Interview and clients such as Agent Provocateur, L’Oréal, Pantene, Jil Stewart, Vivienne Westwood and Cutler and Gross.

Emma has worked with celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow, Sienna Miller, Tori Amos, Denise Van Outen, Emilia Fox and Kate Hudson.

Emma loves creative make-up and though her style can sometimes push the boundaries it is always executed in the most beautiful way.

  

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