Early on Sunday morning I made my way to Claridges to watch the Mulberry show. Fashion week is one of my favourite times of the year as I love watching the shows, going backstage, then reporting back to my viewers and readers about all the beauty and fashion trends for the next season. Obviously being a makeup artist I can't help but pay most of my attention to the makeup - but I am sure you guys won't mind me rambling on about makeup trends as I know you love it too!

I will begin with a little background on the ideas behind the show, Emma Hill took inspiration from a children's book "Where The Wild Things Are", so the show decor featured furry seats, chocolates decorated with monster faces and huge furry monsters standing at the entrance to the catwalk. Mulberry always has a quirky, unique theme which I love, last season it was woodland animals which was so cute! The venue was decorated spectacularly - filled with giant gold balloons in the shape of keys and locks, taken from the famous padlocks used on Mulberry's bags.

As for the clothes, bags and shoes, Mulberry experimented with mixing classic dark Autumn/Winter colours with lots of bright hues. I thought this was really refreshing after seeing so many depressingly dark looks for next season. I loved the bright orange handbags and shoes in particular - I think using your accessories to brighten up your outfit is a great idea. Also the monster theme carried through the clothes with lots of shaggy faux fur on the outerwear. There were some really interesting, unique prints on the catwalk. I particularly liked the Aztec-inspired zig zags and how they blended it with Tie Dye. Another of my favourite trends on the Mulberry catwalk was the oversized knitwear, the idea is that the Mulberry Girl is strong and can look after herself in the cold weather - she is very wrapped up in supersized scarfs and furry coats and so not afraid to brave the cold!

As for the front row, I saw Alexa Chung, Tinie Tempah, Azealia Banks, Pixie Geldof, Laura Carmichael, Michelle Williams, Elizabeth Olsen, Olivia Palermo, Anna Wintour, and of course Lana Del Rey. Now, the reason I say "of course Lana Del Rey" is because just hours before the show it was announced that Mulberry are naming a bag after her called the "Del Rey"! This is such exciting news, she must be so honoured and thrilled. Some of you may be wondering why Mulberry chose Lana...Emma Hill claims it's because she fell in love with her style after watching the video for Video Games. Mulberry loved Lana's classic hollywood but edgy and fun style. I will add a picture now of Lana at the show with her new bag in White Ostrich.

Now onto the important part! The makeup! (And the hair). Matthias Van Hoof was the leading makeup artist and designed a simply lovely look. The model's faces looked like they were glowing from within, so fresh faced and pretty. They had a lot of creamy highlighter on their cheeks and what looked like a very rosey coloured cream blush. The eyes were kept natural and simple, as were the brows. I completely fell in love with the hair style at the show designed by Sam McKnight. It consisted of lots of messy little plaits clipped up randomly onto the models heads. It just felt very sweet, natural and effortless.

 

I also filmed a little vlog of me chatting about the trends and a sneak peak inside Claridges!

I hope you guys are enjoying my fashion week reports. I had the best time and am already excited for next season! If you want to see more from Mulberry, you can visit their website here.

Tanya xxx

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In the newsletter I told you what I had been up to during last week and how I worked as the make-up artist on a video shoot for TRESemme. 

 

The shoot was at a really cool location in Stoke Newington. It was actually where the first couple of series of Dragons Den (a TV show in the UK) was filmed so I found it very interesting looking around the place!

I had a great day, a long day shooting is always made much more fun and easier if you have an amazing team like we did. I got along with the hairdresser Matthew Curtis really well, I also thought his assistant Harry was lovely. 

So I know you are all going to ask...when can you see the finished video and what makeup did I use on the model! Well, I am unsure of when the video will be live on the TRESemme site, but I can tell you which products I used.

TRESemme were shooting 4 different how to videos so we started off with a more natural makeup then as the final video was quite a rock chick inspired hairstyle I added a red lip and a little more eyeliner.

The products...

• Chanel pro lumiere
• Mac studio finish concealer
• Mac Satin Taupe eyeshadow
• Mac Mystery eyeshadow
• Bourjois mascara
• Mac Blot powder
• Jemma Kidd Dewy Glow Radiance Creme
• Mac Love Nectar gloss (for the natural looks)
• Mac Cockney lipstick (for the rock chick look)
• Mac Brick lipliner 
• For the life of me I cannot remember which blush I used, but it was something very natural and no bronzer. 

All these products are kit staples for me that I can rely on to do their job and work under camera lights and flashes.

 

I hope this post has been interesting for you all, please let me know if you would like to see more of this sort of thing!

 

Tanya x