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L'Oreal Adventures: Fin
Sep. 18th, 2006 09:05 amSo I actually did manage to get some sleep that night... it was uncomfortable and I woke up several times to manually shift positions, and I woke up at 5am. Walked with Sean and Elie to Holiday Inn, and we were there uber-early. Hung around doing mostly nothing while others got their hair prepped some more, redone here and there, and after a while, I went to get my face done up for the show.
Stella works at Sykea, another salon on my street, except that there's a focus on make-up, manicures and the like. She had an inspiration to work with - greens, blues, and smokey gray - and she had fun defining the borders of the eyeshadow. Asian eyes are flat, unlike the hooded Caucasian eyes, so they can be pretty much any shape the artist wants them to be, really. She also said I had a good bone structure for makeup. I'm gonna take that as a compliment.
People find me incredibly different with makeup on, particularly dark makeup that utilises eyeliner. In the chair of a makeup artist, I tend to be a good little girl and sit there and quietly take the pencils and whatnot, because I'm there at the capable hands of a professional, and I've done it twice before: for the Bucket Truck music video and for the Shelter for Thieves music video. After they're done with me, though, I tend to look extremely different, just not normal. Normally I look pretty blah. Afterwards, I look a lot more exotic and I have a lot more presence.
It sometimes bothers me that I need makeup to gain presence. It bothers me that anybody should need enchancers to gain presence.
Since everyone else was getting their faces done, I had no need to do anything besides wait for Donna to remove my curlers (which were STILL IN), so she put me in charge of making sure all the collection models had the products used in their hair. We had to carry them onstage, and pretty much advertise them all day.
Finally, I was the last to get her hair done again. and Donna cut my bangs into a V-shape, took out the curlers and pulled them all over the place.
For reference's sake, click here and look at the model on the bottom right. This was the style I'm supposed to be: the Fantastis Water Sprite (modelled after a spider's web).
Nobody could look at me without going "Oh my God".
All of us collection models for the series looked amazing. Pictures will be forthcoming as soon as Elie resizes everything for a more picture-friendly post.
Donna was especially proud of the style, since I went from flat long hair to short springy spidery-webbed hair. With the makeup, I was one of the more striking models. I wish I could show you the others, though. Andrea had a medusa-like style which was simply incredible, and Jody had issues with the colour yesterday that was fixed, and she was given extensions - a vast difference from the quiet brunnette hairstyle she had the day before.
We went down to the ballroom, and did a walk on the catwalk, and the belle du jour had to stand off to the side for the first half of the show, and we were brought back onstage later to be showcased on what they had done to our hair.
Donna had assigned Elie to be a cut model, and she worked on him really good. As Donna finished Elie off, Lori asked him how much hair he had taken off earlier in the year (12 inches), and Donna motioned for me to come onstage and Lori brought out my hair, and Donna showed off what a radical change it was. "She come to me and say she don't want no cut, I tell her, girl, you gonna look beautiful when I'm done with you but I ain't gonna let you go with no haircut! So now look at her, she's beautiful. She's gonna go out and find a new boyfriend now."
Kyla was another cut model; her hair was cut wet whereas Elie's was cut dry, and she was given a mullet-like cut which looked fabulous. Her twin sister, Kelsey, one of the collection models and standing right next to me, was not so pleased, and spent some time saying how horrible it was. This is bad because we were extremely close to some audience members, and Sean had to warn her that it was an advertising show, and it looked bad if one of the models disagreed with the hairsytlists.
Finally, we were let go for a break, and as we walked back to the elevator, Sean gave me a hug, and apologized for being moody in the morning (he had gotten no sleep the night before and was therefore cranky enough to ignore all of my affectionate overtures on the way to the Holiday Inn). Then he said, "I'm jealous now, Donna said you're going to find a new boyfriend."
I just said, "aww" because I don't joke about stuff like that. During the break, I spent half my time on his lap cuddling because we were both really tired.
The second half of the show was just as bad... or perhaps worse, because Kelsey, when Sean was no longer talking to her because he was way too tired, turned to me instead, to whine and complain about standing for so long. It seemed that no matter how much I reminded her that it was a professional show, we were there to represent L'Oreal Professionals, and that everyone else was going through the same pain, she still kept on whining and slouching, bending over and leaning, and just all-round being a rotten sport.
I was concerned about Sean, because not only was he swaying while trying to stand perfectly still, he looked so tired and was trying so hard not to yawn it was like he was almost in tears.
Then, of course, Kelsey (with her twin who had been making fun and teasing Sean since the first time they met him the day before) leant over to me and whispered, "Are you and Sean dating?"
"Not really. He just broke up, so it's not a good idea."
"Oh." Pause. "He's a wicked flirt for someone who just broke up."
I decided not to bother.
Towards the end, Donna motioned for Sean to take some instructions, and Sean seemed unsure of it.
Storytime: the day before Elie had asked, "What should the guys wear, Donna?"
Donna replied, "Wear a suit."
"What kind of suit? A bathing suit?"
"Well, a proper one, but if you wanna bring a bathing suit, that's cool too."
So while Elie did turn out in a spiffy navy blue suit, he called for Donna's attention and proudly showed her the bright blue swimshorts he had brought along. Donna's eyes widened, and she exclaimed, "YOU ARE WEARING THAT FOR MY GRAND FINALE. Okay? Okay? You are wearing that!"
So, at the very end when all models were called on stage for one final pose, Donna turned around, and said, "Where's my boyfriend? Bring my boyfriend onstage."
Elie walks out, beautiful hair, beautiful white shirt, beautiful navy blue suit......... BRIGHT BLUE SWIMMING TRUNKS. And the crowd went wild. It was an awesome, awesome finale.
The next post will have pictures.
Stella works at Sykea, another salon on my street, except that there's a focus on make-up, manicures and the like. She had an inspiration to work with - greens, blues, and smokey gray - and she had fun defining the borders of the eyeshadow. Asian eyes are flat, unlike the hooded Caucasian eyes, so they can be pretty much any shape the artist wants them to be, really. She also said I had a good bone structure for makeup. I'm gonna take that as a compliment.
People find me incredibly different with makeup on, particularly dark makeup that utilises eyeliner. In the chair of a makeup artist, I tend to be a good little girl and sit there and quietly take the pencils and whatnot, because I'm there at the capable hands of a professional, and I've done it twice before: for the Bucket Truck music video and for the Shelter for Thieves music video. After they're done with me, though, I tend to look extremely different, just not normal. Normally I look pretty blah. Afterwards, I look a lot more exotic and I have a lot more presence.
It sometimes bothers me that I need makeup to gain presence. It bothers me that anybody should need enchancers to gain presence.
Since everyone else was getting their faces done, I had no need to do anything besides wait for Donna to remove my curlers (which were STILL IN), so she put me in charge of making sure all the collection models had the products used in their hair. We had to carry them onstage, and pretty much advertise them all day.
Finally, I was the last to get her hair done again. and Donna cut my bangs into a V-shape, took out the curlers and pulled them all over the place.
For reference's sake, click here and look at the model on the bottom right. This was the style I'm supposed to be: the Fantastis Water Sprite (modelled after a spider's web).
Nobody could look at me without going "Oh my God".
All of us collection models for the series looked amazing. Pictures will be forthcoming as soon as Elie resizes everything for a more picture-friendly post.
Donna was especially proud of the style, since I went from flat long hair to short springy spidery-webbed hair. With the makeup, I was one of the more striking models. I wish I could show you the others, though. Andrea had a medusa-like style which was simply incredible, and Jody had issues with the colour yesterday that was fixed, and she was given extensions - a vast difference from the quiet brunnette hairstyle she had the day before.
We went down to the ballroom, and did a walk on the catwalk, and the belle du jour had to stand off to the side for the first half of the show, and we were brought back onstage later to be showcased on what they had done to our hair.
Donna had assigned Elie to be a cut model, and she worked on him really good. As Donna finished Elie off, Lori asked him how much hair he had taken off earlier in the year (12 inches), and Donna motioned for me to come onstage and Lori brought out my hair, and Donna showed off what a radical change it was. "She come to me and say she don't want no cut, I tell her, girl, you gonna look beautiful when I'm done with you but I ain't gonna let you go with no haircut! So now look at her, she's beautiful. She's gonna go out and find a new boyfriend now."
Kyla was another cut model; her hair was cut wet whereas Elie's was cut dry, and she was given a mullet-like cut which looked fabulous. Her twin sister, Kelsey, one of the collection models and standing right next to me, was not so pleased, and spent some time saying how horrible it was. This is bad because we were extremely close to some audience members, and Sean had to warn her that it was an advertising show, and it looked bad if one of the models disagreed with the hairsytlists.
Finally, we were let go for a break, and as we walked back to the elevator, Sean gave me a hug, and apologized for being moody in the morning (he had gotten no sleep the night before and was therefore cranky enough to ignore all of my affectionate overtures on the way to the Holiday Inn). Then he said, "I'm jealous now, Donna said you're going to find a new boyfriend."
I just said, "aww" because I don't joke about stuff like that. During the break, I spent half my time on his lap cuddling because we were both really tired.
The second half of the show was just as bad... or perhaps worse, because Kelsey, when Sean was no longer talking to her because he was way too tired, turned to me instead, to whine and complain about standing for so long. It seemed that no matter how much I reminded her that it was a professional show, we were there to represent L'Oreal Professionals, and that everyone else was going through the same pain, she still kept on whining and slouching, bending over and leaning, and just all-round being a rotten sport.
I was concerned about Sean, because not only was he swaying while trying to stand perfectly still, he looked so tired and was trying so hard not to yawn it was like he was almost in tears.
Then, of course, Kelsey (with her twin who had been making fun and teasing Sean since the first time they met him the day before) leant over to me and whispered, "Are you and Sean dating?"
"Not really. He just broke up, so it's not a good idea."
"Oh." Pause. "He's a wicked flirt for someone who just broke up."
I decided not to bother.
Towards the end, Donna motioned for Sean to take some instructions, and Sean seemed unsure of it.
Storytime: the day before Elie had asked, "What should the guys wear, Donna?"
Donna replied, "Wear a suit."
"What kind of suit? A bathing suit?"
"Well, a proper one, but if you wanna bring a bathing suit, that's cool too."
So while Elie did turn out in a spiffy navy blue suit, he called for Donna's attention and proudly showed her the bright blue swimshorts he had brought along. Donna's eyes widened, and she exclaimed, "YOU ARE WEARING THAT FOR MY GRAND FINALE. Okay? Okay? You are wearing that!"
So, at the very end when all models were called on stage for one final pose, Donna turned around, and said, "Where's my boyfriend? Bring my boyfriend onstage."
Elie walks out, beautiful hair, beautiful white shirt, beautiful navy blue suit......... BRIGHT BLUE SWIMMING TRUNKS. And the crowd went wild. It was an awesome, awesome finale.
The next post will have pictures.