There's a first time for everything, and this is my first blog! I really can't believe it's taken me so long... always late to the party!
This first post is dedicated to me saying farewell to the makeup and hair side of my business, I made the decision last year to enjoy one more wedding season and then hang up my brushes after 20 wonderful years. I don't know how many brides I've worked with in total, but it's been a lot. I've enjoyed a great many wedding mornings spent with bride, family and friends, and what a priviledge that's been. There really is nothing else quite like it, a heady mix of anticipation, nerves, excitement, love and emotion.
Brides sought me out for my very natural looking makeup, always telling me at their trial they were delighted to see past clients in my gallery looking so fresh and un-madeup, just naturally radient. This has always been my neiche, and my hair styling follows suit.
I have visited some most amazing family homes, wedding venues and hotels which I wouldn't otherwise have stepped foot in and I have worked along side other artists whom I love and admire, not to mention photographers and florists too - in other words the ones who arrive early on wedding days!
I will miss watching the sunrise and spotting wildlife on my early morning drives to venues, listening to the girly chatter and laughter while prepartions go on, the flowers arriving, seeing the bride grin at her own refection, positioning the veil, trying not to cry myself at the reading of a Grooms letter, seeing the farther of the bride take a first look... and plenty in between. It's always been so much more to me than just the sum of it's parts.
I'll always be a makeup and hair artist though, and will delight in flexing my hair styling skills when brides come to the studio to find the perfect accessories. So, from now on I'll be focused on just that, working in the studio creating my signature bridal hair accessories and jewellery, working directly with brides and with my wonderful stockists.
To each and every bride I've worked with, THANK YOU, you all afforded me a unique and special job that I have loved for 20 years. Reminising about you all makes me quite emotinal and I can't believe where the time has gone!
So here's a little glallery of me in action over more recent years. When I started out in 1999 socail media did not excist and there were no smart phones with cameras... I actually have a box of old printed photos, sent in the post by brides after their wedding day. How delightfully old fashioned that sounds now. My last wedding was October 2019, working with the most beautiful girl both inside and out, the lovely Sophie. The wedding was at St Giles House, which had become my favourite place to be and I knew there and then if it was to to be my last wedding I was goin out on a perfet one.
