Bernard Sumner, Hot Chip, and Hot City - "Didn't Know What Love Was" - Converse

2 days at 3 Mill studios with Luisa Savoia. Hot Chip and Bernard Sumner in my chair not forgetting the Shadow men.  great hair team Takashi , Josh Goodwin and co.  Luisa made a video diary of the day, you can watch that below and here she is with some Hot Chip look a likes..  Don't watch the video if your'e tipsy mind or you will get terribly giddy..until next time L X

Make up : Lucy Wearing
1st assistant:: Luisa Savoia
2nd assistant:  Elias Hove

Tinchy Stryder and Bridget Kelly 'Take over the world'

i don't think I have ever been as cold as I was shooting this, well anyway, hard hats, steel capped boots, high vis tabards and waterproofs at Battersea Power Station a huge Health and Safety briefing for this slick video directed by Adam Powell.

Bridget Kelly has a killer voice and an amazing New York accent...she's a babe.

Many many thanks to Luisa Savoia for assisting me so beautifully on the day.

She's a dream, she's the one, she's hit No.1 on i tunes, 3 days with Ellie

Myself , Max, Ben (I got to make 2 new friends)  Jam and Emily spent 3 days wonderful days with Ellie -  Starting in a studio in South London for the recording of Your Song with Ben Lovett on piano - that was pretty moving as I doodled away in my sketch book.  Then we went to Hereford to find the places that meant the most to Ellie when she was growing up , we hiked around Hereford and a bit about London.

I am very proud that my shot of Ellie made it to the final cut and really speechless to find myself in it.

This is a very special video, my favourite ever.  Infact she's my favourite ever ...but I reckon you could guess that.....

I am so super lucky!!!
 

By Max Knight and Ben Coughlan

Your Song - Ellie Goulding with Ben Lovett on piano

Saturday with Oonah a bit on the darkside..

Make up by me using a selection of MAC lashes, quite a large selection.
Model the very beautiful  Oonah Anderson

Oonah inspied by Mark Ryden - blocking out eyebrows

Make up : Me
Model : Oonah Anderson

Primary 1 'Youll never know' feat Harry Tuttle

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This was a very colourful day, a surreal video, a great tune and lovely people to work with.

Thanks Ala for assisting me on this one, even with tennis elbow!!
x l o v e

The death of a Unicorn.... feat Oonah Anderson

Oonah painted her hair and body pink! 


Happy Halloween......

Today with Oonah......Blue Oonah

Then I turned Oonah into a dead unicorn for Halloween but I forgot to take a photo....... ill get one somehow.

Meet Oonah

Designs for the X Factor Leopardesses....by me.

Devilishly handsome indeed at KOKO

Which then led to ...

This morning! and KoKo Pops next stop Alan Titchmarsh Show Tues 2nd Nov!!

Crystabel Riley came on board and  kindly took charge of the leopard tamers.

Then that led to this.... X factor o clock!

This time I had to design for 8 Leopardess', 8 Leopard trainers, 12 Drummer boys, 2 Aerialists, 2 Hoop dancers and 2 Fire eaters, all to be done in just over.............2 hours!  That's 34 characters in 2 hours 15 mins!

So I enlisted the ever faithfull Susanna Peretz to head the Leopadess' team and 6 fabulous assistants pictured above from left to right may I present to you Verity Cumming ( in charge of all tears) Oonah Anderson in with the Leopardess team, Theressa Davis all over the drummer boys, Andrea Gomez the Venezuelan (she makes the best coffee) on the Leopardess team and Luisa Savioa who tamed the Leopard tamers, last but not least Elias Hove the 'Prince of Bleach' - team Leopardess.

The X Factor was electric, people go mad for it, seriously crazy!

Its been a while... its all gone Diana Vickers

I have worked for nearly a month 7 days a week here's a little bit of what Ive been up to..
I created lots of crazy Circus characters for Diana Vickers 'My wicked heart'  brilliantly directed by Sarah Chatfield.

Brendan Robertson does Diana's beautiful hair and make up.

My favourite characters we're the drummer boys which included Sam Paul Evans drummer from my new band 'The Life The Love and the Grateful'. Hes on the left and that's Daniel on the right.

Thanks to Ala, Andrea and Verity for their assistance in amongst all the madness!

Theresa and Luisa trying to lift my spirits in the classroom

Download now or watch on posterous

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Sent from my iPhone

A face chart of Ellie...

Sent from my iPhone

My first steps!

Download now or watch on posterous

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For real...!

My Portraits of Isabella Machine Summers...

A portrait of a portrait in Iza's dressing room at the Hammersmith Apollo.  Come to think of it I fell down the stairs that night too...in front of the Drums, cringe...

Doodle and Collection - from Home..

I think that my mum should be a textile designer, one day I will get some fabric printed and make a blouse..

Luisa Savioa 'THE FACE" this is what I got up to today..

Mineralize mineralize mineralise.....sexual as Luisa would say.  With a Patti Smith Piss Factory sound track.

'Posed' Magazine asked me what my top 5 crulety free beauty products were and this is what I said...

ROOOOOOTS MANUVA...

Well this was a long one and we did it for the LOVE.  Ben Newman directed  'It's On' and Wiley's 'Take That' Ben likes to use make up in his videos and he let's me loose it on faces, that was the brief for this one, 'Japaneese huraniki ...mmnn...just go mad' and that is why I will always jump at the chance to work with him.

There's £50 worth of MAC lashes in this video ... and that's after discount..

Hair - Susie Soux/  Susanna Peretz

Make up - Me

We couldn't have done it without the beach assistance from the FACE Luisa Savoia who at one point was feeding crew shrimp and deep fried Camembert from the boot of her yellow Skoda.

Love that shit x

ROOOOOOTS MANUVA...

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ROOOOOOOOOOOOTS MANUVA....

Coming soon..........

Just found this ....

So I thought I'd blog it... because I think its beautiful..

Photography: Louie Banks

Hair: The One and Only Melissa Brown

Make up and styling: Me

FOX ! Ellie in Look Magazine - OUT NOW

http://www.look.co.uk/fashion/ellie-goulding-behind-the-scenes-exclusive

I am injured, infact I'm on crutches so to interrupt my boring convalescence I thought I'd blog,

Here's Ellie in Look magazine, we all really enjoyed working on this one, I Iove the tones throughout the shoot.

click on the link above to see the behind the scenes video.

Photography : Rony Shram

Hair : the wonderful Melissa Brown

Make up : Me

Styling : Fiona Downie

I used MAC triple fusion mineralize powder on the eyes to get a metallic soft finish picking up on the dusky tones running through Ellies hair.

Ellie gets to press that button tomorrow night.... the National Lottery one!!

And as for me...well..the show must go on, Ive already worked on GMTV . Chart Show, NME TV on crutches and a) Im not very good at the crutches b) stairs are proving an unlady like problem.  I had to get a builder to give me a piggy back into Ellie's flat the other day, good job I had ditched the mini skirt!

Chase & Status 'Let you go' feat. Mali

SOME ONE IS NOT GONNA LIKE THIS.....
We shot this the other weekend it was an odd couple of days and nights directed by the ever so clever 32 (directors of No Distance to Run - Blur documentary/film) shot by Ross McLennan, Hair and make up myself and Peretz, Rob and Carly in wardrobe - Carly - 'Earth Song' just for you.

Would you believe that the guy playing Patrick Chase played Jesus in 'Jesus Christ Superstar' the movie!

Hes a true Jersey boy, Glen - such a convincing performance it all got a bit confusing...oh yeah and I got to play a background prostitute...

Hey baby...warm beer and fizzy wine
enjoy x

'Guns and Horses' itunes festival

What an atmosphere at the Round House, I got goose bumps!!

I had a fridge filled with booze in the make up room...this is not always a good thing...Although I think I redeemed myself as far as Matt Edmonson is concerned!! pointless private joke written only to amuse myself! - think i need a holiday...

'The Writer' ...

Ellie Cam... The Writer..... coming soo..n

Some where in Norfolk......

Ellie Rocks Glastonbury..

Wow! Ellie totally smashed it at Glastonbury what an adventure I've had.   Finally I have  made it back home after sleeping on the tour bus and sharing 'The Machines' almost blown up bed all the while getting awfully lost.   My phone died and I nearly ended up in Switzerland Another ridiculous couple of days!!!

Make up wise we discovered Topshop's lipstick 'Brighton Rocks' its matte and it stays on all day, perfect for such festival adventures.... although to be frank in my lost panic circling Glastonbury for 4 hours I didn't give a toss what I looked like....

On the train...

Whilst on the train I was flicking through the 'Stylist' and came across this, another shot from the shoot with Louie and Melissa...

Photography: Louie banks
Hair: Melissa Brown
Make Up and styling : Me Lucy Wearing/ Lovebird depending how you know me..

In Norfolk with Ellie..

Its gonna be beautiful...

I've just got back from filming Ellie's new video for the 'Writer' in Norfolk directed by Christopher Cottam. Im not going to give much away, Ill post it when its finished.

Next stop Glastonbury.....

Lets talk Pins and Needles - Facial Rejuvenation - 'Life is for Living Well' - Lilja Katanka

Lets talk Needles

I have been really intrigued by reports of non ivavsive anti ageing facial accupunture or dare i say facelifts... I have been having accupunture for my back and period pains and felt for myself the amazing benifits of a few choicely placed pins.

So. I went to see Lilja Katanka to try this procedure out for myself.

Well, I lay on my back slightly nervous of the amount of needles that seemed to be laid ready for me all sizes tightly packed in their celephane shells.

Lil began on my ears tap tap tap then my hands feet and chest, so far so good.. you can build yourself up in anticipation for one of these needles but the prick is really awfully quick!

As Lil started to place them along my jaw, feeling the muscle then tapping it in I thought to myself..
a) this is definately worth £75 an session because its hardcore, you would not want anyone that didn't know what they were doing attempting this one, i also thought
b) jeez Lucy Wearing this is some new level of vanity as I'm being pinned down like some species of butterfly.

I told Lil,' I need a Dictaphone Lil so i can talk through this' she replied that soon I would find it difficult to talk anyway, surely not me i thought. Teeny tiny needles go in brow furrows and laughter lines they are so tiny they are tapped in with tweezers, By this point there was no way I could count how many I had in me they were everywhere in my neck. my scalp, . and boom... I fall into complete and utter deep relaxation like never before. woah.....

I awake as the pins are plucked out and a beautifully scented natural oil massaged onto my face, I pull myself up from the table and I'm astounded at how calm and relaxed I feel. Then I see for myself in the mirror that my eyes are a startling white (my eyes are never white) and I try to wrinkle up my brow but the furrows I have had forever are resistant to show themselves. My skin looks calm and more even toned my brow appears to have been lifted.

What magic is this!

It takes 12 sessions to complete the process and I have now had 6. The results are AMAZING, I don't know whether I thought that it would work. I couldn't really get my head round how it could work. But my skin is more luminous than when I was 15 pores are tightened, dark circles- what dark circles ? Any scars are fading away, my brows have definitely lifted, its much easier to apply my eyeliner, laughter lines are plumped, vanishing further everyday. I don't need to wear foundation, my skin is tighter but more than anything its the effect it has had on me psychologically that has suprised me the most and I whole heartedly couldn't recommend it enough. I feel centered and if you know me then you can imagine what a feat that is!

So Ill report back when I've had the 12 and until then here is some more informative information for you to read.

Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture helps to improve muscle tone and dermal contraction especially in the face and neck. Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture has been shown to increase collagen production and aids in its dispersal thus helping to firm the skin and fill out wrinkles. Bags and sagging around the eyes, face, and neck can be significantly reduced and toned up. Metabolism is greatly improved through these treatments, resulting in reduced puffiness often to the point of elimination. As Acupuncture can profoundly effect the regulation of hormones in the body, conditions like acne and overly dry skin can be quite improved. By substantially increasing the circulation of blood, lymph, and qi to the head, these treatments improve the complexion noticeably. Healthy facial coloring can be restored and there can be a tightening of the pores. Stress and habitual expressions which are so visible on the face are transformed resulting in a remarkably younger, calmer, and less worn looking face with which to meet the world. Inner beauty, vitality and serenity: all these very obviously visual benefits manifest in the appearance while many pre-existing health conditions are cleared up because Acupuncture works by treating the whole body and addressing the underlying causes of aging and disease.

http://www.luminousbeauty.com/faq.html

In the mean time for more information call Lilja on 07739105885 or email her @
acupuncture@lifeisforlivingwell.co.uk

Doodle and collection...

'THE FACE' A Project of my own cont...more 'Portraits of Luisa.'

A sneak preview of my book that i hope to have online very soon..................
Videos are also on their way.............................................................................

Living Doll - Blocking Out Eyebrows - THE FACE

Here's my Demo from June 2nd, I experimented and blocked out the eyebrows with wax, pressing in copius amounts of powder before full coverage using no sealor or spirit gum. It was a fairly successful method, however I dont think Ill be trying it again. Having no sealor allows the wax to become way too mailable its fine initially but there's no way you could keep it that way throughout a shoot or music video. When you have the sealor its also makes it easier to get a good blend of shadow / pigment.
Matte plastic sealor is the best RCMA the others are just too gloopy and visable.

Make up - me
Model - THE FACE / Luisa Savoia

Doodle and Collection - from Home..