Zimmermann

Hairstylist Sophie Roberts and makeup artist Linda Jeffeyres are pretty much the dream team. And match them with Zimmermann’s ever-gorgeous dresses, well how can you go wrong. The inspiration for the collection was The Beatles’ Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, with its whimsical lyrics about “tangerine trees and marmalade skies”, “girls with kaleidoscope eyes” and “cellophane flowers of yellow and green.” Yes a little bit trippy, but beautiful all the same. As was the show, with its floral and sunshiny printed dresses that look like they should be running through daisy fields.

Linda (working with M.A.C) and Sophie (for ghd) both took their beauty cues from the late 1960s. Over in makeup, Linda channelled Sharon Tate with contoured lids, lashes galore and a pale pink lip – as seen here on the divine Pania Rose (sorry I know it’s a teeny shot). And Sophie was inspired by that ultimate hair icon Brigitte Bardot when creating the textured voluminous styles. She started by working mousse through models’ hair and blasting it dry (not always easy when the models had run late from the previous show with gel-slicked dos). She next back-combed sections with a Mason Pearson brush, then used her ghds to smooth and tame the hair back down a little and to give the ends some flicky swing. It all made for a kind of floaty and airy and slightly static effect, which was actually a lot prettier than that description makes it sound.

Main pic: Sydney Morning Herald

Life with Bird

“Messy up-all-night Kate Moss” was how Darren Borthwick, working for Redken, summed up his hair inspiration. Unfortunately, emulating Ms Moss’s style is not as easy as going on a head-banging bender. This one takes work. It’s a little tricky to explain but here goes … Darren alternated between two curling techniques. On one tier of hair, which was separated into about six sections, he used medium-barrel tongs to clamp kinks along the hair, in effect creating an s-bend type wave. On the next tier, hair was curled in ringlets, by looping it around a vertically held tong. And so on. Until the final effect was a random looking mix of curls and waves. The finishing touch: a dusting of M.A.C gold pigment over the crown, to work back to the models’ gild-edged smoky eyes.

PS – Winners of last week’s Terax competition are Michelle Warwick, Debbie Jenkins, Belinda Yaxley and Katherine Stark. Congratulations! Goodies are on their way.