Backstage- the experience

What a great experience it has been today! I can't pin-point exactly what it was, but I think it was a mix of soaking up how to do it, asking lots of questions, feeling the "buzz" and being part of the whole show. I must admit I was really proud of my backstage-pass! :-D

The only downside was that you really don't get the time to do perfect work, like getting rid of cuticles etc... Also, there weren't that many great nails either! Nice faces, nice bodies, but most of the nails were not good. :)

A funny story: I was in the middle of polishing a models nails. We were small-talking and a woman came to get her name. I heard it was a Norwegian name, so I asked her where she was from, and of course, she was from Norway! It was nice to speak Norwegian! :-D

The Osman show

I worked for Marian Newman and her team at this show

I was picked up by David Barton who works at Marian Newmans team, and we walked to the Somerset House where the show was going to be held. It was REALLY hectic when we arrived and I am very happy we came early as we had some problem with getting our passes to get backstage. We finally got the passes for the whole team and waited for Marian to come.

We used Nails-Inc nailpolish which Marian blended very carefully.

Me in action!

LOOK at those SHOES!


This is not from the show, but from the test-round.

London Fashion Week (LFW)

London Fashion Week, the shows I am going to work at:

Here are the shows I am going to work backstage at:

19th Osman Yousefzada
20th Julien McDonald
21st Luella, Aquascutum and Paul Smith
22nd Jonathan Saunders

21st. is going to be HECTIC. We will have to start at 6.30am I am not sure on when we will be finished, but I will assume around 7pm.

I don't have internet-connection in my room-rate, but my iPhone and laptop (and of course my camera) is packed. I am sure I will find places with free wireless!

London Fashion Week instead of Nailympics this year!

After some thinking I have decided to do London Fashion Week instead of the Nailympics. I am going to work at 3 shows, my favorites, the same days as I was going to compete. If competing I could have done only do 1, and I would have lost my favorite.

It was not an easy decision as I feel I am letting myself down by not competing, but after some discussion with people I trust and look up to, it wasn't that difficult anymore. :-D

WHOOOOOOHOOOO, I am so very excited for this event, I can't wait to get to London!

Counting down to London Fashion Week and Nailympics

It's now 10 days until I leave Bergen for London Fashion Week and Nailympics. So far it looks like it is going to be a very, very busy week. Working backstage at LFW AND entering Nailympics in between. However I am really looking forward to get this experience. I just hope I am good enough. It's both exciting and scary...

Diet and beautyfair in Tokyo

Because I knew this was mainly for beauticians and not for nails, as nails have their own exhibition at Friday, I didn't have high expectations for the show. It could have been very interesting if I knew Japanese, but since I don't, it was impossible for me to understand what they said or what they used. I only saw one nail-station, Christrio.

On the other hand, I met a FANTASTIC man, a brow-artist. OMG, he did some fantastic brows! He used a technique I haven't seen before. First he used a special pencil to mark the brows and then he used a scalpel with color and "painted" the hairs on. It looked sooooo real! It's the best I have ever seen! I didn't dare to get my brows done at the show, but he painted my brows with the special pencil (which I bought lots of... :-))

The picture isn't the best...

I tried to Google him, but couldn't find anything. However I have his e-mail address and I am seriously considering going to Singapore to get training with him.