First up to catch up on is my Colour Trophy Entry, we got through to regionals and ended up coming 5th in the North East! Here are some pictures from the event itself.
Here is our beautiful model Sophie, Aaron who blow dried and styled her hair and myself. I did the colouring.
Only the stylists were allowed on the floor to do the final touches on each model. Aaron was given 25 minutes to make sure Sophie's hair was looking it's absolute best so the colour really stood out.
Our look got a lot of attention from the judges, many of whom kept coming back for a second and third look. We went for a retro futurism idea with her overall look, a future mod or something like that!
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There was also a catwalk show done by L'Oreal's own ID artist team. They showcased their looks while the judges made final deliberations.
I really love the use of a carabina to hold on this models ponytail!
So the first four from each region go through to the grand final in London and we happened to come 5th. An amazing achievement for our first time but it's very frustrating to be so close and yet so far. What we didn't know at that point was all the regional finalists from across the country were entered into the peoples choice award. This was a brand new award this year where all the models pictures were put online and the public could vote. In hindsight if I had been more organised I should have posted about this on here and tried to drum up a few more votes but never mind!
The response to our picture was amazing and we got the email that we had got into the top three, we were going to London!
The awards were held at the Grosvenor Hotel in London and was quite possibly the fanciest event I have ever been to. The ballroom was beautiful, the dinner was lovely and the show itself was amazing. We were treated to displays from Dylan Bradshaw, Richard Ward, Toni and Guy and Trevor Sorbie. Caroline Flack was presenting and the whole evening was truly inspiring.
My place setting, (note the free perfume!) everything was super elegant.
Our wristbands were huge and clunky and we all thought they were a bit odd, until they all lit up during Dylan Bradshaw's show and flashed in time with the music, they also flashed every time a winner was announced.
Biggest surprise of the night was we won! This is from the left, Caroline Flack, Aaron who was the stylist, Sophie our model, Karen who own Contemporary Salons, Me! (colourist) and Jo Hanson MBE.
So overall a really eventful experience. I still can't believe it completely and I'm just so happy to have been a part of it all.
I think that's about enough for one blog post, it feels very long to me now. I'm going to force myself to keep on top of this from now on!
