Rocks for Frocks 2015 campaign in Liverpool

Another great shoot I was part of for Rocks for Frocks, on this occasion I again worked with the designer Gail Bell for her 2015/16 designs, Carol Ellis-Thompson created the amazing hair designs and the photographer this time was the very wonderful Herve Gillet, who is based in the Liverpool Wedding House with Gail.  Gowns again were supplied by Cloud 9 Bridal who are also in the Wedding House.

We used various locations for this shoot, but the main location was the Cunard building which graces the famous Liverpool waterfront.  It just so happened that this location was part of the historic event that weekend with the 3 Cunard ships docking in Liverpool, so it was perfect timing for our shoot.

Model was the very beautiful Lucy who had the perfect look for our vision with her stunning Auburn/red hair, we wanted to create a more unique look for this shoot, slightly vintage to reflect the vintage styling of the pieces and in the final looks we went more avant garde.

The final locations for the shoot where the Liverpool Pier head and the Dock Road outside of the Titanic Hotel.

Carol created some beautiful soft updo's and romantic curls and some of the images and looks had a Edwardian quality to them.

Here is a run down on the products I used.

Many of the headpieces on this shoot had slight colour in them so on this occasion rather than nudes and browns I wanted to inject a bit more colour in the looks.




Base - Lucy had really porcelain skin and many of the bases I had were too yellow in tone and too warm, so the colour I used was 01 and 02 from Illamasqua Skin base which was perfect for her I was concerned that what I used in terms of contour would be too warm again for her skin as most contour has too much bronze in it.  On this occasion I used a 02 on its own  in the illamasqua skin base and blended in with my beauty blender,  I did not want to create any strong contour.


Eyes - We decided on soft pinks for the eyes and we started the look by using Urban Decay Naked Pallette, I then moved adding a bit of a burgundy/brick tone from my Illamasqua Empower palette.  For the final look I used a Lit Glitter not to look glittery as its hard for glitter to show up on photos but to give the eyes a wetlook sheen, the tone I used was the Cowgirl shade.

Cheeks - I used a pink blush from my custom made Inglot palette.

Lips - I made a custom blended lipstick on each of the looks with my Le Maqpro palette which can be used on both cheeks and lips and I love it.

I love this shoot and the images I use as my main picture on all my advertising because all the pictures are beautiful and timeless.