Backstage at the Aladdin Photoshoot

5/7/2014

A few Mondays ago we converted our spare room into a photo studio!

The lovely photographer Andy Starwarz was taking pics of me all dressed up in ma sexy Ifrit finery for the upcoming Aladdin show!

(And if you haven't bought your tix yet, get on it as they are selling like hot cakes! You can buy em' here.)

Why HELLO there. Headdress by me, awesome crimpy Boudicca hair and photo by Mairead Kelly

Pic by Mairead Kelly

Our trusty mermaid hairdresser Mairead Kelly was on hand to attend to crimping my mass of hair, help direct the photography (and as a student of mine, part of me suspects she was having a great time putting me in awkward poses on purpose as revenge for all that plank and squats we do in Level 3!) and take pics for Twitter and Instagram: You can follow her (she loves posting about all the mermaid shenanigans we get up to) here.

I had spent the weekend trawling around Cambridge looking for red eye makeup - proper bad ass red powder, or liner, or glitter, but alas! there was none to be found, from Inglot to Superdrug, Debenhams to Mac. Apparently normal people don't want red eyes for some reason. So I improvised and used lip liner while I wait for stuff to come in from the internet. I think it worked pretty dang well!

I love the photos from this shoot and think they are fab - have a sneaky peek at a couple of the edited photos below!