Master Class

Hello and welcome to my latest blog about  Master Classes offering an insight into what goes on behind the scene's when I'm working. I'll show you how I get celebrity clients ready for a photo shoot, red carpet event etc. I will demonstrate on a model a classic look, I have made many familiar faces and I tailor them to create an individuality for each client. You will get an insiders view on how this is done and how you can create new and interesting looks for yourself.

I'll be doing two demonstrations, the first will be a classic celebrity style look which will involve flawless skin and contouring of the face, defining your brows and applying eye shadow and lipstick correctly. The second look will be a fun party make up that you can do from  office to evening glamour!

There will be an opportunity at the end of the class to ask me any questions regarding the industry.

If you would like to book we have a promotion running if you book before the end of October, please contact issy@insanitygroup.com for bookings. I look forward to meeting you!

Here is a link to my Facebook Master Class page, if you like it that would be great, I will be putting updates on there regularly! http://www.facebook.com/LyndseyHarrisonMasterclass?fref=ts

Max Clifford's online channel Exclusive TV

Today is very exciting for me because my make up tutorials that I began 2 years ago in my bedroom on my Macbook have now taken the interest of Max Cliffords associate's http://maxclifford.com/. They have asked me to come in and re- create them in their studio for their online channel called Exclusive TVhttp://www.exclusivetv.co.uk/.
I've filmed 8 so far a combination of Holiday make up, Celeb looks including Cheryl Cole and Mila Kunis, Wedding make up etc. The first one is out today! It's quick make up under 10mins!  http://bit.ly/NtxoaR

I'm thrilled with the video and I can't wait to see the rest of the series! I really hope you all enjoy them too and please tweet me with any looks you would like to see. I will also be holding a Q&A soon so if you have any questions about make up that you would like answered please tweet!

Thank you all for watching and tweeting because if you didn't watch and enjoy them I wouldn't be filming them, it's all for you! Sharing the make up love:)

Crown Brushes and Palettes

I've recently been supplied with some new palettes and lots of new make up brushes by a great company called Crown Brush! I had to wait a couple of weeks to blog about them because i needed to use them all, the Palettes have only just arrived so i'm yet to have used them so i'll give you an update when i do but i love the make up brushes, they are great for people who are just building there kit and can't afford some of the more expensive brands. I think it's nice to have a mix of different brands in your kit, i particularly like the blending brushes. You really need a good foundation brush in your kit and blending brushes, some things like blusher brushes you can get away with the quality not being as good but if you have bad blending brushes you really can't make eye make up look good, you need approx 3 when you are working on eye's(well that's what i get through)whist doing a make up, other wise you get left with harsh lines where the shadow isn't blended out. Also i use blending brushes as concealer brushes under the eye, it's more comfortable for the client and it gives more of an airbrush effect and keeps the concealer application light, you don't want heavy concealer under the eye's it can sit in the creases otherwise. Have a look yourself http://www.crownbrush.co.uk/ Here is the blending brush i like http://www.crownbrush.co.uk/shop/brushes/blending-brush/c433-pro-blending-fluff.html

Tim and Phils boot camp

Hey girls and boys, if you are thinking of shaping up for summer or forever as Tim would tell me....;0 then try out Tim&Phil's boot camp. Just a warning you will ache like hell the next day but it's only 30 minutes of pain so it does feel s a bit more bearable, you could even go on your lunch break! #justathought
Here is all the info you need to! http://www.sexyinthecitybootcamps.co.uk/

Here's me making a tit of myself doing it!;)

Lana Del Rey

Hey everyone, OK this blog is all about Lana Del Rey! She's SO hot right now! I know a lot of people think she is contrived and maybe she is but who cares, she looks amazing and i love her style! I was asked to film a tutorial of how to re create her iconic hair and make up by a magazine called FREE. You can get it on flights(good news if your going away....bad times if your not), I've yet to have seen the magazine but my friend saw it on her holiday last week and is going to bring me one back:) I've just added in my favorite image of her and then I've added the videos's i made if you are yet to have seen them and want to get the look! The video is of her classic look not the image i uploaded, this one's a bit more full on, although i may do a tutorial on it too soon....feeling the Lana Love right now....can you tell!! 

Danielle Lloyd's Wedding Make up

I had the honor of being asked to do my friend and client Danielle Lloyd's Make up on her Wedding Day to Jamie O'Hara. It was such a beautiful day, Dan was so lucky with the weather. I had previously done a trial and knowing Dan's skin well from previous hoots it was quite straight forward. She wanted to look natural with her skin but her eye's to be defined. She has great skin so that was easy. I've made a YouTube tutorial with all the products in that i used. I was invited to the day which was amazing, she turned up fashionably late to the church and then during the ceremony there was a couple of unplanned words from Archie(her son)haha. Then we had Champs&Canapes whilst we waited to be seated. I gave Dan a quick make up touch up and the OK Magazine look lot's of Pic's See below, by the fabulous photographer Abi! Whilst waiting there was a caricature going around and she drew me, i'll have to dig it out and add it to the blog.

Then we sat down to lunch and it was amazing! Salmon selection to start followed by Fillet steak and fat boy chips and desert was cheesecake...i think! The speeches were really emotional, i  won't go into detail a s it personal but they were lovely then they had these opera singer's, there were 3 and they were battling out as to who was best! It was really funny, i'm not doing it justice with that description but trust me they were!

Right Then we went over to the evening venue and Dan was presented with a gift from Jamie......wait for it....a white Bentley! Pretty decent gift me thinks! ha:) If you read OK mag you probably know some of this already.

Evening guests included Lydia Bright, Amy Childs, etc. I forgot to mention all day guests included Katie Price, Michelle Heaton, Lizzy Cundy etc. So then we partied the night away, i gave Dan a few more lip gloss touch ups and Katie's little girl Princess asked for some lip gloss too! Sooo cute! Then we moved from that venue at midnight to a proper late night one and then we boogied there for a bit and headed home! All round  FUN!!

I've made a tutorial of the make up so you can re create it for your own Wedding day!

My favorite tanning products

I filmed this video before i had met Abi from BeauBronze and i'm actually now loving there products too. But i still adore St Tropez, and there are lots of great tips in this video for achieving instant tan/glow. I work on a lot of photo shoots and it's really important to give a beautiful glow to the skin and not just the face, you need to think about everything. So i show all my tips for getting an instant glow and an instant tan! It's for all skin types not just bronzing tanned skin but for fair skin too. Here is the video below!

The girl behind the camera of my YouTube video's!

Natalia films and edits my video's for YouTube, she's literally a blessing because i'm not techy at all and would never have been able to move them forward without her help!
Natalia also has a blog which is fantastic and really worth checking out if you want nice things but want to save money(don't we all). There are so many handy tips on her blog. http://cheapchicobsession.com/
She is fantastic and i hope you all have a little nose at her blog and enjoy it as much as i do!:)

Kim Kardashian

Hi people, i decided to do a Kim Kardashian tutorial last, because it's always requested! It's now available on my YouTube channel to watch. There are so many different looks to choose from when i googled Kim, so i tried to go for something very classic. I hope you enjoy it and keep the suggestions coming!! I do feel a bit ming in this video, no make up and my tan has faded, need to get a bit of self tan on! And on that note i also did a tan video which is coming soon.....:)

Babyliss

As a hair stylist i have to be prepared for all sorts of hair looks on shoots. I also have to work with all different hair types and textures. I've been through all sorts of brands and i have to say i really favour Babyliss. I have 3 of the tongs. This tong is amazing for creating sort curls, i use it a lot on my clients and i used this to create Lucy Mecks hair last week for her Bikini launch. http://www.babyliss.co.uk/stylers_2287bu.html

I also use this tong a lot too http://www.babyliss.co.uk/stylers_2307u.html this is great for clients like Zoe Hardman and Louise Roe who have more of a softer wave, i have made a YouTube tutorial demonstrating how to achieve this, i've put the video at the bottom of this page! Here are some images of the girls after i have used it on there hair!

Babyliss are amazing and very affordable, i would highly recommend them!

Tracie Giles BROW LOVE

When i first met Tracie i thought she was a bit crazy but in a very interesting way, she reminded me a lot of myself! I had heard such good reports on Tracie by Lydia Bright and Lucy Meck. I decided to book in for my eye brows and i have never looked back. My brows were always un even and sparse, now they are absolutely perfect! I went into the clinic feeling nervous but within minutes i was put at ease by Tracie and in fits of giggles with her and her PR Lucy Dartford! She started by drawing the shape on so i could see what they will look like and then when i was happy she started the process. I've loved them so much that i've recommended them to my celebrity clients. Since I've had my brows done I've brought in Danielle Lloyd, Louise Roe, Georgia Horsley and Jessica Wright. I just can't help but talk it up because i genuinely love them and i know know how fab Tracie is!

COACHELLA 2012

This year i went to Coachella music festival with some friends...including Kirsty Williams who is Director of Insanity where i am managed and Zoe Hardman who's a Presenter, you will have seen her on The Gossip with Mark Wright on ITV2. So that's a bit about my holiday partners. We all flew out separately, and I don't really like flying so I always need a large vino to get on the plane, me and Kirsty were flying at the same time but she was with Virgin and i was with BA. Well jammy Kirsty sends me a text to say she's been bumped up to first class! I had possibly the worst seats sat in the middle of two non attractive men! Then i get another text from Kirst to say Will.I.am is sat virtually next to her! I was like this is pants!!!
Anyway we got there safe which is the main thing and Kirsty picked up the hire car picked me up and we had a quick change and headed straight to Soho house for dinner with the rest of the Coachella crew who were Andy Varley CEO of Insanity, Steve Toms he sells alcohol, (i've not given a very good job description, forgot the company name, sorry Stevo), another Andy(Martinus) wanna say he's in finance could be wrong and Nick Bury...totally lovely chap but i have completely forgotten what he does and don't ask me why i'm putting in job descriptions! I did with Kirst&Zo so know i feel i better for the boys too! Also we were joined by Jesse Metcalfe who I'd  not met before. So anyway everyone knows he's extremely hot and i did possibly the worst introductory ever! I went to shake his hand and ended up just holding his thumb and then when we went to kiss on the cheek we both went in the same direction, so it was like i was going in for a snog! When we sat down to eat him and his girlfriend sat next to me...and i just had to say 'i'm really sorry about that weird hand shake thing i just did' and he was so nice and funny, he said 'i know...i was so embarrassed i did that earlier today!' It was a great evening and we all had a ruddy lovely time.
So the next day we headed out of LA to Palm Springs for Coachella! We had a quick pistop to pick up Jackie big tits as i like to call her and let me tell you it was snug in that wagon, 3in the back, 3 in the middle...well one booster seat for the very ickle ZoZo and K-dawg and Varly riding up front! It takes a few hours to get there but there were 8 of us so we were keeping quite a bit of banter up on the road trip! Kirsty was the driver, she's a bit of a pro at driving on the wrong side of the road! Normally i do that by accident in England!
Ok arrived checked in and now we had to get into outfit number 1 of 3 and head off into the blazing heat!!! For me it was a blue maxi dress, I've attached a pic!
The moment you arrive(if you haven't) been before is quite epic! It's this amazing view of mountains and palm trees and huge rotating flower and a Ferris wheel(which i did go on, with some random person when i got lost for a few hours)!!! http://www.coachella.com/
Day 2 we did catch a few rays before we got ready and had a BBQ at the boys apartment which looked like something out of cribs and made our apartment look like a hostel. After the scrummy BBQ which was cooked by Andy&Andy we then headed back to the festival. We didn't camp we were staying in a nearby hotel, i can't imagine camping in that heat! Again totally EPIC.
Day 3 was just amazing!!! When it ended and they had the hologram of Tupac that moment was so surreal!! It was just such an amazing send off and Snoop Dogg played Young, Wild and Free and it is THE official Coachella song for us!! The words say it all!!!
Then Kirsty arranged for us to go to an after party where Florence+The Machine was playing to a small crowd it was just the perfect end to an awesome week end!
Highlights were Arctic Monkeys, Black Keys, Calvin Harris, Florence+The Machine,Gotye,Snoop Dogg, Dre, 50 cent,Radiohead.....the list is endless!! Roll on 2013 COACHELLA!
EPIC moments-Me Jumping on Jackie's sunnies thinking they were someone else's(well who needs lens anyway!)
-Creating a group name for the 4 boys 'Wrong Direction'
-Going missing for a few hours and when the gang found me i said 'the thing is i'm not even that drunk'FYI i have no recollection of saying that!
-Meeting Justin&Jeremy two legends and they supplied me with the amazing head piece which i now have at home!
-Pulling up at a drive through atm and all 8 of us getting cash out, the american girl behind goes 'Are you f***ing kidding me'
-Getting my wrist band checked and the man says'KEEP IT TIGHT DOT COM'
-When the festival finished we danced outside the car to the radio...we just couldn't except it was over:(
-Zoe popping to the loo and coming back with photo booth images of getting a smacker from a fitty!
-On the way to the festival and Andy Varley says, turn round Lynds, Steve has a surprise for you! You can imagine the rest.

Nature Valley-Amy Childs&Millie Mackintosh

Yesterday I worked with Frank PR on a project for Nature Valley. It was really good fun....basically I was doing hair&make up for Amy Childs and Millie Mackintosh and then they were taking part in relay! They really got stuck in and put on these inflatable tractors and jumped over hay! I was very impressed considering they are both so glamourous and the weather wasn't great!
I've worked with Amy a lot and she is such a sweetie, it was the first time I have worked with Millie and she was absolutely lovely! So all in all a fab day! Here are some images below:)

BeauBronze Spray Tan/Make up Certificate!

Hi all, so today I went to Putney to do a course in Airbrushing. I was taught by this amazing lady called Abi how to spray tan and contour the body to create definition...i.e. abs and exaggerate colour bones! This will be really handy on my shoots!
Abi works on some fantastic show's such as Dancing on Ice and Peter Andre's new show, so to be trained by her is a real honour.
She said i picked it up really easily which was great! I loved it, can't wait to get spraying now, just need to order my airbrush kit!
I've attached some images of my new tan, I should have taken a before picture but I was being stupid and forgot:(
The beauty with these products is there are 3 types of tan 1. for everyone to look sunkissed, 2. for pink toned skin(ideal for paler skin tones)and 3. for dark skin tones. You also have a product which is instant make up, which is these drops and they give you an instant colour if you were going out that same evening and needed an immediate tan which would not come off on your clothes but does wash off.
For more information visit Abi's website and you can visit one of her stores to book in and try it for yourself!:)

http://beaubronz.co.uk/

To follow her on twitter it's

https://twitter.com/BeauBronz

FAMOUS event

Hey all, i was invited to the Rose Club on Wednesday evening for an event held by Make up Artist Sue Moxleyhttps://twitter.com/Suemoxley who own's the make up brand FAMOUS. It was great, they had various artists performing such as Jazz from The Voice!....love him, that voice is amazing!! And i was chatting to a lady called Abi who runs a company called BeauBronzehttps://twitter.com/AbiBeauBronz, she's currently working on Peter Andre's show. Abi is going to train me on Tuesday in Spray tan! I'm quite excited!! I do love a tan, and i'll do a blog about it but this is all mixed in different tones so it enhances your natural colour! It will be handy on shoots to airbrush my clients! AND in the goodie bag was this amazing lipgloss with a light on it so you can do your lippy in the dark on a night out! PURE GENIUS!https://twitter.com/FamousCosmetics

What's in MY Handbag:)

Soooo here we go with another blog!! This is my latest Youtube video which is called 'Whats in my Handbag'! The bronzer is actually Sun Power by MAC i thought it was Sun kissed but i was tired/stupid.com that day! Hope you enjoy it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SwDlv4Ht5Q

Pixiwoo doing a tutorial on my Amy Childs Make up

Hey all i'm blogging away now! 2nd one today! Pixiwoo who if you don't know you should, have today posted a video of an Amy Childs inspired make up after i met them last week at a MAC party! The video is fab and i've posted the link and the link to there blog of the original image i sent them. Sam did a fantastic job as always at re creating it!

http://pixiwoo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/mac-pro-to-pro-and-amy-childs-make-up.html

SoHotRightNails

Hey everyone this is my first blog!! Very exciting/confusing! I have had a fab week and met an amazing Nail tech called Bel and i'm going to share with you my nails they are HOT!!!