After what has already been a fantastic year with the Clubstar Art Team we recently had the pleasure of collaborating with BaByliss PRO UK. To work with such a huge brand was an honour and a real highlight of my career so far. Everything about the build up and then the shoot itself was an amazing experience.
So I'm going to take you back (not too far only a fortnight before the shoot) to our initial meeting with BaByliss PRO. We had the pleasure of holding our model casting & creative meeting at Spring Studios in London (such an amazing studio btw). The morning started meeting with brand marketing manager Sandra and PR and media manager Sharon from BaByliss along with our amazing photographer Paul Scala along with clothing stylist Kim and MUA JT. We set about coming up with a concept for our shoot, all of the ideas oozed freshness and a youthful edge that we as a team felt we wanted to express to the industry. So our brief quickly gained that theme "beautiful hair with a youthful edge" with a hint of the grunge textures from the 90's (hey young Kate Moss vibe). Then came the models and boy did they come (and come and come) the afternoon's casting brought so many models to choose from, the process of whittling it down to just 6 was a pretty tough task but we felt the models we chose best suited our brief of youthful and fresh.
SHOOT DAY!
Now I can't drop the actual photos from the shoot just yet but we can all have a look at the behind the scene shots to give you all an idea of what we got up to before we get the official photos back. So I had the pleasure of working with the wonderful Charlie from established model agency. Working with the new range of BaByliss PRO tools "titanium expression" I got to work creating my looks, first of all working with very 'undone' waves working with a large tong running the rings along the hair in an up and down motion (picture a yo-yo action) and then dry shampoo like Kevin Murphy - Fresh Hair to give me an airy texture. My second look working with hair extensions to create false fringes, extensions for me are so essential when it comes to shoot days as 99% of agency models are not able to allow you to cut their own hair so having a pack of false hair piece's can really allow you create your own looks without upsetting an agency!. Once Charlie was in front of the camera I just fell in love with the vibe we had going on which is why I'm super excited for the images to be released!
I feel what we created that day as a team really pushed what we had been doing beforehand to another level and hopefully people will see that in October at Salon International where we will be showcasing the amazing year we have had representing the fellowship for British hairdressing's Clubstar artistic team. As soon as the images are in the press you guys will be able to check them out on here! Keep your eyes peeled
Liam Paul
