Hearing that Vidal Sassoon died last week, sent a funny feeling through me as as I reminisced about this famous hairdresser who had now departed us. It was like when you hear an old record and it takes you back to a certain time in your life well, this was the same for me. I [...]

Had a great lunch with Christina today ( one of the other wedding hair and make-up artists that work with Claire Wallace Hairdressing ) and we were throwing some ideas around re doing some training for vintage themed hair and make-up. This we thought would be for either other professionals or people just wanting to [...]

Working with Lesley to day at Pelham House ( she did the wedding hair and I did all the make-up ) on Sarah’s wedding party, was another very successful morning. When you are working with a party of people, obviously you are working with different ages which means you need to adapt the make-up accordingly. [...]

I was already booked on this particular date when the wedding enquiry at the Globe Theatre London came in. How ever, i was happy to be able to book Camilla to do the brides wedding hair instead of me. What an amazing location to get married though! I must say I was just a little [...]

Working locally in Brighton on Friday was actually really nice change as It’s quite normal for me to be doing weddings and in some country location. Doing Vicki and her 2 bridesmaids hair and make-up went really well and they all looked lovely by the time I was finished. All the ladies had MAC make-up [...]

I think a great afternoon was had by all on Saturday whilst I taught 10 lovely ladies some basic ideas about make-up. The great thing about make-up is that most women like and wear it. The brief was to teach some natural make-up. So I had a model ( the lovely Dawn! ) and I [...]

Really looking forward to going to the 2012 wedding industry awards next week, being held at the Cafe De Paris in London. Sadly we didn’t win but we did get in the top ten for our region which was fantastic. So, I can only say a massive thank you again to those who supported us. [...]

Arriving out side the London address to meet Louise on Saturday, gave nothing away about what lay behind the big blue doors to then reveal the beautiful19th century gentleman’s club “Brooks”. As this was a private members club, we felt fairly privileged at having the opportunity of working with the bride and her party on [...]

One of the things that I frequently notice whilst doing clients make-up, is that often the eye area gets missed whilst moisturising. To apply good make-up, it really makes a great deal of difference in the application and final result If you daily apply a really good eye cream. Eye make-up can take on a [...]

I just want to say “A big thank you” to all those lovely people who have voted for me under the wedding hair and wedding make-up category for the 2012 wedding industry awards. The great news is, we’ve now been notified that we have been shortlisted under both categories and look forward to the award [...]

The intoxicating sketches of corseted gowns are a hint of things to come, for the very first full Vivienne Westwood bridal collection which debuts at the luxury wedding show London. The 20 gowns which will be available at the Davies Street boutique in London from November, cost from £3,000. I don’t doubt there will be [...]

What an amazing achievement it was for Sarah Burton to be named Designer of the year by the influential style magazine Harpers Bazaar.  last night at the award ceremony held at Claridges Hotel in London, Miss Burton who is the creative director of the fashion brand Alexander McQueen, clinched the award at the fashion magazine’s [...]

I just want to say how pleased we are of having Camilla recently join our team of professional wedding hair and make-up artists. Camilla covers Oxford, Essex and Hertfordshire. Camilla trained at the renowned “Grease Paint” school. She not only creates beautiful wedding hair and make-up, but also works in many other aspects of the [...]

Meeting up with the girls on Monday evening was a lovely opportunity to get together with some of the other hair and make-up artists that I work with. Some times, when you’re self employed, It’s a bit of a lonely place to be. So, I thought It would be a really nice thing to arrange [...]

Going to Somerset on Wednesday, certainly was a well planned event to do Jade’s wedding hair and make-up. We actually had done Jade’s sisters wedding on about 6 weeks previous and as a result of that, they wanted to book us to do Jade’s wedding as well. To be honest, I was really looking forward [...]

Driving through the Kent country side to get to the wedding that I was doing on Saturday, was a reminder to me of how beautiful that part of the world is. Arriving at the hotel, I was pleasantly surprised to find the room that I was working in was a lovely bright room, really set [...]

Creating the next Claire Wallace hair and make-up video is definitely in my sights for the not too distant future. The response from previous videos has been very positive so to make some thing equally as good, if not better is certainly a challenge. Looking in to the camera, not laughing, twitching or repeating my [...]

Hungry for inspiration and a desire to learn, has always been the motivation for my continual crusade for training and development. Going to London yesterday to MAC’s new creative academy was as impressive as ever. Neil Young was a talented make-up artist for sure and whilst we sat watching for the hour and a half [...]

Arriving to meet Sara at the Great Fosters Hotel for the first time on Saturday was a real WOW factor and what an amazing way to start the day by working at this incredible location. Sara’s wedding hair and make-up was themed around a 30′s vintage style and spending the time to get her ready [...]

Arriving early on Saturday morning at Amberley Castle, even though I had worked there many times before the site of this amazing building, never failed to impress me. That’s what I love about my job, not only can I be part of my brides wedding day, but I get to enjoy some of the amazing [...]

Meeting Sara for her wedding hair and make-up trial yesterday was a really enjoyable experience. Sara excitedly explained that she was getting married at The Great fosters Hotel in Surrey and what a wonderful place it was and how she was trying to create a vintage 30′s theme. Sara told me, having searched for some [...]

Having done the wedding photo shoot with Kathryn the other Sunday and now viewing the finished photos from that shoot, I just want to say what an amazing job Kathryn did and how artistic and imaginative she was to work with. I see many photographers, I see how they are to work with and what [...]

Meeeting with Spen and Rose yesterday in Browns for lunch, was a really great experience. Not only is Sev an amazing hairdresser, but he and his wife are agreat team and head up their company ” Hepburn Collection”. Sev is passionate about his work and as we soon got chatting, it became apparent that although [...]

By Jacqueline Le Huec Having surreptitiously planned my own wedding inside my head for as far back as I can remember, despite not during most of that time having found someone happy to marry me, it was comforting to find out that I am part of a majority. Academics1 writing on the subject of weddings [...]

Woke up at 8 o’clock, had 3 hours sleep but feel fresh as a daisy. Brain wouldn’t switch off! Can’t understand why I’m not feeling like the living dead, but very pleased. Dad brings up a cup of tea, a quick shower and put on my nice new comfy white PJs and bath robe. Lovely. [...]