THE L'OREAL FIBROLOGY REVIEW

Happy Sunday Everyone! Hope we're all doing well, this week I thought I would do a little review for you guys. Now I might be a little late to jump on the bandwagon with L'oreal Paris' revolutionary Fibrology thickening products but Boots had them on sale and I had just ran out of my current haircare so I though I would pick them up!

 

My hair has become quite limp and lifeless lately and I've been going into a panic because my hair is also getting thinner ... and so I've been on the hunt for the perfect shampoo and conditioner to bring it back to life! So far I have used the Lee Stafford Hair Growth line and the Caffeine Shampoo from Alpecin both of which I felt were so and so, let me know if you would like a more in depth review of them. Back to Fibrology I have been using it for about two weeks now and I'm a bit 50/50 on it. After a few uses I can feel the thickness in my hair which is amazing ... although it doesn't look too different at the moment but I guess its going to take more than two weeks for that. Another plus is that it smells heavenly! Its a citrusy/sweet scent that lingers in your hair after you've washed which is super good for something you can get quite cheap! Now for the not so good bits ... it's really drying. I don't know about you guys but the conditioner normally moisturises my hair after shampooing but after leaving the shower you can feel that your scalp is quite dry so that's quite a disappointing factor for me. Fortunately I have a way around this, honestly the results of the instant thickness was too good for me to just give up on this product and so I take extra measures to boost the moisture back into my hair! Once I've blow dried my hair I pop some coconut oil in, at the moment I am using one from The Body Shop there's a little review here if you want to have a nose! But in short it is a life saver, it's perfect to add a huge boost of moisture back in to your hair if it's feeling dry. Not only that it leaves it feeling super soft and shiny! Using these products together has made a massive difference to my hair but if I had not have used the coconut oil I don't think I would buy the shampoo and conditioner again because I think it's important to keep your hair healthy. If you guys have tried the Fibrology range leave a comment below with your thoughts I would love to hear your opinions!

THE PORTFOLIO - THE VINTAGE REFLECTION EDITION

So I am back again today with another edition of 'The Portfolio' however this is gonna be the last one for a while because .. well ... I need to do some more shoots! I would love to know if you guys have any ideas for me! I can always do with a bit of inspiration! Today's post is a shoot I did with a lovely friend I used to work with, Georgina Hitch-Bramwell, she had seen a few of my shoots and wanted to work together to create a vintage inspired shoot! I was super excited because the theme was something I had not done before, so straight away I started doing some research. When I think of vintage I instantly think of Dita Von Teese, I absolutely love her look and I knew that she would be the inspiration behind the make-up and hair. I created a face chart to plan out the look, in the end I kept it very classic with a bold red lip, neutral eye with a cut-crease and some winged liner! To me when I think of the era I think of matte light skin, George loves a bit of tannage and so it took some convincing to get her to let me pale her skin down ...lol! Once we had the look grounded we started to think about the look in terms of the outfit. George had this beautiful black 50's style dress with an underlay of tulle, which added a lot of body to the dress and created this amazing silhouette. To finish off the outfit we added a red tulle scarf, I thought this really rounded the look and tied in the colours! For the hair I did a lot of research to figure out how to create a victory roll, can I say it was really tricky but in the end it worked so well,  What really helped was that George has red hair and once we curled the rest it looked so shiny and sleek! Hope you guys love! 

   

Stylist, Photographer, Hair and Make-up - Primal | Model - Georgina Hitch-Bramwell

THE PORTFOLIO - THE ANDROGYNY EDITION

Hi guys! Hope you guys have been having a good day! Another random shoot to talk about today! Me and Emma had so much fun with the other shoot that we had to do another one, we needed a theme and if I remember rightly it was Emma that had done a bit of research and came across an image that inspired us. It was a grungy London look based on androgyny, straight away we knew we wanted to create something like that too! So we got together at her house and started playing around with some looks, Emma is really good at styling so I was so glad that I was able to work with her again! She created a very structured look which was very bold but still had that feminine touch, we went for monochrome throughout the styling to keep the look clean and sharp. For the hair I created a very high quiff but then kept the rest of the hair poker straight! I created a bold but simple grey smokey eye for the make-up with some eyeliner to keep the eye grounded and deep set. The rest of the face we kept quite clean with the exception of some contour! I was so happy with the results and I really hope you guys like them too!

    

Hair, Make-up and Photographer - Primal Majithia | Model and Stylist - Emma Szkudlapska

THE PORTFOLIO - THE BOHEMIAN SUMMER EDITION

Hey Guys! Today I am back with the Bohemian Edition of my Portfolio! So this is one of my first shoots which wasn't for a project and was literally just me and my friend having an amazing fashion filled day! I had done quite a few shoots by this point and I wanted to start doing them just a bit more randomly so I got together with one of my friends Emma and we did a shoot! Now Emma has a really good eye for fashion and she helped with a lot of the styling for this shoot. She picked out this amazing Grecian dress from Topshop and that helped us plan the theme of the shoot, we knew we wanted to do something very ethereal and boho-like! So when planning the Make-Up I looked at very warm browns and neutral eyeshadows, I knew I wanted a smoky-eye and I think I ended up using an eye-shadow quad from Avon. When we were planning this shoot GHD had just released the shoot they had done with Katy Perry and they had a boho look they did and that was what mainly inspired the hair on the shoot. We added some loose curls to the hair and had two plaits that went across Emmas' forehead, to add more texture we also added an extra plait amongst the curls and to keep it boho we used some cotton to finish off the plait! The location for our shoot was Knighton Park in Leicester it was an amazing day and the sun was out so we had amazing lighting! Let me know what you guys think of how they turned out!

     

Hair, Make-up and Photographer - Primal Majithia | Model and Stylist - Emma Szkudlapska

THE PORTFOLIO - THE BEDAZZLED EDITION

Hiya guys! I'm back again today with another peak into my portfolio, I really do hope you guys are enjoying these! This specific one took me right outside my comfort zone, I'm never really one to use super bright colours in my pieces and so when our tutor bought us the brief 'Cyber Florals' it's safe to say I was super nervous. We were told to use super bright colours as our inspiration to create some shift dresses. Now if there's one vibrant colour that I am drawn to, it would definitely be teal! So my designs began using teal as my base, I thought it would then be easier to match other colours. But the thing about bright colours is that they don't have to match and you have a lot more creativity! So i just looked at the fabric selection and picked up one of everything! Once I had my fabrics ... believe me fabric was like currency in the room! You had to take it or it was gone! Anyway, as I was saying, once I had my fabrics I sat down and started designing. I created four different designs, let me know what you guys think!

 

My favourite out of the four was the last one, which probably explains why I started to colour it in! No idea why I didn't finish it. As I said earlier I used teal for the base of my shift dress and then I chose lots of random bright fabrics to make the rest of the design. To create the globes of colour I used bondaweb to attach all the different patches together, I then used the sewing machine to stitch around the edges and also to create some texture! Once the dress was complete it was used in the Gateway College Fashion Show, but I had to steal it away afterwards to do a shoot! I knew I wanted to create something extravagant and so I asked one of my best friends to do the Hair and Make-up and she did an amazing job! We took inspiration from the colours we used for the eyes and left the lips bare to keep the drama on the eyes and the dress! The eyebrows were inspired by Ke$has' video for 'We R Who We R' but instead of studs we used sequins! Hope you guys love!

  

Hair and Make-up - Arti Patel | Model - Kelly Seare | Photographer, Stylist and Designer - Primal Majithia

THE PORTFOLIO - THE GOLDEN SNOW EDITION

Hi guys! So we've had such a good week with the release of out Etsy Store! But we're back today with the third installment of The Portfolio and today is a super good one! So again this shoot took place a few years ago when I was still at college and this particular project was called Angels, Love Letters, Love Tokens and Treasure Boxes. That was a right mouthful! So anyway, I decided to roll with the love letters part of the brief and started looking at old books with love letters. Now nearly everything I created in my Foundation year was geared towards fashion in some way and so I started to look into how I could link love letters to fashion! One of the tutors was experimenting with magazine pages and calico! She took the calico and applied a whole lot of white acrylic paint on top, she then took the magazinge page and laid in top. After this had dried she scrubbed the magazine paper off with some water and a sponge, the image on the page had transferred onto the calico fabric! Now what I did was take that idea and transferred the love letters onto the calico instead of using pages from a magazine! Now this did not work in excactly the same way, I think part of this is because the magazine pages are glossy whereas the book pages are matte. But either way it worked, and looked amazing! At this point I had already decided that I was going to use the fabric to create some origami flowers, I had been practicing for days to make sure I would get it right. But I still needed something to link the flowers to fashion. One of my main inspirations in the fashion world is millinery legend Phillip Treacy, he is known for creating some of the most amazing hats and headpieces and after looking at his work I knew I wanted to create something using his work to inspire me! And that's exactly what I did! Add some feathers, tassles and my origami flowers and you end up with something a little like this! Hope you guys like! Let me know what you guys think in the comments!

Hair and Make-up - Zkia Sheikh | Model - Kelly Seare | Photographer, Stylist and Designer - Primal Majithia