Saturday,
one week ago I was so lucky that I had been invited to the Curvissa
Plus Port Event in London in collaboration with Curve Project London. We had
to come to the event with no make up and to say it the least I felt
like an albino. My eyebrows and eyelashes are so fair that they are
hardly visible without make up. I met up with most of the plus size
bloggers before hand as I was waiting for Leah to come. I had
promised to wait for her at the train station.
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| Scary Albino Me!! |
We were the
first ones to arrive and we were met by lovely Sarah who gave us a
love purple garland and a lovely drink. I even took a photo of it
with my phone and you can also see my albino face!! :)
After
waiting around with the other blogger babes and competition winners
I
was in the first group to do catwalk training and in my group were
Becky, Leah and two beautiful girls from Greece that had won a
competition to come. I had been looking forward to everything, but
all of a sudden I got a bit scared. We had Les Child as our
choreographer and he was a funny man. Very friendly, but strict too.
But I felt at ease, so I relaxed quickly. He said to me when it was
my first turn. “You have modelled before so show us how to do it”
I said “I haven’t done this kind of modelling before”, but I
did quite well first time. The only thing was Les said to me to use
my arms more. We rehearsed and rehearsed and we were told “chin up”
the whole time. We first trained doing solo catwalk and then in a
line with the other in the group. Les said to me, “Anne-Lise you
are in the middle so work it”. It was hard work, but good
fun.
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| Catwalk training |
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| Catwalk training for one of the groups |
After
the catwalk training we went into the styling room and was met by two
lovely and helpful girls from the Curve Project London team. In the
styling room there were lots of colourful clothes from the new range
from Curvissa. I looked through the clothes and soon saw some
leggings that was very me in cute pastel colours, but I couldn’t
find anything in my size to team it with. Started to panic a bit, but
then Becky came to my rescue. She found me this lovely black dress
with zips on. I tried it on and it fitted me perfectly. I already had
black footless tights on and one of the girl stylists helped me find
shoes and found these lovely shoes. Patent kind of a marble print ballerina shoes. They were perfect match for my dress.
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| Dress <3 |
After
we had changed we had to wait around for the other girls to finish
with hair and make up, but that gave us a good chance to catch up
with the other girls. Cause some of the best about events is to
socialise with other bloggers and the lovely people from the
companies that host the events. Time flew away and before we knew it
it was lunch time so we had to wait to be even more beautified than
we already were.
We
ate lunch out in the sunshine as it was a lovely warm day. And we
were very well catered for all day. With drinks, fresh fruit, lunch,
candy, crisps, coke and even prosecco towards the end of the day, so
how could we complain??? It was a good laugh sitting out in the sun.
I managed to catch up with Sally which was lovely.
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| Hollie was "sitting on me" due to funny shape sofas. I'm laughing and Leah is not too sure about things by the look of it. |
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| Leah and Becky. |
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| Nat waiting her turn for hair styling |
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| Lovely Beka. I loved her hair! And trousers. |
Time flied and before I knew it it was late afternoon and I still hadn't got my make up on yet or done my hair. But around me were all these beautiful blogger girls. All looking very glamorous and pretty. I wanted to get my make up on too!! I had a clear idea about what I wanted to have done. I wanted a classic whinged eyeliner and red lips of course!! It wouldn't be me without my signature look! :)
The make up artist Victoria
was so lovely and sweet and pampered me and I felt like a doll sitting
there on a throne having my make up done. It was such a treat. It's not
that often you get professional make up done. She finished it off with
the lovely Ruby Woo from Mac, the mattest of the matte!! I loved it. It was very me!
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| My make up |
After
make up I went straight to the hair section where I had a lovely Danish
stylist called Cecilie. I told her I was Norwegian so we started
talking in our languages. Norwegian and Danish understand each other so
it is always fun being able to speak a bit of Norwegian as I don't do it
very often. She was lovely too and styled my hair so beautiful. I had
lovely soft waves and curls that matched my vintage style perfectly. I
was so happy with how I looked.
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| Nat, Sally, Me and Hollie |
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| Funny Cecilie |
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| More pampering |
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| Me finished styled |
After the pampering I headed to the photo shoot. I wasn't nervous at all cause everyone made me feel so at ease. The photo session was so much fun too and I can't wait to see the result. They should be in my emails for when I get back from holiday.
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| Hollie is having her shoot. I loved her outfit! |
The final of the day was more catwalk training with Les. Since we had had our group training earlier in the day it was time to do the routine with all of the girls cause we were going to do a full show on video at the end of the event. At the very end we had some lovely group shots done and Beautiful Saffi came and joined us for the group shot too. She is such a beautiful woman and considered plus size model!! Quite hard to believe when you see her as she has a killer body.
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| Beautiful Saffi and the rest of us. |
It was a lot of fun , but hard work so I can understand that it wasn't for everyone. But I think most of us had a great day.
I want to thank Curvissa for inviting me and thanks to Curve Project London for making us all look even more beautiful than we are. The whole day was an adventure and I took with me lots of good points and experiences from the day. Here is a little Survey we did on the day and these are my answers.
Would you like to be a fashion model or isn't it for you?
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