April 3, 2010

100 faces project

Posted in Uncategorized at 12:59 am by grandadslilsamm

So a couple of weeks a go my friend mentioned to me, that Jo, a person she knew from Twitter, was doing something called the 100 faces project. Jo is a photographer in Macclesfield. 100 faces is a project Jo is doing for sufferers of mental health. She plans on getting 100 people with various mental health issues to have their picture taken and put together in an exhibition to show that mental health issues can affect anyone. Jo’s website can be found here. She is a fantastic Photographer!

The day started out pretty badly. The weather was atrocious! Before I left my house my hair was perfect. By the time I arrived at the train station my hair was a total mess! The wind totally battered it! I also found it hard NOT to do my make up  before going to have my picture taken. However I knew that I was having my make up done professionally so I managed to get out the door without my make up done! LOL.

Anyway Macclesfield is not really that far from Crewe so the journey we did should have been easy right? Well I suppose on the trains on the way there it was not too bad. We had to wait at Kidsgrove   15 minutes for the next train to Mac but that weren’t too bad. It was more once we arrived that was the problem. Google maps had given us the wrong directions! It took us a further 45 minutes and a phone call to Jo we finally arrived!

We were freezing when we got there but were glad to have arrived! Jo is a lovely women and although we had never met we were laughing together within minutes of getting there.  We got there before our make up artist, who is nothing short of a miracle worker! her details are 07507560929 or email her at makeupbydora@googlemail.com. I was the first one to have my make up done and I assure you I was amazed with the results. I would love to be able to do my make up like that! I looked in the mirror and although I knew it was me, I did not recognise myself! She totally transformed me.

I was nervous about standing in front of a camera and ‘posing’ for my pictures. However Jo made me feel nothing but confident. Making me feel like everything I was doing was right! Even though I was a complete amateur! I am almost certain many of my ‘poses’ were flat out wrong but instead of saying that Jo gave direction! It was truly great!

Every women should have the chance of something like this. I can’t even begin to explain the confidence it gave me to have this done. It made me feel like a different person for an entire day. Before we arrived I was feeling a lot of anxiety. When I began having my make up done though I started to relax. I was extremely tired after only having a little sleep these picture and make up completely transformed me. Here are some before and after pictures that were taken:

BEFORE

AFTER

See they look like two totally different people don’t they? What a transformation. I honestly never believed I could look that good. I felt like someone else for a day. It was a total escape from my every day life.  To be made to feel like someone else, like I didn’t have a problem in the world. Well who would think something as simple as having your make up done professionally and pictures taken professionally could do that?

I am so very grateful to both Jo and Dora for the make up and pictures and the general experience of something like that! I am also grateful top Olivia for letting me know about this. I cannot wait till in a few weeks me and Olivia will go back for the viewing of these pictures.

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