Beauty In the spirit of making a fresh start for Spring, Woman This Month treated one lucky guest to a Spring/Summer makeover. Spring is a time of change and fresh starts. From giving the house a light dusting, to cleansing your liver or getting rid of boyfriends who have lost their appeal, May often marks a turning point in people’s year. To celebrate this fact, Woman This Month decided to offer one special guest the chance to revamp their style. For our top-to-toe makeover we asked the Azadea group to provide us with a selection of on-trend SS12 clothing. We invited John Luke from the prestigious Elie & Jean salons to apply his masterful touch to our guest’s hair. We welcomed the help of two experienced make-up artists to show us a couple of fresh, Spring-inspired looks and we asked the brilliant Andrew Weaver to take pictures of the process and the final results. The Model Habiba Al Mosawi is a lovely young Bahraini who you might recognise from our April issue. She runs a great little spa called Lei Garden in Adliya which offers a range of treatments inspired by the time she spent in Hawaii. Although she’s not exactly a lost cause when it comes to fashion and makeup — she’s a pretty style-savvy young woman already — she was game to try out a couple of new Spring looks. The Clothes Azadea suggested one of their more alternative and youthful brands for this experiment. So, we headed down to Stradivarius to check out their SS12 collection. All of the main clothing and jewellery pieces were selected from the extensive Stradivarius range, with just a couple of additions from H&M and Zara, to add a touch of variety to the mix. The Hair Elie & Jean is widely recognised as one of the best salons in Bahrain, if not further afield. It’s no wonder then, that we asked artistic director John Luke to help us out with our Spring-Over! John Luke was able to take Habiba’s hair which, as she will admit herself, struggles to retain any volume or body, and give it some real oomph! The Makeup Most big makeup brands produce their own Spring/Summer lookbooks. What this means, in practical terms, is that they are trend-setters rather than trend followers. The looks that they put out in their brochures will directly inform the makeup choices of the masses for the coming season. Knowing this, we chose two brands which are particularly active and popular in the Middle East — Inglot and Make Up Forever — to show you what they have planned for the Summer months. The Spring-Over | May 2012 | woman this month 54
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