I regularly share my knowledge and techniques with budding make-up artists. Here are a few shots from my “Fantasy Make-Up Class”

Did a photoshoot with the talented Phantom FM Radio Presenter Laura Lee-Conway. We headed out to the IFSC to do an alternative photoshoot. It was good fun except for at one stage poor Laura was groped by an over eagre teenager from the area, it was pretty funny! If she wasn’t in so much shock I am sure he would have got a smack

Photographer: Christine Redmond
Model: Laura Lee-Conway
Make-Up Artist: Emma Farrell Makeup

I did the makeup for a photoshoot a couple of months ago for a really good friend of mine Alice Collins. She is a talented and creative textile artist based in Dublin. She also handmakes a range of unique jewellery and accessories.

These images are of dresses that she made as part of a work of art. It is an attempt to address the emotional and physical trauma suffered by Irish women under the lawless ‘care’ of Dr. Michael Neary in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda during the 1980s and 90s.

Just incase you don’t know who he is, here is a link to an RTE Article and a brief synopsis from Wikipedia below:

“Michael Neary is a retired Irish consultant obstetrician/gynaecologist. He gained notoriety when it was discovered that he had performed what was considered an inordinate number of cesarean hysterectomies during his time at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth. He was suspended by the Irish Medical Council in 1999 pending their investigations, and then struck off the Register of Medical Practitioners in 2003.”

Artist: Alice Collins
Photographer: Edel Kelly @ The Secret Boudoir
Models: Aisling Danahar, Bernadette McLoughlin and Sarah Tapes
Make-up Artist: Emma Farrell @ Makeup

Models: Three O Troupe
Hair: Michelle and Maria
Make-Up: Emma Farrell Make-Up