I’m so excited this week, everything is full steam ahead for the big Charity Fashion Show in Krystle on Friday May 21st. I have been over and back to the club co-ordinating everything with the organsers and the designers. The beautiful De Havalland models are being drilled and put through their paces to give a sleek professional performance on Friday night. I can’t wait! It’s going to be a fantastic night so be there or miss out on the launch of brand De Havalland onto the Dublin Fashion scene. I think everyone who has seen the De Havalland models (check my webpage for pictures)will agree that they are all natural beauties, enhanced by their shining bubbly personalities. With my guidance and encouragement these young people will all go far. So be there and in twenty years you can say – ‘I was at one of their first public appearances.’
http://www.dehavalland.com/
Of course hair and make-up will be provided by moi , thus guaranteeing the best foot forward for the all the models!
Speaking of hair, De Havalland models have been using Patrick Kazz of the Global Hairdressing Academy. The Academy and associated Global Hairdressing School recently moved into a fabulous purpose built premises in Dublin’s Digital Hub on Thomas Street beside Kennedys Pub. Global is a fabulous salon that employs some of the top hairdressers working in Dublin today. If you want to learn with the best or be styled by the best the Academy or School are the places to go. The long-established and much respected Jimie O’Dee is Artistic Director of the salon and school beside Kennedys pub. Well worth a visit girls and boys if you want one of the best re-styling experiences of your life. These people are the business, top-end of the industry and know that the customer is Queen (or King!).
So that’s my beauty tip of the week – no more bad hair days – off to the Academy with ye.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Candle in The Wind...........
Little did I know when I started this blog last week that my second post would be on such a sad subject.
For a dear old friend, someone I haven’t met for a number of years but whose public life I always followed, has passed on. I write of Gerry Ryan of course, that broadcaster extraordinaire, showman, friend, family man and above all that vibrant, glorious human being.
I decided to blog only about Gerry today, for to talk of anything else right now would feel disloyal and superfluous.
I worked with Gerry on ‘Big D’ radio many moons ago; myself, Gerry and Dave Fanning were among others who in the late 1970's all threw our youthful enthusiasm behind the pirate radio station in a bid to challenge what we saw as a staid state-owned broadcaster. We had great, great fun with the station and played some wonderful music for our many fans. Eventually we were raided by the Gardai and shut down and we all moved onto other things. Gerry and Dave of course stayed in radio, moving onto the very RTE we had all challenged, and I moved back to my first love hair-dressing.
We kept in touch on and off over the years and I remember in particular a great chat I had with Gerry on his show in June 1989. It was the morning of Mandy Smith’s wedding to the Rolling Stone’s Bill Wyman. I was hair and make-up artist to the bride as well as a guest at the wedding and I talked to Gerry and the nation from the hotel. We had such a laugh. That’s what I will remember most about Gerry - laughter.
I lit a candle for Gerry today and as I prayed for him I watched the little flame dancing in a draft from somewhere. Our lives are so short aren’t they? Some unfortunately shorter than others and we should all aim to burn as brightly as we can, dance with life and bring comfort and support to friends and family during our brief burning.
Gerry’s was a very bright and merry flame and it certainly burned fiercely whilst it lasted. It seems incredible that he is no more. Rest well my friend.
For a dear old friend, someone I haven’t met for a number of years but whose public life I always followed, has passed on. I write of Gerry Ryan of course, that broadcaster extraordinaire, showman, friend, family man and above all that vibrant, glorious human being.
I decided to blog only about Gerry today, for to talk of anything else right now would feel disloyal and superfluous.
I worked with Gerry on ‘Big D’ radio many moons ago; myself, Gerry and Dave Fanning were among others who in the late 1970's all threw our youthful enthusiasm behind the pirate radio station in a bid to challenge what we saw as a staid state-owned broadcaster. We had great, great fun with the station and played some wonderful music for our many fans. Eventually we were raided by the Gardai and shut down and we all moved onto other things. Gerry and Dave of course stayed in radio, moving onto the very RTE we had all challenged, and I moved back to my first love hair-dressing.
We kept in touch on and off over the years and I remember in particular a great chat I had with Gerry on his show in June 1989. It was the morning of Mandy Smith’s wedding to the Rolling Stone’s Bill Wyman. I was hair and make-up artist to the bride as well as a guest at the wedding and I talked to Gerry and the nation from the hotel. We had such a laugh. That’s what I will remember most about Gerry - laughter.
I lit a candle for Gerry today and as I prayed for him I watched the little flame dancing in a draft from somewhere. Our lives are so short aren’t they? Some unfortunately shorter than others and we should all aim to burn as brightly as we can, dance with life and bring comfort and support to friends and family during our brief burning.
Gerry’s was a very bright and merry flame and it certainly burned fiercely whilst it lasted. It seems incredible that he is no more. Rest well my friend.
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