A RED CARPET
EDUCATION
Stylist beauty director Emma Smith usually takes 30 minutes to get
ready... but not on BAFTA night. She reveals the two
weeks of preparation it took to be given a celebrity makeover
t doesn’t matter if you’re
a follower of fashion
I or regular attendee
of facials – whenever
a red carpet is rolled out,
the world watches to see the glamour on
show. So when a very exclusive invitation
to go to the BAFTAs with hair guru
Charles Worthington landed on my
desk, I was a combination of starstruck
giddy and a picture of complete focus,
ready to undergo all the plucking and
pampering that the celebs looking
impeccable on the red carpet do. As
I study the paparazzi images from last
year and speak to Charles on the
telephone, suddenly there’s an army
of people wanting to help and a jampacked
diary of appointments to attend.
I could definitely get used to this…
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Working in the beauty industry, it’s not
unusual for me to have a spa treatment a
week, but even I’ve underestimated the
maintenance involved for this. There’s just
so much to think about... First, I meet with
Alistair from Charles Worthington and
head to the Escada showroom to pick
a gown. It’s like wedding dress shopping
with more pressure. There are so many
beautiful, expensive dresses with a
four-figure price mark, I barely know where
to start. Immediately, I try on five. There is
a beautiful red number but it’s a little
frou-frou señorita on me while one of the
label’s most iconic designs is – how do I say
this – not modest enough. I finally settle on
a gorgeously understated black dress
with a train (perhaps I have not thought
this through) with a cut-out back. Definitely
going to have to practise my walk once
I’ve added the heels.
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I drop by the Charles Worthington salon
to have my hair coloured and decide to go
darker than usual, it must be something
about this glam fest. Maybe I’m getting in
touch with my inner Elizabeth Taylor?
The Percy Street salon’s head stylist
Matthew Soobroy is fantastic and obliges
me with an “invisible trim”, just snipping
off the unhealthy split ends but leaving me
with the length I love. I start to feel part of
this A-list world until suddenly I trip on my
own feet and go flying as I’m leaving,
landing flat on my face. Humiliated with
bruised knees I’m starting to worry that
this is how my own BAFTA red carpet
appearance will end up.
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