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Hooked on a Feline

Project type

Styling & Modelling

Date

May 2023

Location

Newcastle

Team

Makeup & Creative Direction: Jess Edwards (Midnight Willow)
Photography: Caitlin Burke
Styling & Modelling: Bobbi Tideswell

This one came from my good friend Jess Edwards (@midnightwillow), who was deep into a prosthetics project and asked if I fancied collaborating with her and Caitlin Burke. Not just styling this time, modelling too, which is a very different experience.
Jess sent over a Pinterest board to set the tone: punky, red and yellow, sexy, no half measures. She then built this incredible feline prosthetic look that genuinely transformed me, to the point I was properly unrecognisable, which honestly made the whole thing easier.

For the styling, I kept coming back to Rum Tum Tugger from Cats, of all references, there's something about that character's swagger, that "I do what I want and you'll love me for it" energy, that felt exactly right for what we were building. So I leaned hard into it: leather, harnesses, styling with real bite rather than anything soft or pretty.

Being in front of the camera instead of just behind it was new territory, but the prosthetics gave me a strange kind of freedom, when you don't look like yourself, it's a lot easier to become someone else for a few hours. We had an absolute laugh shooting this one, easily one of the most fun days on set I've had.

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