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The body beautiful: the lazy girl's guide to beach preparation
Your guide to make-up and more by Lesley Thomas. This week: how to get a bikini
body without spending hours in the gy
Have you seen that television ad for the rice-based breakfast cereal favoured by
calorie-counters, with advice on how to lose weight before your holiday? It
suggests that you replace a substantial number of your meals with a bowl of the
"tasty toasted flakes". Yummy!
A lymphatic drainage massage can help shift cellulite
Why didn't we think of this before? To look good, you just eat torn-up bits of
cardboard with milk (skimmed, mind) instead of food and, hey presto, you are
slinkier than half of a Desperate Housewife.
I curse at the TV every time I see it, especially when that smug voice comes in
at the end. "See you by the pool," she says, at which point only Green & Black's
cherry chocolate can soothe me
Grown-up women with careers, brains, families, friends and other things going
for them than a flat, brown tummy shouldn't really care what they look like by
the pool. But we do.
At this time of year, I am usually squeezing panic workouts into my day in an
effort to improve my thighs before any beach appearances. But why not skip the
gym and the diets, and go straight to the beauty parlour? More expensive, yes,
but, apart from that, effortless.
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Bliss, the London day spa, has a last-minute de-bloating treatment called the
Shrink Wrap that involves working up a sweat without doing a single sit-up. You
are brushed, massaged with grapefruit oil, warmed up and then wrapped in foil.
The inches you lose will be water, not fat (£100; 020 7584 3888). But an inch is
an inch, right?
If you are more concerned about the texture rather than the volume of your
thighs, a deep tissue, lymphatic drainage massage will help. Espa, the rather
marvellous aromatherapy company, has a good one called Stimulating Hip and Thigh
Treatment, which will help to smooth away cellulite (01252 741600).
The last time I had a beach holiday, I booked a Citrus Detox Reviver with
Aromatherapy Associates (£50; 020 8569 7030) the day before my flight. My jeans
were looser and the cellulite a little smoother after just one treatment.
There are loads of stealth toning techniques around that - broadly speaking -
involve electric pads being placed on various muscles while you lie there
reading Hello!
Ultratone is one of the best and most intensive. A 30-minute session with pads
around the tummy, for example, is the equivalent of 500 abdominal crunches - and
it will show - and is an excellent treatment for those difficult-to-tone areas
such as the waist (about £35 per session; www.ultratone.co.uk, 020 7935 0631).
If you are prepared to try something more radical, you could consider UltraShape,
a new "surgery-free fat-removal" system. Already popular in Scandinavia, the
treatment uses ultrasound to target and destroy fat cells.
It sounds too good to be true, but a friend of mine swears it shifted her
medium-sized love handles. It is painless apart from the cost: £550 per
treatment area, and it takes an hour or two (020 7935 2170,
www.ellipseklinikken.co.uk).
Don't ruin all your hard work at the salon by having an imperfect bikini area.
Unless you want to risk that plucked-chicken look, have a salon wax rather than
taking the DIY route.
Bliss's bikini wax is so good that it is like a facial for the nether region.
First, camomile and jasmine oils are applied to soften the skin, and then
high-grade tea-tree and lavender oils are massaged in to soothe and calm the
area. \
Ask for the Betweeny Wax (£45), which is less radical than a Brazilian, but
minimal enough for a teeny bikini.
Beauty and the Beach
In his long association with Victoria’s Secret, photographer Russell James
has shot several memorable ad campaigns and special projects, such as last
year’s “Backstage” print and television campaign. (See American Photo magazine,
March/April 2004.) Now, however, the company that put lingerie into malls from
coast to coast is collaborating with James and two other photographers, fashion
photographers Ellen von Unwerth and Raphael Mazzucco, on an entirely new kind of
project. It’s an elaborate photography book that spotlights the creative visions
of the imagemakers and beautiful bodies behind the famous brand.
The idea was to let the photographers and models visually interpret the word
“swim” in any way they deemed most creative. For James, that meant flying around
the world to some of the most beautiful beaches on the planet, accompanied by
models like Heidi Klum, Naomi Campbell, and Gisele Bündchen.
James’s images are not typical glamour shots, however, but rather studies of
shape and light that capture the enduring beauty of nature and the awesome
beauty of his subjects. In this exclusive preview, we present a portfolio of
James’s photographs, along with his behind-the-scenes stories of how they were
made. Usually when you think “swim” and “beach,” you think color
wasn’t advertising, it wasn’t a catalog, it was just pure images.” Then she
spun this notion around and gave it back to us, and said, “Here it is.” And I
took them very literally. I sat back and thought, Victoria’s Secret is a very
powerful, glossy brand, and yet what the company is saying is, “Do what you want
to do.” So I arrived at black and white. It wasn’t just to get away from that
big, glossy approach, but it was more that I just had to focus on what I’m
passionate about, and what I’m passionate about is lighting and shape. And I
also wanted the challenge of working in digital. I was a staunch enemy of
digital to a certain point in my career, then I tested some equipment and
realized that, no matter what photographers do, digital was coming down the
line. So I decided to do this project in black and white because I wanted the
challenge of arriving at something that was digital yet seemed authentically
black and white, that felt real. I loved the idea of using the most ultra-modern
digital technology and combining that with the more historical style of
photography, which is black and white.
Tell us about about the shooting of the project itself...when did you do it?
I shot it during a three-week period last fall, from October through
mid-November. So it was shot in a short time frame, as these things go. There
are two ways to do a project like this: One is to do it a little at a time,
between your regular commercial assignments. The other is to have someone say,
“I want you to focus on this, and here are the resources to get you to the
place, to get from the place, and getting the girls won’t be your problem, we
will help you with that.” So it was terrific. Victoria’s Secret unleashed the
creatives. When you talk about getting to the locations, you’re talking about
some pretty spectacular places. We took one trip to Sardinia, one trip to St.
Tropez, and one trip to Mexico. And of course the company was incredibly
supportive. For instance, I was in St. Tropez, and I wanted to get to Sardinia,
and there was no practical way to do that, so they sent a jet down—one of their
private company jets—and took us out of St. Tropez and dropped us into Sardinia,
so we could be shooting in St. Tropez in the morning and shooting in Sardinia in
the afternoon. Gotta love ‘em for that.
How big a crew were you hauling around for this?
It fluctuated in size. Sometimes we’d have multiple girls, a lot of producers,
so the crew was 15 to 18 people, which is a lot. But there were days when we’d
have a basic crew of only five or six, when we needed to access really remote
locations.
Who were the girls you shot?
We had terrific partners on this. And I use that word in regard to the model
very carefully, because they were full partners in the creative development of
the images. And they were basically all doing this for free, so to speak. In
terms of the book, not a single dollar was paid to the creative talent involved
on camera. Which was a challenge. The company said, “Look we’ll back this
project, but you have to do it. But we ended up with the very top girls who work
with the company: Heidi Klum, Alessandra Ambrosio, Ana Beatriz, Gisele Bündchen,
Naomi Campbell, Karolina Kurkova, Adriana Lima, Angela Lindvall, and Marissa
Miller, to name a few. The creativity involved in working with all these famous
models...that’s an interesting idea.
How did the project play out as you shot it?
Like any project, I started with a preconceived idea—at first, it was going to
be very expansive— about the locations as much as the girls. But once I got to
the places, I found that it was just much more interesting to shoot a piece of
coral in very tight closeup, and then the beauty of the girl. The project from
my standpoint just didn’t need much more than that. It’s just an example of the
way these things often work, where you preconceive an idea, but you gotta let it
flow, or it doesn’t come out.
Did the locations themselves present any particular creative problems or
opportunities?
I had stayed at all those places while shooting different projects, but
basically the locations, even though they don’t scream it in the photos, each
offered a different kind of inspiration. In this case, since the models were
full partners in creative process, we would all have to adapt to different
places. Girls would react differently in different locations. If you take a girl
to Costa Careyes, Mexico—one of the places we shot—she’s going to have to fly
through two different cities, then get into a car and drive through some wild
country for two hours, then she’s going to be staying in a house in the middle
of nowhere. So you really get into another space. It’s so removed from the rest
of the world, from agencies and managers, so it’s possible to sit and chat, to
have a cocktail and say, “Hey, let’s do something really cool,” and you’re able
to partner with the people. So while the locations might not seem visually
significant in the final images, they were all very important because they were
all very remote and beautiful, and they allowed me to get with the girls, the
stylists, and the hair and makeup people, and just have little one-on-one
conversations. I’d ask the girls what inspired them, or I’d give them concepts,
like a shell, or seaweed, sticks, water. Karolina, for instance, gravitated
toward these dry, crusty sea weeds, which as a photographic element at first
glance you say, “How am I going to make this work?” Then you realize there’s
something beautiful in everything—in seaweed, in driftwood, everything.
What did other models react to?
With Gisele it was simple. She was huddling from cold because it was a windy
day, and there was sand blowing all over her body, and I thought, that’s a great
element. And she’s like, “Bury me, baby, bury me.” And so into the sand she
went. And so a lot of the pictures evolved in that way.
Tell us about the shot of Heidi sitting on the beach....
I’ve shown these pictures to a number of people, and they all say that series of
images, and that shot in particular, is just captivating. It’s a terrific
character drawing. It was made in Costa Careyes. We were able to coordinate it
so that Heidi could join us there. |
