Vogue Fashion Show Saturday 23rd July 2011

Tonight I attended the Vogue fashion show at CWS with designs created by Zalyn Bailey.
My favourite gown in the show was Lysette, worn by Lisana and Debbie.  It was a satin and chiffon full length A-line strapless ball gown, with a detailed dress with a vibrant off-shoulder and plunging neckline detailed with embroidery. The pleated full skirt floated with every movement. A really pretty gown.
There were lots of lovely outfits but this one was my favourite.
It's hard to believe that in a few weeks I may be on that stage modelling in similar fashion shows. My time at UCWS is really flying by and i'm enjoying it so much.

Styling event creative Hippies theme Friday 22nd July

Tonight was a really fun styling event. The theme was creative hippies. Well done to the winners you did great!
1st place Sidney Abbot
2nd place Reese Shawbridge
3rd place Elmo888 Resident.

Here is my styling description of what i wore:-Peace and Love to everyone here today! My name is Steph lytham and i'd like to welcome you all to our creative Hippies styling theme event. Hello to Anrol and Steve and our judges here. Throws a big peace sign out to the audience too!

Wow everyone looks so far out tonight! Has Debbie been handing the gin around? Or maybe it's this weed i'm smoking? Phew! It's making me do a crazy dance. Woah! I'm kinda dizzy! Sorry if I stood on you down there,  maybe this flower power hair is throwing me off balance! The term flower power is a symbol of passive resistance, before I forget to tell you.
Urrrr where was I? Oh yeah.... hippies!
Ok man... so it was originally a youth movement us kids got down with in the mid 1960's. A term used to describe beatnicks who moved into new York's Greenwich Village and similar places, you catch my drift?? It came from the phrase ''I'm hip with the situation'' meaning ''I'm aware of it''. I' not sure i'm so aware tonight smoking this stuff! Apart from experimenting with drugs to explore alternative states of conciousness, we like to listen to some psychedelic rock, oppose war and embrace the sexual revolution. Not forgetting our Hippie fashions and the influence they've had over the years.
Well I think i'm gonna fall over soon, so i'll pop you a peace sign n sway over to my Dot. OMG there are soooo many Dots Man! Pretty far out place we got here at CWS.
PEACE OUT! :-))

STYLING ACCOLADES

SKIN - LAQ SUSAN
BEAD - BANGLE K2K
LASHES - AXE
MANICURE - BLISS
ROSE RAYBAN'S - FREEBIE GALAXY
OUTFIT,  PEACE SIGN CHAIN AND EARRINGS - KM RETRO DAISY
SHOES - DANA
HAIR - 3636
JOINT - FREE FROM MARKEPLACE

Indian theme creative styling event Thursday 21st July

Tonight i entered the styling event Creative Indian, This is my description.......

Namaste (Hello) everyone. My name is Steph Lytham. Welcome to todays styling event creative Indian theme. Namaste is Hindi for Hello.
I'd like to greet Steve and Anrol and our Judge Nina this evening, and hello to this lovely audience.
So today I will give you a little lesson on Indian dress.

Practice Practice Practice!!!!! Tuesday 20th July

Today I decided I would get as much practice in on the runways as I possibly could. I did some practice with my classmate Shreeja Langer on the Beach runway until she had to log off. We've been getting together a lot to practice so we can work on our timing. It really helps to have a buddy to practice with, and we get along really well so it makes it fun too.
After that i sent an IM on group chat to see if anyone would like to join me practicing at the Dome. I got a great response and Vicky, Kinsey and a few other models joined me at the Dome. It's great when a few get together as you can see how the formation works when everyone does it. This was a wonderful practice!
Next up Kinsey offered to come to the beach runway with me so off we went. We practiced here for a while until Kinsey had to log off. She was very helpful and offered to practice with me whenever she is free.
Finally I tp'd back to the new blue runway and spent some time there on my own running through the formation. I really do love the new poses for this runway, they're so pretty!
In total I spent 5 hours doing runway! I'm so glad my feet don't ache in SL! It felt worth it though, it really boosts your confidence when you get in a good practice like that!

Blue runway formation Tuesday 19th July

Todays class was with DebbieDoo. We loaded our huddles with poses for the blue formation and TP'd over to try it out right away. This was the first time we'd tried out this runway but Debbie assured us it was one of the easier ones to learn. I was really eactied to try out this formation as it's this one i'd seen the models perform at fashion shows i'd watched. It consists of 3 straight runways so all you have to do is walk in a straight line and pose on 3 dots, turn around and exit. The new poses for this are lovely! Very graceful and excellent for showing off beautiful clothes. I'm so looking forward to my first fashion show on this runway. Time is going so fast here at UCWS, it won't be long before i'm up here for real with the other models. EEEEEK!!

Dome training Monday 18th July

Today we had Dome training with Lisana. I really love the dome runway as there are 3 runways merging in to 1 and 3 different formations you have to learn, so it really keeps you on your toes. Timing is also essential as models have to drive each other on their huddles on runways 1 and 3 so they have keep an eye on each other to make sure they are in sync.
We took turns inviting our trainer Lisana to our huddles. I really enjoyed this class and stayed on afterwards to practice.

Brains and Beauty Pageant Sunday 17th July

I went along to this pageant to watch and support the finalists as I was intrigued to find out who actually had the brains, as they all have the beauty!

Finalists had to answer questions on different 5 different subjects:-

Colour  trivia

CWS History.

US Goverment

Actors and Actresses

Trivia

As each contestant got a question right they moved to the next gold line on the runway. If they got it wrong they took a step back. They had 10 seconds to answer each question.

The first person to reach the front dot was to be crowned as Ms/Mr CWS Beauty and brains winner 2011 and win 25,000L. Wow what a great prize! But boy did they work for it! The final lasted about 3 hours i think. Some of the contestants had a little dance to pass some time between their questions......

As it was very late in the UK, I had a little snooze lol

For a long time Ajay had us on the edge of our seats, as he kept taking the lead and dropping back. Everyone was willing him on to win!

Eventually he did!!! Meimei took second place and Kinsey came in third. Well done to them all as this was no easy task!

Kudos to Anrol too, she did a great job announcing and judging this pageant final.

This turned out to be a VERY late night but it was so much fun! Well done to all the winners!! :-)