Zoë's World

Ohhh my god, where do I start?!
Maybe at the beginning of my day…
My ELLE day starts with a visit to  Miss Lisa Snowdon, where we decide to do a look from the show by Peter Pilotto, as she’s going to be wearing one of his dresses – we’d found it on a girlie shopping trip to Liberty. It’s textured hair that I wrap around pins in a bric-brac style, and then pin in an up-do.
I then dash to the Haymarket Hotel to tend to the locks of Lorraine Candy, a wonderful client and the editor of ELLE. She is wearing an incredible Alexander McQueen dress that simply mustn’t be upstaged by her hair, so I choose to do a textured side twist. I adore Lorraine. She is funny and clever and looks so beautiful in a gown that I could only dream to wear!
Time then for a quick turnaround as I’m attending the awards too, thanks to an invite from Lorraine. Lucky me!
With a David Seeta dress on, and a smokey eye courtesy of Mss Snowdon, I walk into the Grand Connaught Rooms to witness this massive awards do.
The tables are dressed in the most amazing way, with glass domes that hold butterflies and birds made of ELLE magazine pages. The menus are in snow-filled domes.
I sit on a table with Danni Minogue, George Lamb with Lisa – and just six feet away from Colin Firth. And Nicholas Hoult OMG!!!
Someone asked me the other day how being a hairstylist had changed my life. Well, if I had a night to sum it all up, this would surely be it.
The night before I had sat at home watching the Baftas, and here I am now, not 24 hours later, in the same room as incredible actors and musicians and woman and men of power.
Give me a day at a school leavers’ convention and I could give you a hundred reasons to be a hairstylist. The happy times it gives me, the people I get to meet and the drive and ambition it has always filled me with.
Now, let’s talk about the Olsen twins!
So in they walk to the reception before the awards. Maybe it’s the complete obsession I have with their dress sense and of course their hair, but I was completely floored! I wanted to jump up and down like a Beatles fan screaming at Paul McCartney (though of course completely inappropriate behaviour that would have led to me being thrown out!). They have JUST the right amount of re-growth on a blonde highlight and the MOST perfect textured hair.
They are soooooooo cool, with huge eyes and an aura that screams starlet!
Also up for hair mention:
Alexa Chung, of course, who’s tended to by the adorable George from Hershesons.
Carey Mulligan, who won a Bafta the night before, has the coolest blonde pixie cut that is a massive trend in the making.
Naomi Campbell also looked incredible in a McQueen dress and super-fine styling.
Henry Holland and Lorraine hosted the night. It was so much fun!