Wow, what a day! On Saturday 28th, Tea With Ovacome at the Mayfair Hotel was a great success by any measure. There are thanks due to many people who have been working behind the scenes all year for the event. It's aim is to raise awareness and funds for Ovacome, the ovarian cancer support charity. Firstly, Adele the organiser and her daughter Zindzi, who are both very inspirational ladies. The champagne tea was originally Zindzi's idea and she was also an original catwalk model.
Now in it's 5th year, the event is even bigger and better. Karen McGhie, Emily Mulligan and Fay Newman at Apricot clothing were marvellous for making sure us models looked good and organising the clothes on the day and on the previous fitting. Karen even came back from Spain for the weekend especially for the event. She kindly spent literally hours attacking and taming my hair with the hair straighteners and refused to give up on a tough job. She was helped by Helen who is a beauty student. Big thanks also to make-up artists Victoria Penrose and Sarah Marie who were sending out masterpiece after masterpiece from their temporary "salon". Philip the owner of Apricot very generously donated the clothes to the models afterwards. Thank you, Philip!
Now in it's 5th year, the event is even bigger and better. Karen McGhie, Emily Mulligan and Fay Newman at Apricot clothing were marvellous for making sure us models looked good and organising the clothes on the day and on the previous fitting. Karen even came back from Spain for the weekend especially for the event. She kindly spent literally hours attacking and taming my hair with the hair straighteners and refused to give up on a tough job. She was helped by Helen who is a beauty student. Big thanks also to make-up artists Victoria Penrose and Sarah Marie who were sending out masterpiece after masterpiece from their temporary "salon". Philip the owner of Apricot very generously donated the clothes to the models afterwards. Thank you, Philip!
Apricot have again designed a dress and bag specifically to raise funds for Ovacome. March is Ovarian Cancer Awareness month and this year Apricot have worked with Michelle Heaton, formerly of Liberty X, to promote the dress.
My own Apricot dress waiting patiently on the rail.
Lovely lady Sabrina from Simply Be and her team also gave up some of their own time to arrange a dress fitting in their Oxford Street store, along with plenty of fizz. On Saturday, Sabrina was full of emotion watching the ladies on the catwalk and was fab behind the scenes, dropping all the clothes off at the hotel herself and making a trip all the way back from Exeter that morning. It just shows how very generous people are and how much work goes into an event to help it run smoothly.
Sabrina also arranged for Simply Be to kindly donate their evening wear dresses to the models. I love my quirky monchrome and lime Grazia geo-ombre print maxi dress which will no doubt be getting a lot of wear. Thanks to my trainer Dan for supplying the muscular arms and the ability to fit into a size 12 again!
The ladies from Barry M nails again ensured we all had our Teal Tips on.
For the third year, the company is donating 50% of each sale of Aquarium nail paint in Pacific during February and March to Ovacome.
And look at the K. Middy hair that Karen and Helen achieved for me! (Never to be seen again).
I was so pleased to be supported by my lovely friends Sandra, Janet and Susan, my mum Joy and my aunts Violet and Sandra. Wouldn't be the same without you, ladies!
Act natural ladies and that's a wrap! (Below photo from Karen).
Click here for a write-up of the event in the 2015 Ovacome Summer Newsletter.
