She has worked with Mario Testino for the front cover of English Vogue. This was shown at the National Portrait Gallery. She has worked on many magazines including Vogue, Harpers and Queen, Tatler, GQ, Cosmopolitan, Sunday Times Style and Nylon with celebrities and models.
Charlotte has also worked on major commercials designing hair for brands such as Impulse, Lynx body spray, Pepsi, Renault, Karl Lagerfeld perfume, Wella, Babyliss, Braun, Samsung, Jasper Conran for Debenhams, GHD, Radox and Nell McAndrew’s “Juice Lady”.
Charlotte’s celebrity clientele includes Rachel Hunter, Martine McCutcheon, Ewan McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Jessica Simpson, Billie Piper, Penny Lancaster, Jennifer Ellison, Katie Price, Ruby Wax, Tamara Mellon, Olivia Williams, Emilia Fox, Trinny and Suzannah and many more.
She worked with numerous celebrities including Graham Norton, Jamie Theakston, Nell McAndrew, Vernon Kaye and June Sarpong for “THE BIG HAIR DO” for Red nose day, sponsored by WELLA.
On a regular basis she presents live hair seminars, on stage, for Clynol for in house shows, Clynol Academy and Salon International showing the latest trends in hair. This involves presenting hair skills in front of a live audience of anything from 50 to 500 people.
She worked on Harry Potter 1V,”The Goblet of Fire” in a daily capacity.
Her strong areas in hair are hair “dressing”, ladies haircutting and styling, temporary extensions and men’s barbering.
She has presented live several times on television on “Big Brother’s Little Brother” and “Celebrity Big Brother”, Channel 4, in hairdressing features on house mates with Dermot O’Leary.
Charlotte has a great enthusiasm and energy for hair and life. She is comfortable working in all aspects of session hairdressing whether it is editorial, film, live presentations or private functions, and relishes a challenge.
Charlotte is currently in the process of opening her first salon in fabulous Muswell Hill, North London. She will have wonderful staff and sell a selection of original art and jewellery. The salon will offer head massage, the latest hair trends, colour, temporary hair extensions, fabulous special occasion hair-up, makeup and bridal services. The salon will also offer wig styling/ cutting for those ladies undergoing treatment. Watch this space!
As well as her session styling business Charlotte has a thriving bridal and special occasion hair and makeup business with makeup artist Mirren Mace. It is MURRAY&MACE, www.murrayandmace.co.uk
SHE WAS KNOWN by many names, including the “Bronze Venus”, the “Black Pearl” and the “Creole Goddess”, but singer, actress and dance celebrity Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 3, 1906. Her mother, Carrie McDonald, was a washerwoman. The facts about her exact ethnicity are unknown, as she was adopted in 1886 by two former slaves, themselves of African American and Native American ancestry.
MYSTERIOUS BIOGRAPHY
The man believed to be Baker’s father, Eddie Carson, was a vaudeville drummer. His true identity has been the subject of some debate. Baker’s foster son, Jean-Claude, claimed in his biography, Josephine: The Hungry Heart, that she was fathered, not by Carson, but by an unidentified white man — possibly someone who lived within the German household in which Baker’s mother worked around the time she became pregnant.
LEMON JUICE BEAUTY
Baker had light brown skin, which came in handy when she moved to New York during the Harlem Renaissance, beginning her career by joining the popular all-black Broadway revue, Shuffle Along, in 1921. In order to appeal to its white patrons, the showgirls were required to be exclusively light-skinned with European features, and Baker fitted the bill. “The performers were ‘white’ blacks, in accordance with the vogue,” she recalled. During the course of her career she became obsessed with skin lightness — the result of discrimination she’d experienced during her days as a chorus girl. As a result of this fact she considered a pale complexion to be essential to her image and her success. Each morning she would rub her face and body with half a lemon to further lighten her skin.
JOSEPHINE BAKER'S HAIR STORY
Baker's hairstyle was the other crucial component within her constructed aesthetic. She wore it short, straightened and smoothed against her skull, with Medusa-like curls framing her face. She applied egg-white to give it its high sheen and stiffness. In October 1925, at her legendary debut at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, every jaw in the audience dropped at the sight of it.
“Her hairstyle had been done like a Greek boy’s,” recalled Harper’s Bazaar editor Diana Vreeland, “and pressed into her flat black curls were white silk butterflies. She had the chic of Gay Paree.”
Josephine Baker went on to become the first black star to create her own cosmetics line — for a hair pomade called Bakerfix, which came in a toothpaste-style tube adorned with dancer’s image. These were early moves within the culture of female African American celebrities extending their brands into hair and beauty businesses — something which is now fully evolved with today's black stars such as Rihanna and Beyonce.SHE WAS KNOWN by many names, including the “Bronze Venus”, the “Black Pearl” and the “Creole Goddess”, but singer, actress and dance celebrity Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 3, 1906. Her mother, Carrie McDonald, was a washerwoman. The facts about her exact ethnicity are unknown, as she was adopted in 1886 by two former slaves, themselves of African American and Native American ancestry.
The man believed to be Baker’s father, Eddie Carson, was a vaudeville drummer. His true identity has been the subject of some debate. Baker’s foster son, Jean-Claude, claimed in his biography, Josephine: The Hungry Heart, that she was fathered, not by Carson, but by an unidentified white man — possibly someone who lived within the German household in which Baker’s mother worked around the time she became pregnant.
Baker had light brown skin, which came in handy when she moved to New York during the Harlem Renaissance, beginning her career by joining the popular all-black Broadway revue, Shuffle Along, in 1921. In order to appeal to its white patrons, the showgirls were required to be exclusively light-skinned with European features, and Baker fitted the bill. “The performers were ‘white’ blacks, in accordance with the vogue,” she recalled. During the course of her career she became obsessed with skin lightness — the result of discrimination she’d experienced during her days as a chorus girl. As a result of this fact she considered a pale complexion to be essential to her image and her success. Each morning she would rub her face and body with half a lemon to further lighten her skin.
Baker's hairstyle was the other crucial component within her constructed aesthetic. She wore it short, straightened and smoothed against her skull, with Medusa-like curls framing her face. She applied egg-white to give it its high sheen and stiffness. In October 1925, at her legendary debut at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, every jaw in the audience dropped at the sight of it.
“Her hairstyle had been done like a Greek boy’s,” recalled Harper’s Bazaar editor Diana Vreeland, “and pressed into her flat black curls were white silk butterflies. She had the chic of Gay Paree.”
Josephine Baker went on to become the first black star to create her own cosmetics line — for a hair pomade called Bakerfix, which came in a toothpaste-style tube adorned with dancer’s image. These were early moves within the culture of female African American celebrities extending their brands into hair and beauty business.
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