...er ok, not really but I am getting onto explaining why I'm sporting some MAJORLY crimped hair today and why I've been a bit lax on the blog posting/commenting front.  So the fantastico Guy Hipwell of Fashion156 who I've been contributing for since...um...about as long as I started the blog... asked me to model in the photoshoot for the 'Fashion on the Internet' issue and allow Guy to style me for the shoot.  Nope, it wasn't the 'Secret Supermodel' desires coming out of me but actually more like the chance to wear designers that I knew Guy would do a spot-on job of choosing for me and strangely enough as it turned around, I ended up wearing a lot of things that I've written about on the blog.... an apt symmetry that works for this particular issue of Fashion156.

Of course there is the issue of getting me to look like a model and fitting into hazardous sample sizes.  Solution?  Mad crazily big crimped hair which hair stylist Kiri did a fantastic job even though it looked so dangerously intricate, I was too scared to ask how he did it all...

It also took a whited-over Kabuki-mask-esque face and super strong eyes that make-up artist Anita and Guy had to keep deliberating over and I think I lost count of how many times they restarted the make-up.  So a lot of potions and lotions to get me looking....well....not like me....

Fortunately it was an unfamiliar territory that I was happy to go along with and just give myself over to, as opposed to the bronzed-up-blue eyeshadow land that I've been taken to before....  not a good place to be but today was a different kettle of fish altogether....a madly-surreal-out-of-this-world sort of fish... fugu fish perhaps?

The tights boxes that Fashion156 hold is pretty comprehensive requiring a tights librarian to sort it all out, Elliot Sainsbury being tasked with the job here...

The full credits list of what I wore will of course be revealed when the pics come out in a few weeks time but suffice to say my heart jumped out when I saw what Guy had pulled for me... and I was like an overexcited child shouting out names that I knew, that I had written about, that made me feel odd as I wondered whether the designer would be happy seeing non-modelesque me wearing their precious wares...  (ultimately that last thought flew out as the relief of fitting into everything made me elated and now I've gladly come home to a heaping plate of chilli and guacamole...)

The eagle eyed of you will spot the things which I've featured on the blog...

Some eye-candy for you if you're into great bone structure and all of that.... I believe James here is in the current Prada SS08 campaign.  He's going to be in the accompanying menswear editorial for Fashion156.... oh well, at least I'm going to be to be outshined by a guy with very high cheekbones and good eyebrows....

Jonathan Kelsey shoes are wickedly lush... wicked like I need to take out a credit card for them pronto and lush because they're....well....lush...

As I said, the pics will reveal the reality (well the product anyway!) of what happened later on but here's me beaming in a ton of ensembles and accessories that probably a lot of models wouldn't be that geekily excited to be wearing... hence why I'm happy to gush behind the scenes and am gladly not model material...