Victoria Hemmings - Film & TV Hair & Make Up Artist

I’ve thought about writing this long & hard but it just needs to be said. I attended two schools in the name of the monster that was #edwardcolston. Colston Collegiate & latterly Colston Girls School until the age of 18. Every year, we were told we had to commentate Colston with a bronze chrysanthemum pinned to our uniforms (his favourite flower) & a celebratory service of his life & philanthropy was held at Bristol Cathedral in which the whole school attended along with teachers. Excerpts of his will were read about how generous he had been but never a single solitary detail of the monstrous ways in which he had acquired his wealth by trading in the lives of over 100,000 innocent & beautiful people. I hear this still happened up until two years ago! If I’m honest, I had zero idea whilst at school of who he was, what he represented or that his life had contributed to such unimaginable pain & suffering. At the time, it was just a morning off of lessons & a break from the terrible emotional & physical bullying I received whilst during my earlier years at the school. Scars of which I still carry to this day. However, I cannot even begin to imagine what it felt like to be a BAME pupil at this school, & have to commemorate such a man alongside all of the ignorant & white privileged children like myself. I for one apologise for my ignorance, it simply wasn’t good enough. Ecstatic to witness that not only has his statue in the centre of Bristol been removed by the people he looked down on, but his statue that stood in that school hallway, looming over us with his ridiculously pious gaze has now come down too. Good riddance, & may he rust in hell 🙋‍♀️🖤 #changeiscoming #georgefloyd #whiteprivilege #blm

June 12, 2020 | 0 Comments

I’ve thought about writing this long & hard but it just needs to be said. I attended two schools in the name of the monster...

The world we live in feels incredibly heavy & broken 💔 400 years of the oppression of black men, women & children from around the globe, at the hands of white owned systems & institutions is weighing heavier than ever & it’s up to all of us to change it. As a white, & as a result privileged person, I feel some of the weight of that change. I see clearer than ever that the world cannot got back to the way it was before. It just can’t. George Floyd, & all of the others that have suffered & died at the hands of these broken & racist systems will not be in vain. As Georges’ beautiful little girl said perched on the shoulders of her uncle at a march in recent days “my daddy changed the world.” I truly believe that he has 🖤 #nojusticenopeace #georgefloyd #breonnataylor #listening #learning #whiteprivilege #changeiscoming

June 7, 2020 | 0 Comments

The world we live in feels incredibly heavy & broken 💔 400 years of the oppression of black men, women & children from around the...

The beautiful, unedited face of a young black woman called Genevieve that I had the privilege of working with a few years ago. One of my all time favourite images from one of my all time favourite shoots. Genevieve’s lips are adorned with glass crystals but her natural & exceptional beauty is the thing that shines brightest of all in this image. Still gives me chills all these years later 🖤 Makeup by me, Photographer Marcus Appelt #blackisbeautiful #beauty #power #texture #light

June 6, 2020 | 0 Comments

The beautiful, unedited face of a young black woman called Genevieve that I had the privilege of working with a few years ago. One of...