Behind-the-scenes with Tavi

A few months ago I told my friend Mel Arter, a make-up artist, that I was thinking about starting a blog. She said 'I just shot Tavi for Pop magazine, you have to see her blog!' That was the first I heard of her, but clearly not the last! "Working with Tavi was strange at first – she’s a 13-year-old, so I was really conscious of her age," Mel told me recently. "She’s quite amazing and knows exactly what she wants, she didn’t want a lot of make-up and rightly so. So it was just about bringing a bit of dewiness to her skin, delicately and subtly." I think that's exactly what she achieved and the pictures are stunning. Coming from 'old media' myself, magazines that is, one of the things I love about the web is that so many different voices and opinions can be shared. It would be pretty hard for anyone, let alone a teenager, to launch a magazine, but there are no barriers to entry on the net. And thanks to that we all get to share Tavi's unique perspective.