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Party Girl Makeover Photoshoots in Liverpool

Kayleigh and her friends Abby, Lydia and Emily joined us today for a Party Girl experience.  Kayleigh had her makeup done as a lesson for the girls to understand what it's best to do for creating a natural look with makeup for young girls.  We then went outside around The Georgian Quarter in Liverpool for a fun photoshoot - the girls came up with some ideas of their own and we all had a great laugh creating fabulous photographs!

Our Party Girl experience is available from £200 for a group of 4 for a half day including refreshments, a makeup lesson, photoshoot and disk of around 50 images ready to print, and up to £400 for a group of 8 girls.  For a full day experience prices start from £350 including makeup for all girls, photoshoot, lunch and a disk of around 80 images ready to print.

Jo's City Girl Makeover Photoshoot

We want to make sure that our products are fabulous and the experience of a makeover photoshoot in Liverpool is an enjoyable one, so every now and then we bring in testers to give us honest feedback - and oh boy can some of them be honest!  Today it was Jo who visited us all the way from Leicester so that she could enjoy a bit of pampering and have her photograph taken.  She kindly gave us feedbak and told us exactly what she thought - which basically boiled down to "Couldn't have asked for better!"  Thank you Jo.

Here is a small selection of her photographs:

Evidence of Jo being in Liverpool with the Metropolitan Cathedral in the background and a lamb banana too!

Jo is working on a 365 project, taking a picture every day of the year - and so she insisted on taking a picture of me taking a picture of her!

I'm sure this taxi was prepared to mow Jo down!

Thanks for being one of our product testers, Jo, and thank you for the incredibly useful feedback!

The Official Launch of City Girl Makeover Photoshoots in Liverpool

Thursday evening sees the official launch of City Girl Makeover Photoshoots in Liverpool.  This coming Thursday, 25th November 2010 from 5pm to 8pm we will be opening our doors officially in Liverpool, as Zoe Photography and Sian Louise Auld Makeup, as well as launching our City Girl Makeover Photoshoots. We will also be telling everyone about our ethical business practices, the only photographer in the UK to be taking this stand at the time of writing.

Please get in touch on 0151 708 5838 or by email zoe@zoephotography.co.uk or just turn up on the night - we'd love to see you.

Ethical Supplier Pledge for Makeover Photoshoots

Acting in an ethical way with our clients is really important to us at City Girl.  But what does this actually mean?

1. We pledge never to hard sell - when we quote you a price that is all you will spend.  We will tell you what else you can buy from us if you want to buy more, but you will not be sold anything.
2. We offer one product one price - a makeover, photoshoot and a disk of around 40 images for just £300.  We will not encourage you in with competition wins, introductory offers or conning approaches geared to make you spend more.
3. Any discounts offered, any promotions we do are all genuine offers, genuine promotions.  We do not expect you to buy more, we simply ask you to tell others about your experience of City Girl Makeover Photoshoots.
4. We will not ply you with alcohol to help you lower your guard.
5. We supply usable images with printing rights for you to enjoy - we do not overcharge and the only copyright marks are on web images for use on social networking sites.
6. We want you to have a thoroughly enjoyable experience with City Girl, which means we will work to make sure that we deliver good customer service.
7. If we get it wrong, please tell us, because let's face it, we are human, and we may get things wrong at times.  We will apologise to you without making excuses and we will work with you to put our mistakes right.
8. We will openly help you and guide you - for example, if you are interested in becoming a model then we will provide you with realistic advice.  We will not tell you that you could make it as a model if it's unlikely.
9. We aim to renew, reuse and recycle wherever we can.
10. We respect copyright and intellectual property of other business and artists.
11. We follow distance selling regulations.

How to be a Student Ambassador

We are looking for 3 student ambassadors in Liverpool to help us get the message out to performance students that they can have amazing portfolio images at heavily discounted prices. (See our Student discount page for more information)

What is a Student Ambassador?

1. Being an ambassador is all about getting your friends who are students in music and performance, or maybe they're in a band, the best possible professional photography for their portfolio, web, marketing etc.
2. You enjoy a fabulous extended shoot, styled by Sian Louise and photographed by Zoe who has won numerous prestigious awards from shoots styled by Sian Louise, including Fashion Photographer of the Year and Environmental Portrait Photographer of the year for her amazing work.
3. When you bring in 4 paying referrals for portfolio shoots you are then given your photographs on a disk, print and web ready, as a thank you.
4. Bring in 10 paying referrals, you get £100 of store vouchers for a store of your choice.
5. And if you are an amazing ambassador we give you an amazing thank you - with 20 paying referrals you get an iPad to thank you for all of your hard work.

All ambassadors also receive a reference for use in job searches, stating what work you did working as an ambassador and giving a testimonial of how hard you worked for us.

How do you Become a Student Ambassador for City Girls?

1. We are looking for guys and girls who are students in Liverpool.
2. Drop by and see us between 10 and 4 on weekdays at The Hahnemann, 42 Hope Street, Liverpool, or call us on 0151 708 5838, or drop us an email at zoe@zoephotography.co.uk and we will give you an application form to complete.
3. If you are successful at the application stage you will be invited in for an interview - please be prepared to show us your personality and help us to know how you will be a fabulous ambassador for City Girl.
4. Those who are successful at the interview stage will be booked in for an extended shoot.
5. Start telling everyone about your experience being photographed by one of the best photographers in Liverpool, acting as our ambassador straight away.
6. We need our ambassadors to be working on our behalf by the end of January at the latest.

So what are you waiting for?  If you have the gift of the gab, enjoy showing letting people know about a good deal, then get in touch now.

Oh, and one last thing - we adopt ethical practices at Zoe Photography and City Girl and we expect you to do the same, so please, only apply if you know that you are comfortable working ethically.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Student Discount for Portfolios in Liverpool

Liverpool media, music and performance students who need portfolio images or any Liverpool students at The University of Liverpool, LJMU, LIPA, Liverpool Hope University or Liverpool Community College who just want to have some fun can benefit from one of our discounted options at City Girl - and it's available for City Guys too!  

On production of your NUS card you can have 50% off our Modeling Portfolios (so the Quickie becomes just £75, The Makeover is just £150, and the Aspiring Model is just £200).  But you MUST bring your NUS card with you or you will be charged full price.

These discounted portfolios are available weekdays and some weekends by appointment - please call now to book your student discount portfolio session with us before Christmas - 0151 708 5838.