She and assistants Kimberlee d'Andre and Kirsty Lohmann, of Queenstown, will be backstage at Wanaka's fifth Passion for Fashion show tomorrow, the opening event in this year's Wanakafest, making up the faces of the 30 models selected to show the latest range of spring fashions available at local retailers.
Ms Bagley (29), a former Vanity Walk model from Dunedin, is now a drama and dance teacher at Mt Aspiring College in Wanaka but loves the fashion show vibe and has never turned her back on the catwalk.
"Any opportunity to do it [makeup] I get amongst it."
Struggling to find a teaching job after she graduated from the University of Otago in 2003, she took a job with Mac Cosmetics, regarded as an industry leader in photographic and fashion makeup.
Ms Bagley trained with the company and worked at Arthur Barnett in Dunedin. She also started her own business offering weddings, photography work and shows, before she and her husband George Konia, a personal trainer, moved to Wanaka at the end of 2004.
Ms Bagley - now mother of 13-month-old Scarlett - worked as a fitness instructor at a local gym but has since secured her dream teaching job. She continues to work in makeup at productions and fashion shows around Central Otago and mentor her school pupils in the art.
It is Ms Bagley's first time working for the Wanakafest Passion for Fashion show and she said she was thrilled to be able to secure the main sponsor Revlon, regarded as a coup by the organisers.
Her role also includes ordering products, identifying the new season's trends and designing looks.
"The seasonal trends, well there are three of them. Really fresh make-up, enhancing natural features; playing with candy-like colours - for example, playing up purples; and basics such as a smoky eye. A smoky eye is always in," she said.
Applying cosmetics to the 30 models from Ican will be a time-consuming task, with each of the artists doing 10 faces each.
"The first person is always slowest. That might take 40 minutes. But once I get my mojo, I get down to 30- or even 20-minutes tops," Ms Bagley said.
However, once is usually enough.
"It generally stays put. It is pretty good. Generally at half-time, they have a change, but that's usually only a lip change."
