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It all began on a cold and wet Wednes-

day in January. The “Voice of the Trav-

eller” team were busy working on the

new and improved look of the maga-zine. But in between the arguments

over what colour borders each page

should have and how many photos

should be in the social diary, something

dawned on us.

Every month we receive loads of pic-

tures of beautiful young women from

around the country. Although we are al-

ways delighted to print them and proud

to show them off in our pages, we felt

we could do more. In fact we felt these

young women deserved more. The

thinking caps were put on and we set

about coming up with a way we could

show off beautiful Traveller women both

to the wider and Traveller community.

That’s how the “Beauty Has No Bound-

aries” Calendar was born.

We immediately got to work. Olga, who

is good at these things, started to de-

sign a poster that would let all Traveller 

women in Ireland know of our plan.

Sinead and Julieanne worked the

phones and lined up make-up artists,

stylists and hairdressers. The posters

went out, the photos came in and we

were on our way. Then something very

exciting happened...

VIP magazine, Ireland’s top celebrity

and style magazine heard about what

we were doing and decided they

wanted to get involved. “Show us the

girls” they said, “And if they are pretty

enough, we’ll put them in our magazine

as well”. It was a very proud day, when,

our editor Sinead went up t o Dublin,

with photos in hand, to the VIP offices.

VIP editor Michael and top Irish model

 Andrea Roche took a look and were

amazed. 12 girls were selected by

these two beauty industry experts and

all that was left to do was to take their 

pictures and transform them into calen-

dar stars.

 After phone calls to all the girls, it was

decided that Dublin would be the easi-

est shoot location for everyone. No. 10

Ormond Quay was booked, a beautiful

Georgian House which has been beau-

tifully restored by its owner. At 9am,

Friday 13th April (we weren’t scared by

the date!) we all trooped in, through the

marble rooms and tip-toed past the an-

tiques on display. Hair, make-up and

wardrobe set to work on each girl. The

stylist Tanya probably had the hardest

 job of all as a few of the VOT staff were

spotted playing with some of the jew-

ellery and handbags when they should

have been working…

On hand to help on the day was Emer,

a lady from VIP magazine who really

knew her stuff. Working with Kip Car-

roll, the photographer, Emer set up

each pose and also gave all the girls

make-up and clothes a once over be-

fore they were photographed.

It was a long day for everyone but it

was well worth it. Emer used the few

quiet times during the day to interview

the girls for an art icle she will be writing

for VIP magazine. Some of the photos

taken on the day will also feature be-

side her piece.

The “Voice of the Traveller” is delighted

with our new calendar and very proud

of our cover girls. A lot of patience was

needed on the day as there was a lotof waiting around between shots, but

our girls were professional throughout

and as I think you’ll agree all the hard

work was definitely worth it.

Voice of the Traveller wishes tothank:

Michael, Emer, Biancaand all at VIP Magazine.John Lynch at No.10 Ormond QuayPhotographer: Kip CarrollStylist: Tanya GrimsonHair: Ciara Burke and Danielle

Dorrington from Peter Mark,Grafton Street, Dublin.Make Up: Natalie Kinsella for Mac andSam Tsan at Mac.Stillwater Communications:

Cillian FennellThe following stores: Coco Woman, Top-Shop, Dunnes Stores, Oasis, Warehouse,River Island, Chica, Noa Noa, New Look,Pink Soda, Matthew Williamson,

Marks &

Spencers, Pulse.

To order your copy of the “Beauty Knows No Boundaries” Calendar contact “Voice of the Traveller” magazine on 090 64 98017.Calendars cost €8.50 each or twocopies for €15. The calendarrunsfrom June 2007 to June 2008 

The Winning Covergirls are:

Aisling Hand, Navan, Lucy Power, Dublin, Santana Harper,Dublin, Mary-Ellen Mongan, Longford, Kathleen Delaney,Galway, Isowell Donovan, Offaly, Sinead O’Brien, Cork,Geraldine Stokes, Westmeath, Caroline Delaney, Galway,Sandra Donovan, Offaly, Bridget Lynch, Kildare, Albie Mc- Donagh, Offaly. Congratulations to all the girls and make 

 sure you see them in the “Beauty Knows No Boundaries” Cal-  endar, out now !!