“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.” Eleanor Roosevelt In my fifteen years of being a makeup artist, I have met some truly beautiful women. And when I say beautiful, I’m not just talking about the ​sundry models who have sat in my makeup chair – I’m talking about ​​the mothers, the grandmothers, the nurses, the teachers to name but a few who have shown me what it really means to be beautiful. Large sections of today’s media and sections of beauty industry place huge emphasis on external beauty and more crucially on youthful beauty, infiltrating our lives and psyches through television screens and the magazines we read. Who hasn’t reached for a face ​cream promising anti-ageing qualities or a serum claiming to reduce lines and wrinkles after seeing a very powerfully persuasive advertising campaign? It is normal and healthy to want to look after your skin and there are a number of effective products that can keep skin more supple or help combat oiliness but a cream that is going to actually work against the effect …

Hello and welcome welcome welcome to my blog! For some time, I have nurtured a dream of putting the technological version of pen to paper and sharing some of the things that make me passionate, in the hope that they can serve to inspire, uplift and maybe tickle the old funny bone from time to time of anyone who comes across this site. I realise that the internet and the world in general is swapped with other people’s views and opinions and that it can all seem rather overwhelming for our poor brains to decipher which article/book/blog post to read and that is before we have ascertained whether they are even applicable to our own lives.  But I also know that when something resonates/ hits the spot/provides a bit of a eureka moment – you have to grasp that nugget in whatever form it comes. Working as a makeup up artist for the past fifteen years in the UK fashion, magazine and television industries in addition my time spent as a hatha yoga teacher and energy healer, I have …