Turkey Time Out

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]With more inevitably boozy breaks ahead (Bordeaux and Champagne…natch), I’ve booked in for some time out in Turkey.  An entire week of chilled-out, blissed-out,…

Travel Tales: The Ski Week

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Let me just start by saying, “My name is Nadia El Ferdaoussi, and I can’t ski for shit”. Would I let that stop me from…

Sparklemotion: #cluckcluckgaffers

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What’s a hen without a hashtag (#cluckcluckgaffers)? At the weekend I was lucky enough to be part of the hen celebrations of my good pal…

Ultimate Pre-Holiday Beauty Checklist

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text][dt_gap height=”10″ /]There’s something about the pre-holiday preening ritual that I just love. It’s really easy to get very comfortable in your black skinny…

Future Fabrics: Learn to love your Wardrobe, Part 2

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text][dt_gap height=”10″ /]Did you know we only wear 20% of our wardrobes 80% of the time? That means there’s 80% of our entire collection…

Roasted Chickpeas

An update on an old roasted chickpeas recipe, to use up leftover chickpeas in a bid to reduce food waste and limit trips to the…

Everything You Need to Know About Being a Make …

This is the stuff no one tells you about becoming a make up artist, the nitty gritty, the first hand accounts from real professional make up artists. I’ll cover the pros, the cons, the ins and outs…a comprehensive guide.

As a working make up artist myself, naturally a lot of my close friends are also in the industry. It becomes a bit of a family you see, so when I posed a few questions to the lads and ladies, I got some really interesting replies….some answers even I didn’t know! So here it is, everything you need to know about being a make up artist.