I am a beauty school dropout. At college, I cut my mum’s bob into a Spock hairdo and took off half my friend’s eyebrow when I was doing the waxing. I was better at makeup. Drop me in Selfridges, and I’ll be in the beauty department for hours.
My favourite foundation is La Prairie, and I like Benefit’s Hoola for contouring. I have a few enlarged pores around my nose, so I mix Benefit The Porefessional with a Nars illuminator called (don’t laugh) Orgasm. I wear lipstick only when I’m working, usually Carmex.
After a gig, even if I’m on tour and it’s 3am, I’ll get in the shower and scrub my face, otherwise I’ll have a spot the next day. I exfoliate twice a week, and the rest of the week I do the regime – cleanse, tone and moisturise. If I do have a breakout, Origins’ Super Spot Remover is the best. I often switch toners, because if you stick with something too long, your skin gets used to it.
Last year, I did the BBC’s gymnastics show, Tumble, and had a hair disaster going from bleached to black to natural blond: on the top of my crown, the hair broke off to about an inch. Nowadays, I rely on a few extensions, but for most of that show I wore a wig. Without it, I looked like Pat Sharp in his good old mullet days.
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