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“I showed up to the shoot with a bare face and told her she could do whatever she wanted. I was very excited about her doing my eyebrows as I have never had a professional do them before and wanted to see what she would do that was different than what I’ve tried to teach myself. [...] A few other big takeaways for me were how lightly she touched my skin with the brushes. She also didn’t load up the product on her brushes either, which surprised me. She picked up some loose powder to dust on my skin to set the foundation and I noticed that she only swirled the brush in the lid of the powder, and then tapped some of the excess off. There was also never a time that she was pushing hard enough against my skin to flatten the brush at all.”

“This week, in the interests of Covid-compliant TV production, I lost my makeup-applying virginity. I had all the gear – the brushes, the tubes, the mirror with the lights around it – and I even had a nice masked and visored makeup artist. But she was only allowed to supervise; no touching permitted. It was a whole new experience: I saw my face in a different light. She squidged some moisturiser into my hand and told me to apply it. For some reason this was the first time in my life that I noticed things are getting a bit baggy under my left eye, so I focused on that area. Then there was some stuff for my lips. I did the rolling-them-against-each-other thing that I used to watch my mum doing, in some wonder, when I was little.”