Twelve years,
one obsession.

I grew up mixing gouache in my mother's studio and never really stopped — the pans just got smaller. Makeup, to me, is colour applied to a moving, breathing, badly-lit surface, and that's exactly what makes it worth doing.

I work quietly and fast. I ask what the picture is for before I ask what the client wants to look like, because those are two different questions and answering them in the wrong order is how faces end up generic.

My studio in East London is one room, one chair, north light and far too many jars. Trials, lessons and testing happen there. Everything else happens wherever the shoot is.