I had a great day on counter with the talented team at Laura Mercier last week raising funds and awareness of the brilliant beauty charity
Look Good Feel Better . In case you don’t know about it LGFB runs beauty workshops at hospitals up and down the country offering advice for women who are undergoing cancer treatment. They help those women to come to terms with and to disguise the effects that chemo and radio have on their skin, hair and nails and it’s all funded by the beauty business. Hello! readers generously donated money so they could sit on counter, get the best mini make-overs and come to meet me and the Laura Mercier team. My ‘dance card’ was fully booked and I had some of the loveliest people pop by.
This is the perfect opportunity for me to say hello and thank you to Debbie Holmes, Susie Iles, brilliant facialist Chelsee Lewis, Eleanor Hudson, Julie Watts, Sharon Tullett, Emily Winmill, Hillary Walkington, Sophie Neve, Carol Hodge and Rose McKearney – there were many more but some didn’t want their pictures taken (modesty prevailed).
The team at Laura Mercier are all trained makeup artists so they gave great advice and makeovers – the best transformations on women who had undergone cancer treatment and were only just rediscovering long lost brows and lashes. This meant that I too discovered the lash thickening trick of Laura’s signature Tightline – a clever intense pigment liner that goes up under the lash line and creates the appearance of thicker, darker lashes in seconds. Brilliant.
While we were at Selfridges Elizabeth Hurley popped by to do a personal appearance, looking uber glam. It was the night before she got engaged so instead of SW (as she calls Shane Warne on Twitter) she brought along her son Damian, who dutifully held her clutch whilst she posed for pictures.
She really is the perfect ambassador for Estee Lauder and their brilliant Breast Cancer Care initiative; intelligent, articulate and always willing to have her picture taken with a fan.
I wanted to share some pictures of my lovely readers – and a final HUGE THANK YOU to the Selfridges team including Jayne, David and Barbie and the all important Laura Mercier artists and managers Hannah, Mel, Sara, Aisha, Kaysee and Frank.
