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>>Hi everyone and welcome to the Skype Collaboration Project, I'm Ruth Crilly from 'A model recommends
dot com' and I'm joined today by make up artist supreme-o Charlotte Tilbury. Hello Charlotte.
>>Hi darling, how are you?
>>I'm good thank you. You're looking extremely glamourous.
>>No, thank you so much you're too kind. You're looking rather good yourself.
>>Can I ask you some questions?
>>Yes fire away. We love, we love you asking me lots of questions.
>>What inspired you to become a make up artist?
>>I, um, discovered make up and it really, you know, my life whole life changed at that
point, I had this kind of you know epiphany, um, where everyone from the age of 7 to 70
literally was like 'oh my god, you weren't that attractive before, hi", and they immediately,
their reactions for me changed and I realised that, what a sort of secret weapon it was.
Um, you know, the power of make up.
>>It's amazing that you've kind of passed on this empowerment to other women. You've
brought it to the mainstream now, it's not just supermodels and A-listers this is, this
is real women now that can, that can go through this Tilbury transformation.
>>The reason I ended up creating a make up line, um, was a kind of the fact that a lot
of women they wouldn't feel safe in the market place, they'd go, go to go shopping and they
wouldn't understand what to choose and what to use and they'd find it intimidating or
scary.
>>Yeah.
>>You know I kind of put all of that thinking into, and the artistry into all the products
that I have so that they're super foolproof and you would never look garish.
>>Yeah.
>>Or you can never make any mistakes.
>>And you're a great ambassador for your range because, can I, can I say this without sounding
rude, you wear a lot of make up don't you? I mean you love to wear make up.
>>I love make up. Yeah, I won't be seen dead without my make up, literally I think you'd
have to kill me to see me, no one has ever seen me without my make up on. I sleep in
my make up. I have bedtime make up. I have bedroom eye make up, I have, you know, I put
my kind of, I take it all off at night and I put my Wonderglow on which basically, softens
all your lines and your pores so you can still look like you kind of have perfect skin when
you're going to bed. But, um, you know I take off my eye make up and reapply it for the
evening so that my boyfriend always thinks I look gorgeous.
>>So glamourous.
>>You know what, actually, it's not only about him it's actually about me. It makes me feel
better.
>>Can you tell us what was your big break? Was there a point in your career when you
thought, ok, this is it, you know, this is going, this is going well, this is going big
time?
>>I suppose it was when I, um, started working with photographers Matt and Marcus or Mario
Testino, or, um, I think it, it was a kind of progression. I was really assisting at
the end of the supermodel era and, er, assisting Mary Greenwell the make up artist, and when
I left I sort of got in tail end of that. Then it became all about grunge and was sort
of anti make up and then it became all about make up again and we were kind of part of
the team of bringing back the glamour, bringing back the beauty, bringing that back. And in
a way we sort of got noticed for that and Matt Marcus really understood how to photograph
make up so it really became about the beauty and that obviously was like, it was like finding
your perfect vehicle to really show off your skill set. And, so I s'pose that was kind
of when we really became noticed.
>>Yeah.
>>And then, you know, as a result of that you start to work with all the celebrities
around the world, all the supermodels around the world and you kind of gain this kind of,
you know, it's suddenly you have, you know, musicians calling for you wherever and you
suddenly have this massive career. But I've been incredibly focused, um, I'm very focused,
very ambitious, very determined, very hardworking.
>>What would be the one piece of advice you'd give to somebody that's trying to break into
the industry?
>>Ok, uh, never give up. Always be really determined, you know there were times when
I was struggling at the beginning of my career and I swear to you I, I used to have this
note, um, and, from this women, and it was, it would say, it said 'knock it to 'em Charlotte
I know you'll be a star', and I used to go to my rolodex literally like cold calling
going 'hi, can you give me a job', or come and see people with my book. It was, you know,
I just look, it was demoralising sometimes, it's tough you know, not every door opens
for you and I would look at this note and I'd be like, it was just like, it's that thing
of like, I'm going to dust myself off and I'm going to try again. I can't remember what
song I took that from, but it's some song. Anyway, I didn't always have this but I had
a certain determination always as a very young girl, but it's grown and my confidence has
grown as I've got older and the more you achieve the better that becomes. So, you know it's
like anything, practice makes perfect.
>>Um, how does technology figure in you daily work life?
>>What I love about technology is, um, you know the fact that you're the master of your
own destiny. You know if I think of people like Cara Delevigne, you know she created
her own supermodeldom. You know she has, she has been the master of her own destiny, she
kind of can command her own audience, she kind of, you know, as Vogue put it 'liked
her way to the top'. I'm mad about Instagram, I'm mad about Youtube, I Skype with my child,
er, you know it's, it's, when I'm abroad it's a great way to kind of feel that your sort
of in the same room as someone.
>>Aw Charlotte thank you so much, you're so inspirational and it's been a really interesting
insight into your world and you've given us very full answers, which no doubt we're going
to have to edit about 80% out, otherwise people are going to be there for hours.
>>Good that's what we want.
>>See you soon.
>>See you soon, bye.
>>Bye. Bye.