Hey, everyone. It's Jess. I'm Jen. Welcome to Fat Mascara.

You stumbled on the right podcast today. Yes, you did. You're in for a treat.

This is a beauty treat. Okay. We have the most amazing interview for you today.

We've been waiting for this one. I feel like I've been saying that a lot lately.

We've been waiting for this one for a while.

But I'm telling you, we're throwing out gems recently, gems, because we had some really good

bookings coming through. I'm going to tell you, I've been working on this for a while.

The incredible Ismaia French is here today. Yes. And I don't mind sharing a little behind the scenes.

Some of these interviews we book are months and just last week, years in the making.

And so Ismaia, we're so glad you joined us. Okay. So if you're not familiar with her work,

you should be. She's a London-based artist and makeup artist who's worked,

has been featured in ID, love, days. She's done window installations for liberties in London,

worked multiple fashion shows, served as a beauty ambassador to YSL Beauty, a consultant for

Tom Ford Beauty, a creative director of Byredo Beauty. She's also a singer. Her group is Alto Arck

and she's contributed to several songs by the musician Sega Bodega. And I think she has

something else coming out too that we talk about. Anyway, we've wanted to interview her for a while,

as you know, it's perfect timing right now because she just launched pre-orders right now.

She just launched her own makeup line Ismaia. So I mean, without further ado, I've never said that,

but that feels right, right? If you haven't seen her work, please, just Google Image. Google Image.

Okay, she's not like a makeup artist, like, you know, like your average bare makeup artist.

She's an artist, artist with beauty TM as you guys, you and she ends up calling like trademark,

the big capital B beauty. But you have to speak up if you talk about. She's anti-beauty TM.

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