In Conversation With: From Lucy Boyton To Lily James, A-Lister Makeup Artist Reveals All - Zoe Taylor
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🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week on the SheerLuxe podcast, Georgie is ‘In Conversation With’ our new beauty contributor, Zoe Taylor. Zoe regularly paints the faces of A-listers and industry insiders – from Lucy Boyton to Lily James.She takes an effortless approach and is well-known for her seriously chic make-up looks. Her career started with mentor Charlotte Tilbury, and since she has worked backstage, on editorial shoots and with an impressive clientele –it’s safe to say what she doesn’t know about beauty isn’t worth knowing.
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| 0:00.0 | Today I'm joined by makeup artist Zoe Taylor. Soi's 20 year career as a makeup artist has been the real deal when it comes |
| 0:17.1 | to careers as a makeup artist from assisting Charlotte Tilbury for six years to |
| 0:21.4 | working on countless magazine editorials, front covers to clients that include none other than Victoria Beckham. |
| 0:28.0 | She is an ambassador to Chanel and in 2019 after a lot of demand from her clients finally launched her own |
| 0:36.4 | lip line known as Tinker Taylor in Liberty. I'm thrilled to announce that she's soon to start a stint as a Sherlock's contributor and I thought what better way for our audience to get to know her than with an in conversation with podcast. |
| 0:51.0 | Welcome Zoe. Thank you Georgie. So excited that we're going to be working with |
| 0:56.3 | you and I thought you're so well known in the industry you're so well respected you've |
| 1:00.9 | had this amazing career but I think a lot of our readers |
| 1:04.5 | don't know you know there are lots of makeup artists who have a very strong |
| 1:08.8 | presence on Instagram and have gone down that route and a brilliant and we love them all but you've sort of done it a little bit more in the background I would say and it was probably only when I met you now I was like whoa this girl's seriously cool she's the real deal and we've got a work together and here we are |
| 1:27.3 | So talk us through how you got into makeup. Have you always wanted to be a makeup artist? |
| 1:33.0 | Yes, I've always wanted to be a makeup artist? Yes, I've always wanted to be a makeup artist Georgie, |
| 1:36.0 | but I did get a little bit waylaid by a few other things. |
| 1:40.0 | So I finished school, and when I was finishing school, I did a cookery course and I really |
| 1:45.1 | wanted to be a chef and that was my plan and also quite wanted to go to art school so |
| 1:49.2 | finished school works as a chef realized that definitely wasn't for me, but became really interesting. |
| 1:53.5 | Cooking and mixing and that intern probably did quite lead to a world of formulating, you know, doing |
| 2:00.2 | development for Charlotte, for Tom Ford, and then eventually for myself. |
| 2:04.5 | So that was quite good and it was worth doing for me, but my love is the arts and going to |
| 2:11.7 | art school was a really big part of the kind of creativity of my career |
| 2:17.2 | path. So I did always want to be a makeup artist but I did get waylaid but I feel like all those things |
| 2:21.6 | really did layer up in order for me to |
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