Lifestyle and beauty blogger Estee Lalonde is something of an internet sensation, with over 3.5 million followers across her platforms, as well as a bestselling book Bloom: Navigating Life and Style , and podcast On The Line under her belt. Despite her huge success and some of the pitfalls that come with sharing stories online, Estee is disarmingly honest and easy-going, and turned up to record at my house willing to talk about anything and everything. Our conversation about Estee's life accordi...
Mar 19, 2019•49 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Daniel Sandler's appreciation of the transformative power of beauty began early in his life through watching his hairdresser dad and his interior designer mum at work. But rather than following in either of their footsteps, he instead alighted on make-up. Success quickly found Daniel, and over his 30+ years in the industry he's made up everyone from A-list actresses to pop stars to models (Daniel is exceedingly discrete, but a couple of names pop up during the episode, if you're curious about th...
Mar 12, 2019•41 min•Season 2Ep. 8
After the acne episode with Clinical Aesthetician Pam Marshall went live, skincare questions flew my way, so I thought the best recourse would be to invite Pam back as a guest on the show to offer her wisdom. We cover a huge range of topics, including dryness, pigmentation, scarring, ageing, and skin-friendly make-up. As those of you who listened to Pam's thoughts on treating acneic skin will know, she doesn't mince her words and her advice is extremely sound. Some of the products she mentions i...
Mar 08, 2019•21 min
Fans of Daisy Buchanan's writing will know that her work walks the delicate line between frank and funny, insightful and warm. She brings that trademark heart-wrenching and hilarious touch to her musings in this episode on the relationship between her internal and external self, throwing in some excellent anecdotes including the time she met Tim Westwood surrounded by Ferrero Rochers and how Sun In turned her hair orange. Daisy's book, The Sisterhood, is out on the 7th of March - click here to p...
Mar 05, 2019•48 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Erstwhile model turned nutritional therapist, and Tuesday's main episode guest, Rosemary Ferguson returns for an expert episode. In it, she explores the interplay between anxiety and food, as well as suggesting some foods to steer clear of, and those to eat to help reduce anxiety. Beauty Full Lives is hosted by Madeleine Spencer , produced by Charlie Jones , and with artwork by Sung Lee . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 01, 2019•9 min
Rosemary Ferguson's career started in the rather inauspicious setting of McDonald's on Oxford Street, where she was spotted by Corinne Day (yep, the very same Corinne Day who took those famous early photos of Kate Moss, so clearly she had a very good eye). She went on to become part of the famous wave of British models living in New York who carved out a new, more pared back look following the excesses of the '80s. After having three children and deciding to live back in the UK, Rosemary went to...
Feb 26, 2019•38 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Singer-songwriter Freya Ridings has has a huge year. Her haunting single Lost Without You went platinum, and she recently performed it on the Late Late Show with James Corden, as well as on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards, and on The Greatest Dancer. In this episode, Freya offers an insight into how she has thrived in a famously competitive industry, and is frank about the challenges that accompany her success - including building the stamina for her schedule, and how being filmed ...
Feb 19, 2019•39 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Eve Kalinik is a Nutritional Therapist and the author of Be Good To Your Gut. In this expert slot episode, Eve talks about how a relationship with food can be improved through simple measures - and explains how the gut and mind communicate. Beauty Full Lives is hosted by Madeleine Spencer , produced by Charlie Jones , and with artwork by Sung Lee . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 15, 2019•23 min
Zanna Roberts Rassi is nothing if not a renaissance woman. In her capacity as beauty and fashion journalist, she contributes to Marie Claire , the Today show, and E! News. For the latter, she often finds herself in front of the camera, interviewing attendees of the Met Gala, the Golden Globes, and the Oscars. Her other job: co-founder of Milk Makeup , the hugely successful make-up and skincare brand that flew off counters in America and has just launched into the UK at Cult Beauty. Milk is a tri...
Feb 12, 2019•32 min•Season 2Ep. 4
When Meg Mathews found herself unable to leave her house due to anxiety, she had no idea that the root cause might be the menopause. Once she realised that the anxiety-related agoraphobia she was suffering from was one of the many menopause symptoms that she'd never heard about, she decided to take action. Today, she's one of the more outspoken voices on the impact of the menopause, campaigning for awareness of how it can affect a woman and striving to arm them with information as to how to comb...
Feb 05, 2019•48 min•Season 2Ep. 3
I started seeing physiotherapist Ben Lombard towards the end of last year. After enjoying what I now realise was the extremely good fortune of having a comfortable back throughout my life, I pulled a muscle in my neck over the summer and then progressively found my back becoming more and more riddled with knots, culminating in my standing in the park mid-Monty walk, unable to lift my foot because my lower back had seized up. Enter Ben. After he assessed what was going on and administered a massa...
Feb 01, 2019•12 min
Make-up artist Mary Greenwell is a beauty industry legend who's made up some quite extraordinary people, including Cate Blanchett, Diana, Princess of Wales, Jessica Chastain, Cindy Crawford, Meghan Markle, Amanda Seyfried, Christy Turlington, and Margaret Thatcher. But the thing that really distinguishes Mary's work from that of other make-up artists is not who she's made up, but rather how very memorable the end effect is. Think of those '80s supermodels sporting smoky eyes and honeyed skin, an...
Jan 29, 2019•50 min•Season 2Ep. 2
When I decided to add an extra slot to the podcast to offer up wisdom from some of the experts I am fortunate enough to work with in my capacity as beauty journalist, I immediately thought of Clinical Aesthetician Pam Marshall . Pam is renowned for her ability to calm ruffled skin, with her clients, of which I am one, eulogising her multi-faceted approach - and straight-talking advice. Happily, she agreed to come on the show, and I found myself in her treatment room at her Fulham clinic Mortar a...
Jan 25, 2019•23 min
The word legendary is bandied around a lot, but I think it's safe to say that Kylie Minogue absolutely warrants legendary status. And Glastonbury clearly agrees: at this year's festival, she'll be headlining the 'legends' slot. It comes after a particularly successful year in the pop star's career: her fourteenth studio album, Golden, received critical acclaim, and Kylie's ever-ardent fans loved the personal, Nashville-recorded songs. Which brings me to, well, me. I am a Kylie fan. Of epic propo...
Jan 22, 2019•20 min•Season 2Ep. 1
MANY of you asked for more Rebecca Reid and Esther Coren , so this week I invited them on the show for a natter about Christmases past and their more intriguing Christmas memories and traditions. Crucial topics covered include our top Christmas films, what constitutes a good Christmas (no turkey and a curated crowd in Esther's case, much booze and being surrounded by family in Rebecca's, and my eclectic bunch plus the waifs and strays from Dad's restaurant for me), how much is too much when it c...
Dec 18, 2018•37 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Twelve guests have now shared the stories of their lives and how beauty products, memories, and practises have had an impact on them, and now we're nearing the end of season one, I thought it about time I shared mine. Last week's guest, the writer Rebecca Reid , agreed to host the episode, and we have a good old natter and touch on acne, anxiety, and my struggle with finding balance and contentment within my body. Places & People I mention / - Tiroler Hut Restaurant - Pam Marshall at Mortar ...
Dec 11, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 13
It is almost impossible for Rebecca Reid to talk about anything without being completely compelling and extremely candid. Ask her about going from a Catholic boarding school to a polyamorous relationship in the space of a year, and she'll tell you precisely you how it happened and how it felt. Talk to her about the obsession with being a Victorian that lead her to rag her hair and go to school on a dressing up day as Millicent Fawcett, and she'll also divulge how it affected her at home and in t...
Dec 04, 2018•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Zoe Sugg, aka Zoella, is an internet sensation, racking up over a billion YouTube views, with 12 million subscribers, and a further 10 million on Instagram and 13 million on twitter. Her fans are famously loyal - and they recognise Zoe wherever she goes. In this episode of Beauty Full Lives, I was keen to discuss the human element of living with the enormous fame and scrutiny that comes with being the most famous girl online (which, but the way, happens to be the title of Zoe's bestselling book ...
Nov 27, 2018•43 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Esther Coren didn't grow up thinking her currency would be her looks. She describes herself as having a 'round face, lots and lots of very pronounced freckles, and very, very red hair. I wasn't chubby, but I wasn't one of the pretty girls at school at all.' Fortunately, she grew up in a household where the way she looked wasn't valued above other attributes - particularly speedy wit, and in a bid to make their mum laugh, Esther would develop a dexterity with words that would set her in good stea...
Nov 20, 2018•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Tina Earnshaw is a make-up veteran, having either designed the make-up or worked on principal actors on - wait for it - Titanic, Emma, Mama Mia, Shakespeare In Love, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Hamlet, and many, many others. She's been nominated twice for an Oscar, and is revered within the industry for her ability to create a classically beautiful face: think perfected skin, enhanced eyes, and full, pouty lips. Her work makes the individual features of an actor pop without applying what appears to...
Nov 13, 2018•46 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Millie Mackintosh's first foray into beauty was with a sparkly lilac toy nail polish - and the experience was a disappointment of epic proportions. Enter a granny with a stash of Chanel polishes, who gave Millie a pillar box red varnish, and in so doing spark an appreciation of beautifully-executed beauty products. A slightly bumpy time at school thanks to acne honed Millie's love of make-up and its transformative powers, and after leaving, she went to work at MAC in Bath and then at Space NK, w...
Nov 06, 2018•38 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Ateh Jewel found beauty to be a source of comfort in a turbulent childhood, enjoying scent and glitter and then graduating to a love of colour and glamour. But there was a fly in the ointment: as a woman of colour, Ateh was constantly being told that certain products didn't apply to her, that pink or blush or even experimenting was not for her. Resilient to the core, Ateh continued in her quest to find a place for herself in the beauty world and, after a stint at InStyle, started to write pieces...
Oct 30, 2018•58 min•Season 1Ep. 7
When Trish McEvoy founded Trish McEvoy beauty back in 1975, how women used make-up and what might be missing from their bags was at the forefront of her mind. She started with brushes, after which she continued to add to the range, but always with the view that products should be hardworking to deserve a place in a busy woman's mirror time. In this episode, she tells her compelling story, and explains how a dash of chutzpah and her innate ability to see things through has helped her enormously i...
Oct 23, 2018•24 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Irish writer, academic, and activist Sinéad Burke had a rather unlikely introduction to beauty as a child: her father worked as an actor and therefore had a huge make-up kit, from which he'd pull gems like Max Factor's Pan Stick before offering his daughters make-up advice. Sinéad's Dad also served as a role model for her in another significant way because he too was disabled as a result of achondroplasia (a genetic disorder that results in dwarfism), with Sinéad crediting him and her family for...
Oct 16, 2018•49 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Holly Willoughby turned up to record her Beauty Full Lives interview with a piece of paper in her hand on which she’d written a list of products she wanted to mention. ‘That’s the sign of a busy lady,’ Holly explained. And busy she is: between presenting This Morning and I’m A Celebrity… and appearing on Celebrity Juice , Holly works with Garnier (more on which below), Diet Coke GB , and M & S - and is also a mum of three. To Holly, beauty therefore has to be highly functioning and, ideally,...
Oct 09, 2018•20 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Siblings Sam and Nic Chapman started their career working as make-up artists before uploading videos to YouTube showing how to achieve different make-up looks. Within two years, Pixiwoo had amassed 30,000 subscribers. From there, they launched Real Techniques, a brand designed to demystify the process of applying make-up. In this episode of Beauty Full Lives, they discuss everything from the products that they remember from their teen years to how they got started in the industry to their feelin...
Oct 02, 2018•48 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Davina McCall is a woman divided when it comes to beauty. On the one hand, she’s been influenced by her mother, a woman who would ‘ walk into a room and magnetise everybody - she was always looking amazing, always made up, always moisturised.’ And then there’s the grandmother she lived with for nine years, a woman who ‘never wore a jot of make-up - stuff and nonsense.’ It’s easy to see the influence of both these women when contemplating Davina, and some of her success as a presenter and broadca...
Sep 25, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Dolly Alderton was, by her own admission, not terribly comfortable with her looks as a teen. Yearning for adulthood, when she expected she’d find a life to suit the grown up aesthetic she’d come to love, she suffered taunts at school and was roundly ignored (or, worse, insulted) by boys. This didn’t stop Dolly from realising any of her ambitions, and she is now revered and held in great affection for her body of work as a writer, podcaster, and journalist. In this episode of Beauty Full Lives, D...
Sep 18, 2018•47 min•Season 1Ep. 1
