After many years of working with curly-haired brides, I’ve developed a considered approach that allows your hair to look its best, every time. Curly hair can be unpredictable. Wash days don’t always behave, textures shift and what works one day can feel completely different the next. Because of this, I’ve designed a way of working that removes the guesswork from both your trial and your wedding day. For your trial, I’ll ask you to arrive with first or second-day clean hair, wearing around...

Most makeup artists have a signature look. Mine just happens to be the absence of one. I didn’t set out to become the person brides call when they want to look like themselves. It happened because every time I sat down with a client, they told me the same thing. They wanted to feel beautiful, not unrecognisable. They wanted someone who understood the panic that comes with a heavy base or a makeup with lines. They wanted to breathe. And honestly? Same. I love makeup, but I don’t live in it....

I’ve realised recently that my queerness has quietly slipped off my website, which is strange because it’s such a core part of how I work. I’m a queer makeup artist and that shows up in the way I move through wedding mornings, the way I approach beauty and the way I make space for people to feel like themselves. Weddings are incredibly gendered. There’s often an expectation of what a “bride” should look like or how feminine someone should be. Queer weddings don’t work like that. They’re...