"So Jennifer Lopez has the most beautiful face but she wants to give herself amazing facial framework, to bring out her killer cheekbones and chisel around her nose, so we do that." (Translated into English, this means Tilbury uses shading and highlighting to give Lopez more emphasised cheekbones and a narrower nose.) "Celebrities want to make their cheekbones shine, to soften their pores, to know they'll look good from all angles and in HD. Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty ImagesĮver since she was a little girl growing up in Ibiza, the daughter of artists, in her "ridiculously girly" bedroom covered with posters of stars such as Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, Tilbury has been fascinated by this trickery. Photographers line up on the red carpet at the Cannes film festival. But there's trickery you can do with makeup, and no one knows that better than celebrities," she says. "Celebrities are especially insecure about ageing, and maybe staying slim, too. And the truth is, Tilbury does, as she says, make women look very beautiful, which is what celebrities want on the red carpet. There is something very American about Tilbury with her – I would say refreshing, others might say shameless – fondness for self-promotion, but this skill has doubtless helped her in Hollywood, a town that has about as much interest in self-deprecation as it does in foreign films. Penélope and I, we love each other, and she says: 'But no one else can do my eyes like you!' Hahahaha!" Some celebrities will always ask for me, such as Jennifer, or Penélope, or Naomi, and it just made sense to focus on that. The awards season is like fashion week now, with all the pressure and parties and the whole circus comes to town and you're just exhausted at the end. The red carpet has become just this insane industry and so much more pressured. "I can't just be fashion, darling, I need celebrity, too. After that she'll do London fashion week but this year, for the first time, she is skipping Milan and Paris, arguably the most important of the fashion weeks, in order to return to LA to do makeup for several A-list celebrities going to the Oscars (she's not allowed to name names before the event, as is the usual case with makeup artists and designers). When we meet, Tilbury has just returned from LA where she was doing the makeup for the Golden Globes and is packing again to fly to New York the next day for New York fashion week. This is unarguably a ridiculous state of affairs, but it is good business for Tilbury and she, like the rest of the fashion industry, has sensed that the real focus is not the runways, but the red carpet. Now, how a female celebrity looks at an awards ceremony is scrutinised at least as intensely as her work. The celebrity world has come a long way since the days when, as Vanity Fair reports this month, Michelle Pfeiffer used to blowdry her own hair before going to the Oscars. Amazing women! But my schedule is just insane."īeyoncé will have to get used to disappointment, because Tilbury's schedule is now more hectic than ever, thanks to the rise of the red carpet. "Pregnancy brain, darling, pregnancy brain! But I've had to turn so many down – Beyoncé, Madonna, Gaga. But instead of any bitchiness and exclusivity, there is a lovely warmth to Tilbury, which partly explains why so many female celebrities insist on getting her to do their makeup for red-carpet events, even if she can't always quite remember their names. She seasons her conversation with references to celebrities and A-list destinations, such as the Chateau Marmont, the Venice Biennale and the Berlin film festival, the way other people might refer to doing the shopping. She is hilariously, unself-consciously over-the-top, swishing her long red hair from side to side and swinging about her 5in heels (not even being four-and-a-half months pregnant can push Tilbury into flats) and the word "fabulous" comes out of her mouth with almost tic-like frequency. Spending time with Tilbury is like hanging out with the most fun elements of the fashion industry in human form.
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