Lights, Camera and Makeup – An insight into a Makeup Artists life
The guest speaker at our October speaker meeting was Pamela Clare Louise Bridget O’Donnell Cooper or Pamela Clare, Professionally or PC by friends. PC’s had an eclectic career, from jockey to in demand TV and film makeup artist via chauffeuring and a career she never wanted to do – Christian Dior National Make-Up Artist. Despite working in an impressionable industry,she has always been proud of her Yorkshire accent. Having started her make up career in the beauty industry working on London Fashion Week and making up Madonna and Kylie Minogue, she has also worked on well-known TV shows such as Coronation Street and Emmerdale. She recounted her experience having had Piers Brosnan in the make up chair. PC was massaging his hands. She enjoyed the process so much Piers had to say ‘I think my hands are done now’. PC now specializes in prosthetic