It’s interesting that some days I might feel really beautiful when I have my hair done and my makeup on, and then some days I feel most beautiful how I am now-just relaxed with nothing on. But it definitely still feels like a journey. So I think my real, fun beauty journey started when I got to 17 or 18-when I started going out and I started getting really good at doing my makeup, which I think was a massive help with my confidence. When I was at home, my mum and dad would always tell me I was beautiful, but I think all kids feel like parents are supposed to say that, and when I was at school, I didn’t necessarily feel that. I remember being about 13 and all my girlfriends started wearing that bloody Dream Matte Mousse foundation, and I could never find it in my shade. I would be looking at other girls and working out what the boys liked, and I was always trying to copy that. I guess I never had a hard time, but it just took me a while to understand it.
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It's actually much different now-I went back recently, and it’s changed a lot-but when I was a kid, I went to school with a lot of white girls, and it took me a really long time to be able to look at my skin and my hair and see it as beautiful. I love where I grew up, in a tiny little town in Leicester called Syston, and it’s a huge part of who I am now. My beauty journey was quite strange because of where I grew up I think. If I'm being honest, I haven’t always loved it. How would you describe your relationship with beauty?