My mom was strict about make-up, which made me more obsessed with it. I loved painting and started doing my friends’ make-up in the back of the bus on the way to school. In my early twenties, I was an au pair. The mother in my host family was a fashion journalist, and would bring me to the shows in Paris. I was completely taken with the romance of the runway. She received boxes of make-up from Dior and Chanel, which she gave to me. That was the beginning. Later, I went to make-up school in Paris. I thought, “At least if this doesn’t work out, I’ll be fluent in French.”
