Interview: Ruby Hammer - page 2

26 May 2009

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What about Autumn/Winter, what will be the big looks then?

Weirdly enough there's a bit of a continuation of it, we've still got quite a lot of red but maybe going a bit more burgundy, a bit more maroon, not so rich red. Still eyebrows are big, big, big, it doesn't seem to have evolved and reduced. Colours go from, smokey eye colours but more grey and metallic. Also skin is a bit more...not super glowy but not super matte either, just in between.

What beauty rule do you think is the most important?

Blend, blend, blend! If people just did a little bit more, even if they think they've done enough, it would be amazing! Everything from foundation marks to blusher in stripes so I just say blend blend blend, that could be with a brush, with a sponge, with your finger but just be aware. Look at it and think 'Have I done enough?' Then really look at it again and then blend some more! You can't go wrong.

What do you think is the biggest beauty mistake people make?

Either blending well or using far too much. Too much blusher, too much foundation and then it's just slapped on. Sometimes people use a really  good expensive product, and it's not even the cost of it, but it can't go from the palette to your face without you doing a bit of application. You have to apply it and you have to blend it, I think that is the most common mistake.

Do you have a beauty icon?

My all time beauty icon is Bianca Jagger. I had the good fortune to meet her, when she was in a film called Hunger with David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. I was 18 or 19 and I was at university, and my boyfriend's parents used to own a very famous restaurant that celebrities went to. I remember going to a big dinner before that film and I sat in between Catherine Deneuve and Bianca Jagger. I think I was holding my breath all night, I couldn't breath sitting next to her! Her amazing skin, her beautiful eyebrows, she had dewy skin. I remember at the time she used to say she'd do her full make up, put her hair up and then go and have a bath. The steam from the bath used to soften up her make-up and because her hair was up all higgledy piggledy it would encourage those curls, proper defined curls as opposed to a frizzy mess. Then she'd shake it out to get dressed and she'd just look amazing. I'm telling you she still always looks amazing!

Are there any celebrities that you think always get their make up right?

I think, if we look at someone who is obvious but, Kate Moss always seems to get it right. Not just her clothes but sometimes it's a bit more on the eyes, sometimes it's the earrings, sometimes the messy hair. So I have to say she's still one that looks amazing. Also a younger one, if you look at Sienna Miller. She's got the blonde sun kissed look but she always looks good, wether she's walking her dog or she's in LA or she's on a boat, she doesn't often get it wrong. And she does actually attempt things, I like people to experiment a little bit, they do try and change the rules a little bit. Someone like Angelina Jolie looks amazing but she doesn't change her look. I don't think there's anything different there for someone to go, 'Ooh I might try that.'

Any famous faces that always get it wrong?

The sad thing is it's not just celebrities it's all women, we can all get it wrong but the sad thing for them is they've got people following them around trying to catch them getting it wrong. I think it's because they got caught at the wrong angle or the paparazzi just take the picture and it doesn't come out the most flattering but I don't necessarily think it's them just getting it glaringly wrong other than when they overdo the fake tan. Sometimes even Victoria Beckham can do that, or you see it with somebody like Paris Hilton where she's done her fake tan and she hasn't done her ankles, silly things like that.

If you only have a couple of minutes before you go out and can't do you full make up routine what is the most important thing to do?

For me I'd just stand back and look and think, 'Do you look like you've got too much on anywhere or do you look like you haven't got enough on?' If it was that I'd put a bit of lip balm on, a bit of mascara on and pinch my cheeks to give a bit of colour.

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