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Maya s the host of BBC3 s Glow Up: Britain s Next Make-Up Star and she could teach the world a masterclass in how to stay positive and resilient
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If we could bottle Maya Jama’s positivity and energy, then hand it out free on the NHS, the world would be a lot less stressed and happy shiny people would glow forward and prosper. We simply can’t get enough of the 26-year-old TV and radio presenter – and she’s fast becoming a household name, taking over from Stacey Dooley to host the third series of BBC Three’s
As someone who regretfully declined the offer of a Girlâs World Styling Head on numerous occasions throughout the 80s because I knew already the parlous state of my own artistic skills, and could not, would not see the bodiless beauty desecrated so, I am always left awed by the Glow Up participants â often self-taught, often working on beauty counters and honing their more exotic skills and creations in their leisure time.
This time round, the guest judge was the beauty journalist and activist Ateh Jewel, and the series opened with the task of designing an eyecatching look for a beauty campaign for Superdrugâs inclusive makeup range. So WHAT our Craig was thinking with his subtle, natural look for his snowy-haired model, well, NONE of us knows! Is that supposed to entice Superdrugâs customers through the doors of any one of the 800 stores whose windows it would be hung in! I think not! Think bigger, Craig!
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The hairdressers are open again, which is a mercy for several million blokes whose wives have been unable to get their frizzy ends done since January.
What can a chap say, except to offer a nervous and sympathetic: ‘I know, darling,’ when his beloved is raging about her roots? It’s enough to make your last tufts fall out.
It could be worse. We might be living in the 18th century, when a weekly visit to the salon took six hours and would set you back the equivalent of £200,000 a year.
Historian Lisa Eldridge’s glorious survey of beauty treatments in the Georgian era, Make-up: A Glamorous History (BBC2), was full of archival snippets to make your hair stand on end.
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Ahead of tonight’s new season of Glow Up, we catch up with the legendary make-up artist and judge to find out what’s in store
“Professional skills can be learned on the job, but you cannot teach creativity,” Val Garland tells viewers as aspiring make-up artists scurry around her, frantically gluing their brows down, squirting red drops into their eyeballs, and covering themselves in glitter while Maya Jama reminds them time is running out – that’s right,
Following two successful seasons, the series returns to our screens tonight with a fresh crop of 10 MUAs all hoping to prove they have what it takes to impress the judges and avoid getting told, as one contestant does in the opening episode, that they look like the talking tree in a pantomime. Back in the judges chairs once again are senior MAC make-up artist Dominic Skinner and the legendary Garland, this year joined by Jama who replaces Stacey Dooley as host and sympathetic ear to the contestants all