Charlotte Tilbury is about to get her Irish passport, courtesy of an Irish grandmother. “I’m so excited!” she says. “Dublin is such fun, Irish people are such craic.
And Irish eyes are so beautiful!” She’s talking to me as her make up and skincare range launches its Holiday 2024 collection, which includes a €215 heart-shaped advent calendar (there was a waiting list of 30,000 for last year’s edition) and a 16-page press release: That joyful Tilbury feeling! Beautiful confidence! A Magic Gifting Universe of limitless possibilities! Guaranteed gifting happiness! On Zoom, Tilbury speaks so quickly her words fall over themselves and sentences run into each other. Everything is amazing, magical, empowering, visionary, revolutionary, incredible! Her Magic Cream “Plumps! Smooths! Blurs! Lifts!” George Clooney and Adam Driver are “obsessed with it!”, nicking it from their wives because it’s “Instant! Skin! Revival!” I’m not going to lie – until a few days before speaking with her, I’d never heard of Charlotte Tilbury, the woman or the brand, because my idea of skin care is homemade scrub made from coffee grounds and ten quid vegan moisturiser. I don’t say this out loud for fear of being nail-gunned by exclamation marks.
“I always say if you want to have a beautiful painting you need to have a beautiful canvas,” she says. She’s talking about her Magic Cream, her original product “born out of necessity” when she was working as a make up a.
