About Me

The first thing you need to know about me is that I absolutely love that I can combine my two passions, which are hair and makeup artistry and saving animals.

I achieve this mesh through education and promoting a more ethical, natural, safer and humane/vegan approach to beauty. I care deeply about animal welfare and strongly feel that no animal should ever suffer so we can have beauty products. My motto is the following ; “NO ANIMAL SHOULD EVER SUFFER FOR HUMAN VANITY!”

I believe that if we want to use makeup and other beauty and personal care products then we should do it ethically.

All products I work with, are vegan friendly and created by ethical, humane companies that are either former Choose Cruelty Free accredited brands or Leaping Bunny Programme approved brands. These are the only two cruelty free Programmes I trust are thorough enough.

My work shows that it is absolutely possible and achievable to create professional, fashion-forward, hair and makeup results, both ethically and safely.

My Animal Welfare Job

As a vegan, I am committed to helping save animals from suffering and also work in the role of the Australian Programmes Manager for the global organisation, Cruelty Free International.

Prior to taking on this rule in 2021. I volunteered for over 2 decades for the former Australian, non profit organization Choose Cruelty Free. as their official campaign, hair and makeup artist and PR Director, and in July 2019, I proudly took over the voluntary role of President of Choose Cruelty Free.

I also have my own vegan, health and safety blog LivingSafe.com.au where I write about the importance of using more natural, safer and cruelty free cosmetic products.

How It All Began

I started out doing my hairdressing apprenticeship in the late 1980's at Katan/Kabu, a high-end salon in High St Armadale Melbourne.

Once I completed my 4 year apprenticeship,I stayed on at the salon for a couple more years and also studied makeup artistry at Flagstaff College.

In the early 1990's I branched out on my own and for the last 27 years I have freelanced, working in the fashion, advertising, music and bridal industries. I have been fortunate enough to have worked on some very exciting jobs both here in Australia and overseas, with some incredibly talented international recording artists including; Tina Arena, Vanessa Amorosi, Ricky Martin, JImmy Barnes, Kylie Minogue, Lauren Hill and actress Madeleine West.

Over 2 decades ago I started volunteering as a hair and makeup artist for the non-profit organization Choose Cruelty Free and once I understood how animals are tortured and killed for cosmetic testing, I vouched to never work for brands that test on animals. I also refused to work at Australian Fashion Week as it is run and promoted by cosmetic brands that tested on animals and featured fashion labels that used real fur and exotic skins in their collections.

I used to loose work because of my cruelty free stance on beauty, as some clients would only want a hair and makeup artist that worked with brands that I refused to use, but now I am so happy to say I actually get clients booking me BECAUSE of my ethics! :)

It is great to see the ethical change in the beauty industry and I can assure you the brands I use give every bit as a professional and long lasting result as those popular cult, but animal tested brand!