“I went in with a mindset very much of how can I leave people better off for me having been here.”

Really delighted to talk to Lee Pycroft a renowned makeup artist turned registered psychotherapist who has worked with A-list celebrities as well as the top supermodels of the 90s – Cindy and Claudia to name but a few. While people are quick to dismiss the beauty world as ‘frivolous fun’ or ‘shallow’, Lee talks about how beauty rituals can be a valid form of therapy, as made evident through her charity work with vulnerable communities such as domestic abuse survivors and war veterans – which caused her to eventually retrain as a Human Givens Therapist. She now combines her beauty expertise with therapeutic principles to help people understand how daily rituals can support mental wellbeing – which many brands can take note from when it comes t ...