Making It Up

In Making It Up, acclaimed makeup artist and global brand ambassador, Nicole ‘Pinky’ Thompson, inspires beauty junkies across the world – regardless of age, gender or race – to break the makeup rules, embrace diversity and live life colourfully. Nicole dissects all the makeup mumbo jumbo, covering everything from foundation and contouring to creating the perfect eyebrows and pout. Visually stunning, Making It Up encourages readers to experiment and search for inspiration beyond the pages of beauty magazines, to enhance your own personal beauty and be the most beautiful you, you can be. After all, this is makeup minus the rules. With more than 15 years’ experience in the makeup industry, there is not a face type, shape or skin tone that Nicole Thompson has not applied a makeup brush to. Nicole has created a career that has taken her across the world, working with some of the world’s biggest designers, photographers and stylists. Nicole has seen and tried all types of techniques and styles of makeup, which means she’s made the mistakes so you don’t have to!