'Women need to wear make-up to get ahead in life': Kate Moss's beauty guru blasts Helen Mirren after actress said it would be 'wonderful' if women embraced a natural look

By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail

Published: 18:29 EST, 24 January 2017 | Updated: 04:37 EST, 25 January 2017

Dame Helen Mirren sparked controversy last month when she claimed it would be ‘wonderful’ if women stopped wearing make-up and embraced the natural look.

Now the Oscar-winning actress has been given an extraordinary dressing-down by one of the most influential women in the beauty industry.

Celebrity make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury, whose clients include Kate Moss, Amal Clooney and J. K. Rowling, has not only disputed Mirren’s claims, but insists women need cosmetic products to achieve success and happiness.

Celebrity make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury (right), has given Helen Mirren (left) an extraordinary dressing-down after the actress claimed it would be ‘wonderful’ if women stopped wearing make-up

‘I totally disagree with Helen. She’s absolutely wrong — completely wrong,’ Tilbury, 42, tells me. ‘Why would anyone, in a world where everyone is judged by their looks, not wear make-up?

‘I’m not saying do a full-on glamour look all the time: it can be very sophisticated and chic at the same time as being natural, like the Jennifer Aniston look.’

While promoting the new Pirelli calendar last month, in which she features wearing hardly any make-up, Mirren, 71, said: ‘It would be wonderful if it became more fashionable not to wear make-up.

‘I suspect that we might have reached saturation with the whole selfie thing and maybe we’re moving in another direction.’

Among Charlotte Tilbury's celebrity clients are Kate Moss (left) and Amal Clooney (right)

It triggered a wave of make-up free selfies on social media by celebrities including ITV breakfast presenter Susanna Reid. But Tilbury, who was speaking at the Debrett’s 500 Gala at Bafta in Piccadilly, insists women need warpaint more than ever.

‘Make-up is very empowering and women should celebrate this weapon in their arsenal. Women need to wear make-up to get ahead in life — in their careers, in the personal lives, whatever it is,’ she adds.

‘There have been studies that Harvard, Procter & Gamble and Stanford University have done that prove women earn up to 50 per cent more money by the way that they do their make-up and hair.

Tilbury said that beauty products make a woman look 'very sophisticated and chic at the same time as being natural' like actress Jennifer Aniston

‘I have met Helen, and I like her; she’s a wonderful woman. But I’m afraid she is absolutely wrong.

‘I haven’t worked with her before but I would because she’s totally incredible. But, hello, she does understand the power of make-up.

‘I’ve seen her: she loves dressing up, she loves make-up, she knows the power of looking good.’

Corbyn's £951 alarms bill

Loony Leftie Jeremy Corbyn is clear on his views about national security — he wants to ditch Britain’s nuclear defence. But when it comes to personal security, he’s rather more enthusiastic.

According to his newly published expenses, he billed taxpayers for £951 for ‘personal alarms’. 

The claim was made in August at the height of his campaign to hold on to the Labour leadership. 

According to his newly published expenses, Jeremy Corbyn billed taxpayers for £951 for ‘personal alarms’

Pointedly, it came at the time he was being accused as not doing enough to protect his opponents in the party from intimidation.

The figure is lodged under the heading security, but does not specify what type of alarm and accounted for 10 per cent of £9,500 claimed in this financial year.

TV hardman Ross Kemp has revealed that he is on his third set of front teeth.

The 52-year-old actor, who played Grant Mitchell in EastEnders, explains: ‘The first ones were kicked out playing rugby and the second ones on a really bad night in Caracas, as you do . . . I don’t remember much about it, but I did wake up the next morning with everyone looking at me, and I was going: “What? What?”

TV hardman Ross Kemp, who played Grant Mitchell in EastEnders, has revealed that he is on his third set of front teeth

‘I found out I had broken all the fascias as I hit the marble bar and I said: “I will never drink again.”

‘But I have only stuck with that a little bit!’

Prince Charles is such a devotee of Scottish poet Robert Burns that he was once recorded reading two of his poems for the BBC. 

Tonight, the heir to the throne is holding a charity Burns Night at Highgrove, where up to 100 guests paying £95 each will be served haggis while bagpipes play in the background. 

‘Brush off your kilt and don your tartan to celebrate Burns Night in true Scottish style at Highgrove,’ gushes the advert. Sadly, the event will be missing one vital ingredient — the Prince himself.

 

 

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