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ADAM BURRELL
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I always get asked “how long have you been doing makeup?” and I never know what to say. It’s like asking a footballer “how long have you been playing football?” and I bet his answer would be “for as long as I can remember”. "That would be my
answer too - it’s not something I could give a definite date for .....

I grew up in a small
North Eastern town and from being a little kid, I’ve been a dreamer, fascinated by makeup, masks, wigs, and any medium you can play with to change or define the way somebody is perceived. From the blend of the lipline and lip colour on my brother’s posters of Pamela Anderson to the scene in The Witches where the Grand High Witch takes off her mask - THAT is what I wanted to do. From then on I couldn’t get enough.

When I got my place on the makeup BA at the London College of Fashion I was on top of the world; I was one big step closer to doing what I had always wanted to do. Since moving to London in September 2005 I turned up the heat and set out networking, testing, assisting and taking any job that came my way to give me a taster of what I hope to be smack bang in the middle of one day. Shows at London Fashion Week, bands from Girls Aloud to The Noisettes, magazines from Pop to
Citizen K to Wig, are all places my powder puff has taken me and I have only just begun.

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