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Trinny Woodall: My 60s are a freeing decade – I’m more confident
Trinny Woodall may have just turned 60, but there’s no way she’s going grey.
“Everyone’s entitled to how they want to age – some people might say, ‘Trinny, why do you keep dyeing your hair? You should go grey naturally’. Not in a million years! I have s***** coloured grey hair, I’m not going to do that. I don’t love grey hair on me.”
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Woodall, who rose to fame as one half of presenting duo Trinny and Susannah (Constantine) on the Noughties makeover show, What Not To Wear, and founded beauty empire Trinny London in her 50s, says she’s “more confident” as she enters this new decade – in her skin and herself.
“I think I feel that I really know who I am. The benefit of age is you really discover who you are. And you don’t worry what people think. In my 20s I definitely didn’t have that self belief.
“I found 50 to be quite a freeing decade, and I find this to be an even more freeing decade.”
Although she didn’t feel skin confident until the age of 30, after years of suffering from acne, which was “very debilitating – I tried every single thing for my skin”, it gave her lifelong passion to figure out what works for her.
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Woodall launched her brand, which is targeted at women over 35, with make-up in , followed by skincare in She posts her routines almost daily for her million Instagram followers, and has racked up an army of loyal fans.
Refreshingly, she doesn’t use the phrase ‘anti-ageing’ (“I’ve got eye wrinkles now and they don’t bother me one bit”) it’s about what suits our skin as we get older. But she’s very open about the fact that she does Botox twice a year, alongside a comprehensive skincare routine.
“I’ve actually never gone to bed without taking my
Trinny Woodall: ‘I didn’t stop caring when I turned 50 – I stopped worrying’
Trinny Woodall is wearing all white – white suit, white waistcoat, white mesh platforms – and not just any old white, but white-white, as she calls it in her Instagram chats, the brightest, bleachiest white on the spectrum. She is scoffing a flaky croissant, which arrived with a square of soft yellow butter and a huge dollop of red-red jam. (“Thank you, Jonathan,” to the assistant; to me, “You sure you won’t have a bit?”) I watch as she alternates croissant and sloping bowl of coffee to her lips, unfazed by the danger to her suit. She’s talking in galloping vowels about a crash she had days earlier, a three-car collision on the corner of the street where she stayed in LA. Bruising makes it hard to sit for too long. She shifts her bottom, then heaves herself to stand and now is stamping round the cafe like a stabled thoroughbred. “My body is out of sync,” she says, “my knee and my ankle. I am bruised everywhere.”
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On her left wrist is a white wound dressing of the hospital sort, but she flaps off my concern. There’s a lot of old school don’t-make-a-fuss about Woodall, who is She says “darling” a lot, and “fuck”. Of the accident, I am imagining concertina-bonnets and wailing sirens; Woodall emerging through engine smoke in something from Zara, a neon suit, perhaps, or Alaïa (high street or high end: mid-range is “a waste of money”), keen to keep to the schedule because this trip to LA was after all mostly business. Beside her daughter Lyla, 19, work is Woodall’s primary and unrelenting preoccupation.
Many will remember Woodall as one part of the 00s TV makeover duo Trinny and Susannah, and an early online fashion influencer. Though fashion is still integral to what she does, workis her cosmetic company, Trinny London, the makeup range she launched in , w Trinny Woodall made an appearance as a guest dragon on Dragons' Den on Thursday night. The former What Not to Wear presenter rose to fame as a columnist but is now the founder of a multi-million-pound cosmetics empire, Trinny London. The star's shift into the business world came later in life and before this, she was best known as a fashion writer and television presenter alongside her close friend, Susannah Constantine. A report from The Times valued her business at £ million. Discover Trinny's business story below… Trinny first rose to fame in alongside Susannah Constantine when the pair started their Daily Telegraph column, Ready to Wear. The style guide focused on affordable high-street fashion, with the pair using themselves as models to show how the clothes fitted. The pair then pivoted into television with hit shows like What Not to Wear and Trinny & Susannah Undress… Their television appearances also saw them act as beauty and fashion experts on shows like This Morning, The Today Show and even The Oprah Winfrey Show. Trinny and Susannah have also co-written several books, including The Body Shape Bible and What You Wear Can Change Your Life. Their books were popular enough to be No. 1 on both The Sunday Times and The New York Times best-selling lists. In , at the age of 53, Trinny founded her cosmetics business, Trinny London from her own kitchen. The brand has developed leaps and bounds since then and in , the star opened her first store. Her initial products were make-up aimed at women over 35, however, by , she had also included skincare products in her brand. Speaking to The Times, which valued her business at £ million and noted a million customer base, Trinny said: "I don't have a work-life balance English fashion advisor and designer (born ) "Trinny" redirects here. See also Trini (disambiguation). Sarah-Jane Duncanson "Trinny" Woodall (born 8 February ) is a British beauty entrepreneur, businesswoman, and the founder of cosmetics brand Trinny London. Woodall initially rose to fame as a fashion and makeover expert, television presenter and author. With Susannah Constantine she formed half of the duo Trinny and Susannah; together they wrote a weekly fashion column for The Daily Telegraph before being commissioned by the BBC to host What Not to Wear in This was followed by several other television projects, books and clothing ranges. Woodall is the youngest of six children, including three half-siblings from her father's first marriage. Her father was a banker, while her maternal grandfather was Sir John Duncanson, controller of the British steel industry in the last two years of the war, who went on to become managing director of the British Iron and Steel Federation (BISF) in August and then managing director of Lithgows in When Woodall was five years old, she was sent home from school after cutting off another pupil's plait. A family friend, Ronald Searle, who created the St Trinian cartoons that inspired the later films, likened her to a mischievous St Trinian girl, and the name Trinny stuck from then onwards. Woodall was educated at boarding schools from the age of six, which included Queen's Gate School in Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London. She also attended Baston School for Girls. She has described one of the boarding schools as "cruel" and "sadistic". She has connected a fear of being naked with the time she was made to stand totally unclothed in front of the other pupils as a punishment for having a water fight. Woodall also attended boarding schools in France and Germany between the ages of twelve and fifteen.& Inside Trinny Woodall's £ million business empire which she made in under 10 years
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