Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast from BBC Radio 4.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks,
book and luxury that they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
For rights reasons,
the music's shorter than on the original broadcast but you can find a version with longer music tracks on BBC's sounds.
Listeners will also get access to episodes 28 days earlier than everyone else.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My cast away this week is the makeup artist Mary Greenwell.
For over 40 years,
she's been at the glittering forefront of an industry now worth billions to the British economy.
She's helped to set trends, to shape our perception of the icons of our age,
and to create some of the unforgettable images of our times.
She got her big break working with the original supermodels including Christy Tirlington,
Linda Evangelista and Cindy Crawford.
She went on to develop a reputation for her less is more approach and became Princess Diana's makeup artist of choice.
Everyone from David Bowie and Kate Blanchett to Uma Thurman and Margaret Thatcher have placed their faces in her hands but she didn't wear as much as a smear of lipstick herself until she was in her early 20s.
a free spirit living and working in 1970s Los Angeles,
she was given her first makeup lesson by an industry insider and never looked back.
She says, I've never been ambitious.
I just always wanted to do really well in whatever I did in my life and I've only ever done makeup.