Beauty mogul Charlotte Tilbury: ‘I feel much more Irish than anything else and I love that’

The pair’s Christmas collaboration is another home run from Charlotte Tilbury – the make-up artist turned cosmetics mogul who has become one of the biggest names in the global beauty game. And guess what? We can claim Tilbury as one of our own; her grandmother hailed from Kilkenny, while DNA testing has also revealed Irish blood on her artist father’s side. “I’m a third Irish,” Tilbury tells me, swishing her marvellous mane of red hair. “My mother is half Irish and I got a bit from my father. My mother’s blonde and my father has dark hair, and the great aunts on my mother’s side had red hair – so all the Irish genes came through for this girl here!”