Like anyone who works in advertising, make-up artist Lilly Nouilati is all too familiar with the mixture of trepidation and anxiety that comes with flicking through the pages of a magazine still hot off the press.
The Dubai-based freelancer has picture-perfected the faces of some of the United Arab Emirates’ biggest stars – including billboard favourite Andreea Zoia – and recalls a moment tentatively sitting behind a customer in a supermarket waiting for that one single turn of a page.
“I knew my model was in it,” she laughs. “And so I’m just anxiously sitting behind her waiting for her to flick to the page where I did the model’s make-up.”
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