Last week it was English aristoglam Jemma Kidd; this week, home-grown make-up queen Jemma Gawned. In Sydney on a speedy business trip, Melbourne’s glossiest girl swung by yesterday to say hi to the Bh team. At last.
We’ve been in touch for ages. Jemma’s a longtime Bh member and I’m a slave to her lip and cheek tint (won’t check the letterbox without it). And, of course, we’ve all seen her on tele. But, in beach-haired and gleamy-lipped person, she was a surprise…
The thing that threw me about Jemma is she’s not just the lovely “lip gloss queen” from Big Brother, a snap-worthy socialite and sometime television identity. Jemma’s an electric switched-on businesswoman and a beauty brain to the bone. Having clocked up backstage cred at international fashion shows before ever becoming BB housebound, Jemma doesn’t just know how to design pro-style products for everygirl, make-up artistry radiates from her pores.
Within minutes of arriving, Jemma’s talking tricks of the trade like most talk weather, glamorising Bh’s Laina with her slim-enough-for-skinny-jeans Jemma Gloss compact and outing herself as a damn fine hair stylist too. One tip: the simplest way to get stylish curls with your straightener…
“Take a section of your hair and just wind it,” she said, nimbly wrapping her own blonde tresses around three done-this-a-trillion-times fingers. “Use as many fingers as you like to create tighter or wider curls, gather the section and then just clamp it in your straighteners for a few seconds.
“Then, bobby pin each section while you do the rest and when you release you’ve got gorgeous, natural-looking curls,” Jemma explained. “It’s so easy – I do my hair like that all the time.”
It’s certainly more of a cinch than the hairdressers’ twist-and-wind technique I’ve spent so much time perfecting.
Bless you, Jemma. You and your big beauty brain can pop by Bh again any time…
Bib Brother new season starts on Monday too