Rosie Bryan-Adams talks Sharon Stone, orange northerners and working for Chanel with international makeup artist David Scheffen

David Scheffen, the Parisian make-up artist who has worked with the likes of Nicky Hilton, Sharon Stone and Rosamund Pike, visited Harvey Nichols, Leeds recently to give us a masterclass with makeup range NARS.

How did you get into makeup?

I studied psychology but I wasn't really into it and so I came to London and had a very good time but eventually, I needed to do something! I used to do my friends' makeup all the time and they really...

Fear is futile but life doesn't have to be scary anyway, writes life coach and columnist Jan Schofield

Such a lot has been written about the subject of fear and how to deal with it. Whether to ride it, to fully experience it, ignore, or accept it, the title of a well-known book, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway has almost become a cliché. One thing is true, we all sweat, we all fear.