N.Z. woman’s success

Press, 2 March 1981, Page 12

N.Z. woman’s success

NZPA staff correspondent.-’' !.( London Sarah Morton'’ A New Zealand woman has broken into the British retail beauty business. She is Kirsty Climo, aged 30, who came to Britain from New Zealand' six years. ago, and . has just launched a make-up palette containing 10 lipsticks and two glossers. Originally Kirsty Climo set out to be a photographer, but a chance assignment changed all that. “The photographer I was assisting couldn’t afford a make-up artist, so I did a clown make-up for his sitter, Leo Sayer,” she

After 1 that/rshe; turned make-up artist- arid never looked ’back., ■ ’- Nine months ' ago; against all odds, and ignoring the present economic climate, she started her new venture. The ■dipstick ! palette t “Lip Service” is.the-result. “It’s doing very nicely? in leading London department stores, chemists, and selected shops throughout the country,” she reports. “It’s inspired by some of my favourite shades I’ve collected on my travels — like a bluey-pink and an Italian orange — plus two or three ‘daytimers’ for women who don’t wear such outlandish colours.”