Dame Joanna Lumley, a bold lip and a dark eyeliner pretty much go hand in hand, paired with a signature Patsy Stone cigarette, of course. Then again, its been more than 20 years since the final episode of Absolutely Fabulous aired on our TVs and, nowadays we’re more likely to catch the 78-year-old actress in Netflix’s Fool Me Once or her Radio 4 sitcom, Conversations From A Long Marriage.
Regardless, there’s no denying Lumley is a national treasure and looks, pardon the pun, absolutely fabulous as she nears her fifth decade on our screens. Indeed, her beauty has followed her from the start of her career in 1976 through to today and, in a bid to get to the bottom of her sheer, your-skin-but-better glam, we reached out to the woman behind many of Lumley’s looks, make-up artist Mira Parmar.
