Fashion Brief
I don’t really go out any more, because I’m 33 and a bit over the hill – plus, most of my best friends are not celebrities and have children. So my kind of night out involves staying in, cooking dinner and playing with their kids. It’s all about kids when you hit 30, and I can’t wait to have my own.
I am a beauty school dropout. At college, I cut my mum’s bob into a Spock hairdo and took off half my friend’s eyebrow when I was doing the waxing. I was better at makeup. Drop me in Selfridges, and I’ll be in the beauty department for hours.
My favourite foundation is La Prairie, and I like Benefit’s Hoola for contouring. I have a few enlarged pores around my nose, so I mix Benefit The Porefessional with a Nars illuminator called (don’t laugh) Orgasm. I wear lipstick only when I’m working, usually Carmex.
After a gig, even if I’m on tour and it’s 3am, I’ll get in the shower and scrub my face, otherwise I’ll have a spot the next day. I exfoliate twice a week, and the rest of the week I do the regime – cleanse, tone and moisturise. If I do have a breakout, Origins’ Super Spot Remover is the best. I often switch toners, because if you stick with something too long, your skin gets used to it.
Last year, I did the BBC’s gymnastics show, Tumble, and had a hair disaster going from bleached to black to natural blond: on the top of my crown, the hair broke off to about an inch. Nowadays, I rely on a few extensions, but for most of that show I wore a wig. Without it, I looked like Pat Sharp in his good old mullet days.
• Sarah Harding will guest star on Coronation Street this summer.
