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" I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most. "
Zoe Foster Blake
Good
Process
Enjoy
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" There are perks to being the partner of a professional athlete - we were invited into beautiful homes, enjoyed stunning sponsor cars, got special treatment at restaurants, and attended many exquisite functions. "
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Beautiful
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" It'll seem convenient 'cause I am ambassador for the charity, but Look Good Feel Better launched a set of makeup brushes through Priceline, and I use the multi-tasking brush to apply my liquid foundation. It's wonderful. As good as the Bobbi Brown Full Coverage Face brush, which I also use. "
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" Black liner around the eye makes your eyes look smaller. I think you should reassess, if you're a really big black liner user, maybe even just doing the top line, not lower, or try a brown or a plum or even a navy. "
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Look
Think
" As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe. "
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Believe
Fun
" I didn't even know what a beauty editor was. It sounds like a fictional job if you think about it. You get to test lipstick and perfume and nail polish legitimately and call it work. "
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Know
Work
Think
" I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability. "
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Diabetes
Week
Sickness
" You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things. "
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Work Hard
Work
Good Things
" An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person. "
Zoe Foster Blake
Love
Anniversary
You
" When I first have an idea, I'll spit-ball it with my husband: he's my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a year deadline from start to finish, so I'll piss about for three months and pretend to get started. Then there's four to six months of actual writing and, after that, submissions, edits, and eventually a finished product. "
Zoe Foster Blake
Three
Ideas
Beautiful
" I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot. "
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Independence
Company
My Own
" We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously. "
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Seriously
Happy Life
Happy
" I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful. "
Zoe Foster Blake
Energy
Work
Writing
" The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best. "
Zoe Foster Blake
Morning
Day
Best
" I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women. "
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Brilliant
Funny
Like
" Use a corrector to do all the heavy lifting under the eyes, not concealer. I spent years re-applying and layering concealer and Touche Eclat under there, when what I really needed was a good, peachy-toned corrector. "
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Use
Really
Good
" The selfie phenomenon is enormous, and it's hilarious. Especially as Australians, because we kind of hate people that love themselves, but that's all flipping on its head now, and we're happy to love ourselves. "
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People
Happy
Hate
" I wish I could do 50 projects a year. "
Zoe Foster Blake
Wish
Projects
Year
" I'm pedantic about lip balm. I've been chomping through Lip Smackers since age 11. So the lip balm called Lips! is a personal favourite. I also really love the Properly Clean cleanser. Women are wearing primer, sunscreen and makeup, so a cleanser needs to work hard these days. "
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Lips
Makeup
Women
" I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book. "
Zoe Foster Blake
Need
Write
Book
" I guess the headline is that you mustn't tough it out assuming it's 'normal' to feel incredible pain when you're preggo or post-partum, or be afraid to try a new specialist or a new kind of specialist if you have pain that isn't getting any better. "
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Better
Kind
Pain
" Napoleon's The One Concealer is amazing. Pantene Styling Treatment Foam makes my stupid-crazy hair behave, and I love hair powders such as Aveda Pure Abundance and Batiste Dry Shampoo. "
Zoe Foster Blake
Abundance
Love
Pure
" I think because Sport Lux has come in and leisure wear is a new thing, girls can sneak in hoodies and leggings and so on where they wouldn't normally - it has been proper legitimate fashion. "
Zoe Foster Blake
Think
New
Leisure
" Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty. "
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Go
Beauty
People
" People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially. "
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Date
People
Women
" Obviously there's a lot more to a TV show than just a book... I think adaptations are a bit tricky for the screenwriters because they're worried about upsetting the author. "
Zoe Foster Blake
Because
Book
More
" I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently. "
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Bees
Childhood
Cow
" It's important to show each other your marriage is a priority. "
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Show
Important
Your
" No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path. "
Zoe Foster Blake
Me
Path
Feedback
" My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie. "
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Been
Gold
Peach
" I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus. "
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Myself
Focus
Great