Episode 7
March 6 , 2018
7. Hannah Martin; Make-Up Artist and Social Media Star on Unidentified Eats in China, Dehydrating with Camel Breeders in the Kenyan Desert and Injecting IVF Meds at New York Fashion Week
On this episode Hannah Martin – make-up artist to the stars, YouTube and Instagram star – tells us about travelling on the pro team with Bobbi Brown, negotiating cultural differences in China where her simple solution was to just eat everything yet also opens up about her struggles to become a mum including putting bravely having to inject IVF meds in the middle of New York Fashion Week.
Hannah and The Big Travel Podcast host, Lisa, made a connection some years ago after going through similar struggles with miscarriage and on this episode have a poignant conversation about pregnancy, baby loss and ultimately the joys (and otherwise!) of motherhood. We also ask the question did Hannah or didn’t she do the make up for the Royal Wedding….?
On this episode we cover:
Hannah’s work at Bobbi Brown
Her huge following on YouTube and Instagram
How she cultivated these followers
Posting every day
Being at the tail end of a Millennial
Bypassing IT at school
Taking Instagram seriously
Advice from Jet Set Mama
Being recognised in the street
Being recognised in Paperchase
TV work
Lorraine Kelly
This Morning
Travels with work
Hong Kong
Crazy culture shock experiences in China
The difference in Chinese aesthetics
Harper’s Bazaar Hong Kong
Unidentifiable food in Kunming
Eating everything
The juxtaposition of rich and poor
Starbucks mistakes
Accidentally offending the locals
No rice at dinner
Her love of New York Fashion Week
Jenny Packham
Partying in New York
Her love of Bobbi Brown
Bobbi Brown’s new hotel in Jersey
Bobbi Brown’s love of English tea
European holidays with her family
Her first taste of Africa age 19
Landing in a tiny aircraft in the middle of the Kenyan desert
Being lost in said Kenyan desert
Gabra tribesmen
Not having a flushing loo
Driving around Kenya age 18
Killing goats in the middle of the Masai Mara
Whiskey-swigging young drivers in Nairobi
Flirting with danger abroad
Dehydrating in the desert whilst trekking with camel breeders
Maternal mortality and drought wars in the Kenyan Desert
Her husbands family of Missionaries working in famine relief
Babies in car boots
Marrying young
Her struggle to have children
The exhaustion of IVF
Recurrent miscarriage
Losing her much loved mum
Grief
Smuggling IVF needles in her socks at New York Fashion Week
Her surprise natural pregnancy
Maternity leave
Whether to try for number three
The fear of loss again
First Heartbeat, miscarriage documentary
What not to say to someone having a miscarrying
Concealing IVF needles at New York Fashion Week
Miscarrying on the day of her mum’s funeral
The agony of pregnancy scans
Her wonderful surprise baby
Whether to go for number three!
Post-partum feelings
The importance of make-up
Quotes from the Guardian beauty columnist Sali Hughes
How make-up can empower you
The Royal Wedding
Whether she did The Duchess of Cambridge’s make up
Signing non-disclosure agreement
Her love of bridal make-up
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
The next Royal Wedding
Her love of the sunshine
Her love of the Maldives
‘Sod it’ holidays
How travels change with children
Mallorca
Menorca
Ironman races
Lanzarote
How she will always love songs about New York
