Aimee Connolly

um but I think yeah when you've got more people around you um the risk of say new markets you know everything is just bigger and you do it because it's so exciting and that's the next step but sometimes if I was to think too deeply on it that's where the overwhelm comes in so I try and stay a little bit surface level yeah I'm kind of like don't don't go there this be fine just break it down yeah it sounds a bit like when you're like I don't know like you're lying in bed trying to go to sleep and you start thinking about how big the universe is

So the kind of whistle-stop tour is, I started in beauty completely coincidentally as a 15-year-old.

So I was doing two weeks work experience in fourth year, part of the Irish school system, and I had nothing organised.

And my mum worked in House of Fraser on the third floor at the time, and was like, go down to Benefit and ask them, will they take you?

And I'm so annoyed that you have nothing organised, but I was like,

Hi, can I come in for two weeks?

And I loved it.

And I think I quickly realized I fell in love with actually dealing with people.

I loved selling something that I loved.

So I found it really easy.

And they offered me a part-time job with Urban Decay across the way.

This is when House of Asia was still there.

Worked there every Saturday and Sunday through school.

So fourth, fifth, sixth year.

Finished my leaving cert.

Made the decision to go to Mac for a year.

Again, still part-time because I started my degree in business and French there.

Left Mac after a year because I'd started doing freelance and I only had weekends to work.

So funny, I can't picture you as a Mac girl.

I loved being a Mac girl.