What’s in my beauty bag?

AFTER a keenly-felt absence of many years, cult Japanese beauty brand Shu Uemura is back in Ireland and wouldn’t you know it, its retail and education manager is none other than Cork gal Clíona Sweeney.

The Ballineen, West Cork native upped sticks to London following a course in special effects make-up for film and TV in Dun Laoghaire, plus a stint working in Dublin and rose through the ranks to nab her dream job.

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