Aimee Connolly: It wasn’t confidence that started Sculpted, I just didn’t overthink it

'I want to be remembered as a nice person who did it'

Make-up artist Aimee Connolly says her business mindset comes from her mum, Clare.

I am from a tiny family. I’m an only child with a single mam, and I’ve got two aunties and an uncle, no cousins. Growing up it was always me and my mam. I was definitely always a girly girl, one of my earliest memories is having red lipstick smeared all over my face — I think I was two.

I went to an Irish-speaking primary school and on to Coláiste Íosagáin. I am a self-professed nerd. I loved school, loved study, loved getting the grades. The pressure never came from my mam, it was always myself. Transition year was a real pivotal year for me. That’s when I did my work experience — two weeks in Benefit Cosmetics in House of Fraser. That really propelled me on to my part-time job, the make-up counter at Urban Decay, which I thought was unbelievably cool. That helped hugely with my confidence.