Saturday with Suzie O'Neill, founder of Ayu Cosmetics: 'I’m okay with people thinking my routine is boring — I love my life'

Suzie O’Neill started in business in 2012. Initially selling professional make-up brushes, she founded the vegan Ayu Cosmetics brand two years later. The business now carries a full range of cosmetics and tanning products and employs 36 people. O’Neill lives in Clane, Co. Kildare with her husband and two children. She runs marathons and ultra marathons in her spare time.

Suzie O'Neill at the opening of the Ayu Cosmetics Store in Mahon Point Shopping Centre in Cork. Picture: Brian McEvoy

6.15

I get up at 6.15am. I’ll go for a run, do weights or a HIIT class. By the time I’ve finished working out the kids will have rolled out of bed so I’ll make them breakfast.