I’m a glam gran & launched my own makeup brand at 65 – it’s so special to me and the young ones love it

A GLAM gran launched her own makeup line at the age of 65 – and it’s already a massive hit with youthful magnificence followers.
Ann Marie Harper was bullied rising up by lecturers who advised her she was too “thick” to obtain something and left faculty at 16.
2Ann Marie Harper launched her own makeup brand at 65Credit: Instagram/glamourgranann
2Her eyeshadow palette is a massive hit with youthful fansCredit: Instagram/glamourgranann
The magnificence lover, from Maryhill, Glasgow, jumped straight into a job as a makeup counter assistant a yr later.
But she all the time knew she was destined for larger issues in the cosmetics trade and has devoted the final two years to creating her own makeup brand.
Now at the age of 67, her Glamour Gran Ann eyeshadow palette – named Glam Goddess – is on sale in chosen shops and on-line.
Ann Marie advised the Scottish Sun Online: “I’ve acquired a lot of expertise in the makeup commerce.

“I all the time knew, I all the time had a imaginative and prescient. My imaginative and prescient was all the time that I’m going to have my own makeup brand.
“Although at the again of my head this wee factor stored saying ‘however you’re daft, you can by no means to try this’ as a result of at faculty I used to be advised I used to be daft. You develop up believing that once you’re advised as a youngster.
“So after I left faculty I acquired into makeup and I all the time knew one way or the other or one other I used to be going to do that, I used to be going to carry my own makeup brand out.
“I’ve needed to quit many instances, however I’ve thought no, I’m not giving up. So I’ve realised something is feasible for anyone should you attain out and ask for assist.”

Ann Marie’s daring eyeshadow palette, which options 32 shades, is on sale for £30.
The make-up artist, who now lives in Prestwick, Ayrshire, revealed “blood, sweat and tears” had been put into the making of her brand.
And after battling melancholy and psychological well being points for a few years, her palette additionally carries an necessary message.
The gran of two, who has dyslexia, mentioned “My Glam Goddess palette is all about psychological well being and how one can push via the ache.
“Every single color has a motivational quote on it. It was produced from the coronary heart and with love. It wasn’t simply thrown collectively.”
And Ann Marie has constructed up a military of social media followers who admire her makeup suggestions and motivational talking on her Glamour Gran Ann pages – with 19,000 followers on Facebook and 13,000 on Instagram.
But she has little expertise with advertising and marketing and improvement so turned to her entrepreneurial son David for assist launching her brand.
The pair devoted their time in lockdown to researching colors and pigments, and discovering suppliers and factories who may assist create a makeup assortment worthy of Ann Marie’s daring persona.
The pandemic hindered gross sales in the starting, however the 67-yr-previous’s constructive perspective is infectious and it’s clear it is barely up from right here for Glamour Gran Ann.
She mentioned: “When my palette was launched I had the largest photoshoot, it was wonderful.
“But I could not have my palette launch, Covid took that away. So my palette by no means went increase, however that is okay. 
“It’s not flown off the cabinets, however a day at a time. I’m getting there.
“BPerfect [Megastore] has simply taken my palette, they’ve purchased it. I acquired to go and see it on the cabinets in Glasgow. It was unbelievable.
“My motto is do not cease asking. If you ask one thing and it’s a no, it’s simply a stepping stone. Keep going till any person says sure.”
She added: “When you grow old it’s very simple to simply sit in a nook with a wee blanket and an ice cream. I do not need that.

“And now I’ve my own firm at 67, it’s unbelievable. For me to be an entrepreneur is simply wonderful. It reveals that something’s doable. 
“If I had been to carry anything out I feel it can be a extra impartial palette. The young ones love my daring, brilliant colors however a lot of individuals being older, of a extra mature age have requested if I can carry out one thing extra refined.

To decide up certainly one of Glamour Gran Ann’s Glam Goddess palettes go to her web site right here or BPerfect in Glasgow’s Buchanan Galleries.

We pay to your tales and movies! Do you might have a story or video for The Scottish Sun? Email us at [email protected] or name 0141 420 5300

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/fabulous/9257908/glam-gran-ann-marie-harper-makeup-brand/